Election Night: Counting the votes Colorado, Virginia called for Obama
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I’m starting a fresh thread for the night. Just a reminder that you can catch me on PJTV sometime during the 8pm-9pm Eastern slot.
Scroll for rolling updates…
Tidbits:
The Real Clear Politics electoral map is here.
McCain takes Kentucky and W. Virginia; Obama takes Vermont.
Military ballots will be counted in Virginia, thank goodness.
Democrat Mark Warner has taken the Senate seat in Va.
Stay tuned…
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8:15pm Eastern. NBC has called Penn. for Obama. Take it for what it’s worth…
So much for those bitter, clingy racists, eh, Barry O?
McConnell hangs on in Ky. Elizabeth Dole appears to be out in NC.
I can tell you this much: The Senate Republicans need a wake-up call. We need fresh, conservative leadership. McConnell had his chance.
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8:22pm Eastern. Virginia is still too close too call.
8:42pm Eastern. Hearing that Georgia is going in the McCain column…
8:52pm Eastern. Sununu loses his Senate seat in NH.
9:19pm Eastern. Minnesota and Michigan go for O.
GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss hangs on in Ga.
Fox and others have called Ohio for Obama.
10:55pm Eastern. Both Denver papers are calling Colorado for Obama. Also calling Democrat Udall the winner in the Senate race.
Virginia called for Obama.
Writing’s on the wall, folks.
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Not if I never earn it in the first place.
Roger that.
ECS
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pm, gribble said:
Know more than me? Odd, I don’t remember competing on Jeopardy with you. But you must know more about the Gestapo and the agony of fascism since you are in essence voting in a fascist. Oh wait…
When people are able to perform a sober analysis of the GOP I think Bush, Rove and about 50 GOP Congressional “leaders” will be proven to the ones who killed the GOP.
I am not sure that the death of the GOP is a bad thing. The demise of the GOP clears the way for a true conservative party. I don’t know what that new, true conservative party will be called but they will act, speak, campaign, win and govern like conservatives in the mold of Ronald Reagan.
I don’t believe all is lost if Obama manages to win tonight. We have survived some truly awful events. But, the costs in terms of wealth and lives that Obama will inflict will be enormous.
Most of the lives will be lost overseas where America’s perceived weakness will lead tyrants to act more aggressively. But, it will take us years to recover form the new economic lunacy that is about to be unleashed and that will allow the tyrants to run loose longer and overcoming them will cost more American lives in the end.
God save this nation.
They just called for Chambliss (GA) by having 55% of the vote.
More like: God, save the Constitution and our Republic. We’ve already heard Obama from his 2001 radio interview say that he thinks it is flawed and needs to change. *sigh*
I feel sick at my stomach.
Fox just gave VA to Obama.
I predict a massive shift to an underground economy if Obozo takes the win. I’m damn sure not interested in working to pay for other peoples crap.
Hey ECS, two more folks and we’ve got us a fire team! It’s a start.
It’s not surprising that the democrats won’t even vote for a democrat that the republicans would vote for.
lovin’ them apples right-by-the-sea!!!
nancy & reid babbling on… gonna puke!!
ugh-i dread going to school tomorrow!! it seems so pointless. for the next 4 yrs i will be implementing plan B- i will have myself declared insane, quit my job and be a full-time artist. obama- i need some new paints and can you make sure to pay the rent on my studio? oh -and an anvil- blacksmithing will soothe my soul or at least my anger with all that hammering.
If the Fairness Doctrine applied to cable television instead of broadcast television (which it doesn’t, Braniac) Fox would still have a lot less to worry about than every other news outlet on cable.
Obama may have brought you hope and change, but he failed to bring you a basic understanding of something as simple as the fairness doctrine.
