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2004-11-02 07:22:45 PM
Election?
 
2004-11-02 07:22:50 PM
Kerry wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:23:14 PM
Bush wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:23:21 PM
Bush wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:23:45 PM
I voted for Linsner
 
2004-11-02 07:24:05 PM
Excuse me, is this where I return the erection?
 
2004-11-02 07:24:24 PM
I, for one, cast my vote for more boobies.
 
2004-11-02 07:24:52 PM
down goes dubya! down goes dubya!
 
2004-11-02 07:24:58 PM
badnarik wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:25:00 PM
"Come back to CNN where we may have projections or we may not have projections" - Wolf Blitzer

DUH!
 
2004-11-02 07:25:03 PM
I voted for orange
 
2004-11-02 07:25:05 PM
I think they're about to announce some preliminary Ohio numbers.
 
2004-11-02 07:25:09 PM
Prediction: Bush wins, but just barely... and we won't know tonight. Florida will be super close, but the absentee ballots will throw it over the top. Foxnews is reporting there are 140,000 republican absentee ballots that will not get counted tonight.
 
2004-11-02 07:25:21 PM
I think we all cast our vote for boobies.


It's always like that Stan
 
2004-11-02 07:25:23 PM
God save us all.
 
2004-11-02 07:25:25 PM
stevetursi
We could only hope.
 
2004-11-02 07:25:27 PM
Bubbles!
 
2004-11-02 07:25:28 PM
Erection?
 
2004-11-02 07:25:33 PM
Chimpy...back to the zoo, I mean ranch
 
2004-11-02 07:25:51 PM
Aww, why not go completely all-out? Drew Curtis's Fark 2004 election return thread? ;)
 
2004-11-02 07:25:52 PM
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

/obligatory
 
2004-11-02 07:25:55 PM
so much for staying away from FARK for the night...
 
2004-11-02 07:25:57 PM
Boobies! and Pepsi!
 
2004-11-02 07:26:07 PM
Bunnies!
 
2004-11-02 07:26:12 PM
Is it over yet?
 
2004-11-02 07:26:15 PM
MSNBC is going to "project" the winner of Ohio ... just after this commercial break.

i love america.
 
2004-11-02 07:26:18 PM
I voted for Kodos
 
2004-11-02 07:26:24 PM
To infinity and beyond...
 
2004-11-02 07:26:24 PM
In a surpise to absolutely everyone, including himself, Nadar wins the 2004 presidential race. Quoted as saying "Well shiat, I was only in it because George paid me anyways, what do I do now?"
 
2004-11-02 07:26:25 PM
Peroutka wins!

/had to be said
 
2004-11-02 07:26:32 PM
yay first 100
 
2004-11-02 07:26:33 PM
please post as many pics as possible of the canidates looking like morans.
 
2004-11-02 07:26:39 PM
What Erection?
 
2004-11-02 07:26:44 PM
hulk hogan wins
 
2004-11-02 07:26:58 PM
Ed Markey now saying he's running for President Kerry's vacant Senate seat.

Uh, could you at least wait until it's over.
 
GSC
2004-11-02 07:27:08 PM
i hope i win.
 
2004-11-02 07:27:13 PM
Sad fact is that no matter who wins, we still lose. The federal government will continue to grow. We're doomed. Doomed I say!!
 
2004-11-02 07:27:30 PM
Go Saints!
 
2004-11-02 07:27:33 PM
I know some folks were worried that there might be a terrorist attack today, I'm very glad there wasn't.
 
2004-11-02 07:27:41 PM
If Bush wins your kitten will cry.
 
2004-11-02 07:27:42 PM
I believe everything that Fox tells me...Kerry wins PV by 2%!!!!
 
2004-11-02 07:27:43 PM
Erection? Hai. I have Erection.

/chinese
 
2004-11-02 07:27:58 PM
Ohio's coming up next
 
2004-11-02 07:28:00 PM
I'm not running for my seat...
I'm currently sitting in it.
 
2004-11-02 07:28:01 PM
KERRY WINS!

And... thread to infinity by 8:30pm EST
 
2004-11-02 07:28:06 PM
The longer Virginia takes to be called, the worse it'll be for Bush. He should be able to take that state easily, but if it ends up being a relatively tight race then it could point to signs that he'll have trouble later in the night.



Go Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 07:28:08 PM
Why would anyone vote for that evil bastard G.W.????

don't they know "W" stands for wrong!
 
2004-11-02 07:28:09 PM
agreed on the lack of terrorist attack
 
2004-11-02 07:28:11 PM
Too early yet to tell who's going to win. Lookin' promising right now tho.
 
2004-11-02 07:28:27 PM
Bush vs Kerry, No Matter Who Wins, We Lose.
 
2004-11-02 07:28:33 PM
Kerry's doing well in the early returns in Virginia.

My spleen still hurts.
 
2004-11-02 07:28:43 PM
Looks like KY has Bush....

Oh was THAT a loaded statement!
 
2004-11-02 07:28:45 PM
Kush wins? Or maybe Berry?
 
2004-11-02 07:28:51 PM
So it would seem, astronomy133. I vote LP, just for the thrill of it, but I know we're pretty much dead meat whoever wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:29:16 PM
A few things to keep in mind:

Whoever wins, the world isn't ending. Both men represent institutional and political traditions dating back generations. Congress and the current will of the people also have an enormous role to play for setting the course for our nation. Neither man is out to destroy your way of life, both want to lead and use force they way they see fit.

The biggest problems with our culture are not political, they are personal. The character of the American people matters far more than who's in charge. Politicians merely reflect a culture and way of thinking.
 
gfm
2004-11-02 07:29:34 PM

Too early yet to tell who's going to win. Lookin' promising right now tho.


Didn't realize you were a Kerry supporter, weaver! Good to hear! And I agree, his leads in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin and Bush's inability to slam dunk Virginia do look mighty promising!
 
2004-11-02 07:29:39 PM
C'mon the poor guy. Oh wait.
 
2004-11-02 07:29:43 PM
And I thought Diebold would be determining who wins this election?
 
2004-11-02 07:29:48 PM
Yes, by all means vote for Bush. He's Al Queda's #1 recruiting tool after all. We don't want to win the war on terror too easily, do we?
 
2004-11-02 07:29:53 PM
I'm having funny chest pains....maybe I should change to Cartoon Network for a while.

/shiat, only one cartoon all night long
 
2004-11-02 07:29:54 PM
haliburton wins!!
 
2004-11-02 07:29:55 PM
West Virginia just called for Bush, as predicted.
 
2004-11-02 07:30:00 PM
ABK
Anybody But Kerry
 
2004-11-02 07:30:02 PM
Is not it WHOMever?
 
2004-11-02 07:30:06 PM
Alexandra

Think we'll burn this thread too?



The first one is a little overcooked...
 
2004-11-02 07:30:16 PM
Bush wins, popular vote to Kerry
 
2004-11-02 07:30:21 PM
Nice to know Im not the only one voting for Badnarik. Prediction: Bush wins big. Not a landslide, but a large margin. The 33 recorded "vote for Kerry" calls I got in the last 2 days suggests desparation.
 
2004-11-02 07:30:22 PM
nader wins
 
2004-11-02 07:30:26 PM
Kush wins?

If it's Orange Kush, it wins with me...
 
2004-11-02 07:30:37 PM
don't they know "W" stands for wrong!

"W" stands for Tungsten.
 
2004-11-02 07:30:38 PM
Didn't realize you were a Kerry supporter, weaver! Good to hear!

Right now it's Bush at 34 and Kerry at 3 electoral college votes.

But you knew that.
 
2004-11-02 07:30:48 PM
Ohio polls closing
 
2004-11-02 07:30:49 PM
how very boring an predictable.
 
2004-11-02 07:30:51 PM
Fark this poll watching shi'ite. I'm going to Taco Mac for wings and beer.
 
2004-11-02 07:31:10 PM
Kerry = teh wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:31:14 PM
Bush just picked up West Virginia, which typically went Democratic (according to CNN)

Only 5 electoral votes though.
 
2004-11-02 07:31:16 PM
It looks bad for Bush. It would seem that the Americans DID distinguish Iraq from the war on terror. Fitting that. Now watch Bush win the popular vote and not get elected.
 
2004-11-02 07:31:19 PM
Who won???
 
2004-11-02 07:31:22 PM
all of that build up and stalling on MSNBC to ... call Ohio "too close to call".

goons.

switching to CNN.
 
2004-11-02 07:31:40 PM
My neo-con coworker just tried to start one of his famous ranting ultra conservative political converstations with me. I finally found a way do deal with him. "I'm not talking about this with you." Apparently this is the only way to shut him up.
 
2004-11-02 07:31:53 PM
Well, Bush is apparently going to win West Virginia.

My first vote in an election was wasted.

Damn, that South Park episode was really accurate.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:01 PM
I voted for the Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka.

/has no illusions that his vote really mattered...
 
2004-11-02 07:32:10 PM
Oh crap, I'm going to pee myself. Please God let Kerry win.

/ Pro abortion
// Anti Iraq war
/// Anti tax cuts for the rich
//// Farking hate Bush
 
2004-11-02 07:32:13 PM
How are you idiots saying things like "doesn't look good for Bush" or "Kerry is toast" when only 1% of the votes have been counted?

Get a grip...
 
2004-11-02 07:32:13 PM
Right now it's Bush at 34 and Kerry at 3 electoral college votes.

Liar.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:15 PM
RocketMac

We'll need some more of Drew's beer, won't we?

BTW as I said in another thread, the CNN talking heads were saying that no one has won an election without winning Ohio.

Battleground! w00t!
 
2004-11-02 07:32:21 PM
Apparently the majority of people in my state, WV, are morons...
(I voted for Kerry)
 
2004-11-02 07:32:25 PM
The world may not be ending but will it EVER be farked up - just think about the fact that Bush doesn't have to play nice anymore cuz he wont be up for re-election again!

Eminem says "Ayayayayah"
 
2004-11-02 07:32:29 PM
A vote for Kerry is a vote for nice round bouncy boobies!

Don't let the boobies die :(
 
2004-11-02 07:32:36 PM
Quimby wins.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:41 PM
I didn't (can't) vote. Please don't kill me.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:41 PM
ooooh, exciting.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:49 PM
It'll be kinda cool every time you type in a web address knowing that you only have to add another 'W' to remember how long, in years, George is going to serve.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:53 PM
Luckily I have a pool league match tonight so I won't be tempted to Fark all night.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:55 PM
Infinity times infinity.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:57 PM
i crack open an ice cold bud light for bush.
 
2004-11-02 07:32:59 PM
Find out who you should have voted for today, based on the ISSUES!

Cool link. I tried to submit it today but apparently someone submitted it in Jan. and it wasn't accepted. Damn you... whoever you are!
 
2004-11-02 07:33:00 PM
west virgins like bush
 
2004-11-02 07:33:02 PM
In about 27 minutes, 15 states and the District of Columbia close.

Spleen still aching.
 
2004-11-02 07:33:07 PM
Can't stand it. Going out for bourbon.

Why the hell is all my booze suddenly 80 proof instead of 86? (Of course Wild Turkey is still 101 so I don't care too much)
 
2004-11-02 07:33:20 PM
eisenoxyde


I voted for the Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka.

/has no illusions that his vote really mattered...



w00t! Another CP Farker!

I voted for Peroutka too!
 
2004-11-02 07:33:52 PM
That's it... I'm calling it. The exit polls for Ohio are coming in. I predict Kerry wins 51-49%. You heard it here first.
 
2004-11-02 07:33:59 PM
Jack:

West Virginia is traditionally Democratic, but it voted for Bush in 2000.

We have a lot of poverty, but the majority is intensley religious and "new patriotic."

Le Monde Diplomatique had a really good article on the anomaly.
 
2004-11-02 07:34:26 PM
whidbey - Go look for yourself. CNN just updated their website: Bush at 39, Kerry still holding at 3.

Most of the polls haven't closed yet tho so it's too early to really say anything for sure. Things should heat up in about two hours or so.
 
2004-11-02 07:34:30 PM
WI <3 Kerry
 
2004-11-02 07:34:33 PM
Everything is too close to call right now grrrrrrr
 
2004-11-02 07:34:36 PM
I'll certaintly be up all night.
 
2004-11-02 07:34:50 PM
Am I the only one who thinks that the electoral college should be abolished & the presidential race should be based solely on the popular vote? That's the way to get more voters & to get people who actually care. Right now the election comes down to 2 or 3 states. That ain't right! Why should the candidate that fewer people vote for win?

Bush will win.
 
2004-11-02 07:34:51 PM
Electoral vote count
Bush 39
Kerry 3

Per CNN
 
2004-11-02 07:35:13 PM
Kerry is a baby killer. Only a fool votes for him!

//vote green party
 
2004-11-02 07:35:14 PM
Bush Wins.
Jesus Saves.
Kerry Sucks.
 
2004-11-02 07:35:18 PM
Wait, what is the "election" of which you speak? Is something going on today? Will I have to miss The Simpsons? Mommy...hold me.
 
2004-11-02 07:35:20 PM
As I said in another thread, if Kerry wins, I'll tap dance naked and post pictures here.
 
2004-11-02 07:35:26 PM
Get ready for a wild ride, kids.
 
2004-11-02 07:35:29 PM
Rumbleminz:
Nice to see a fellow West Virginian here. :)
 
2004-11-02 07:36:03 PM
Anybody got streaming coverage that isn't farked?
 
2004-11-02 07:36:14 PM
I going to need to slow up on the drinking if I want to see how this turns out.
 
2004-11-02 07:36:16 PM
on the cnn page it looks like kerry's head got stepped on
 
2004-11-02 07:36:27 PM
My mother, who lives in Detroit, says that if Bush loses she's celebrating by getting drunk.

I think I may have convinced her and my sister to vote for Peroutka.
 
