Official 2008 Election Night Thread

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Official 2008 Election Night Thread

Postby Beatlesfan03 » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:34 pm

Here we go. From Daily Kos, some exit polling, so take it for it is worth:

Obama/McCain

Florida: 52 percent to 44 percent
Iowa: 52 percent to 48 percent
Missouri: 52 percent to 48 percent
North Carolina: 52 percent to 48 percent
New Hampshire: 57 percent to 43 percent
Nevada: 55 percent to 45 percent
Pennsylvania: 57 percent to 42 percent
Ohio: 54 percent to 45 percent
Wisconsin: 58 percent to 42 percent
Indiana: 52 percent to 48 percent
New Mexico: 56 percent to 43 percent
Minnesota: 60 percent to 39 percent
Michigan: 60 percent to 39 percent
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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:46 pm

Exit polling is worthless. But I'll take those numbers.

I am now embedded in front of my TV. Bourbon is imminent.
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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:49 pm

MSNBC exit polls say 37% want change and 31% want values. Next was experience, but I didn't catch the number.

79% say country is on the wrong track.

28% approve of Bush.

46% have seen the trailer for "Nailin' Paylin" online.
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Postby Beatlesfan03 » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:52 pm

Maybe I heard incorrectly, is Obama's lead in IN *not* including the tallies from the Democrat areas?
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Postby Beatlesfan03 » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:55 pm

Wow 51-48 in Kentucky?!?! The TPM map just had it at 69-30 McCain. :shock:
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Postby lukpac » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:58 pm

I was thinking...has anyone here actually ever been interviewed by an exist pollster? I haven't.
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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:09 pm

Beatlesfan03 wrote:Wow 51-48 in Kentucky?!?! The TPM map just had it at 69-30 McCain. :shock:


Jefferson County (Louisville) just reported, which is what changed it. Obama will probably carry Jefferson and Fayette (Lexington). McCain will carry the state safely once the rural counties report in.

McConnell will probably survive, but it'll be close.

This is sounding encouraging thus far.

Scarborough is calling this a "total repudiation of the Republican brand." At 7:07. With two states called.
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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:11 pm

Pat Buchanan's corpse has been wheeled into the studio.

He says that this could be a "transformational" election like 1980 or 1932. He says the "conservative era" is over and the "liberal era" has begun.

Holy shit.
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Postby Beatlesfan03 » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:12 pm

I noticed. Reminds me of Novak in 2004.
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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:13 pm

I'm glad I'm not watching CNN, because they're in HD now and that sounds frightening.
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Postby Jeff T. » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:14 pm

lukpac wrote:I was thinking...has anyone here actually ever been interviewed by an exist pollster? I haven't.


I was given an "entry" interview today out on the street, but once I told them how I was voting on a couple of the props, they smiled at me, gave me a couple of stickers and went to the next person. I was totally ignored on exit.

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Postby Jeff » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:22 pm

Rspaight wrote:I'm glad I'm not watching CNN, because they're in HD now and that sounds frightening.


You just missed the gheyest thing ever. Wolf Blitzer almost pissed his pants because he's so excited about the fact that he was talking to Jessica Yellin as a "hologram."

It looked like some outtake from Tron.

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Postby Jeff » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:22 pm

Oh, and one advantage of living in the middle of nowhere: no wait to vote. My wife and I were out of there in less than five minutes.

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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:25 pm

I thought Wolf was a hologram.
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Postby Rspaight » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:27 pm

I love seeing my state float out there all alone in blood red.
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