Enjoy the rest of your trolling and have a great night!
hear, hear. I won’t give up on my country, but I feel like many in my country have given up – period.
lovin’ them apples right-by-the-sea!!!
nancy & reid babbling on… gonna puke!!
ugh-i dread going to school tomorrow!! it seems so pointless. for the next 4 yrs i will be implementing plan B- i will have myself declared insane, quit my job, sign up for every stinkin’ program and be a full-time artist. obama- i need some new paints and can you make sure to pay the rent on my studio? oh -and an anvil- blacksmithing will soothe my soul or at least my anger with all that hammering.
right4life, the implications of your posts and the eschatology that you hold to leads inevitably to:
1. You can be saved in the Christian era even while you openly reject Jesus (contradicting Acts 17:30-31), &
2. God is a racist, he will save certain people purely because of their race (contradicting Acts 10:34-35).
Both of those things are obviously false. Dispensational premillenialism is not sound theology.
It isn’t about circumcision, but being born again. It isn’t about belonging to Israel, but to the “Israel of God” (Gal. 6:12-16).
The “true Jew” isn’t one who is physically descended from Abraham, but those who are the spiritual descendants of Abraham – those who have the same kind of faith (Rom. 2:25-29).
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm, Flyoverman said:
I’m good with a shotgun, can I join?
Flyoverman – You are, of course correct. The ideals of the USA will never die, and I will ALWAYS support them. However, it appears a majority of the voters do not believe in this country anymore. While the headstone may be premature, the sentiment is hard to argue with.
Please forgive heightened emotion at this point. I am sure you can understand.
Tomorrow morning I will brush of the dspression and rejoin the fight to preserve the ideals of the Founding Fathers.
Did someone say Al Franken won?? I turned off the TV. Say is aint so!
The feds are already raiding Swiss bank accounts, by some news story I read. Obama wants our 401k money. He’ll seize the pension plans and force them under socialist control. I’m just taking this man at his word, that’s all.
Purplepeep (November 4th, 2008 at 10:37 pm),
Yeppers. That was my point. I think America missed the memo, though.
Replace the ‘c’s with a ‘k’ komrade…
G’night, Folks.
Sorry if I was rude, chappy.
Two questions for the future now that Barry is in.
1. Whats the over/under for America’s collective “Oh my God what have we done?!” moment?
2. Who is the leader of the Republican party and/or the renewed conservative movement? Romney? Jindal? Gingrich?
Our change starts tomorrow. Call, write and visit your local GOP offices and demand change. Out with the spineless, ball-less weaklings and RINOs, like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. (I keep waiting to hear that Graham has come out of the closet) In with some Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan type real men. I am sick of these sissyfied girlie-men Repubs.
Not being sexist at all as I would love to see more Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin and Anne Coulter-types in positions of leadership in the party.
Goodnight kids. Remember, You can’t fix stupid. Yes, that applies to a lot of Republicans, too.
When the law becomes good feeling. The bad whimsies of Bad Judges, the harsh actions of Political Operatives, and the oppressions of callous Bureaucratic Officials become our hell.
But they’ll dress well and talk smoothly for a few years. Hope as a banner, sharing as a motto!
“Citizen, I hope you have enough to share with the needy! If not we have a National Service Corps. Men to this camp, women to that. All for service others!”
After that, speech and dress will come to mesh with actuality. Brutal and ugly.
The new look of the Conservative party is the scene where that dude shouts “WOLVERINES” and gets blasted to chowder by the military helicopter.
And anyone who thinks I’m being a yahoo or paranoid is in for a rude awakening next year.
Night vicki, I’m outa here also… night all.
Well, actually Sambo, I’m a woman, but right now I’m a very agitated woman. As a conservative, somewhere to the right of Reagan, this farce of an election is quite literally making me ill. Those who voted for Obama will get exactly what they deserve…and worse, I hope. My problem is that the rest of us don’t deserve what the Obama-Pelosi-Reid cabal will do to our country or our wallets.
Good word, travlinman, thanks.
As an optimist, best case, Obama is just Jimmy Carter’s second term. A rough period, but we survived.
I would note, that Jimmy Carter allowed a radical Marxist regime to not only come to power in Iran, but humiliate the US for over a year. His weakness in the face of Iran encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which led to radical Islamists from the oil rich Gulf states to head to Afghanistan.
So, Hezb’Allah and al Qaeda both owe their existence at least partly to Jimmy Carter. The 200+ Marines in Beirut. The Americans kidnapped and murdered in Lebanon. The embassy bombings in Beirut. The dead Airmen in Khobar Towers. The dead sailors on the USS Cole. The embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The 3000 dead in New York and Washington.