2004-11-02 07:36:40 PM
Cornelius....Bush kills the babies' fathers you pinhead
 
2004-11-02 07:36:53 PM
I voted for Gary Coleman.
 
2004-11-02 07:37:00 PM
Yeah West Virginia! WJU, represent.

I've just wasted your time...
 
2004-11-02 07:37:02 PM
rocketwidget:

This switch sums you up much better.

/hippie idiot
 
2004-11-02 07:37:09 PM
KungFuJesus


Anybody got streaming coverage that isn't farked?


Yep, I got the idiot box on.
 
2004-11-02 07:37:11 PM
Thera, kinky :)

Between drinking and nudie nap dancing, this is going to be a fun night.

/gets a beer
 
2004-11-02 07:37:18 PM

Electoral vote count
Bush 39
Kerry 3


15 of Bush's 39 are from Georgia, where Kerry is leading 2:1

Cya georgie!
 
2004-11-02 07:37:23 PM
WooHoo.. Texan for Kerry

/and yes, I understand that I stood in a 2.5 hour line for nothing.
 
2004-11-02 07:37:26 PM
I sure hope what's his face beats the other guy.
 
2004-11-02 07:37:27 PM
How about some humour.

Letterman

Top Ten Punchlines To Dirty Election Jokes


10. "With a poll like that, I'm suprised he can gallup at all."

9. "She starts chanting, 'four more minutes! four more minutes!'"

8. "That's not the voting lever, but don't stop pulling."

7. "This isn't how it looks--I'm just joining a third party."

6. I prefer Bush, but I don't know who I'll vote for."

5. "So that's where Katherine Harris was hiding the Al Gore votes."

4. "Unfortunately, his margin of error was plus or minus three inches."

3. "Get used to it, honey--we live in a swing state."

2. "I thought you had trouble maintaining an election."

1. "I saw your sister with Mary Cheney--there was no sign of Dick."
 
2004-11-02 07:37:31 PM
HairBolus - you forgot Poland. Color that sucker red.
 
2004-11-02 07:37:31 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!! MAKE IT STOP!

i want my mommy.
 
2004-11-02 07:37:59 PM
CNN's reporting on their website that the exit polls in Ohio show Kerry ahead by 2 points.

Hang in there, spleen.
 
2004-11-02 07:38:02 PM
"W" stands for Tungsten.

Aw dang, I'm still laughing. Only 15 more minutes until I can go home!
 
2004-11-02 07:38:17 PM
I just did my part and voted for JON STEWART.
 
2004-11-02 07:38:20 PM
Thera

As I said in another thread, if Kerry wins, I'll tap dance naked and post pictures here.

We're going to hold you to that, you know.

/suddently rooting for Kerry
 
2004-11-02 07:38:21 PM
whidbey


Right now it's Bush at 34 and Kerry at 3 electoral college votes.

Liar.

No He's right
 
2004-11-02 07:38:32 PM
abortions for some, tiny america flags for others.
 
2004-11-02 07:39:11 PM
Bush is winning! so nanner nanner nanner! :)
 
2004-11-02 07:39:12 PM
WV called for Bush, yet Manchin predicted for Gov.

/bangs head on desk
//repeatedly
 
2004-11-02 07:39:16 PM
Is Ohio going to be the next Florida?

Drew--Ohio tag, please!
 
2004-11-02 07:39:19 PM
HairBolus

The only certain result so far tonight.
 
2004-11-02 07:39:28 PM
Littlefish
You do know that per your argument Gore would have won in 2000 right? Just makin sure...

Go Kerry Go!
 
2004-11-02 07:39:40 PM
I voted today! Did you?

...Just helping this thread hobble along...
 
2004-11-02 07:40:05 PM
No He's right

39 to 3, Bush in the lead. That could change quickly tho.

Polls close at 8pm, then the real grind starts....
 
2004-11-02 07:40:21 PM
I keep hearing the news stations act like calling it, but then saying "that's not a call, sorry!!" It's almost like the stations are scared to call it at all.
 
2004-11-02 07:40:28 PM
I want the election to be close enough that both parties look longingly at Libertarian voters and try to win us over.

/probably won't happen, but I can dream.
 
2004-11-02 07:40:36 PM
The bullshiat is starting to be reported in other states:

Illinois:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2004/11/blackfives_vote.html

Wisconsin:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/002963.php
 
2004-11-02 07:40:39 PM
HairBolus, total class.
 
2004-11-02 07:40:51 PM
thanx for the letterman lesbian j
 
2004-11-02 07:41:01 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/electionresults

Yahoo's giving up the same data the networks are getting. just an FYI
 
2004-11-02 07:41:05 PM
Meanwhile, here in Canada the cheer goes up from Ghastly's house...

FOUR MORE BEERS!

Which is answered by Ghastly's wife

"Get off your lazy ass and get them yourself. I'm not your slave!"
 
2004-11-02 07:41:12 PM
No, seriously, I hope the rich white guy wins...
 
2004-11-02 07:41:16 PM
JLew1982:

Right back at ya'.

But something tells me you're getting the hell out of here come graduation...
 
2004-11-02 07:41:22 PM
For what it's worth, Bush has a big lead early in the parts of Florida that are closed and have been counted:
Early Florida returns

While I wouldn't assume that Bush is going to win Florida, the fact that his lead is bigger than the lead of Martinez in the Senate race is interesting...
 
2004-11-02 07:41:24 PM
I'll take one aborted fetus plz. kthx.
 
2004-11-02 07:41:35 PM
Watching CNN. You see those idiots at the window?
 
2004-11-02 07:41:42 PM
I like this one in West Virginia:

[check] George W. Bush (i) Republican 0 (0%)
 
2004-11-02 07:41:45 PM
that was the best modern world in a long time
 
2004-11-02 07:42:09 PM
Alexandra 2004-11-02 07:28:43 PM
Looks like KY has Bush....
Oh was THAT a loaded statement


Actually, Bush has K-Y. Get ready to bend over if he wins, 'cause we're farked.
 
2004-11-02 07:42:35 PM
Why do I feel like this isn't going to be too much of a "discussion" thread?
 
2004-11-02 07:42:43 PM
You forgot Poland.
 
2004-11-02 07:42:52 PM
Gay Marriage amendment passed in Ohio - projected.

The harshest amendment in the country....
 
2004-11-02 07:42:54 PM
Bush 39 Kerry 3....

Now, watch this dive!
 
2004-11-02 07:43:10 PM
HairBolus

you forgot Iceland!

From that map. Or the map maker forgot it. And Greenland too.
Um.. I guess Denmark remembers Iceland so the map maker forgot Iceland.
 
2004-11-02 07:43:24 PM
Wow.... 169 in TF posts.
 
2004-11-02 07:43:28 PM
Yes, what's interesting in WV is that Bush wins, but the democratic governor will win by something like 80-20
 
2004-11-02 07:43:28 PM
Bush is what's best for America.
 
2004-11-02 07:43:32 PM
HairBolus

As much as I am a Kerry supporter, I could care less what the rest of the world thinks about the election, I hope that doesn't influence anybody's decision.
 
2004-11-02 07:43:41 PM
Things are gonna start sliding the other direction soon (I hope)
 
2004-11-02 07:43:46 PM
HairBolus

Your map has several errors:

The Phillipines, Iran, and Pakistan should all be listed as "Strong Bush".

:)
 
2004-11-02 07:43:59 PM
they give georgia to BUSH but bush ony has 37% of the vote while Kerry has 62% is this farked?
 
2004-11-02 07:44:03 PM
For those of you who keep screaming, "BUSH IS WINNING, 39-3!!":

According to CNN, unlike a football game, this is not a "sports" type score. These projected 39 votes were all expected to be in favor of Bush, so, at this moment, the numbers don't mean much. No surprises, no prizes won yet.

/watching CNN like a hawk
 
2004-11-02 07:44:03 PM
Why do I feel like this isn't going to be too much of a "discussion" thread?


Hard to discuss when things aren't final yet. Give it about two hours. We should have some firmer numbers by then.
 
2004-11-02 07:44:36 PM
Any bets on the number of flamewars on fark tomorrow? Doesn't matter who wins tonight.
 
2004-11-02 07:44:38 PM
Anyone want to make their call for who is going to win?

I'm going to say when the night is over... Kerry will have won.
 
2004-11-02 07:44:38 PM
From other threads today:


2004-11-02 03:46:52 PM RocketMac [TotalFark]

I am reminded of a dilbert quote:


Dilbert: "How did you get Ben Franklin's body?"
Garbage man: "You'd be surprised what people throw out."

Garbage man: "Keep your shirt on."
Dilbert: "I had no intention of taking it off."
Garbage man: "You make it hard for people to help you."

Dilbert: "I have an ethical question about our democratic system."
Ben Franklin: "Ah, yes, by now I suppose you've figured out it was all a big joke."
Dilbert: "What?"
Garbage man: "He doesn't know."
Ben Franklin: "Nevermind."

Ben Franklin: "The average voter can't find his bunghole with two hands. You don't want to leave it up to them, do you?"

Loud Howard: "Thanks to your internet voting network, no one will ever have to vote thirsty again."

Asok: "Hey! Look at me! I'm voting and I'm not even a citizen."
 
2004-11-02 07:45:01 PM
I like cheese!
 
2004-11-02 07:45:41 PM
2004-11-02 07:44:03 PM Weaver95

Hard to discuss when things aren't final yet. Give it about two hours. We should have some firmer numbers by then.


Firmer members is more like it.
 
2004-11-02 07:45:44 PM
Whoever (whomever?) wins, may God have mercy on our souls.

/Canadian
 
2004-11-02 07:46:26 PM
lauch


Gay Marriage amendment passed in Ohio - projected.

The harshest amendment in the country....


Well, I voted yes on that amendment.... :P
 
2004-11-02 07:46:45 PM
Rumbleminz:
No plans to leave when I graduate this year, but I am moving back home to Mo'Town. I'm become quite fond WV... ;)
 
2004-11-02 07:47:11 PM
JLew1982:

You go to WVU? your profile says Motown, so is this a reasonable assumption?

/represent!
//not really
///lets burn something anyway!
 
2004-11-02 07:47:20 PM
voted for myself. (in all elections, some with onyl one canidate)

God I hope i dont win
 
2004-11-02 07:47:21 PM
I think I'm started to get excited
 
2004-11-02 07:47:25 PM
Oh, yes. Those pendolous boobies take a bit of the pressure off my poor spleen.

12 minutes to the next big round of electoral hijinks.
 
2004-11-02 07:47:32 PM
Man, will the Ohio results come in already!?
 
2004-11-02 07:47:40 PM
/in before server meltdown
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2004-11-02 07:48:00 PM
Gay Marriage amendment passed in Ohio - projected.

The harshest amendment in the country....


Harsher than the other 46 states that don't recognize same-sex relationships?

(MA has "marriage", VT "civil unions", CA "domestic partnerships" effective next year, if I recall correctly, and the others are all basically the same)
 
2004-11-02 07:48:24 PM
drgeoffrey: hysterical
 
2004-11-02 07:48:28 PM
Damn, from what little CNN is showing for Ohio, Bush is ahead, by less than 500 votes. Talk about nailbiters.
 
2004-11-02 07:48:31 PM
No matter who wins, I'm very interested in seeing if voting patterns change signficantly from 4 years ago.
 
2004-11-02 07:48:38 PM
JLew:

ahh, forget I said anything, missed your last post.
 
2004-11-02 07:48:39 PM
Bush will take it. I voted for Kerry, but I predict that when it comes down to the wire, more people will think incumbent = stability = security.

I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm right, I won't cry about it.
 
2004-11-02 07:48:59 PM
MelLuvsDMB:
Heard the same thing--->also watching CNN like a hawk all day
Glad you quoted that
 
2004-11-02 07:49:07 PM
So, I went to vote today, and I WAS ON A LIST THAT INSISTED I SHOW PROOF ID????? THERE WERE ONLY 3 NAMES ON THE LIST, AND THEY DIDN'T NO WHY I HAD TO, IT JUST WAS????????

ANY IDEAS OUT THERE?

/I totally had I.D., and had laminated my voter card

//uberdork
 
Rat
2004-11-02 07:49:33 PM
I actually voted for a few republicans in the local elections. They actually look like they make better sheriffs, what with their handlebar mustaches and all, and the county commisioner seat had a b-b-q last weekend that was excellent. Moist and delicious. I have therefore based my vote on either mustaches or moisty deliciousness.

© but for the presidency, I'm trying to put the color blue on Texas
 
2004-11-02 07:49:42 PM
If Bush wins...
1. I will cry all night
2. I will have nightmares
3. I will cry tomorrow when I wake-up and realize Bush has won
4. I will lose hope on the intelligence of the american people
5. I'll scream full of anger
I'll just get depress for weeks to come to hear all the same lies from the Bush administration and his rich buddies.I don't understand how people can't have common sense to see how much he's lying to the american people and they don't see behind his mask. I guys like him in my classes in high school-- They cheat in test, copy homework from the smart-not-popular kids and are seen as the all american boys. Just sad.
 
2004-11-02 07:49:48 PM
Climberdusk
I've just about had it with all of your needling comments about my people, okay? Suffice it to say, you don't understand them. So stop. Seriously.

Now.
 
2004-11-02 07:49:50 PM
Peter_Stickums

It's "I couldn't care less".

Saying "I could care less" implies that you actually care. Event a little bit. Which you don't.

/that annoys me every time
 
2004-11-02 07:49:51 PM
RocketMac

That's right, leave it up to us, the state [Ohio] that has produced more presidents than ANY OTHER STATE. :)

ANY OTHER STATE except Virginia
 
2004-11-02 07:50:09 PM
I've been getting those excited butterflies feeling in my gut...

It's like watching the most important game I've ever seen...

Yeesh... I just don't even want to move away from the TV, afraid I might miss something.
 
2004-11-02 07:50:15 PM
Wow, a little over 300 vote difference between Bush and Kerry.

