2008 USGE RESULTS THREAD PS GOP U LOST DIXVILLE NOTCH LOL

15-6 Obama! The beginning of the end!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch,_New_Hampshire

this is USGE not just USPE so feel free to crow and bawl abt ur locals as well

as of 2 days ago 55% of the oregon ballots were in. (oregon's election is mail-in voting only.)

pretty much all of the numbers this year are going to be bogglesome. I am so stoked. It's like fucking christmas.

It is really no good that I am staying up to 3am listening to old Luke Slater traxx tonight.

turn this mutha out

lol iTunes just dropped Quad City DJ's on me

Good Lord, this really is the 2nd American Election Day that we've all(more or less) been here together, right? Let this end up a bit better than it did last time.

At any rate, let's get this started. All craft report in. Get set up for your attack run.

Don't get cocky. Keep your cool.
And when they call it for Obama laugh right into their unthinkable faces.

YOUR FACE IS UNTHINKABLE!!! I LAFF INTO IT HAHAHAHA

AHAHA

Tom, you should listen to forks' fallout 3 OST about now. It'd fit in quite well with your mood.

I have mostly been having happy happy David Bowie time WRT soundtracking the election.

Kingfish, you'd know this stuff: unlike the usual 50 per cent of voters turning out, what will percentage of vote likely be? Last night our 'coolest' network news linked from VA where they were expecting 90 PER FUCKING CENT turnout there.

Naturally expect FOX etc to go with 'McCain receives more votes than any GOP candidate in history' as a result of increased turnout. Please FINISH YOUR DRINK when this happens. Then make a new one.

I'm trying to be away for most of the day actually getting things done such as hueg deadline but am drinking with the Hand and others later.

gr8 thread title tom but can you add a "good luck usa"?

no that would be

UNTHINKABLE!!!

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Overall turnout? That's a tough call; I live in Oregon, which biases my results as we have universal vote-by-mail, and you can vote for Obama and against our stupid Repub senator whilst filling out your ballot in a bar. I say, 80%+ for Oregon, 55% for America total. Quite challops indeed, I know, but I'ma sticking with it.

T/S Unthinkable vs Inappropriate

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good luck usa

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_el_pr/new_hampshire_first_votes

Wait, so Dixville Notch is a PLACE?! I thought it was some pundit, not some Lovecraft-sounding corner of nowhere.

Anywhere, here are some early-morning lolz from that article:

The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul.

If there is pine forest nearby there will be guaranteed Paultards innit.

guys i'm watching letterman rite now and got kind of misty when the "great moments in presedential speeches" bit came and went just now u_u

http://www.google.com/logos/electionday2008.gif

The 'e' is totally jacking off in that booth

My county's auditor predicts 85% turnout. We are all mail-in.

...and WA Sec. State Sam Reed predicts 83% turnout statewide

That fuck Rossi isn't going to win, is he?

google obv in tank for obama

xp: not if I can help it

me too

I don't know if I've every been in the situation I'm in now, ie knowing with absolute certainty that at some point in the next 24 hours I'll be bawling openly, probably in public.

I'm a young sort, so let me ask the older (kind of) folks here; do elections experienced as an engaged adult always feel like this, or is this one really that special?

Nick how old are you? Are you going to be at the Grand Central Bowl or OCC parties?

Once it gets declared, I will bawl away, same as I did 4 years ago during a horrid night when ABC cut over to an interview with a bright youngish black senator who'd just been elected to national office.

This one is really that special.

Um. Tbh, I kinda think you guys need to calm down a little. Is he really going to be any better than BC?

I'm 22, and I'll be at the Doug Fir with my uncle who's been so kindly sheltering me while I get settled in PDX.

I watched the 2000 election in my room and broke my TV with a thrown shoe when it was 'called', and was an uber-dramatic, all-black-wearing, barely left my dorm for a week dork in 2004, but this is the first election where I feel like, in hindsight, whatever emotional reaction I have will be justified by something other than youthful folly.

Yeah well 2000 was a sickening joke.

Is he really going to be any better than BC?

ok this won't have any effect on the other folks who are inclined to try and continue having this insipid conversation throughout the next 48 hours, much less 4-8 years, but there is more than a little symbolic weight to this election, and the country is in a slightly different position than it was in 1992. Thanks for trying, though.

Honestly, Niles, I think a dude who governed like Clinton but *was* Barack Obama would actually exceed my expectations for this presidency.

I don't mean that he's just a symbol, either. The Obama candidacy has changed how people in the center/center-left/left think about politics. I've canvassed, registered voters, and made phone calls, all based on a genuine concern for the future of the country, and I fully expect to feel like I haven't done nearly enough compared to my contemporaries.

The Doug Fir has the Mercury party, right? I remember stopping by there last time.

Um. Tbh, I kinda think you guys need to calm down a little. Is he really going to be any better than BC?

quite probably. again, one of his strengths is that his candidacy has fired up a massive community network of people getting involved to change things, incl. those who never cared enough to get involved before. Also, I believe his economic leanings to be far more liberal/progressive than Clinton's ever were.

xp yeah, wot they said.

