If McCain wins, is Silver’s career with numbers effectively over? Seems like he’s putting a lot of eggs in this basket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc

i showed up at the polls at 6:30 this morning (not because i was excited or anxious, but because my wife had to be to work early and we didnt have another choice). it seems like turnout is going to be at unprecedented levels today, good news for all you democracy-lovers out there.

Supreme Ruler – Slyde
Vice Supreme Ruler – BK

So I just voted for America’s 43.5th white one.

“No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.”
 
—- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

I’m surprised to not have heard this before now.

only because it is running an ad for blacksingles.com

We live in a mostly African American part of Cincinnati, working class folks. Usually I walk in the door of the polling place, vote and am out in about 10 minutes. Mrs. M, my son and I went at about 8:00 this morning and the line was about 50 people. There were so many Black Americans voting, it was exciting and there was such a feeling of pride in the air. The poll workers inside said that the line had slimmed some since 6:00am. I must say that I was really moved. Especially by the some of the elderly voters who were commenting that they hadn’t voted in years and years because they felt so disenfranchised.

Even if by some strange Republican trick Obama loses, his candidacy has made an extraordinary difference. BTW, I have been a moderate Republican party member for 41 years (although this year I have severed any and all ties with the GOP)and I’ve voted in 10 presidential elections. I’ve never seen or felt anything like the energy and optimism that permeated the polls today.

I proudly cast my ballot for Slyde as Supreme Ruler, BK as Vice Supremem Ruler and Obama for president.

Here’s a shot at the Holy Way Pentecostal Church of the Ever Widening Void polling place in Madisonville:

and I dragged my crazy old mom out to vote. She thought it would be this huge ordeal. Took her about 10 a.m. Went right to the table, then waited may 3-4 minutes for a voting machine open up.

they opened at 6:30 for the first time in 17 years and I was on my way to work by 6:45 am. have they called Ky and Indy yet?

has been a bit disappointing, and a bit anti-climactic. Looks like McCain is taking NC from the #s…

As a matter of fact, I did vote against everyone who voted for the bailout.

I heard rumors of long lines, but didn’t see any evidence. I was a bit alarmed when I first went to my polling place and saw people waiting outside, but then I realized there were actually fewer people than usual for a presidential election. They just rearranged the place and were making people wait outside the voting room, rather than inside like they usually do. They did ask me if I needed help figuring out how to use the voting machine, but that might have been because they had new machines, rather than because there were a lot of newbies.

Yes, the 100+ year old lever machines have been replaced. With new lever machines. The old ones seemed sturdier to me, but the new ones have cute little red arrows that pop up and point to the name you voted for.

Despite my effort, it doesn’t look like this one belongs to the reds.

that thinks that Electoral College counting, “precincts reporting” and calling states based on 12% is like, absolutely arcane? Its not like I don’t trust the people doing it, but it makes about as much sense to me as space flight.

BTW, I voted a couple of weeks ago. It’s nice to see that there was no “Cy’s candidate pictured high-fiving Osama over a pile of dead US servicemen” picture floating around since then. That would’ve been awkwarrrrd.

are kinda crazy. There are black areas of Jefferson Township and Dayton where Obama is beating McCain by crazy totals…..335 votes to 3, 256 votes to 1, 159 votes to ZERO. He’s getting about 98 percent of the black vote here.

I love the fact that the local NBC affiliate has put the local results at the bottom of the screen and then squished the main NBC feed enough that it clips everything on the side and top of the screen, which just so happens to be where NBC has decided to put all of it’s interesting data. Local affiliates is so dumb.

We ALWAYS pick right… except for that one time in the 50’s…

I was told by a friend it was, but nobody has it official. Any word?

And if I was Mikhail Saakashvili, I would start packing my bags and looking for flights to NYC. Warrants mentioning.

9:54pm Barack wins! Barack wins!

SWISH

AND PRESIDENTIALLY TOO

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT OFFICALLY BUT I’M CALLING IT AND I’M SO FUCKING EXCITED.

Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president.

Suck it, McCain

to Obama!!!! Can’t be all negative here.

Classy concession speech.

1967 – Marching in Delaware and Columbus Oh for civil rights
1968- State Street race riots in Madison Wisconsin, I was there too…scary
1969- Pepper gassed in San Fransisco during the Bastille Day riots – Against racism and the the fucking Viet Nam war. What we did then was plant some seeds. My kids and the people of your generation have seen to it that those seeds have grown and bloomed.

40 years later and how things have changed and how they haven’t. I pray that Obama will continue to be as thoughtful, organized, strong, flexible and human during his presidency as he’s been during the campaign.

As John McCain said in his concession speech now is the time to come together and to find ways to create prosperity. security, and opportunity for us all in America.
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And hopefully to get the Reds to the 2009 play-offs.

Real, bitches!

I’m not sure he can pull off the miracle needed, but I think we have a fighting chance. Getting everyone to work together is way more than half the battle at this point.

We’re going to win NC… and IN, and MO (probably). It sunk in during that speech. We won, we actually won. I never really thought it would happen. Not until he got up on that stage…

I completely understand and respect disagreeing with his policies, but please realize that this means the absolute world, the absolute fucking world, to people like me that have put our lives on hold for this. This was the best night, and best year, of my life without question. I mean, I’m in the middle of nowhere in Appalachia, have had constant threats for the past 6 months, and am completely alone, but it was all worth it. I’m a hell of a lot closer to being an adult and I feel like we’ve got a fighting chance. I don’t think this guy’s got all the answers, but it seems like he will truly do his best and admit his mistakes. Ecstasy, is the only word that comes close.

What a night.

First I should let you know that UMaryland is one of the most comicall segregated places I have ever been. The Black, Latino, Gay, Indian, Iranian, Muslim, Jewish, Asian-American Student Unions all are very proud of Doing Their Own Thing to an absurd amount; for example, I was shunned by “my own” student union for hanging out too much with The Others. Not enough pride in m identity, etc.

Second thing you should know is that Maryland riots hard. Jon Stewart got his great “I thought Maryland was a safety school?” jibe in, and we deserved it.

So yeah, my apartment is right on the main drag of College Park, and even though I was stuck writing a paper all night, when I started hearing folks singing “We [have] overcome” I figured that the election was called for the Mighty O. More and more folks bled into the streets, lots of “Obama!” and “Yes we did!” chants, and the like. My favorite part of the night was my roomate coming back from a frat thing at like, 3 AM, getting caught up in the moment (I’m pretty sure he voted for McCain) and screaming OBAMA! out the window until he fell out of it. My personal lowlight was some dude (not Luke Scott, I don’t think) getting a megaphone out and telling people “You aren’t real Americans! Go back to Africa! Move to Canada! Get out of my country!” Somebody started a “scoreboard!” chant at him, which was pretty awesome.

Overall, I think it may be the closest I get to feeling what it was like when the Berlin Wall came down. And to think I was stuck writing a paper about the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Ted Stevens appears to have won Alaska. What the fuck will it take to get rid of that guy. He is fucking crazy, talks fucking crazy, and is a convicted fellon.

I was also hoping to see Norm Coleman picked off. I am not Franken’s biggest fan, but I don’t like Coleman at all and I think it is an abomination that he won Wellstone’s seat.

“FWD: ALL WHITE PEOPLE MUST REPORT 2 THE COTTON FIELDS TOMORROW MORNING AT 5AM FOR ORIENTATION!”