/another beer!
 
2004-11-02 07:50:18 PM
NarrMaster:

hometown: Mo'Town
college: WV Wesleyan
 
2004-11-02 07:50:20 PM
2004-11-02 07:46:26 PM Alexandra

Peroutka is against the federal gay marriage amendment because the state does not define "marriage", God does.
 
2004-11-02 07:50:25 PM
Bush takes Poland! and Ohio :)
 
2004-11-02 07:50:39 PM
I voted for Kerry!

w00t!
 
2004-11-02 07:51:02 PM
hell at this point I'm just glad I don't live in canada.
 
2004-11-02 07:51:11 PM
Alexandra, one of many obviously. Gay couples are doomed here.

I believe this to be sad. When two people care for each other enough, they should have the option to share insurance, make decisions for their loved ones, and share finances.

This wasn't just about whether a man could marry a man and call it marriage. This denies same sex unions - period.
 
2004-11-02 07:51:15 PM
The record turnouts are awesome. I'm very proud of my fellow Americans for that, whether or not my horse wins. There's polling stations here in the valley with 4 hour wait-times and people are happy to wait.

/Republican For Kerry - Nation Before Party
 
2004-11-02 07:51:18 PM
::Harsher than the other 46 states that don't recognize same-sex relationships?

There's a difference between simply not recognizing that type of union, and amending a state constitution. We have the same sort of amendment on the ballot here in KY, and they are careful to point out that if the amendment is not passed, current treatment of non-traditional unions won't change. The onyl thing at stake is whether that attitude will be enshrined as a fundamental part of state law.
 
2004-11-02 07:51:24 PM
I just came back from voting in my village south of Buffalo, N.Y. Amazing turnout. Out of 620 eligible voters at that polling station, over 400 had voted when I left. And there were 2 hours left then. The election workers were thrilled. Said they had never seen anything like it.

Good times. Good times.
 
2004-11-02 07:51:38 PM
Kerry will win, because if he doesn't I will poop my pants and demand ice cream.

/well... maybe i'll just demand ice cream
 
2004-11-02 07:51:46 PM
Wow, Virginia's still too close to call at 7:51 PM EST.

Good sign for Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 07:51:49 PM
feffer


2004-11-02 07:46:26 PM Alexandra

Peroutka is against the federal gay marriage amendment because the state does not define "marriage", God does.

What I voted for was at the *state* level, though. I read the wording carefully. You have to make sure someone can't twist it around--that was the issue with the *federal* amendment.
 
2004-11-02 07:51:58 PM
Vote Attorney
 
2004-11-02 07:52:06 PM
aggrazel

Yup, that pic is still funny :^)
 
2004-11-02 07:52:15 PM
I'm going to say when the night is over... Kerry will have won.

Fair enough. And I'm going to say that when the election is over... Bush will have won. Barely.
 
2004-11-02 07:52:39 PM
Leathermidget you're my hero
 
2004-11-02 07:52:40 PM
The record turnouts are awesome. I'm very proud of my fellow Americans for that, whether or not my horse wins.

Agreed.

Most encouraging indeed.
 
2004-11-02 07:52:40 PM
LOL, got to love it Florida is saying that they may not be able to count the absenty ballots till Thursday.
 
2004-11-02 07:52:52 PM
ARGH!

I'm a Canadian, and I'm completely baffled by the "survival of the fittest" Republican thinking... "I'm voting for Bush because he won't tax ME" etc, etc, etc...

Yet the same person turns around and whines whenever they think America is getting shafted in trade deals (see softwood lumber war, fishing, etc). Sorry bub, you wanted a survival of the fittest attitude, then that's what you're getting... !

/bangs head on a brick wall
 
2004-11-02 07:53:16 PM
Jlew1982:

Got that from your second to last post or whatever, I posted mine before I refreshed and saw you are from Morgantown and live in Buchannon. Just begs the question:
Morgantown, or University High? Or neither?

/Clay Battellian, red headed step child of the Mon county public school system.
 
2004-11-02 07:53:27 PM
and steve gutenberg wins by a landslide victory!!
 
2004-11-02 07:53:32 PM
 
2004-11-02 07:53:34 PM
Does Indiana normally go Republican?
 
2004-11-02 07:53:42 PM
Alexandra

What I voted for was at the *state* level, though.

Oh, I know. I didn't think that it would be that different, though. I'll admit that I haven't read the proposed amendment since I don't live in OH anymore.
 
2004-11-02 07:53:42 PM
I understand why a lot of people hate Bush now.

I also understand why lots of people like Bush.

What I don't understand, is who are all these NEW people voting for Bush to counterbalance all the new people voting for Kerry?

And how on earth could anybody vote for a farking Hitler like that CP whackjob?
 
2004-11-02 07:53:49 PM
I have a bet going with my dual citizens (US and EU) Sister and Brother-In-Law - Kerry wins, we buy them round trip tickets to Ireland, Bush wins, we buy them one way tickets.

Best bet ever.
 
2004-11-02 07:54:02 PM
Does Indiana normally go Republican?

Is the Space Pope reptilian?
 
2004-11-02 07:54:06 PM
why isnt there a fark voting poll? who would win if fark decided?
 
2004-11-02 07:54:18 PM
I just wish the media would not call any states until all the polls are closed. It's not even 5 on the west coast and they're already calling states in the east.
 
2004-11-02 07:54:26 PM
turbocrisp Glad someone else saw/caught the "Mother of the Most Presidents" trivia error. :)

Almost felt bad for threadjacking to address it, but glad you beat me to it. ;)
 
2004-11-02 07:54:34 PM
With about 10% reporting, Florida is going to Bush in a landslide. Sh|t...

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_SUM_PRE.html
 
2004-11-02 07:54:34 PM
oh, and I'm worried about why the Bush-foregone states seem to be going to Bush by larger margins than expected :(

/in France
//yes it's late
 
2004-11-02 07:54:38 PM
Wow, Virginia's still too close to call at 7:51 PM EST.

Do a reload, it's a 10% advantage for Bush right now.
 
2004-11-02 07:54:45 PM
middleoftheday:

Yes, Indiana is usually awfully red.
 
2004-11-02 07:54:47 PM
http://ergh.org/results.htm

Election results page with just a map that updates for those who don't want to deal with the image overload of all those news sites. Just the map. Which updates. Fun.
 
2004-11-02 07:54:55 PM
middleoftheday

You forgot the sarcasm tag.
 
2004-11-02 07:54:57 PM
themeaningoflifeisnot

I live in North Buffalo, and it was the same there. They said it's been steady all day and were suprised.

/Go Bills?
 
2004-11-02 07:55:02 PM
Absolutely... I'm totally proud of my fellow Americans for getting off their asses and hitting the polls!
 
2004-11-02 07:55:19 PM
Five minutes till the next batch of results. Just enough time to sneak out to the lobby for a refreshing beverage, folks.
 
2004-11-02 07:55:25 PM
OHIO IS KERRY COUNTRY
 
2004-11-02 07:55:49 PM
FeedingThePony

I.


Don't.


Care.



Thanks for the online grammar check.
 
2004-11-02 07:56:02 PM
And how on earth could anybody vote for a farking Hitler like that CP whackjob?


If you ask me, Bush is more like Hitler.

Peroutka would keep government at its Constitutionally-defined limits, and he'd ditch the Patriot Act, which btw would make the USA into a police state.
 
2004-11-02 07:56:05 PM
I vote 2004 November 2nd.

THE FLAMEWAR TO END ALL FLAMEWARS!

/or maybe not, lets wait for the recount first... and the second recount... and the third recount... and the lawyers from both sides making statements that their side won... Election results from Diebold systems saying that Gus VanSmelt from Red Bank, N.J. won the popular vote... Gore conceding the election to Mr. VanSmelt... Reports coming in that Mr. VanSmelt isn't even a candidate... Gore sulks, realizes he isn't a candidate either and hides back in his Lockbox... Bush makes statements saying that Kerry supporters rigged the election in Ohio... Kerry makes statements saying Bush supporters rigged the election in Florida... Nader supporters confused on how they won Wake Island... Americans minds in shambles and screaming for relief... No results conclusive... See you again in three weeks to see the results of the Supreme Court Vote...
 
2004-11-02 07:56:05 PM
Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues
Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.

/courtesy of http://www.phobialist.com/
 
2004-11-02 07:56:08 PM
TulipsandRoses: indeed sad.

VERY sad considering the same lies are used in my former country by a "democratic" dictator on the other side of the political scale. Oh! the rhetoric... I should be a rhetorician and sell my self to the highest bidding administration.
 
2004-11-02 07:56:10 PM
we need boobies to tide us over... someone get us an updating boobies link stat!
 
2004-11-02 07:56:22 PM
With about 10% reporting, Florida is going to Bush in a landslide. Sh|t...

That won't stick around. It's going to end up being low single digits either way.
 
2004-11-02 07:56:29 PM
BlackPete

The same logic (if you can call it that) prevails at the state level too. Lots of politicians around here made a big deal about signing "No-Tax" pledges, promising not to increase or institute new taxes (sound familiar?). Yet at the same time, our schools are gasping for money, and our teachers and other state employees got the shaft with their health insurance. Where do they think the money for those things COMES from?
 
2004-11-02 07:56:34 PM
vote for christopher farking reeves. or if he's not on the ballot vote kerry.

let's pull all liberal farkers together and get the vote out. greetings from florida, we've done our part.
 
2004-11-02 07:56:48 PM
Did you all hear about Florida? They won't be able to count 60,000 absentee ballots until Thursday. Grab a shovel. We're going to the border and we're gonna dig a trench, and kick them towards Cuba.
 
2004-11-02 07:56:57 PM
2004-11-02 07:52:40 PM Weaver95 [TotalFark]
Agreed.
Most encouraging indeed.


I volunteered at my local polling station, when i got there at 5:30, there were already about 50 people there. mostly blue & white collars. By 9 we had a 2 hour wait. Local businesses were bringing sandwiches, drinks, etc for free to voters waiting. Wish we could get this much good will every election.

/Still no projections from the leathermidgetputer3000....
 
2004-11-02 07:57:00 PM
NetOwl

:) thanks, thought so.. just couldn't remember for sure. So far the called states for Bush seem like typical red state territory...

not worried yet...
 
2004-11-02 07:57:34 PM
i'm pretty worried.
 
2004-11-02 07:57:37 PM
kerry can still pull this off...
 
2004-11-02 07:57:42 PM
If you ask me, Bush is more like Hitler.

Hitler was a socialist that demonized the rich to gain power.
 
2004-11-02 07:57:44 PM
Defending Bush for going to war in Iraq is no different than defending Hitler for genocide on the Jews.

/some Repubican troll will prove I'm wrong in 3..2..1..
 
2004-11-02 07:57:44 PM
I blame Kerry!



/Just gettin' warmed up.
 
2004-11-02 07:57:51 PM
BillCosby, are there results somewhere that make you think that? Right now it looks like Bush has the edge: http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/SingleRaceSummary.aspx?race=PP

/hope I'm wrong.
 
2004-11-02 07:58:01 PM
Jlew1982:

Ahhh, I thought WVU.

There's a quaintness about West Virginia, and I'll defend it to the death, but damn...the ol' girl lacks some integral things.
 
2004-11-02 07:58:05 PM
So... you're saying there is an election today? - um... I'm going back to bed.
 
2004-11-02 07:58:30 PM
Tinfoil hats and Kerry's coming
We're finally on our own
This fall I hear the drummin'
Dubya's dead in Ohio
Dubya's dead in Ohio

/apologies to CSNY
//hope I'm right
 
2004-11-02 07:58:31 PM
FeedingThePony

Never heard of sarcasm?

/could really care less
 
2004-11-02 07:58:32 PM
Farkthra

I just heard on Channel 2 that the Erie County Election Board is predicting a 90% turnout. I can't imagine that will be borne out, but who knows.

Whatever the result, it sure is impressive.

/more like Go McGahee
 
2004-11-02 07:58:35 PM
I volunteered at my local polling station, when i got there at 5:30, there were already about 50 people there. mostly blue & white collars. By 9 we had a 2 hour wait. Local businesses were bringing sandwiches, drinks, etc for free to voters waiting. Wish we could get this much good will every election.


Most everyone at my local polling place had voted by lunch time. Over 400 people had been thru the place by then. I don't think I've EVER seen that high a turn out.
 
2004-11-02 07:58:40 PM
Some mortgage company called me to try and sell me a mortgage on my house... I said, "Are you kidding me?! It's election night! Who in their right mind would be thinking, 'hey! I could use a new mortgage right now!'?"

He then asked if I got the chance to vote today to which I said, "Yeah man... I sure did... Have a good night."

Telemarketers are busy tonight... haha how stupid.
 
2004-11-02 07:58:54 PM
Bush's prepaid terrorist attack card must have run out.
Where da mayhem?
 
2004-11-02 07:59:09 PM
This is a reworking of something I wrote the other day.

These wheels of Democracy
Turn slowly yet inexorably
Now Election Day has come
With our votes cast our choosing's done
No matter what the ends result's
Think first this 'fore you send insults:
We've more in common with each other
Than we've not, we band of brothers
This ship of state's crewed by we humans
We the People: We Pluribus Unum
 
2004-11-02 07:59:20 PM
laworderstuff I cant find any comments by Climberdusk please tell me what he said as a moderator deleted it and it must be the coolest thing said on this thread. But since what I'm saying is not relevant it will be trashed.
Farewell.
 
2004-11-02 07:59:22 PM
local news in cleveland just reported that the initial absentee balots went 64/36 Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 07:59:22 PM
wegro froestu

vote for christopher farking reeves. or if he's not on the ballot vote kerry.

let's pull all liberal farkers together and get the vote out. greetings from florida, we've done our part.


We must be looking at different sites for election results, mine shows bush leading kerry slightly
 
2004-11-02 07:59:28 PM
If you ask me, Bush is more like Hitler.

