So it’s been over a week since I last posted, mostly because I knew that after Brandy and acallidryas offered their thoughts I should put up some kind of election reaction and words were failing me. Seriously. It really is difficult to articulate what’s been going through my head the past week. This Onion headline [...]
Update 10:20pm
McCain’s concession speech is on now, and he’s being quite gracious — this is the McCain I remember from 2000 and haven’t seen since.
Update 8:23pm
MSNBC has just called Ohio for Obama. Wow. That’s pretty much game over, barring any kind of west coast shock.
Nice. Now it’s all about the House and Senate races. More [...]
Here, dear reader(s), is a handy-dandy quick reference list of which states close their polls at which hour. I’ve also included some annotations on what to expect at various points of the evening, but take those with a grain of salt.
(You could, of course, also download the delightfully festive color-coded map from Swing State Project.)
All [...]
The first official returns are in, courtesy of the New Hampshire towns of Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location:
Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday’s first minutes. The town of Hart’s Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 [...]
Catching up on some reading, I noticed Skippy ruminating about the McCain camp’s unbridled/unhinged optimism heading into Tuesday. He goes on to quote John Dickerson over at Slate, dutifully reporting the uptick of that thing called, um, Hope on the Straight Talk Uncomfortable, Dangerous Local Express:
mcinturff released a memo yesterday that outlined his case for [...]
Okay, so I take that “day of rest” thing pretty literally and don’t usually see the Sunday Morning Yakfests when they’re first broadcast, but I’ll often do a little catching up once a more civilized hour of the day has come around. And often, I will discover the inadvertent hilarity I missed.
John McCain was on [...]
Wow. Just wow.
Kos has the scoop on this one:
Myers Research (D) & Grove Insight (D). 10/23-24. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines)
Likely voters
McCain (R) 44
Obama (D) 40
Early voters (34% of the sample)
McCain (R) 46
Obama (D) 47
The sample was 40 percent Republican, 33 Democratic, and 26 percent independent. ASU has its own survey coming Monday, [...]
It seems like just last week that Colin Powell was persona non grata in many sectors of the left for his participation in the runup to the Iraq War. Okay, actually, it was just last week. But now that Colin Powell has endorsed Obama, it’s all good, right?
Erm.
Powell’s endorsement is powerful as far as endorsements [...]
Dick Morris is smoking some good shit:
In the meantime, Republican bastions like South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana are now no better than tossups. If the election took place this week, it would [...]
Sometimes that is, indeed, what a picture is worth.
H/T to Jack and Jill Politics:
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