It's not just the guy, it's the way the guy ran his campaign. I feel like, knock wood, if the guy wins, I own a little piece of the victory. Even if he turns out to be a milquetoast centrist, that win belongs to me/us.

xpost Yeah, so, me too.

Also, milquetoast centrist is soooooooooooo much better than the past eight years.

Let's just forget the topic of this thread for a while and discuss whether or not he's really just another clone of Harry Truman.

Heh. The one thing he needs to perfect his image is a series of dashing hats. I believe this to be an inarguable point.

Yes Tom agreed, different position, but a) I'm not really trying to start a debate at all b) I am super drunk

NICK; awesome. I hope you're right. Thanks for making such an effort. Also thanks for reminding me why I'm actually pretty excited about this election.

Are there any websites where people not in the USA could get a live coverage of the election?

drudgereport.com?

BBC Radio.

Isn't that some right-wing site?

x-post

salon.com, fivethirtyeight.com, news.google.com, msnbc.com, huffingtonpost.com, uh? I mean everywhere is going to be all updating like nuts all night

Yeah, I know I could just check the news sites, but I meant like a TV coverage.

Yes it does - over on the left hand side, obviously.

all I see on the left hand side are vertical stripes

why doesn't laura secord have a party

maybe she should have spread for the roses after all

all I see on the left hand side are vertical stripes

That's the analog soundtrack. It plays "Red Barchetta."

Obama won the 2nd-largest percentage of the population in recorded history, beating Johnson '64 and Nixon '72, and trailing only Reagan '84

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/population-and-popular-vote.html

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hahaha, she is awesome

She has stolen John McCain's hand!
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ungrateful bitch

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/51285/thumbs/s-OBAMAECONOMIC-large.jpg

as leader of palinstan up there in the high latitudes

Bush to star in New Order's 'True Faith 2008' video.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2007/08/31/ebert460.jpg

DO YOU HAVE ANY FRUIT TO DECLARE?

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/51285/thumbs/s-OBAMAECONOMIC-large.jpghttp://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/51285/thumbs/s-OBAMAECONOMIC-large.jpghttp://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/51285/thumbs/s-OBAMAECONOMIC-large.jpg

this picture is really cracking me up its like a dream bush is having abt when everything works out just how he planned and all his colorful friends are congratulating him

i mean im aware thats actually whats happening but it looks CRAZY

"A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein," Bush said. "It wasn't just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," Bush added.

When pressed by Gibson, Bush declined to "speculate" on whether he would still have gone to war if he knew Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction.

"That is a do-over that I can't do," Bush said.

Palin crowd cheers for 9/11

"fellow soldiers, they're down at Fort Benning graduating from boot camp and then on Sept. 11 beat the road to Iraq"

what the fuck does this mean

I was behind a woman in traffic today that had a bunch of McCain/Palin stickers in her back window, but she had trimmed off the top part with McCain's name so that it was just Palin. I flipped her off in case she turned out to be K-lo.

xxp the crowd sounds like they were cheering the 'fort bening' part, they were just late

benning

"...beat the road"?? Doesn't she say 'being deployed to Iraq'? Either way it's typically cretinous of her.

What is cretinous?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/12/i_plumber.cfm

ok this is a joke right? why is everybody treating this as a real list? ludwig von mises??

i don't imagine he wrote it himself, no

Most of the privies in the book are "the product of non-union labor." A plus!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1208/RosLehtinen_hangs_up_on_Obama_Twice.html

i would pay $$ for a .mp3 of this audios.

My girl Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hangs up three times on Obama, assuming the call is a hoax.

Did anyone hear about the congresswoman who not only hung up on Obama once, but TWICE?

She thought it was a prank.

Link?

OMG DID YOU GUYS SE THIS???? http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212190692.shtml

It's not as hot as this

ORIGINAL NEWS

It's funny because why would a president elect she campaigned AGAINST call HER!?

ALL 4 THA CHUKLZ

An Actual Press Release from the Office of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida

December 03, 2008 6:30 PM

Verbatim.

And yes, her office misspelled the names "Barack" and "Emanuel."

hahahaha

You know guys... what if... IF... the hanging up wasn't an accident?

oooh talk to the dial tone INDEED

i love barack and all but maybe if he called me id hang up on him too just cause im a motherfucking pimp

I'd ask him if he'd hire me why because i can do dumbass photoshop stuff for his website

1.) Quit making his site look like a freaking Wes Anderson movie.

I'm posting all of these, they tell a nice little story(stolen from another forum):

A bipartisan meeting with members of the National Governors Association at Congress Hall in Independence Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December 2, 2008.

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But, wait! Who's that sitting over there, near the back? Let's pan our camera over, see if we can get a better shot of them:

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hmmmm....

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The End.

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http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/12/quick-thoughts-from-kansas.html

did you guys ever figure out whether nate silver was a gay

― A B C, Monday, November 10, 2008 4:02 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As an openly gay man and an Obama supporter (though he's not openly a Democrat), Silver's biases might seem obvious, but his greater love of pragmatism and number-crunching sometimes create false impressions themselves.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-10-03/news/stats-man-nate-silver-releases-his-first-book-the-signal-and-the-noise/2/

Glad that's settled.