Hitler was a socialist that demonized the rich to gain power.

Hey look! Dueling trolls!
 
2004-11-02 07:59:49 PM
Defending Bush for going to war in Iraq is no different than defending Hitler for genocide on the Jews.

I find that rather funny, since the entire U.S. Middle East involvement is based on defending the Jews from people that wish to finish the job. Israel was established by the U.N. after WWII.
 
2004-11-02 07:59:57 PM
77-66 Kerry whooo
 
2004-11-02 08:00:06 PM
TigerMWD-
Please let me out first. I'm sick of all the nutjobs and morans too.
 
2004-11-02 08:00:20 PM
Boobies & Prozac! Oh, the recurring electoral horror.
 
2004-11-02 08:00:24 PM
I'd like to raise my glass to every American that voted, no matter who for. The record turnout is awesome, and I hope that we can all be friends once this thing is over. Unlikely, but I can always hope.

So here's my olive branch: I voted for Kerry. But if Bush is elected, he will be my President. I will take the Kerry sticker off my car, and I will not utter snarky little "don't blame ME, I voted for Kerry" quips at Bush's slightest misstep over the next four years. I can't promise I'll agree with him or his supporters, but I won't be an ass when I disagree.

I'm tired of being angry.
 
2004-11-02 08:00:24 PM
I predict the winner of the election will follow the result of the Detroit Houston game on TNT.

Detroit - Kerry
Houston - Bush

Go Wallace
 
2004-11-02 08:00:28 PM
Wow, Virginia's still too close to call at 7:51 PM EST.

Good sign for Kerry.


Dunno, Dubya has a 16% plurality with a pretty even mix of precincts reporting in so far.
 
2004-11-02 08:00:47 PM
KERRY JUST OPENED A CAN!!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:00:49 PM
Put George Walker the same place as John Walker. We'll all be much better off.
 
2004-11-02 08:00:55 PM
John Kerry takes illinois!! And New Jersey!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:00:56 PM
Bush takes tennesee and oklahoma! :D
 
2004-11-02 08:00:57 PM
IL CT NJ MD MA DE DC Kerry
 
2004-11-02 08:00:58 PM
Wow, Kerry just picked up quite a number of states according to CNN.
 
2004-11-02 08:01:02 PM
Fox reports Kerry takes NJ.
 
2004-11-02 08:01:11 PM
kerry wins NJ!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:01:18 PM
At least Kerry won his home state. That's more than Gore can say.
 
2004-11-02 08:01:24 PM
for florida Bush just widened the margin
 
2004-11-02 08:01:33 PM
Bush is still ahead 78 to 66 EV's...
 
2004-11-02 08:01:33 PM
CNN projecting Kerry takes Jersey. He couldn't lose that one, so that's solid.
 
2004-11-02 08:01:49 PM
Now 66-77 in favor of Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 08:01:49 PM
TigerMWD
Getting stared at here at work for laughing so hard at your post--good stuff.
 
2004-11-02 08:01:50 PM
ABC calling states left and right.

OMG. Their interactive map just broke. I BROKE THE INTERNETS!
 
2004-11-02 08:02:00 PM
Kerry is now leading 77 to 66 in the electorial votes (projected).
 
2004-11-02 08:02:07 PM
Hey look! Dueling trolls!

No troll here. Hitler's speeches are available all over the Internet if anyone wishes to read them.
 
2004-11-02 08:02:09 PM
NAACP considering a lawsuit here in Detroit. Let the games begin.
 
2004-11-02 08:02:19 PM
77 Kerry 66 Bush

Note they're multiples of 11--who remembers all the 11s in 9/11?

/adjusts tinfoil hat
 
2004-11-02 08:02:29 PM
anomaly2.0
Who's ahead 78-66?? Look again...
 
2004-11-02 08:02:37 PM
This is funny. I'm watching the local coverage, and while one of the on the site reporters is talking about the (republican) camp, an old guy walks by in the background with beer.

Laugh.
 
2004-11-02 08:03:03 PM
'Bout time Kerry took MA
 
2004-11-02 08:03:10 PM
I wish we could get "real" numbers. So far, all we're getting are projections and expected votes. That doesn't mean shiat so far. I want to know where the swing states stand, dammit.
 
2004-11-02 08:03:17 PM
HAHAHAH CNN just called Mississippi Louisiana
 
2004-11-02 08:03:22 PM
None of this matters, really - this was all completely expected. The supression of absentee ballots in Philly could be really bad for Kerry - this is all icing till Pennsylvania and Florida (and to a lesser extent, New Hampshire) get hot.
 
2004-11-02 08:03:34 PM
anomaly2.0
Who's ahead 78-66?? Look again...

Aw crap! Don't get used to it!
 
2004-11-02 08:03:37 PM
Kerry is now leading 77 to 66 in the electorial votes (projected).

Who is making that call? I don't see anyone calling that many states this early.
 
2004-11-02 08:03:50 PM
easy tiger_wmd
we've tried to secceed before you ass hat. florida is a great farking place
 
2004-11-02 08:03:54 PM
The Bookie

Actually, the GOP was hoping they could take NJ. It's not a surprise to them that Kerry prevailed, but I'm sure it's more of a disappointment than in other years.
 
2004-11-02 08:04:07 PM
3K difference in ohio right now...
 
2004-11-02 08:04:09 PM
CNN is being very cautious on calling states....
 
2004-11-02 08:04:14 PM
This is better than the Super Bowl...
well...no

GO EAGLES!
 
2004-11-02 08:04:14 PM
GO KERRY GO!!!

Damn I'm excited.
 
2004-11-02 08:04:15 PM
NarrMaster:

That would have to be the MHS...home of #1 football team(sorry Mohigans are a proud people) :)

Read your profile though...very nice to see another Morgantown native here.
 
2004-11-02 08:04:22 PM
wohoo kerry is in the lead.... i dunno about you... but im getting a little wood, little mahogany, some oak, tiny bit of maple, eh padre?
 
2004-11-02 08:04:38 PM
Major Thomb
Fox News
 
2004-11-02 08:04:39 PM
theteacher

they give georgia to BUSH but bush ony has 37% of the vote while Kerry has 62% is this farked?

For Georgia, CNN has it at:

Bush 68%
Kerry 32%
 
2004-11-02 08:04:41 PM
Kerry took the northeast, which isn't surprising. If he hadn't it would have been something to comment about. I want to see how he does in Pa and in the South.
 
2004-11-02 08:04:50 PM
77 to 66 = CNN
 
2004-11-02 08:04:53 PM
when did we start spelling god


G.O.P.?
 
2004-11-02 08:05:11 PM
nbc is calling the 77-66 EV right now, cnn seems to be taking their time
 
2004-11-02 08:05:13 PM
i almost lost my job today and this is more stressful than THAT... damn.
 
2004-11-02 08:05:14 PM
And Bush is leading in Florida....

real time update

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_SUM_PRE.html
 
2004-11-02 08:05:24 PM
electoral-vote.com had New Jersey pegged as "exactly tied", so if you're using their totals as a base, that's 15 BonusVotes(tm) for Kerry, which would make it 277-261. But Florida's looking troublesome for Kerry, and a Bush win there would make it 250-288 for Bush.

Hold me.
 
2004-11-02 08:05:40 PM
Kerry is now leading 77 to 66 in the electorial votes (projected).

Who is making that call? I don't see anyone calling that many states this early.


FOX News
 
2004-11-02 08:05:47 PM
Chimpy McFlightsuit or Gomer Pyle?

Bleh.

/hopes this gets sorted out sometime BEFORE the end of the year
 
2004-11-02 08:05:51 PM
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham today refuted reports that 2,000 votes had been "planted" on voting machines at several polling places.

Cathie Abookire, spokeswoman for Abraham, said poll workers misinterpreted numbers they found on voting machines before the polls opened. Abookire said the city's new electronic voting machines have two windows that display voting numbers - one that shows the total number of votes ever cast on the machine, the other that shows the number of votes cast today.

Some poll workers saw the number of prior votes from past elections on the machines and thought that meant votes had been planted.

"They misread the machines," Abookire said. "There were no planted votes."

The confusion was created by a Web site, the Drudge Report, which reported that before voting began in Philadelphia, poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes planted on machines at four polling places...
 
2004-11-02 08:05:54 PM
It looks like CNN is being more ballsy than Fox News. Getting that omelet ready...
 
2004-11-02 08:05:55 PM
There's an election today? For what? Who's running?
 
2004-11-02 08:05:56 PM
I'm watching Ohio...damn it's close.Still not a lot of precincts reporting yet.
 
2004-11-02 08:05:59 PM
CNN and MSNBC have it at 77 to 66 in favor of Kerry.

In case you need it... here is a good site (pops)
 
2004-11-02 08:06:09 PM
Meaning - you're absolutely right. kerry needed jersey - he loses that and it's *really* bad news. good that he won it. but the bush folks weren't expecting to win it, I don't think - more a pipe dream.
 
2004-11-02 08:06:10 PM
New Jersey certainly helps Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 08:06:14 PM
p.s. Bush is KILLING here in NC
 
2004-11-02 08:06:32 PM
I think I just saw a CNN statistician reading Fark....and commenting.
 
2004-11-02 08:06:40 PM
Damn. CNN's predicting Maryland will go for Kerry.

I'm so ashamed.
 
2004-11-02 08:06:51 PM
CNN is being very cautious on calling states....

I dunno - they called MD as solid blue right quick, with no results yet. OK, so it's a pretty safe call - I'd give an awful lot to see it go a lovely shade of yellow, though.
 
2004-11-02 08:07:06 PM
obama wipes the floor with that insane idiot keyes
 
2004-11-02 08:07:07 PM
What's interesting right now is that Kerry has the lead on EVs, but Bush has more popular votes...I think that would be a hilarious end result for this craziness.
 
2004-11-02 08:07:11 PM
NC will go to Bush as will Ohio and florida...
 
2004-11-02 08:07:17 PM
I hope for the US that they don't re-elect Bush.
 
2004-11-02 08:07:17 PM
anybody know good links beyond slate? want to look at projections that make guesses besides those pussies from cnn
 
2004-11-02 08:07:20 PM
Go Badnarik!
 
2004-11-02 08:07:24 PM
Let's go aramageddon let's go!

/actually a Kerry supporter
 
2004-11-02 08:07:24 PM
Obama wins.
/shocked and awed. :D
 
2004-11-02 08:07:29 PM
Watching the election is so entertaining. It's like football, because you watch the game and when it's over, some people will be pissed off for a while and others will celebrate and there will be riots. But in the long run nobody's life is really going to change that much.
 
2004-11-02 08:07:29 PM
MD is a democratic state.
 
2004-11-02 08:07:31 PM
Update: for Ohio

Republican Bush
(Incumbent)
35,668 52%
Democratic Kerry
32,372 48%
Non-Partisan Badnarik
200 0%
Non-Partisan Peroutka
94 0%
 
2004-11-02 08:07:43 PM
Obama in IL
 
2004-11-02 08:07:44 PM
Bush 66
Kerry 78
 
gfm
2004-11-02 08:07:44 PM
Sad to see the Republicans in such denial. It is all over now but the crying, folks. They'll call Ohio and Florida for Kerry within the next two hours.

Nice knowing you, Dubya! At least you left a legacy -- Americans will now always have a phrase to associate with the Bush family name. That phrase is "one term".
 
2004-11-02 08:07:45 PM
Jlew1982:

Wadestown actually, about 10 miles outside of Blacksville. Yes, THE Blacksville, where that guy blew up the port a potty with a cigarette (fark story a while ago). But Morgantown is my home till I can graduate.
 
2004-11-02 08:07:49 PM
ABC's cameraman/director/newscasters are kinda lost.
 
2004-11-02 08:08:04 PM
SC, NC, VA all too close to call (CNN)
 
2004-11-02 08:08:05 PM
My wife just called with an MSNBC update

They gave Kerry Vermont, Illinois, New Jersey, Mass, Maryland, Conneticut, Maine, Delaware and D.C.,

Bush got Alabama and Oklahoma..

Too early or too close...
Ohio, Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, and SOuth Carolina.

Electoral count, Kerry 77, Bush 66 as of 8:05 pm

/fyi
 
2004-11-02 08:08:14 PM
New Jersey certainly helps Kerry.

Did anyone really have much doubt about NJ?
 
2004-11-02 08:08:35 PM
Did you guys know that Al Sharpton can dance?
 
2004-11-02 08:08:47 PM
Bush 66
Kerry 77

Eat it.
 
2004-11-02 08:08:51 PM
o-hi-o
looks like shrub's
 
2004-11-02 08:08:53 PM
Its funny to see how skiddish the media is this year to start calling states.
 
2004-11-02 08:08:56 PM
So far in Ohio...that's a little over one vote for Peroutka in each county--Ohio has 88.

I must have cast the only Peroutka vote in Wayne County. :P
 
2004-11-02 08:09:09 PM
"There's a quaintness about West Virginia, and I'll defend it to the death, but damn...the ol' girl lacks some integral things."

Rumbleminz: my sentiments exactly...
 
2004-11-02 08:09:09 PM
But Florida's looking troublesome for Kerry, and a Bush win there would make it 250-288 for Bush.

Don't freak out about Floriday too much yet. I'm looking at the county map on cnn.com, and they haven't added votes from the southeast, which has a bunch of very heavily democratic areas (such as Palm Beach).
 
2004-11-02 08:09:34 PM
It's too hard to keep up with this thread :)
 
2004-11-02 08:09:52 PM
There was an election today? Why didn't anyone tell me?
 
2004-11-02 08:09:52 PM
Projected Kerry 77, Bush 66.

Go, man go!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:09:59 PM
DUBYA WAS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER! GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

On the plus side if Kerry loses I have been promised anal.. which I am very excited about.
 
2004-11-02 08:10:00 PM
Go Bananna!
 
