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The Bede's American Successor
Curmudgeon-in-Training
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Originally posted by The Atheist:
Sorry to spoil everyone's fun, but it's already morning of 5th November and we're toasting the new president, Barack Obama after his 378-160 victory!
Yea. And knew Kennedy had been assassinated before it happened, too.
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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I told my girlfriend to hang up the phone on me earlier.
I'm a bad person.
Pennsylvania has done it! Obama will be President!
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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Wesley J
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Don't I just love this BBC News website. Fascinating to observe the results coming in. Sound is from BBC Radio 4. Very instructive, all this: learning about and from America.
Fingers crossed, guys!
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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Their website is good, but their coverage is pretty poor.
They took Christopher Hitchens off the panel and Jeremy Vine just isn't comfortable with the map.
But then, the map is dreadful - you can't see it it's so far away.
Oh, for the joys of CNN...
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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Wesley J
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Yeah, guess so; but I just love listening to James Naughtie. He did 'The Making of Music' on Radio 3 and 4 a while back. Lovely voice. Suppose I'm just trying to see if and how much the Beeb can rev it up.
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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Holy crap, Duval County (the extremely red county I live in) is frickin' BLUE. It is not possible to overstate how huge that is.
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Anglican_Brat
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I'm calling it, we are watching the destruction of the Republican Party as a national force.
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RadicalWhig
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Insomniac politiocolics in the British Isles / Europe, without the benefit of CNN etc, can get live coverage from msnbc at this website.
I might have to take the train to work tomorrow, because I will be too tired to drive after staying up all night.
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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Woohoo!!! They just called Ohio for Obama.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Pennsylvania------ CHECK
Ohio ----------- CHECK
Lookin' GOOD. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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Best moment so far was when the BBC said FOX News had projected Ohio for Obama and then the guys in the studio suggested that they just wanted to get this one out of the way!
How happy should every American be right now?
Very.
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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Hedgerow Priest
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Watching it all on TV in ole London Town. it's going well. Just saw the belligerent Walrus John Bolton with a face like a smacked arse. Loving it! Go Barack!
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FreeJack
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The BBC (AP) have now called Ohio for Obama, as did Fox earlier. If Erin is right about Florida as a whole, I think it's all over.
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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You can watch the Florida election results come in here.
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ChaliceGirl
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My state (PA) went to Obama! Yeah!
PA was one of the "swing states", so the ads were really dirty, really repetitve and both candidates seemed like they were here every other week! It was getting tiring!
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Photo Geek
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Erin said
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Woohoo!!! They just called Ohio for Obama.
Yes!!!! Finally, I'm living in a blue state !!!
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ChaliceGirl
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Looks like Arizona (McCain's home state) is going to Obama. Ain't that a real slap in the face to McCain!? Too funny!
I am really surprised tonight. I thought it would be much closer than this.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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I guess Joe Six-Pak couldn;t make it to his polling place... so sad, too bad.
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
Looks like Arizona (McCain's home state) is going to Obama.
I ain't counting my chickens on this one...
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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Wesley J
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Great sig ya got, Orb! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Zach82
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Indiana is soooo close to turning blue... *grits teeth*
Zach
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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I think I might have to go to the package store for some champagne.
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Photo Geek
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Looks like the rednecks in my county are even going for Obama.
And our local Krogers will now be able to sell liquor seven days a week. Is it getting chilly in hell??
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Great sig ya got, Orb!
I've had it for quite some time!
If anyone is watching BBC...can I just confirm with a second opinion that the guy who Rajesh Mirchandi just interviewed is the most colossal twat in the Republican party? [That's saying something.]
And then Bolton had a go at good old Rajesh by presenting the guy with the facts of the situation! ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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Zach82
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Ugh, Obama is down my 12,000 votes in Indiana right now. I may have to settle for living in a blue county.
Zach
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ChaliceGirl
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Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
I guess Joe Six-Pak couldn;t make it to his polling place... so sad, too bad.
Yeah, where's Joe the Plumber NOW? lol
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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Grant Park looks like The Place To Be right now...
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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Living in Gin
Liturgical Pyromaniac
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What a more fitting place to exorcise the ghosts of 1968 than in Grant Park!
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Mr. Spouse
Ship's Pedant
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Originally posted by Orb:
If anyone is watching BBC...can I just confirm with a second opinion that the guy who Rajesh Mirchandi just interviewed is the most colossal twat in the Republican party? [That's saying something.]
