23 posts tagged “election”
And loved it!
That image of Jesse Jackson with the tears running down his face gets me every time!!! The election is over, the hubub has died down... but we are still living history. And it is goooooood!
Awww…. It’s the end of an error. I can’t believe it! I use iGoogle as my home page when I’m online and right near the top is a module that quoted Bush’s uh… special brand of language strangulation. It is called the “Chimp-o-matic” and each time I refreshed the page it popped up another priceless treasure – all direct quotes with footnotes - from the last eight years of the Bush Presidency. And such priceless treasures they were. “I am often asked, is our children learning?” Direct quote, and that one was on a bumper sticker on my hubby’s truck for a while. Perfect because he’s a teacher. LOL! Today the Chimp-o-matic says “Service Unavailable.” I knew it was going to happen. I knew it would happen soon. But I’m gravely disappointed to see it go. Not disappointed to see HIM go, cause I’ve always been baffled that he got a second term. But sad indeed to part with this grand reminder of what it meant to be a citizen of a country that (can be hoodwinked into) electing this kind of leader. Whatever will we do to amuse ourselves in the Obama administration?
What a day!
I stood in line to vote.
I watched closely as each state was announced.
I cried as this man made history, as we all made history. I am amazed and impressed by John McCain's speech. I am glad that's over. Now onward to a new day. With hope.
Yes!
The first few days of November have brought significant changes to the electoral collage numbers. There are now nine states in the “toss up” category where there had been only seven last week. And the margin heading toward Obama has slipped from 311 to 278 electoral collage votes. Now one only needs 270 to win, and I don’t see any math that could get McCain the top job based on these numbers, but the win does not look as broad as it earlier appeared.
The states now in question and leaning toward McCain include: Missouri, Indiana, Georgia, Montana, and Arizona. All of these states went to Bush twice. The toss up states now expected to go to Obama include Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. All of these states went to Bush twice. The one state considered a “tie” at the moment is North Carolina.
Even if all the “toss up” states went to McCain it would bring him to a total of 260 electoral votes, and the total needed is 270. I am really surprised that it is getting this close.
On the other hand, in my mail box this weekend were five fliers from different Republican interests. And my husband and I use cell phones only so we’ve been missing the onslaught of phone calls. However at work I get the messages for a local gentlemen who used to be mayor of our town. And on his messages this morning were five calls from the McCain campaign. Now usually I listen to them all the way through just to see which scare tactic they are using this time but not this morning. Seems like mainly it’s the “Obama is out to get your money and give it to lazy Americans.” Sad really, that a campaign would resort to class warfare. Oh well, it is what it is.
Please vote. No matter how long you have to stand in line, no matter how much propaganda you have to wade through, please, please vote.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=5
There have been some shifts in the numbers in the news today. There was a dip in New Hampshire’s support for Obama in the last few days but now he appears to be up by 12.4 points now. We have a new ‘toss up’ state in Georgia where support for McCain is waning. Indiana and Montana are both still on the fence but leaning more for McCain as far as we can tell. The 3 point margin of error makes these fence dwellers particularly interesting. Missouri, North Carolina and Florida all appear to be headed for Obama. Florida is still the one to watch with 27 electoral votes. Obama has 311 electoral votes in his column at the moment so Florida isn’t going to swing the election this year from the looks of things, but it may impact how big the win is. Here in Virginia Obama is ahead by 7.6 points, which is pretty amazing considering how strongly Republican the small towns are, balanced by the Democratic majority in the more populated areas.
I’m having my parents and my brother and sister in law and their children over for dinner Saturday evening. And at that meal it will be 4 for McCain and 2 for Obama. It should be an interesting evening.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, while on a bed of straw as a prisoner in the Russian Gulag wrote the following...
"Looking back, I saw that for my whole conscious life I had not understood either myself or my strivings. What had seemed for so long beneficial now turned out in actuality to be fatal, and I had been striving to go in the opposite direction to that which was truly necessary to me. But just as the waves of the sea knock the inexperienced swimmer off his feet and keep tossing him back on to the shore, so also was I painfully tossed back on dry land by the blows of misfortune. And it was only because of this that I was able to travel the path which I had always really wanted to travel. It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor. In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. And it was only when I lay there rotting on prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us it oscillates with the years. And even within the hearts overwhelmed with evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an un-uprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions on the world. They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person."
Sarah Palin glasses, $375, Sarah Palin wardrobe $150,000. Being in this sketch on Saturday Night Live? Priceless!
Holy Smokes! Montana had been leaning toward McCain and now it is a toss up state. Now since Montana only has 3 electoral votes, it’s unlikely that you’re going to see it in the news. The bigger news however, is that Ohio with 20 electoral votes appears to be heading for Obama. Both states went to Bush twice. This is bringing the numbers to Obama 306 electoral votes and McCain at about 157 with toss up of a shrinking 75 electoral votes. This is an upturn for Obama. The states that are in the toss up (within the three point margin of error) are: Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, and now Montana. Indiana and Montana are expected to go to McCain while the rest go to Obama. This is getting interesting!
There are still eight states in the Union that seem to be on the fence this political season. North Dakota – 3, West Virginia, Nevada – both 5, Missouri, Indiana – both 11, North Carolina – 15, Ohio – 20 and Florida – 27. This is a total of 97 electoral votes that are a toss up – in other words the numbers for one candidate over the other are within the 3% margin of error. Of these, McCain is expected to take West Virginia and Indiana and Obama is expected to take the rest. But even if the underdog McCain took all 97 of these electoral votes that would bring him to 252, and one needs 270 to win. So it seems unlikely that McCain can get there from here. Recent movement in the numbers includes Obama widening his lead in Minnesota and McCain losing ground in Montana. The recent announcement that Obama’s fund raising in September topped 150 million – mostly in donations under $100 each suggests that Obama will not be forsaking any of the battlefield states, and so it continues. This is one for the history books!
The numbers are moving. It looks like Wisconsin and Michigan are gaining higher numbers toward Obama and maybe even Colorado as well. It appears that Obama may take away 313 electoral votes to McCain’s 158 with a toss up of 67 electoral votes.
The toss up states are: Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina and Missouri which are all leaning Obama at the moment. Also Indiana and West Virginia are leaning McCain at the moment. All of these toss up states went to Bush in 2004 and 2000.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=5