2004-11-02 08:10:02 PM
MadAfro courtesy nod backatcha.
 
2004-11-02 08:10:14 PM
I will laugh so hard if Kerry wins the electoral vote but not the popular vote.

/hahahhahahhahahhaha
 
2004-11-02 08:10:24 PM
Florida Dept of State website showing Bush likely taking FL by a comfortable margin with almost 15% reporting already.

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_SUM_PRE.html
 
2004-11-02 08:10:27 PM
ABC's saying Bush: 66 Kerry: 74

OMFarkingG not enough info for ANYTHING in FL... living here sucks :(
 
2004-11-02 08:10:33 PM
Sidi: Me and my spleen will freak out if we feel like it, thankyouverymuch.

*freaks out*
 
2004-11-02 08:10:36 PM
You know... okay.

I did my part, I voted.. not much more I can do at this point. So I mean, it is kind of interesting and informative (almost fun) to be following this, but in a way I wish they would just hold off until they can call it for sure.

On the other hand, I suppose that could be weeks or months from now, but still... I mean, didn't we make this mistake last year?
 
2004-11-02 08:10:46 PM
CNN calls Jersey for K, but there state details only shows exit polls. Are there calls based on actual incoming totals?
 
2004-11-02 08:10:47 PM
Considering a little over 5 million voted in Florida in 2002, and that was a 1.1 mil increase over 1998, the 1.1 mil that was just reported in Florida could represent less than 20% of the vote at this point if Florida experienced a similar increase in voting this cycle.

I'd hold tight for an hour in Florida.
 
2004-11-02 08:10:48 PM
This thread is useless without pics
 
2004-11-02 08:10:50 PM
thamiam:
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.


For fear of pantophobia
He moved to Ethiopia

/obscure?
 
2004-11-02 08:10:54 PM
Doctor Doom:

"A few things to keep in mind:

Whoever wins, the world isn't ending. Both men represent institutional and political traditions dating back generations. "

*profound comment comming from someone who has "dr. Doom" as his nick.
 
2004-11-02 08:10:57 PM
Totally unrelated to anything else, my work has got a whole bunch of the camera-toting ballot drop-off site volunteers. It didn't occur to me why the hell anyone would want to take so many photos of our information desk, until it dawned on me...

I think it's a good idea, but they're taking tons of photos of just... uhh... the box. I'm in one [my desk is behind the info desk], trying to look as non-threatening as possible.
 
2004-11-02 08:11:03 PM
Tom Brokaw: "In fact he didn't win it")meaning Bush winning Florida last election. Haha.
 
2004-11-02 08:11:08 PM
CNN just showed an interesting poll--in NJ, 55% of those worried about another terrorist attack voted for Kerry, only 43% for Bush.
 
2004-11-02 08:11:09 PM
When's the next big update? Anyone know?
 
2004-11-02 08:11:19 PM
Kang is your one true ruler.

Vote for Kang
 
2004-11-02 08:11:38 PM
Bush/Edwards 2004 ... I relish chaos.
 
2004-11-02 08:11:43 PM
Most electors agree J.Lo has a big ass.
 
2004-11-02 08:11:44 PM
Bush is coming back! 77-74! :d
 
2004-11-02 08:11:44 PM
Today I am proud to live in New Jersey!

/GO KERRY!
 
2004-11-02 08:11:45 PM
Come on, whats wromg left wing punks?.......Voice your thoughts, side with OBL, vote Kerry....Whats wrong with voting for the guy who wants to make America strong and show people that we are not afraid to vote for the guy who will stand up for America???

Let's show that we will kick ass for 4 more years and not side with OBL

/Anti-NRA
/Not a redneck
/Make good money, so, what do you care??
/Vet of Gulf War I
 
2004-11-02 08:11:50 PM
Ohio's latest results from ABC

Kerry (Dem)
56%
Votes: 82,188

Bush (Rep)
44%
Votes: 63,438
 
2004-11-02 08:12:07 PM
this hasnt gone infinite yet?

comeon guys, get with it
 
2004-11-02 08:12:14 PM
cool map at cspan

http://network.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/election_night_2004/us_map_govsen house/index.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS
 
2004-11-02 08:12:19 PM
Most electors agree J.Lo has a big ass.

I'd hit it! all night long....
 
2004-11-02 08:12:30 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

C'mon Douche.. You can do it!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:12:34 PM
C-Span is reporting these numbers
(as of 5:00 PM)

Bush States (99 Electoral Votes)
Florida B-55% K-44%
Georgia B-66% K-33%
S. Carolina B-66% K-43%
N. Carolina B-64% K-36%
Tennessee B-57% K-42%
Virginia B-57% K-43%
Kentucky B-57% K-42%
Indiana B-60% K-39%
Ohio B-52% K-47%

Kerry States (15 Electoral Votes)
Vermont K-56% B-42%
New Hampshire K-61% B-38%
 
2004-11-02 08:12:38 PM
nevermind that bush ohio thing....i was scared
 
2004-11-02 08:12:41 PM
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH/P/00/index.html


Ummm.. I think Kerry takes Ohio you repukes.
 
2004-11-02 08:12:48 PM
i think there's a poll closing at 8:30
 
2004-11-02 08:13:23 PM
Side with Osama?

Osama is the best buddy Bush ever had; turned Bush's limp dick presidency into something resembling legitimacy.
 
2004-11-02 08:13:27 PM
I, for one, welcome our electoral overlords...

CBS actually has a pretty good flash map of the situation:

http://election.cbsnews.com/election2004/
 
2004-11-02 08:13:33 PM
The only poll closing at 8:30 is Arkansas. 5 votes.
 
2004-11-02 08:13:36 PM
bocadem

If Kerry loses, bend over, because you will be *receiving* anal ...
 
2004-11-02 08:13:46 PM
Whoever wins, I want Campbell Brown!
 
2004-11-02 08:13:49 PM
OH SHIAT, I'm missing the NY Fark Party....WTF am I doing here?!?

Ah well, too late to go now. I'm way too involved with this to give it up.

/would've met Smooky tonight....possibly
 
2004-11-02 08:13:51 PM
Woah! CNN has Kerry LEADING in Ohio, by a good 20,000 votes!
 
2004-11-02 08:14:14 PM
Anyone have the link for the election night drinking game?
 
2004-11-02 08:14:23 PM
bocadem Which news outlet? I'm still on the 77/66 Kerry favor
 
2004-11-02 08:14:39 PM
Ummm.. I think Kerry takes Ohio you repukes.

Do look at how much has been reported. It's a little early to call Ohio, given how little has been reported thus far.
 
2004-11-02 08:14:50 PM
bocadem
On the plus side if Kerry loses I have been promised anal.. which I am very excited about.


If Kerry loses we'll ALL get reamed.
 
2004-11-02 08:14:50 PM
I like it so much, I'm posting it again:

cool cspan map:

http://network.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/election_night_2004/us_map_govsen house/index.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS
 
2004-11-02 08:14:54 PM
Those of you who are worried about Florida can rest a bit... the counties that have reported are seriously in the sticks. Wait for the metropolitan areas to report.

/the suspense is terrible... I hope it'll last.
 
2004-11-02 08:14:59 PM
QUE? QUE ES ELECION???
 
2004-11-02 08:15:06 PM
Kerry.. Go for 2!!
 
2004-11-02 08:15:08 PM
Also of note, while Kerry is winning the electoral vote, look at the last column....popular vote. Quite a gap for W.


Bush 66 7 57% 2,302,945
Kerry 77 9 42% 1,701,639
 
2004-11-02 08:15:13 PM
"IamJesus" I demand a recount.
 
2004-11-02 08:15:13 PM
Dan Rather is more excited than Priest with a school boy
I love his little sayings
 
2004-11-02 08:15:16 PM
So CBS has called South Carolina. Not surprising; the surprising part was that it took this long.
 
2004-11-02 08:15:21 PM
I want to do Campbell Brown on my front lawn.
 
2004-11-02 08:15:38 PM
BillCosby - the link's not working..
 
2004-11-02 08:15:43 PM
::Do look at how much has been reported. It's a little early to call Ohio, given how little has been reported thus far.

Still, that's a rather large upswing for Kerry...going from being down by 2-3k, to being up by 20k and 12%.
 
2004-11-02 08:15:44 PM
bocadem, I suspect you'll be getting anal either way.
 
2004-11-02 08:15:46 PM
On the plus side if Kerry loses I have been promised anal.. which I am very excited about.

If Kerry loses, we are ALL promised anal. On the receiving end.
 
2004-11-02 08:15:58 PM
i live in broward in florida, and all the people waiting in swarms to vote today and the past week (for early voting) were hispanics and jews voting kerry.
 
2004-11-02 08:16:22 PM
CBS confirms Kerry leading in Ohio. Still not calling it though.
 
2004-11-02 08:16:29 PM
I believe that this whole election campaign is nothing more than the culmination of a Trading Places type bet between two members of an elite fraternal organization.

/mortimer is too lazy to type
 
2004-11-02 08:16:31 PM
do people not quite jive on the concept of districts?

some are gonna be way over balanced one way or another compared to what the overall state's vote will be.
 
2004-11-02 08:16:36 PM
Ohio- Kerry 56%
Bush - 44%
 
2004-11-02 08:16:47 PM
Ah, Kerry hasn't gotten Ohio yet, that's just one populated county I guess.
 
2004-11-02 08:16:59 PM
NarrMaster:
I had forgotten about the infamous port-a-potty incident, but now that you mention it... :)
What are you majoring in?
(Hope you don't mind I am off election topic)
 
2004-11-02 08:17:03 PM
The real question is whether Campbell Brown likes it in the . . .
 
2004-11-02 08:17:05 PM
NC (where I live) has got so many rednecks I don't think Kerry has a chance.
 
2004-11-02 08:17:10 PM
CBS calls Mississippi and North Carolina for Bush as well.
 
2004-11-02 08:17:20 PM
If I had voted, I would've written in Danzig.

/kicking self right now
 
2004-11-02 08:17:22 PM
If Kerry takes Ohio, I will be doing many fruity little dances (just as I would have if he had taken KY)
 
2004-11-02 08:17:30 PM
Was that an 81% for Kerry in IL ABC just scrolled across the screen?

Dayum.
 
2004-11-02 08:17:37 PM
i live in broward in florida, and all the people waiting in swarms to vote today and the past week (for early voting) were hispanics and jews voting kerry.

I would have assumed that those votes would already be included in the tallies. Anyone know?
 
2004-11-02 08:17:37 PM
My cut and paste skills must have failed. Follow the link to cspan from

http://dailykos.com/
 
2004-11-02 08:17:38 PM
President Kerry... NICE!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:17:45 PM
Just 1 county reporting in Ohio dudes, chill a bit.
 
2004-11-02 08:17:45 PM
Bush is ahead by 1 million votes in the pop vote :D
 
2004-11-02 08:17:52 PM
CNN confirms Kerry lead in Ohio
 
2004-11-02 08:18:31 PM
True, according to CNN's map, I think that upsurge came from Cuyahoga county, which would be Cleveland, if I recall.
 
2004-11-02 08:18:45 PM
Kerry lead is growing in Ohio.

still <1% precincts
 
2004-11-02 08:18:46 PM
That one Ohio county may be Cuyahoga, where Cleveland is.
 
2004-11-02 08:19:11 PM
funny how, on the first election where the media is really focusing on voter intimidation, ostensibly by the right, no one can find any.
 
2004-11-02 08:19:13 PM
Bush appears to have a solid lead in Texas. :)
 
2004-11-02 08:19:14 PM
In the spirit of the season, I recommend the Bugs Bunny classic, Rebel Rabbit. Now "banned", because Bugs sort of becomes a terrorist, but that's only part of it. It also includes Bugs cutting Florida loose. You can find it if you look on p2p. Not that anyone cares.

Arguing over power sucks, but it still beats killing each other over it. Praise the peaceful transfer of power, long live democracy, even in this less than ideal form.

/animator in a former life
 
2004-11-02 08:19:20 PM
CBS is saying 108 Bush, 77 Kerry
 
2004-11-02 08:19:31 PM
That one Ohio county may be Cuyahoga, where Cleveland is.

Too early to call Ohio for anyone yet then.
 
2004-11-02 08:19:37 PM
they would be included in the exit polls, but the actual precints reporting don't have the major hispanic/jewish areas -- they're mostly the rural places that traditionally go republican
 
2004-11-02 08:19:40 PM
Also of note, while Kerry is winning the electoral vote, look at the last column....popular vote. Quite a gap for W.

Do consider that most of that is from states where one or the other was expected to win, and the battleground states are still up for grabs (except for NJ).
 
2004-11-02 08:19:48 PM
**** TO THE PEOPLE CALLING FLORIDA: ****

You'll note that the counties that are reporting are overwhelmingly republican. Have a look at:

USA TODAY'S 2000 RESULTS

and compare it to the counties reporting at:

CBS's County Results

You'll notice democratic strongholds such as Miami-Dade and Broward have yet to report even a single result.

This is why the major news organizations aren't touching it... and they have paid experts.

So chill out!
 
2004-11-02 08:19:51 PM
Meh. As far as I can tell, the purpose of the electoral college is to give the privlege of electing the president to the states involved. The popular vote is irrelevent. If more people in state X want Candidate Y to win, then state x's votes go to that candidate.

My point?

Your votes DO count, but only on the state level.
 
2004-11-02 08:19:54 PM
Sorry to post so many at once, but does anyone live in Cuyahoga county? Ohio has six counties reporting and only one of 'em has gone to Kerry.

Damn, I thought I was jaded on this shiat ... almost as good as gambling, but still not as good as sex.
 
2004-11-02 08:19:56 PM
Exit polls mean shiat...
 
2004-11-02 08:20:00 PM
Jlew1982:

Mathematics: Its the only thing I'm remotely good at, and I hate it.
 
