PBP: Barack Obama vs John McCain :: Election Day PBP Thread [R]

Knave · Nov 4, 2008

Begun, this election day has!
(In New Hampshire's Dixville Notch and Hart's Location.)

Daily Kos has a pretty sweet streaming election scoreboard.
Any other good stuff out there?
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(Hail Grimes!)
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luftmensch · Nov 4, 2008

Clock-watcher.

Oh, uh, First!

CrewDust · Nov 4, 2008

1st page.

onefineesq · Nov 4, 2008

Dang, i'm first page too! woohooooooo!!!

Knave · Nov 4, 2008

Dixville Notch

McCain - 6
Obama - 15

WOOHOO!

chad · Nov 4, 2008

Yay.

Barbara · Nov 4, 2008

Finally!

(Well, I still have a few hours to go but you know what I mean.)

Knave · Nov 4, 2008

Evidently Dixville Notch hasn't gone Democratic since 1968.

Tea leaves ...

andorj78 · Nov 4, 2008

Might be pulling an all nighter here doing school work. I honestly might just go line up for the 6AM opening at my polling place later this morning instead of going home for a few hours sleep.

Too excited.

soccernutter · Nov 4, 2008

First page.

I see the sHuabitllety at the bGortitmoems of Knave's post.

Sempuukyaku · Nov 4, 2008

I'm leaving work early tomorrow so that I can start watching the election coverage

I'm hoping I'll get home before polls on the east coast close....considering I'm way out west.

Knave · Nov 4, 2008

Hart's Location ...

Obama - 17
McCain - 10
Paul - 2

andorj78 · Nov 4, 2008

Knave said: ↑

Hart's Location ...

Obama - 17
McCain - 10
Paul - 2

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Let's hope he never loses that lead.

Chesco United · Nov 4, 2008

Ahh, Ron Paul write-in votes. Must be New Hampshire..

TheSlipperyOne · Nov 4, 2008

First page!

I couldn't help myself and already cracked my bottle of whiskey tonight.

It was bottled while they were listening to the Dropkick Murphys.

riverplate · Nov 4, 2008

Networks May Call Race Before Voting Is Complete - N.Y. Times

At least one broadcast network and one Web site said Monday that they could foresee signaling to viewers early Tuesday evening which candidate appeared to have won the presidency, despite the unreliability of some early exit polls in the last presidential election.

A senior vice president of CBS News, Paul Friedman, said the prospects for Barack Obama or John McCain meeting the minimum threshold of electoral votes could be clear as soon as 8 p.m. — before polls in even New York and Rhode Island close, let alone those in Texas and California. At such a moment, determined from a combination of polling data and samples of actual votes, the network could share its preliminary projection with viewers, Mr. Friedman said.

“We could know Virginia at 7,” he said. “We could know Indiana before 8. We could know Florida at 8. We could know Pennsylvania at 8. We could know the whole story of the election with those results. We can’t be in this position of hiding our heads in the sand when the story is obvious.”

Similarly, the editor of the Web site Slate, David Plotz, said in an e-mail message that “if Obama is winning heavily,” he could see calling the race “sometime between 8 and 9.”

“Our readers are not stupid, and we shouldn’t engage in a weird Kabuki drama that pretends McCain could win California and thus the presidency,” Mr. Plotz wrote. “We will call it when a sensible person — not a TV news anchor who has to engage in a silly pretense about West Coast voters — would call it.”
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Minnman · Nov 4, 2008

Up, wearing all blue, drinking coffee, and about to set off to my polling place in a few minutes to stand in line with all the other hopeful, early bird liberals. Have the kiddies tonight, so I won't even be able to turn on the TV until 9 or so.

Ah, who am I kidding. My daughter can miss SpongeBob for one night.

johan neeskens · Nov 4, 2008

I don't want to interfere and I don't want to jinx it but if Barack Obama wins it can I just say congratulations to the American people. Europeans often arrogantly assume that they're far more tolerant and less conservative than the Americans but I can't see it happen any time soon that my country gets its first black prime minister - and I can't think of a single western European country that ever did have a black prime minister.

So a heartfelt respect from a European to all of you.

Father Ted · Nov 4, 2008

riverplate said: ↑

Networks May Call Race Before Voting Is Complete - N.Y. Times
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I never understand this. I don't think any vote count should be released until ALL voting is completed.

Pathogen · Nov 4, 2008

I can't focus on anything at work right now. I just want to gtfo and go vote.

Pathogen · Nov 4, 2008

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For the next 8 years....through the gates of hell.

JeremyEritrea · Nov 4, 2008

History.

THOMA GOL · Nov 4, 2008

I'm sitting in riot gear

biggyv · Nov 4, 2008

I didn't get an "I Voted!" sticker. Bullshit, yo.

A CNN anchor just asked a pundit, "If Obama wins, is this the end of race relations as we know it?" Ummm, what?

biggyv · Nov 4, 2008

Per CNN, 5 of 7 voting machines at a polling place in Richmond have broken down. They have shifted to paper ballots, and have deployed additional machines to the polling place.