All can be traced back to a naive and cowardly Carter. One can argue whether Iraq was a proper response, but only the looniest MoveOn/Code Pink idiots would argue against fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. So the dead in Afghanistan, even friendly fire casualties, can be blamed at least partly on Carter.
Hitler bears the lions share of the blame for the tens of millions who died in Europe, but Neville Chamberlain, who gave away much of Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler, or the French who did nothing when Hitler militarized the Ruhr, can’t escape some of the blame.
And I think we’ll be lucky if Obama is just a Carter-esque inexperienced and naive liberal, and not something more sinister.
Well, I guess when you have over $600 million (of which $200 is questionable) to spend to buy the vote, this is what happens.
And let’s not forget his flip flop on taking public financing.
You can expect more of this to come.
Thank you….THANK YOU. I am glad that we’re not ALL ready to throw in the towel of life. Several have made reference to Jimmy Carter, and what a disaster he was…and we all survived it (those of us alive then). Folks…it’s gonna suck, but keep your head up, you CAN and WILL survive this time.
Stop giving up. We may have to drop back and re-focus, but think long term. The Muslims, when they think about things, they think in terms of decades and centuries. Think long term. There will be new stars of the Republican Party. Let’s cultivate the next Ronald Reagan. He may be 20-25 years old, or 30-35 years old. Even if we start from zero, we can move up.
Enough negativity, folks. This stinks. I know it stinks. Take tonight to cry, if you must, but come back tomorrow (or the next day, if you need), and be ready to kick butt in the arena of ideas.
Your tolerance is astounding. I’m more upset that people like you exist versus Barack Hussein winning. I think Barack would agree that you are a vile human.
our money? they’ll get it…but they don’t deserve it!
Goodnight everyone. Keep the faith. We will be O.K.
Well, when Obama’s done filling out Carter’s 2nd term in four years from now, we can all say…I told you so!
When you have the entire MSM covering up for you; voter fraud on a MASSIVE scale; and a populace that decides they want something for nothing, this is what can happen.
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm, Batman said:
Excuse me, but I think you’re quibbling over the shape of the straws here as opposed to short vs. long.
The OLD Fairness Doctrine was on the executive side (FCC) and was a policy stricken by Ronald Reagan via executive order.
The NEW Fairness Doctrine is being advocated by a Democrat Congress (Schumer et. al.)and a Democrat President, and no one has ANY idea what mediums this legislation will control. It could be just radio, but it is not unreasonable to bet it will end up reaching out to grab television (cable & broadcast) and even the Internet.
ATL, GA — Fox network here says McCain concedes with “no path to victory”…
I’m sorry to say that the damage Obama is likely to do to our Nation will last for a generation.
It has nothing to do with his skin color and everything to do with his ideology.
Like I said elsewhere, conservatives need to burn their playbook and win back what was lost by any means necessary. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
Barak, the communist, and islamist would agree that he is a useful idiot!
I agree with havok, it makes me more sad that half of this country would vote for someone like BO…all I know is that adversity draws folks closer to God..I pray that this is the good that comes out of this election. Goodnight, all…as always, I enjoyed the conversation!
1. I think it’ll be less than 4 years. Enough time to end this before it gets worse. Sort of like 1980.
2. I don’t know. Romney seems a bit too plastic to me. I don’t feel I can trust him. Jindal might be it, but I honestly do not know yet. I love Newt, but for politics of a major order, he’s just got too many skeletons in his closet. I think that’s why he’s remaining in his role to shape the discussion, and not run for anything. He’s a pretty bright guy.
Note that Republican moderates were wiped out. The lesson re-learned is if your run as a quasi-Democrat, why would you vote for an ersatz Democrat when you can vote for the real thing.
Battle Ground poll Question D3 tells us that if you want a Republican to win, run as a Conservative. Why the RNC can’t grasp that is ????????????
The Fairness Doctrine wouldn’t apply to cable TV now, but by virtue of the Democrats loose interpretation of the Commerce Clause, they can declare cable and satellite to affect interstate commerce, and regulate it. And it doesn’t matter if Fox is the most balanced cable news netowrk, balanced will be in the eyes of Obama appointed ‘fairness commissions’.