2004-11-02 08:20:07 PM
Just keep in mind that Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Volusia counties have not yet reported anything in.
 
2004-11-02 08:20:10 PM
God, I feel like a teenage girl waiting by the phone, refreshing CNN so often...

/has a poor setup, TV in another room
 
2004-11-02 08:20:19 PM
thanks I got it working from the dailykos site.
 
2004-11-02 08:20:31 PM
Dimensio-
CNN hasn't posted any results for Broward, Miami-Dade, or Palm Beach counties yet. I would expect those areas to go for Kerry. (I hope)
 
2004-11-02 08:20:39 PM
Yeah, Cleveland has a lot of Democrat voters....
 
2004-11-02 08:20:43 PM
56-44 Kerry in Ohio right noww00t

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH/P/00/index.html
 
2004-11-02 08:20:47 PM
CBS has Bush leading the EC vote 95 to 77.
http://election.cbsnews.com/election2004/
 
2004-11-02 08:20:49 PM
 
2004-11-02 08:21:07 PM
Looks like the ballot measures banning same-sex marriage are going to pass in Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, and Oklahoma. What a shame.
 
2004-11-02 08:21:11 PM
I just looked at my old state of RI. According to CNN nobody bothered with exit polls there. It will go K, W doesn't stand a chance, but it does have more Electors than several other states.
 
2004-11-02 08:21:23 PM
hey that's a cool map
 
2004-11-02 08:21:32 PM
I'm glad Peter Jennings just let us all know what George Bush and his family were having for dinner tonight at the White House. Cuz I was really waiting for that info.
 
2004-11-02 08:21:42 PM
Yeah, Cleveland has a lot of Democrat voters....

Er, is that sarcasm? I can't tell tonight.

Regardless of who wins, I think that I'm going to be sick.
 
2004-11-02 08:21:54 PM
I live in Wayne County, two counties to the south of Cuyahoga.
 
2004-11-02 08:22:42 PM
24% of precincts in at Florida.

Bush 55%
Kerry 45%
 
2004-11-02 08:22:52 PM
Detriot 4
Houston 2

too close to call
 
2004-11-02 08:22:55 PM
Dimensio


Yeah, Cleveland has a lot of Democrat voters....

Er, is that sarcasm? I can't tell tonight.


Nope, no sarcasm, just making an observation.

I live in a rural area, out near Amish country btw
 
2004-11-02 08:23:04 PM
ROFL Snood.
 
2004-11-02 08:23:10 PM
Sheesh. CBS is callin' stuff like crazed weasels. Still nothing that goes against electoral-vote.com, though, except The Jersey Factor.

If Bush and Kerry wind up swapping Florida and Ohio, and Kerry keeps NJ, and everything else goes as predicted, it's 270-268 Kerry.

/enjoys piling hypotheticals on hypotheticals
 
2004-11-02 08:23:11 PM
108 Bush, 77 Kerry CBS TV
 
2004-11-02 08:23:15 PM
Looks like Bush is doing well in Florida so far.
I'm basically just regurgitating what I see on CNN. I suppose this isn't news to anyone.
 
2004-11-02 08:23:23 PM
Ok, this is what I see.

ABC: Bush 66 Kerry 74
CNN: Bush 66 Kerry 77
CBS: Bush 108 Kerry 77
 
2004-11-02 08:23:46 PM
"lots" ...... infinity coming

a3}}L r!0



wtf is the ALT+??? code for the infinity symbol????
 
2004-11-02 08:23:47 PM
I'm calling Texas now in favor of Bush
 
2004-11-02 08:23:52 PM
And not just any measures either, but full blown state constitutional amendments. I had hoped even these knuckleheads wouldn't let that fly.
 
2004-11-02 08:23:56 PM
This is amazing...so much...infor...mation.
 
2004-11-02 08:24:14 PM
Exit polls listed on CNN suggest that Kerry wins the popular vote.
 
2004-11-02 08:24:19 PM
To those talking about the early voters in florida 'all going out and voting for kerry', those results were tabulated and reported this morning. 51% Bush.

Dont ask for a link.. it was on Drudge.. look it up.
 
2004-11-02 08:24:30 PM
CBS is not the most reliable source tho. I wonder where tehy're getting their information?
 
2004-11-02 08:24:32 PM
I spilled my coke on the electronic vote booth.
I voted for Kerry, it kept refreshing over and over, voting for Kerry. Last I heard, it was still running strong.


I'm in ohio, biatches!


(For the secret service, this is a joke, don't come to my house.)
 
2004-11-02 08:24:59 PM
Well if CBS News says that's what it is, that's what it is.

After all, is there a name more synonymous with journalistic integrity than "CBS News"?
 
2004-11-02 08:25:14 PM
cbs' map really sucks; it doesn't show who wins which state -- at first i thought it did, and it turns out to be an overlaid map -- which means kerry didn't win the tip of texas. aw.
 
2004-11-02 08:25:15 PM
i want to fark the hell out of vanessa kerry
 
2004-11-02 08:25:20 PM
Vanessa Kerry is hot
 
2004-11-02 08:25:35 PM
Kerry is already projected for NJ...

Florida is looking grim for Kerry (which seems odd to me somehow)... Yeesh... this is interesting stuff.
 
2004-11-02 08:25:55 PM
I really need to put a TV in my computer room, then I would not be getting all this info off of Fark.com. But what the hell, I paid for it.

Thanks for the updates.
 
2004-11-02 08:25:56 PM
I really, really hope my fellow Franklin county residents made the sane decision. Let us see some blue on that Ohio map!
 
2004-11-02 08:25:57 PM
FatherG But what of Fox? Druge? We need news Fair and Balanced my friend.

//May be a republican, but heh, cliches are funny.
 
2004-11-02 08:26:24 PM
I don't think FL is looking bad for Kerry, check the exit polls, and realize that Miami's not in yet...
 
2004-11-02 08:26:27 PM
Dont ask for a link.. it was on Drudge.. look it up.

...that bastion of journalistic integrity and accuracy
 
2004-11-02 08:27:04 PM
What the hell??

Obama 87% Keyes 11%??

Holy moley.
 
2004-11-02 08:27:06 PM
Wolf Blitzer was trying to be all suave with Vanessa. Sad, old man.
 
2004-11-02 08:27:19 PM
The post count said 500 when I clicked on it btw
 
2004-11-02 08:27:26 PM
I'm at work too.. thankfully, C-Span has a live feed for those with the bandwidth to pull it in
 
2004-11-02 08:27:32 PM
OK, I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but if Kerry wins, can we all agree not to argue politics AT ALL with the neocons for about 3.5 years? I mean, think about it. Kerry will be pres. Let them call him a syphillitic pomegranite if they want to. Let them start threads wherein evidence is given that he is allowing satan to write his foreign and domestic policies. Who cares? Just don't attend their threads. Don't say shiat. Then, with six months to go, rally behind a third party candidate and let's end this bipartisan crap once and for all.

Who's with me?
 
2004-11-02 08:27:33 PM
Cleveland Farker following. Bush has Lake County at 51% so far.
 
2004-11-02 08:27:40 PM
Still nothing that goes against electoral-vote.com, though, except The Jersey Factor.

e-v.com called NJ to go to Kerry. I've got their "predicted final results" page up (along with the on-line OH and FL tickers and three Fark pages!)

I'm wondering where CBS is getting their OH numbers that everyone in this thread is quoting. The OH election night webpage (http://election.sos.state.oh.us/Results/RaceSummary.aspx) has Bush ahead.
 
2004-11-02 08:27:55 PM
Arkansas closes in two minutes. This could be pivotal.

/can't stop giggling while typing that
/spleen still hurts
 
2004-11-02 08:28:14 PM
I don't know what Canada is watching, but they should be busy tightening up their immigration policy right now.
 
2004-11-02 08:28:19 PM
rocketwidget says:

/// Anti tax cuts for the rich



You're right, Bush's tax cuts were unfair. But you're right for all the wrong reasons. Why don't you consider going back to school, maybe take an economics class or two before flapping your ignorant lips around here.
 
2004-11-02 08:28:22 PM
Being in the UK (without satellite) I don't have all these fancy-dan channels to watch, just the BBC, but their website has a great clicky-map-thingy!

map thingy
 
2004-11-02 08:28:30 PM
What the hell??

Obama 87% Keyes 11%??

Holy moley.


I know, Keyes is doing better than I though he would.
 
2004-11-02 08:28:42 PM
Wolf Blitzer was trying to be all suave with Vanessa. Sad, old man.


Kerry's other daughter is named Alexandra. Not too many girls named Alexandra. :)

Yes I'm also dark-haired, but no my last name is not Kerry and you couldn't pay me to vote for Kerry. :P
 
2004-11-02 08:28:46 PM
I can't wait for tonight at around midnight PT when Fox News and CNN report different presidents win the election. That will be fun to have people freak out to.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" *change channel* "YESSSSSS!!" *change channel "NOOOOOOOOOO!!"
 
2004-11-02 08:28:53 PM
Just entered this thread - so don't flame me if this is old news:

Kerry pwn5 NJ and Delaware
 
2004-11-02 08:29:00 PM
When I voted today there wasn't any privacy booths (only 3 of the silly little foldup boxes). Lucky for me I'm not too shy about how I voted.
 
2004-11-02 08:29:12 PM
What the hell??

Obama 87% Keyes 11%??


Blatant carpetbagging doesn't help a campaign any.
 
2004-11-02 08:29:14 PM
This is the longest sporting event without a halftime, a timeout, or any real umpire crew. We're going on over a year now and we're just now down to the final ticks of the fourth quarter. Will it go down to sudden death overtime?


GO KERRY!
 
2004-11-02 08:29:40 PM
Ummmm... I'm starting to get worried about OldButFast... Has anybody heard from him tonight?

/This is your night, bro!
 
2004-11-02 08:29:42 PM
Has anyone voted for Stewie?
 
2004-11-02 08:30:00 PM
Still only 1% reporting so far. *bites nails*
 
2004-11-02 08:30:03 PM
Twins

For those who need visual confirmation....
 
2004-11-02 08:30:30 PM
Sloth_DC

being an insane whackjob apparently doesn't help much, either.
 
2004-11-02 08:30:38 PM
and will it be decided by instant replay?
 
2004-11-02 08:30:52 PM
Obama 87% Keyes 11%??

But what about the bitter arseholes (not unlike me) that voted libertarian??
 
2004-11-02 08:30:57 PM
Off topic but not a threadjacking...

How many posts constitute 'infinity' 'lots' 3/4 & 1/2 and where does 'lots' fit in the picture
 
2004-11-02 08:30:59 PM
I have a bad feeling about this.
 
2004-11-02 08:31:26 PM
Still only 1% reporting so far. *bites nails*

Indeed it's far too reminiscent
Of that time but 4 years distant
 
2004-11-02 08:31:59 PM
Post count was 500 when I got in too...

Farkers too busy watching FoxNews or what?
 
2004-11-02 08:32:00 PM
They just made a call on a race (not president) in oaklahoma with 0% in and only a total of 5000 votes in... how rediculous (MSNBC)
 
2004-11-02 08:32:15 PM
CNN's calling WV for Bush, but (click on the state for more detail) and there are fewer than 10 votes separating Bush & Kerry? Wow..
 
2004-11-02 08:32:15 PM
Wait a minute....they're starting to call states with only a few percentages worth of precincts reporting? Looking at that CSPAN map, which gives the actual numbers.
 
2004-11-02 08:32:20 PM
being an insane whackjob apparently doesn't help much, either.

True... But that could've been said about the local Republican that Keyes replaced as well, so I don't think it cost them many votes.
 
2004-11-02 08:32:43 PM
UK calling. 1.30am here. If this isn't sorted in half an hour I'm going to bed.

Go Kerry! obviously
 
2004-11-02 08:32:50 PM
120 Bush 77 Kerry Fox news TV
 
2004-11-02 08:32:53 PM
I just stood outside for 13 hours holding signs.

HOLY FARKING SHIATE. MOST AMAZING DAY OF MY LIFE.

Note: Do not fark with moveon.org. They are SERIOUS.
 
2004-11-02 08:32:59 PM
87-77 Bush..............
 
2004-11-02 08:33:14 PM
petuniapup I think they're putting faith in the exit polls.
 
2004-11-02 08:33:16 PM
MSNBC just bumped to 89-77 in favor of Bush with another southern state going for Bush (was predicted for Bush anyway).
 
2004-11-02 08:33:24 PM
Dammit, who broke c-span?
 
2004-11-02 08:33:28 PM
How many posts constitute 'infinity' 'lots' 3/4 & 1/2 and where does 'lots' fit in the picture

Tons, scads, and oodles.

Lot moved from Sodom and hasn't been heard from since.
 
2004-11-02 08:33:29 PM
woops 102, by bad
 
2004-11-02 08:33:30 PM
ahh, that's captain
 
2004-11-02 08:33:41 PM
Abc has it 94 for bush
 
2004-11-02 08:33:46 PM
why is NC called for bush when he's only leading by 2%? isn't that withing the margin of error?
 
2004-11-02 08:34:05 PM
k, the infinity sign didn't show up
 
2004-11-02 08:34:07 PM
whoever wins cheated! I cry foul play!
 
2004-11-02 08:34:12 PM
Petuniapup:

Noticed that as well. And Manchin (D) is gonna be governor. Lots dems voting outside party lines.
 
2004-11-02 08:34:23 PM
JohnnyC... it wasn't just 'another southern state' it was the Democratic nominee's HOME state. : )
 
2004-11-02 08:34:27 PM
Don't blame ME ... I voted for Kotos!
 
2004-11-02 08:34:28 PM
The different between me, and other uneducated voters is, that I have been there and maybe I'm not a hard republican, and in fact I'm anti-religion.....but I want to see my county support the man is who is not afraid to go after countries that disagree with us. I'm not a war monger, but I believe that we need to stay our course and finish the job we started.

