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— go to most recent comments26 - Heloise
Chicago is going Crazy! I am looking for my sister and my daughter in the crowd out at Grant Park on the beautiful lake shore drive in Chicago. It has bar none the most beautiful lakefront in the world.
Heloise
27 - Baronius
If Pennsylvania holds up, it's impossible for McCain to win. But Philadelphia reports early, and the Republican counties report late. The press mis-called PA in 1988.
28 - Ruvy
So far, for what little it iws worth, the popular vote according to CNN is Obama 50%, McCain 50%. Presently, Obama is projected for 81 votes in the EC, McCain 34.
Apparently Pennsylvania has been called Obama.
29 - Ruvy
CNN shows a very slim lead for McCain in the popular vote.
McCain 50%
Obama 49%
30 - Ruvy
According to CNN the EC is as follows
Obama 102
McCain 34
31 - Ruvy
I'm calling it a night. It's early Wednesday morining here and I have to catch a bus into J-lem in not too long.
Looks like the a-hole (or isa is t o-hole?) will win. Surprises may yet come out of left field. But they will not be in the vote count....
Good night.
32 - Dr Dreadful
Is anybody else really annoyed by the casino-ey 'BLING!' sound every time CNN calls a state?
33 - Jet
Actually it's helping me Doc, the TV's in the living room and I'm in the den.
34 - Franco
DD, you took the words right out of my mouth. What is with that?
35 - handyguy
NBC has called Ohio for Obama. Several commentators are on the verge of calling Florida for the Dems as well.
36 - El Bicho
McCain finished after O-HI-O
37 - Dr Dreadful
Gesundheit...
38 - Cindy D
Florida for Obama per FOX
39 - Cindy D
Did somebody sneeze Dr.D? :-)
40 - Cindy D
woo hooo hooo I love it I love it I love it!
41 - STM
Just a little note to philistine America from God's Own Country.
Here I am down in Oz watching the US election live, following it with more interest than our own boring-as-batshit outing to elect a new government a year ago, and noticing all the different opinions on this site and how people - mostly - are reacting to each other almost pleasantly. Moon's banned, then?
Seriously, you've gotta love democracy, even if the American version seems slightly bizarre and comes with really weird accents :) ... Change (or not, as the case may be) at the point of a pencil (or at the point of one o' them new-fangled touch-screen voting machines) instead of at the point of a gun or a bomb vest.
Good on you, America. We're loving it here. Keep spreading the fun.
42 - Arch Conservative
Now America has a fuhrer.........
HEIL OBAMA!!!
43 - Cindy D
10:00 pm the live election thread has 42 comments including my 4, and I thought I was boycotting you for election night!
44 - Arch Conservative
If he sticks to the schedule fuhrer Obama will start building the concentration camps for insolent citizens and media sometime around March 2010.
45 - Arch Conservative
Say it with me Cindy.
HEIL OBAMA!!!!!!
46 - handyguy
We heard you the first time, Arch. Actually, it didn't make sense then, either. Sore loserdom is not attractive on anyone.
47 - Arch Conservative
Well handyguy unless the fuhrer doesn't turn out to be what I already know he is I will do nothing but ridicule him for the next four years.
48 - Clavos
According to the FOX News Channel I get on my TV, at this time, FL Is still too close to call...
49 - handyguy
You go right ahead. But unless you find a more meaningful vocabulary with which to do so, you are starting off looking ridiculous and are only likely to get worse.
50 - handyguy
Correct, Clavos. No calls yet on FL, NC, VA or IN. Some commentators let their opinions show, apparently based on exit polls and returns from Tampa and Orlando.
51 - Baronius
Arch - The other side whines when they lose. We're supposed to have more class. If this election is as one-sided as it's looking, we should do the Republican thing: act honorably, savage our own candidate for failing us, and blow the Dems out of the water in the midterms.
May God bless the next President of the USA.
52 - Arch Conservative
Maybe you can lay some hope and change on me handy. Tell me how all my problems are going to be solved by the furher.
53 - Zedd
Clav
"OK, I'm here...has Obama conceded yet?
Aaaawe. Precious. Bless your heart. Hug?
54 - Arch Conservative
I do have more class Baronius. I'm not crying "voter fraud" like the weak minded little bitches who supported Kerry and Gore.
But if you think I'm ever going to refer to eight ball barry by using the word president or any other term that connotates respect you're delusional.