Nah. I wouldn't expect anyone from a party to admit anything but positive news on an election night.
But it was a fun piece of interviewing. And the London studio reaction was great - Americans just don't expect the media to criticise politicans, whereas the UK is of course pretty much the opposite. There was an interesting comment earlier on in the coverage when someone said that the US media tended to be positive towards the winners. David Dimbleby responded by saying that the British media usually did the opposite!
With the projections so far, my only dilemma tonight is deciding whether to go out to the local Democratic results party which starts in half an hour at 8PM...
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Banner Lady
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Over here in the Capitol of Australia, a lot of our politicians are at a US election party. The US ambassador to Australia (a close personal friend of GW Bush) has just announced his resignation. I think this might signify the winds of change are blowing a loooong way around the planet!
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FreeJack
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Originally posted by Mr. Spouse:
Nah. I wouldn't expect anyone from a party to admit anything but positive news on an election night.
To be fair, the polls are still open in a few states, so it would be unfair to expect a concession.
The time zone issue is not really a factor in single time zone British election coverage.
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Zach82
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CNN has declared it for Obama.
Zach
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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The networks are calling the election. I'm actually bawling like a damn baby.
Thank you Jesus.
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Jason™
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Hallelujah Amen. Hope to God that nothing funky happens between now and the final concession...
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Photo Geek
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Living in Gin said
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What a more fitting place to exorcise the ghosts of 1968 than in Grant Park!
And the whole world is still watching. The long nightmare is finally over!
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Zach82
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President Bush is actually still in charge for another 2 months you know. ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
Zach
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LeRoc
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Congratulations USA.
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Orb
Eye eye Cap'n!
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Can I get a...
...yes we DID?
![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Congratulations to all Obama supporters. This is not the outcome I wanted, but I hope that my fears are proved wrong. Again, congratulations.
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Bullfrog.
Prophetic Amphibian
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Originally posted by Orb:
Grant Park looks like The Place To Be right now...
I'm not there myself, but some of my friends are. Apparently the tickets were very hard to come by.
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Erin
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I live in a blue state. Holy Mother of God, I actually live in a blue state.
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Wesley J
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Yay, USA - yes, you can!
Well done, friends. What a night. Lotsa work to do. But it's a very good start. Great job! Thank you, guys! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Foaming Draught
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Well voted America! Blue, from sea to shining sea (with a splurge of red in the middle to remind us that we still live in a fallen world ).
God bless President-Elect Obama and Vice-President-Elect Biden, and give their advisers and them wisdom to choose the right executive team for the times.
And God Bless America! You've made the rest of the world happy for the first time in eight years.
FD
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Woooohoooooooooo!! !! !!
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The Bede's American Successor
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Originally posted by Erin:
The networks are calling the election. I'm actually bawling like a damn baby.
Thank you Jesus.
This post alone is enough to earn this thread a place in Limbo.
Actually, I've just seen the first governor election results here in Washington. Most of us are in all vote by mail counties,* so final results may not be known on close races for over a week (must be postmarked by today).
So, things can change.
But, my county, Snohomish County, which barely went to the Republican Snake Oil Salesman for governor 4 years ago is a bit different tonight. The 8:00 pm vote totals posted on the WA Secy of State's vote.wa.gov website are from us. These are all the absentee ballots that have been received and verified through today. We are voting 56+% for the incumbant Democrat governor in this vote total.
I started to cry.
I know this can change. It will change. But I suspect that people did notice the new highways built around here. They did notice the funding for education. They did notice a few other things. And, Obama's get-out-the-vote effort is the best anyone has seen. Ever. Period.
This is going to be a good night.
*Only King County (Seattle) and Pierce County (where MT lives) still has polling places, but about 70-75% of those voters use absentee like the rest of us.
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Alfred E. Neuman
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Sweet Mary, it's actually happened. I'm so proud to have witnessed this day. 300+ years of subjugation have been finally vanquished in a true confirmation of American equality.
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WOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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Bullfrog.
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And now the real work begins...
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RadicalWhig
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Ironically, McCain's just made his first statesmanlike speech - a concession speech which seems to heal rather than to divide.
(Didn't seem to go down very well with the crowd, though).
[ 05. November 2008, 03:22: Message edited by: RadicalWhig ]
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