Yes, maybe our President believed our intelligence and went to war, but that was data given to him, do you really believe that the biggest election in our/mine (Age 31) life time should go to the young vote who is scared to go to war?? I'm not!!!!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:34:37 PM
Baradnik wins?
 
2004-11-02 08:34:59 PM
CBC Newsworld reporting 108: Bush, 78: Kerry (both winning in states they were expected to win).
 
2004-11-02 08:35:08 PM
Florida county keeping polls open until 9:30 --CNN
 
2004-11-02 08:35:08 PM
CBS: 108-77 Bush
ABC: 102-77 Bush
Yahoo: 102-77 Bush
CNN: 87-77 Bush

Everything still playing out pretty much as the polls predicted.

/you forgot Poland
 
2004-11-02 08:35:12 PM
Do not fark with moveon.org. They are SERIOUS.

Serious assholes, I bet they cost Kerry twice as many votes as they gained.

Lesson learned: stop being douchenozzles!
 
2004-11-02 08:35:12 PM
Cheesy Poof... what polls are you watching? My local channel here in nc has Bush at 62% and Kerry at 37%.
 
2004-11-02 08:35:14 PM
CNN reporting 87 Bush 77 Kerry electoral votes.
 
2004-11-02 08:35:29 PM
donald, not if you spell his name wrong
 
2004-11-02 08:35:34 PM
What states close at 8???
 
2004-11-02 08:35:36 PM
Giggity giggity giggity! CNN put Bush at 87. Allll right.

/If Kerry wins I'm moving to Petoria
 
2004-11-02 08:35:42 PM
That BBC "map thingy" kicks ass. I like that it zooms in slowly when you click on a state

Those Brits are great. I also like when new results come in..a window pops up.....
 
2004-11-02 08:35:46 PM
Cspan go poof
 
2004-11-02 08:35:53 PM
personally, I can't stand either candidate but have even less patience for Bush given his last 4 years in office. That being said, I found the following from CNN very interesting:


VOTE BY EDUCATION
                                    Bush      Kerry
No High School (4%)    47%     52%
H.S. Graduate (22%)    48%     51%
Some College (31%)    51%     47%
College Graduate (26%) 50%     48%
Postgrad Study (17%) 40%     58%

/you'd be amazed how many #$*&^%-ing "nbsp" thingies I had to insert to make that farking data readable...
 
2004-11-02 08:35:55 PM
Sloth_DC

true...just hard not to remember the keyes carpetbag comedy troup making a pitstop in my state a few years ago. i don't think that nutjob could get elected dog catcher if he was running against barney fife.

do you think the RNC ships him out to races like this just for humor's sake?
 
2004-11-02 08:36:33 PM
So where is Osama tonight?
 
2004-11-02 08:36:52 PM
At 9:00 Eastern: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, News Mexico and York, Rhode Island, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming
 
2004-11-02 08:36:54 PM
Even if who we voted for doesn't win, we should all feel good just knowing that we made a diffence. We voted!
 
2004-11-02 08:36:58 PM
M'kay, VA just fell in - bout time, Dubya was sitting on a double-digit plurality for a while. Florida starting to look firm, but I think that's misleading since the big Democratic counties haven't weighed in yet. OH and PA are looking like they're gonna come down to the wire, with Bush holding the edge at the moment. Yeah, at this point it doesn't look unreasonable that Bush will win the popular vote, but may yet lose the EC depending on how the rest fall out.
 
2004-11-02 08:36:59 PM
damitjim, this thing says so but maybe it's not up to date? i'm not watching tv so maybe the internet is slow
 
2004-11-02 08:36:59 PM
You know what will be highly enjoyable with a Kerry win?
Watching Foxnews eat it!

Truly assholic "news" channel.
 
2004-11-02 08:37:01 PM
damitjim... The VP's home state doesn't count... Most people barely consider the VP in the race... I mean honestly... do you like Cheney?
 
2004-11-02 08:37:12 PM
"But what about the bitter arseholes (not unlike me) that voted libertarian??"

We're smiling our bitter, sardonic, Libertarian smiles at the people who voted for the status quo.
 
2004-11-02 08:37:34 PM
Ok from what I see
CNN (Both) has it Bush 87 EV Kerry 77 EV

ABC (TV) has it Bush 94 and Kerry 77
ABC (internet) has it 102 Bush and Kerry 77

CBS (both) has it 108 Bush 77 Kerry

I am so confused...

Go Kerry!
 
2004-11-02 08:37:38 PM
Bush 102
Kerry 77

Suck it lurch and his supporters
 
2004-11-02 08:37:48 PM
Q: Why do poor southern white trash vote against their interests, for Bush?
A: Because they're as dumb as we all though they were.
 
2004-11-02 08:38:06 PM
Kerry for the win.
 
2004-11-02 08:38:13 PM
Hey HowlingFrog!

I refused to vote Skull and Bones, hence my Constitution Party vote.
 
2004-11-02 08:38:18 PM
Tradesports is still showing Kerry as a 2:1 favorite to win. And remember, TS was showing Bush as a 55% to 45% favorite right up until the first exit polls came out. This is actually a good example of how sometimes a market is no smarter than the "experts". A large market can be good if they have access to more information than individual experts can, but unless one of the market makers on TS was polling people independently before today, they only knew as much (or as little) as anyone else.


My fiance and I are actually watching the reports on TV (and on the web) here in Sweden. But as a new Florida voter (I was registered in CA before moving to FL), it's nice to see that my vote might actually matter. Assuming that my absentee ballot actually gets COUNTED, of course! :)


My vote was for Kerry, btw. Why? I liked the idea of remaking the middle east, Iraq first... but the execution of the plan was horrible. And while problems are inevitable, an inability by the Chief Executive to hold anyone accountable for the errors, misjudgements, and just plain fark-ups shows to me a basic character flaw: The inability to admit a mistake.


If nobody below you is to blame, George, then YOU are. Go back to the ranch.

 
2004-11-02 08:38:19 PM
Hi, I think Bush will win.

//And now I dance a jig
 
2004-11-02 08:38:32 PM
I hate Illinois Republicans.
 
2004-11-02 08:38:33 PM
I correct myself ABC (TV) reported 102 for Bush and 77 for Kerry
 
2004-11-02 08:38:40 PM
CBC reporting 108-78 Bush
 
2004-11-02 08:38:41 PM
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
 
2004-11-02 08:38:45 PM
Suck it lurch and his supporters

Might I kindly suggest we not celebrate until all the votes are counted?
 
2004-11-02 08:38:48 PM
Kerry is conceding now on Fox :D
 
2004-11-02 08:39:44 PM
Cheesy_Poof... yeah, that's slow. I'm watching it scroll across my screen since I live here.

JohnnyC... the press wanted everyone to think that because Edwards was from here, this state was a "weak" bush state and Electoral-vote.com had it almost tied 2 weeks ago.
 
2004-11-02 08:39:52 PM
If Bush wins Florida & Ohio its all over.
 
2004-11-02 08:39:53 PM
THanks Weaver, was just going to post that.
 
2004-11-02 08:40:14 PM
I'm getting connection refused from Electoral-vote.com
 
2004-11-02 08:40:17 PM
Suck it lurch and his supporters

Guess what -- you're an asshat. Hopefully for you, Bush wins so you can show your face on Fark again.
 
2004-11-02 08:40:24 PM
Bush just won SC.

Sorry about that.

(SC Resident with brains enough to make it close)
 
2004-11-02 08:40:29 PM
thats just not funny anomoly


moveon just showed a video of bush doing a line as he watches the results come in:D
 
2004-11-02 08:40:36 PM
Might I kindly suggest we not celebrate until all the votes are counted?

Might I kindly suggest that that is not celebrating, that would be gloating.
 
2004-11-02 08:40:36 PM
Meh, so many different numbers. I trust CNN the most, for no particular reason...
 
2004-11-02 08:40:44 PM
I hate Illinois Republicans.

It's only 108 miles to Chicago.
 
2004-11-02 08:40:45 PM
CNN reporting 102 Bush, 77 Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 08:40:49 PM
Florida is a given for Bush.. 100% certain.

Hurricanes breed conservatism
 
2004-11-02 08:40:51 PM
NC goes to Bush
 
2004-11-02 08:41:30 PM
Sigh. Ok. I don't say much here but I'd thought I'd just give my account of things.

I sprained my ankle Sunday (freakin' pothole!). Almost didn't feel like voting but there seems to be this little voice screaming in my head (no, it ain't God) that said VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!

I didn't vote the last election. Hell, I had a great job and I was riding high. Didn't give a shiat who won (well, Gore maybe...). Now I'm broke and scraping by on $250.00 a week with a retail job from hell. Freelancing's a joke because everybody else is broke and won't even reasonably pay for my services. Seems that everyone looking for employees only want interns now.

I'm also a little embarrassed. About my country. About what others around the world think of my country. About how the president and the administration clusterfarked this whole mess. Post 9|11 we were all holding hands, singing and waving flags. Now the country is so divided it could topple as quickly as the national debt.

I went. I voted Democrat...all the way down the line. I felt a little better. Then I heard that Bush - 74, Kerry 37 in electorial votes...

On an ironic note...the question at the bottom of the ballot was about whether the city should "borrow" $27,483,230 (?) for public transportation and other roadway maintanence. I voted yes. At least I'll get that pothole filled...

/please make this happen, please, people...Kerry is SANE.
//stop the madness, corruption and stupidity.
 
2004-11-02 08:41:33 PM
jim, that makes more sense (it must be relying on hard numbers)

hmm it's interesting that electoral-vote.com (liberal webmaster) called the election for kerry, while electionprojection.com (conservative webmaster) calls it for bush
 
2004-11-02 08:41:37 PM
Bush is getting STOMPED in Illinois.. (just passin the word)


259,138 Kerry
57,421 Bush
(8% of votes tallied so far)
 
2004-11-02 08:41:40 PM
CNN just called South Carolina and Virginia for Bush, so now all the networks seem to be pretty much in agreement so far.
 
2004-11-02 08:41:44 PM
Alexandra

Good show! There is much that I like about the Constitution Party.
We have to concentrate on getting "3rd Party" candidates into local and then State offices. Then, into the debates.

That's the only way we'll break this monster.
 
2004-11-02 08:41:47 PM
The Greens are spoiling Ohio for Kerry, they got 6% of the vote so far!

http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/SingleRaceSummary.aspx?race=PP
 
2004-11-02 08:41:57 PM
Not a single suprise yet.
 
2004-11-02 08:42:08 PM
So what's to become of all the others (esp. the ones which appeared after this one)? Hmmmm?
 
2004-11-02 08:42:09 PM
Kerry with 292. That's what I think.

You can pay me later.
 
2004-11-02 08:42:14 PM
SherKhan
Like no one on the left would be gloating if Kerry won?
 
2004-11-02 08:42:20 PM
Howard Dean I still prefer the idea that anyone who wants to be president obviously isn't qualified.
 
2004-11-02 08:42:25 PM
Might I kindly suggest that that is not celebrating, that would be gloating.

Quite possible. I'd suggest doing either until all the votes are in...

But that's just me. And no matter who wins I promised not to be a sore winner or loser about it.
 
2004-11-02 08:42:31 PM
With Florida going Bush...

Ohio is the wildcard. Whoever wins there, wins.
 
2004-11-02 08:42:34 PM
One thing I know for sure. No more annoying recorded campaign telephone calls.
 
2004-11-02 08:42:36 PM
Can anyone explain mathematically why they call states based on 1% of the vote? Is that 1% that powerful to call the rest of the state?
 
2004-11-02 08:42:39 PM
MSNBC just went 102 - 77 in favor of Bush... :(
 
2004-11-02 08:42:44 PM
JohnnyC

try electoral-vote2/3/4/5/6/7/8.com

last i checked 5 was still standing.
 
2004-11-02 08:43:06 PM
Cheesy_Poof_Man: electoral-vote.com didn't call the election for anyone; its last report had both candidates below 50%, thanks to the tied Jersey.
 
2004-11-02 08:43:14 PM
Neurochemist: Kerry is leading in Ohio right now.
 
2004-11-02 08:43:22 PM
Neurochemist. You're right. Hurricanes breed conservatism. First time people realize a gun might just come in handy during a disaster to protect your family and property from scum leaves a lasting impression.
 
2004-11-02 08:43:29 PM
Too many discussion threads?

Announcing the re-opening of the offical FARK irc chat room

irc.quakenet.org

channel #FARK
 
2004-11-02 08:43:35 PM
No doubt Nietzche101, but I have higher expectations of Weaver as I would hope he would have of me.
 
2004-11-02 08:43:39 PM
hey booring the 1% is based on actualnumbers coming in. they make the projection based on polling
 
2004-11-02 08:43:42 PM
Weaver95 -

We're having counties in Florida that voted 3 to 1 Gore, go to Bush. They can project Florida now, they are scared because of 2000
 
2004-11-02 08:43:45 PM
I'd suggest doing either until all the votes are in...

er...make that Neither. stupid sticky 'n' key...
 
2004-11-02 08:44:23 PM
i am proud to say i left VA for the district.
You suck virginia. You suck.
 
2004-11-02 08:44:44 PM
this is boring. Be back when things get more exciting :D
 
2004-11-02 08:44:44 PM
Boorring many states have exit polls massively in favor of one candidate or the other. If the exit polls have a margin of error of 3-5% normally, and there's a 10 or 15% difference in the candidates, the networks feel pretty confident calling things early.
 
2004-11-02 08:44:46 PM
Popular Vote 5% of Precincts Reporting
George W. Bush 56% 5,068,057
John Kerry 43% 3,922,661

Electoral
Bush 102
Kerry 077
 
2004-11-02 08:44:54 PM
Wonder how that NY fark party is going as of now.........
 
2004-11-02 08:44:55 PM
Hey Beernut,

CA & FLA

Numbnuts is going down.
 