I hear what you're saying Baronius. Without Carter there would have been no Reagan. Obama is my generation's Carter. One and done by the hands of his own arrogant incompetence. The question is.........who is the next Reagan?
55 - handyguy
I can't speak for other liberal Dems, but if we were losing, I wouldn't be anywhere near here. I'd be silently sulking.
56 - Cindy D
"Tell me how all my problems are going to be solved by the furher."
Your problems Arch, aren't likely be solved by 42 years of intensive therapy.
They allow you to post here Arch but not moon...
Say it with me Arch..." I'm a loser!."
Surely we are both that.
57 - handyguy
Why are you a loser, Cindy?
58 - Arch Conservative
That's the difference between you and I handy. I'm not afraid of you and the agenda of your ilk.
We'll blow the whole thing up before we let you take over. You can count on that. Why do you think there were so many people buying guns down in Texas, Florida etc....leading up to this election?
59 - Cindy D
handy,
i am a loser in that i have lost moon's contribution, which i found valuable.
60 - El Bicho
"They allow you to post here Arch but not moon..."
More people need to complain to management. That's what helped push moon out
61 - STM
Fair dinkum ... thanks America, I love the US election. It's on every TV in the office, we're entrhralled, some of my colleagues have been down at the Sheraton getting on it with the US consul-general in Sydney ... and now the Yanks are sending us oysters and other goodies this arvo to celebrate.
*Note to Americans: next time, please research journalistic staples and send beer too (even Bud, because at this price, it's perfect).
62 - Jet
Oh go change your tampon Arch, you're getting really boring
63 - El Bicho
"I do have more class Baronius."
obviously not.
64 - handyguy
Had a few cocktails, there, Arch? Tomorrow morning, when you look at what you just typed tonight, won't you feel so...proud.
65 - El Bicho
please don't completely delete AC's sad, pathetic commets. It makes him look like a better person than he really is.
66 - STM
I can't understand why Arch is so frightened of the citizens of the US finally getting the things that every other western democracy has had for decades, and which don't seem to have caused one iota of drama.
We love our anti-lunatic gun laws and (almost) free health care down here. You can catch the bus to work without idiots taking potshots at you, and no one needs to go bankrupt to have an appendix removed.
Arch will benefit too. He can have the remaining half of his brain removed at no cost.
67 - Jet
Oh he's just bitter because his lawsuit failed. He was trying to sue McDonald's for royalties because they call them "golden arches"
68 - handyguy
And Arch is off the mark comparing Obama to Carter. Actually, Obama could be the Dems' Reagan - a transformational political leader who carries the country further than we may have believed it would go.
And our conservative friends may find it disconcerting if this does not turn out to be such a bad thing, after all. Just as we lefties must grudgingly concede that some of what the Reaganites accomplished [like the Thatcherites in Britain] was not all bad.
69 - handyguy
My window is open in New York City right now. The sounds of celebration are rushing in....
70 - zingzing
handy, you're in new york? i'm in greenpoint, brooklyn and i can't hear a thing. no jinxes!
oh, the tide is turnin'!
71 - handyguy
I am west of Columbus Circle. Not a huge noise, but medium-sized waves of hollerin'....
I am so relieved. Like most Dems, I refused to believe it until it happened...we're accustomed to losing these things.
72 - handyguy
McCain's remarks are incredibly moving and gracious.
73 - Mark Saleski
McCain's remarks are incredibly moving and gracious.
agree. mentioning obama's late grandmother was a nice touch.
74 - STM
What a fantastic speech by John McCain.
How can you not be proud to be American, guys, after hearing that, no matter your political persuasion?
Amazing stuff, all round. Absolutely momentous.
Congratulations from Down Under (the 51st state :) on your new prez and on a man so gracious in defeat he can make that kind of speech.
75 - Dawn
I am proud of several things tonight, and it would be hard to pinpoint which is more wonderful: Ohio putting Obama over the top, casting my vote for Obama, being filled with tears and joy that I was able to participate in this watershed moment, or John McCain's gracious and kind speech.
I am completely disgusted however at the angry, hateful rhetoric spewing forth from the mouths of sore losers. SHUT THE F UP. YOU LOSE, GET OVER IT and look forward to a better world where ALL people are created equal and each of us has the opportunity to reach the highest level of office in this great nation. We are all winners with Obama as president.