Tired, but holding himself together, McCain is conceding in Phoenix..booing early on, when he mentions Obama and he tries to calm them, but the best he gets is stony silence
Hes generous about Obama, still a bit quirky….’this is a proud day for African Americans’ – well particularly them but for everyone surely
He talks of the [...]
Right on the stroke of 11pm here, the networks have almost simultaneously declared the elction for Barack Obama, just as the last polls closed on the west coast. In the end it’s gone pretty much as it was projected, with the polls nailing it pretty well.
What would have to happen for this to be wrong? Some quantum leap of [...]
FOX has just called Virginia for Obama – if you want a really funny ongoing coverage tune in to ‘national review’s ‘ ‘The Corner’ (its on ‘blog row’ on the site) and tell me if all these people aren’t weepy drunk, weaving from euphira to despair, resolve to torpor. Hilarious
Colorado and New Mexico have been called for Obama by most outlets – which is beond the ballgame….but McCain can still win! Oregon, Washington state and Hawaii! Yessssss!!!!
Ohio’s been called for Obama in the last ten minutes or so, by most networks, which together with Pennsylvania is the ballgame for McCain – unless he can Washington State and Oregon ha ha ha.
The projection is based on 15% of returns, but theyre a reasonably even spread across different areas of Ohio, and it [...]
Virginia is reporting 55 to 44% for McCain – but it’s only two southern moonshine counties
here’s some exits from Huffington Post, leaked to them by a Democrat
The usual caution on exit polls is that young people are more likely to answer them than old people which skews to the Dems. However, this year that may be offset by early voting, which also skews to the dems, and whose participants obviously [...]
Okay, so there’s early polling in Indiana and Kentucky…Kentucky is of no interest if McCain loses that throw him in a deep fat fryer and serve him up in a bucket.
But with almost nothing counted, Obama and McCain are neck and neck 50-49. The really important thing here is that none of these results [...]
is near meaningless – first time voters in Virginia, Ohio and Indiana found…
first time voters going for Obama about 70-30
late deciding voters going for Obama about 55-45 (and about 62-38 in Virginia)
white male voters going for McCain about 55-45, and about 60-40 in Virginia
Ruh roh, as electoral analyst Scooby Doo would say.
However, it needs to [...]
story that the Straight Talk jet had an aborted landing in Albuque…Albak….A…some city in New Mexico, almost hitting traffic on the runway.
Remember Keating’s near miss – was it in a helicopter – in 1996? Do the Gods like to throw a scare into folks?
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