All but the most successful conservative talkers will be driven off the air by an equal time requirement for low ad revenue ‘Air America’ style duds.
For the first time in my life, I’m ashamed of my country…
An unmitigated disaster.
Colorado, I weep for you.
Stop putting money in your 401k’s, Dems plan to socialize that, unless you want to help other people to get a portion of your retirement.
How fitting that the People’s Republic of California is about to seal the nation’s transition to the USSA.
Somehow people have the notion that those of us saying that Obama will begin a oppressive regime void of any liberties or American ideals are giving up. Throwing in the towel. Negative…
No we still ardently support those conservative ideals and carry them deep in our hearts. I’ll be on the front lines to fight the good fight – whether in a spirited debate or a hail of gunfire. We’re only saying Obama is more likely to choose bullets than speech to emphasize his ideals. He already had armed thugs at polling places in PA. I’d love for a peaceful exchange of ideals, but Obama is no Carter. He is a far left villain who hangs out with worse villains who will do anything and everything to wield total power like Stalin and Hitler before him.
So label me yahoo if you want, but I’ll still buy my bullets and beans.
you mean the first time in your adult life
It’s not that many. It’ll probably be 50-51% of voters in this election, which will be probably 90% of eligible voters, which is a bit over 50% of the total population (the total includes kids, too). So, I am guessing it’ll be 60-70 million voting for Obama, out of a total population of 300+ million.
It all has to do with who is registered, and who voted.
FOX is calling it for Obama
Dave The Libertarian, I am with you brother.
In the words of the late Gary Thomas Gilmore, “Let’s do it.”
Hey Bluto Blutarsky said that too!
no not at all. sorry. not even close. you anti-millenialists are grasping at straws…
have you ever read the OT? seriously…Israel is always the apple of God’s eye. like it not…learn to love it.
your theology has led to centuries of anti-semitism…read the road to the holocaust by Hal lindsey.
I am so NOT looking forward to the next 4 years…..Obama will be led by the nose by Pelosi and Reid.
Jindal or Palin in 2008. Jindal has both legislative and executive experience, at both the state and local level.
One or the other would seem my obvious choice in 2012. Duncan Hunter would have been perfect, but he had low name recognition, and not a lot of money. I donated to Hunter, and hoped maybe he’d get some attention at the debates.
I defaulted to wanting Romney, but it was over before Texas. Romney wasn’t perfect, but he was better than McCain.
I hope subtle little insults like ‘the finger’ Obama tossed at McCain yesterday maybe helps cure his urge to reach across the aisle…
Look at the crowd in Chicago. They’re yelling loudly
“GIMME GIMME GIMME”
President-elect Obama.
oh and my theology predicted Israel would exist again…and IT DOES!! and it predicted that Iran would be its enemy, and that Russia would back Iran…
shazam!!! the facts on the ground prove dispensationalism, sorry.
The cheers from Chicago on Foxnews are turning my stomach – I’m turning in.
Good luck to you all…I’m off to find out how to get my gun license tomorrow – before they rip it out of my hands…..
So will republicans start acting like conservatives again?
Heh, heh…sambo. I meant that they will deserve the Third World dictatorship that they’ve just voted into power here. NO, they don’t deserve our money. Or our respect. Or our compassion. Or “free” healthcare, etc…
Is juan getting ready to cry?
Do you mean the land?
Pathetic and sad.
I now work for cash only.
I agree about Hunter. I was amazed that he didn’t do better. I want Jindal to stay right here.
OK, I’m back for a minute only, I promise. Here’s Juan Williams saying that he didn’t think this could happen, that being a black man being elected POTUS. Can we dare to hope that the rhetorical garbage about this being a racist country will now die away??
Please, God. Please.
Jaun Williams is crying….
Juan trying not to cry.
land and the people…the jews have survived against all odds…as Ezekiel predicted…and the Lord does return to Israel…not the US…
right4life, I am not an anti-semite.
You have yet to show how your views do not lead to the inevitable conclusion that 1. you can reject Jesus and yet be saved, & 2. that it amounts to God being racist.
On a slightly more on topic note, MSNBC just declared the race to Obama. I still want to see the final vote tallies in a few of the states.
Sounds good given their approval ratings. Think they are low now? Wait till electrivity rates “skyrocket” as Obama wants. Mr. Arugala does not grasp misery.
Opportunity….
So, Al and Jesse are out of a job now right? Yeah right…….
wasnt too long ago Juan was talkin smack about Obama. Remember?
I’d like to thank the over 36 million Americans who have voted for massive energy prices, a gutted military, and God knows how many terrorist attacks on American citizens.
I’m sure that Castro, Chavez, and Ahmedinejad are doing their happy dance now.
I wonder if McCain will ever concede that b. Hussein is not a ‘nice family man’….
For the first time in my life I am NOT proud of my country.
Amazing isn’t it?
The silent majority needs not be so silent. I will fight. Light the phone lines up in congress, the white house, and at the social service orgs like acorn…starting Jan 20! I will make time, everyday, to raise he77 at anyone, any org, that has helped bring us to this.
Let’s see how the markets react 2morrow.
i wish that i could say with any sort of certainty that the answer was “yes”. But realistically, its not.
At best, the few real conservatives left in public office will have to continue the fight while those weaklings and cowards that “reached across the aisle” will begin to reap the rewards of their concession to their democratic “friends”.
And i wouldnt want to be one of them when those “rewards” start coming down.
didn’t say you were…but look at the history of the church…it has been anti-semitic…and they said the church is no israel…so the jews are an ‘inconvenience’…
you haven’t shown how they are. its a non-sequitor.
Any money that I feel I recived from Obama I will donate to the RNC just so it will work against him in 2010.
Let the dark ages begin in earnest.
BTW, will the victim population in this Country give us a 4 year moratorium on whining? Will Obama somehow inspire them to see that anything can happen no matter who you are, if you work at it??
Work at it.
I’m not proud of Conservative pundits/bloggers *cough*Malkin*cough*allahpundit*cough* who put blog traffic and pet issues above rallying the troops for the more important and immediate battle.
if anyone in their right minds thinks that this guy is going to allow reid or pelosi to dictate anything to him. he’s way too much of a narcissist for that.
but even worse than his speech pattern will be 4 yrs of michele and her sour puss and nastiness.
let the riots begin!!
It’s a freakin nightmare. The next four years are going to be utterly nauseating.
Also fully support DeMint, Sessions, Vitter, Cornyn et al. In 2 years we need more like them. Start your grassroots now and flush out ant RINOs and Compassionate Conservatives before getting them on the ticket.
have you read the OT where the Lord FAVORS the sons of Israel over the sons of Ishmael and Esau?
if you want to call Him a ‘racist’ for that…then go for it.
Al is here in ATL at Ebenezer Baptist Church where someone is in the pulpit preaching on how Obama is like the Old Testament great prophets and he will lead us to the Promise Land!
Goodnight, all…
Yeesh!
The voters vote for these laws, and then they vote for candidates who appoint judges who rule the laws ‘unconstitutional.’
The voters are too stupid to understand what they’re doing. They’ve become too dumbed down. Now it can’t be fixed. They’re too stupid. The voters think like slaves now. They are slaves. America has been lost.
It doesn’t matter any more. There will be a federal law mandating ‘tolerance’ of gay marriage.
The country has gone to the looters.
I still can’t believe this is happening…
That 6 month clock for the Biden-promised major disaster started ticking tonight, folks. God help us.
Glad your happy, debprime.
Congrats on you victory. We’ll all have to live with it. Hope you didn’t choose wrong, for all our sakes.
Oh dear God…am going to have to gird my loins for four years…
The GOP has committed suicide. They tried so hard to be Democrats but if you are going to vote for a socialist it seems people prefer the real thing to a cheap imitation. Of course, the GOP will fail to learn this lesson and will flail about for 4 to 12 more years before fading into obscurity. It is time for a new, conservative party.
My god, the horns are blowing and people screaming in the streets here…I guess i am happy for them, i would not have been so excited for mccain, more excited that i would not have to put up with a completely democrat government.