2004-11-02 08:45:12 PM
KickahaOta, if you clicked on predicted results, they mathematically called it Kerry 306 to Bush 218 based on how undecideds vote
 
2004-11-02 08:45:13 PM
Neuro,
Give me an example.
 
2004-11-02 08:45:20 PM
If Turd Sandwich wins, I'm moving to North Park
 
2004-11-02 08:45:26 PM
PBS is saying Bush is leading in Pennsylvania, though only 4% of the votes are in.
 
2004-11-02 08:45:34 PM
kerry taking penn would be nice
 
2004-11-02 08:45:39 PM
Alachua
 
2004-11-02 08:45:39 PM
just an update on the KY senate race (more so than any of the major networks)

This from WKYT.com

US Senate - Total (85 % of precincts reporting
candidate votes % votes
Mongiardo (D) 734,296 50.9
Bunning (R) 708,847 49.1

Hopefully it will hold.
 
2004-11-02 08:45:46 PM
We're having counties in Florida that voted 3 to 1 Gore, go to Bush. They can project Florida now, they are scared because of 2000


I'd err on the side of caution too if I were them.
 
2004-11-02 08:46:03 PM
2004-11-02 08:43:42 PM Neurochemist

We're having counties in Florida that voted 3 to 1 Gore, go to Bush. They can project Florida now, they are scared because of 2000


That's definitely a bad sign (for this Kerry supporter).
 
2004-11-02 08:46:26 PM
Great analysis of the lyrics of "Ohio" by CSN&Y:

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm
 
2004-11-02 08:46:28 PM
C-Span now reporting...

Maine - Presidential
100% of all votes counted thus far - Bush

(heheh.. 2 whole votes)
 
2004-11-02 08:46:41 PM
Trust me, I can see the trend among the hurricane raveged counties in Florida. Bush has got this state wrapped up.

/Voted Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 08:46:54 PM
Ohio?? what the hell is going on with Ohio?! any updates?



oh, and I apologize on behalf of Virginia :(
 
2004-11-02 08:47:34 PM
Vanessa Kerry is on NBC

HOT HOT HOT
 
2004-11-02 08:47:34 PM
In the end, the only difference between electoral-vote.com and election-projection.com appears to be that ev.com gives Florida to Kerry, while ep.com gives it to Bush; and ev.com gives Hawaii to Bush while ep.com gives it to Kerry.

In other news, my spleen still hurts.
 
2004-11-02 08:47:48 PM
Popular Vote 7% of Precincts Reporting

George W. Bush 56%
5,957,625

John Kerry 44%
4,655,026
 
2004-11-02 08:47:57 PM
vinnybang Ohio is dead even, 51-49% in favor of Kerry in both reported results and exit polls.
 
2004-11-02 08:47:59 PM
Neurochemist
Alachua

Another Gainesviller, I presume. We're looking good with Kerry. Let's get the rest of the state in...
 
2004-11-02 08:48:08 PM
Meh. My brain hurts. Anyone have any good boobies links?
 
2004-11-02 08:48:13 PM
PBS is saying Bush is leading in Pennsylvania, though only 4% of the votes are in.

What numbers are they showing? CBS, CNN and MSNBC all have Kerry ahead there (but, again, with an insignificantly small percentage in)
 
2004-11-02 08:48:16 PM
Ohio 51-49 Kerry
 
2004-11-02 08:48:20 PM
Ohio is the key

Given Florida is definitley going Bush and Pennsylvania is probably going Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 08:48:21 PM
2004-11-02 08:45:39 PM Neurochemist

Bless you.
 
2004-11-02 08:48:24 PM
"Ohio"

lyrics by Neil Young

------------------------

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
 
2004-11-02 08:48:54 PM
Yup... when the president's brother's the governor, FEMA money flows freely.
 
2004-11-02 08:49:05 PM
Mr. Bungle At Work - the results are in in Gainesville. Go look at the division of elections homepage for Florida.

Bush has won Florida.
 
2004-11-02 08:49:11 PM
Trust me, I can see the trend among the hurricane raveged counties in Florida. Bush has got this state wrapped up.


I'm too much the cynical bastard to assume florida goes for Bush until I see more counties report in tho. And then of course we have to brace for the lawsuits.
 
2004-11-02 08:49:33 PM
I work for a company that has 5000 customers all over the country. The only people that can't comprehend how to use our simple software product are people in the south. Makes sense that they'd go for the dumba**.
 
2004-11-02 08:49:44 PM
I think The Daily show starts at 9:00 CST tonight, an hour earlier than usual. Now that will be interesting to watch.
 
2004-11-02 08:50:13 PM
Bush comes from one-term sperm...
 
2004-11-02 08:50:34 PM
2004-11-02 08:47:57 PM Sidi


vinnybang Ohio is dead even, 51-49% in favor of Kerry in both reported results and exit polls.



Thanks Sidi. I am on pins and farkin' needles here! oops, looks like the clock says it's quarter to beer. drink if you got 'em.
 
2004-11-02 08:50:48 PM
Ohio?? what the hell is going on with Ohio?! any updates?


It's still flopping a lot, but I'll go ahead and call it narrowly Kerry. Same with PA. Both have been hit pretty hard lately.
 
2004-11-02 08:51:10 PM
Bite your tongue, Neurochemist.

Only the boondocks have reported from what I can gather. No South Florida and little Tampa.
 
2004-11-02 08:51:12 PM
Don't be counting your chickens yet, Florida is not definite yet or someone would have stuck their neck out and called it already. There are still a lot of pro-Kerry counties that haven't reported yet.
 
2004-11-02 08:51:21 PM
Ohio's certainly tightened back up.
 
2004-11-02 08:51:22 PM
Who the hell is the clown with 6% of the vote in Ohio? I live here and have never heard of him.

Kerry, John F. 113,319 47.66%
Bush, George W. 108,473 45.62%
Cobb, David Keith-WI 14,883 6.26%
 
2004-11-02 08:51:22 PM
Another reason I love women:

Male - 51% Bush, 47% Kerry
Female - 45% Bush, 54% Kerry

According to CNN exit polls.
 
2004-11-02 08:51:45 PM
Don't be counting your chickens yet, Florida is not definite yet or someone would have stuck their neck out and called it already. There are still a lot of pro-Kerry counties that haven't reported yet.

I suspect that they aren't calling it because of the fiasco last time.

I'll be surprised to see it shift to Kerry suddenly.
 
2004-11-02 08:52:07 PM
Welcome to the flamewar to end all flamewars.

Please please please let Kerry win.
 
2004-11-02 08:52:10 PM
Neurochemist


Ohio is the key

Given Florida is definitley going Bush and Pennsylvania is probably going Kerry.



Well...from what I see here...with the exception of Peroutka, everyone I voted for won so far.

Looks like Kerry's ahead.
 
2004-11-02 08:52:35 PM
hey awesome, the american president is playing on fx right now. finally! a leader everyone can get behind.
 
2004-11-02 08:52:53 PM
Holy God, who is this woman talking on Fox, and what the hell is wrong with her voice???
 
2004-11-02 08:53:06 PM
evil camel

he's the green party candidate.
 
2004-11-02 08:53:07 PM
Ohio tightened up because Cuyahoga county reported in (heavy Democrat). Expect Kerry to slip below Bush when the more "southerly" counties report in

/Ohio resident
 
2004-11-02 08:53:08 PM
Is Lesley Stahl wearing a wig?
 
2004-11-02 08:53:19 PM
Evil Camel


Who the hell is the clown with 6% of the vote in Ohio? I live here and have never heard of him.

Kerry, John F. 113,319 47.66%
Bush, George W. 108,473 45.62%
Cobb, David Keith-WI 14,883 6.26%


Cobb is the Green Party candidate. I affectionatly refer to the Green Party as the Hippie Party. :P
 
2004-11-02 08:53:38 PM
the chick on fox news is a black woman stuck in a white woman's body!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:53:41 PM
looks like the clock says it's quarter to beer. drink if you got 'em.

You must be in a different time zone. It's an hour past beer here.
 
2004-11-02 08:53:50 PM
Who is with me when I say screw the exit polls???????

My view is (and I say IMO)

Bush Wins!!!!!!!

and as someone who is NOT a fan Bush, but does NOT like Kerry....... Go BUSH!

Let's finish the job and send a message to my fellow troops, We support what we are doing and GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!!!!
 
2004-11-02 08:53:57 PM
Is Ralph Nader still in the running?
 
2004-11-02 08:53:59 PM
"Holy God, who is this woman talking on Fox, and what the hell is wrong with her voice???"

USC law professor, ran the campaighn for dukakis. and yes, she always sounds like a fukkin muppet
 
2004-11-02 08:54:03 PM
they use exit polls to call in the beginning - not vote results, thats how they can call a state with only 1% or less of the actual precincts reporting - you must listen more closely to Wolf
 
2004-11-02 08:54:06 PM
Badnarik can still win this, right?
 
2004-11-02 08:54:20 PM
Dimensio:

Look at where all the Gore support was last time . . . lots of white in those counties still
 
2004-11-02 08:54:30 PM
Thanks, heap.

6% seems very high for a 3rd party guy. Be interesting to see if he ends up swinging the vote one way or the other.
 
2004-11-02 08:54:40 PM
CBC REPORTING 162-112 BUSH!
 
2004-11-02 08:55:10 PM
TenderBranson..
Thanks... She kinda looked like a muppet, too.
 
2004-11-02 08:55:35 PM
CNN just updated...don't like what I see.

102 - 77 in favor of the bad guys.
 
2004-11-02 08:55:55 PM
Popular Vote 8% of Precincts Reporting

George W. Bush 55%
6,797,793

John Kerry 44%
5,478,620
 
2004-11-02 08:55:57 PM
Five more minutes.
 
2004-11-02 08:56:01 PM
Wolf looks at me when he stares into the camera, only me
 
2004-11-02 08:56:10 PM
Interesting to see that, in Maryland, Baltimore is looking Bushie, and Kent is looking Kerryish. Wouldn't have called either of those, though the PG 70% Kerry vote looks about right.
 
2004-11-02 08:56:20 PM
Evil Camel



6% seems very high for a 3rd party guy. Be interesting to see if he ends up swinging the vote one way or the other.


Wasn't Nader in the Green Party at one time? I can't remember offhand.

If that's true, I bet people voted for Cobb to make up for the fact that Nader was nowhere on the Ohio ballot and could not be written in (that's what WI means for you n00bs).
 
2004-11-02 08:56:35 PM
yeah, FNC chick must die
 
2004-11-02 08:56:36 PM
Exit polls saying Kerry'll beat Bush
SherKhan wrote in a poem,
But when the real votes are counted,
Will say Kerry got P4WND.

/poet and don't know it
 
2004-11-02 08:56:45 PM
Bush pulled ahead again in Ohio
 
2004-11-02 08:56:45 PM
netowl, supposedly, badnarik has 6% of the nevada vote and is somehow expected to get 4-5 nationally. (woot.)
 
2004-11-02 08:56:48 PM
Bugger.

Of all the days to be stuck at work.
 
2004-11-02 08:57:08 PM
Be interesting to see if he ends up swinging the vote one way or the other.

Old and busted: Florida, Nader, and Buchanan
New Hotness: Ohio and Keith Cobb?
 
2004-11-02 08:57:10 PM
Ok, this is how I am keeping myself entertained in my mothers basement. (joking)

Watching A New Hope on DVD, refreshing CNN.com and this thread.

Oh, add beer to that and it is not a bad thing. Cool thing is the woman and kid are ok with that this evening.

Go Bush '04 - '08.........RUDY in '08
 
2004-11-02 08:57:38 PM
As if I didn't need more stress...

Rockets 20
Pistons 19
 
2004-11-02 08:58:34 PM
Evil Camel

yah, its kinda high, but its probably just indicative of the precincts that have reported in so far. by the time its done, i doubt his tally will be above 1%.
 
2004-11-02 08:58:45 PM
GOP takes the senate seat in OK
 
2004-11-02 08:58:53 PM
real time gamblers (tradesports.com) still have kerry ahead by 60-40 .. hm.
 
2004-11-02 08:59:08 PM
Novack on CNN is proclaiming he has "surprising" news : Jim Bunning is out!!

Didn't we already know that?

"He's a hall of fame pitcher....!"
 
2004-11-02 08:59:09 PM
Bugger.

Of all the days to be stuck at work.


Or doing homework.
 
2004-11-02 08:59:19 PM
ZeNemo... don't let your mom see that beer! : )
 
2004-11-02 08:59:25 PM
Holy crap...I need a sedative.
 
2004-11-02 08:59:28 PM
2004-11-02 08:53:41 PM Sidi


looks like the clock says it's quarter to beer. drink if you got 'em.

You must be in a different time zone. It's an hour past beer here.


I am in virginia,bud. beer time is usually at quarter past and quarter 'til. we have been known to bend the rules on special occasions. Having said that, gotta make another beer run!

/Kerry-Edwards '04
 
2004-11-02 08:59:29 PM
sloth_dc

Baltimore County is looking Bushish, but the City hasn't reported yet. Baltimore City's going to be deep blue by the end of the night.
 
2004-11-02 08:59:37 PM
GOP takes the governors race in Indiana
 
2004-11-02 08:59:43 PM
Alexandra, thanks. I believe Nader was indeed Green Party. Since his bid to get on the OH ballot failed, I suppose the Greenies wrote in this Cobb guy.

Still, his percentage seems to be relevant.
 
2004-11-02 08:59:43 PM
My thesis in 2002 was entitled Exit Polls: Do Republicans Avoid Them, or Do Pollsters Avoid Republicans? Seriously... you can look it up on the University Library website.

On a side note, I just got a phonecall from Discover Card, offering me two months free $1.2 million insurance. She said shed mail me some information on it, and I said alrighty. Then she connected me with her supervisor to confirm. The supervisor wanted to confirm my enrollment, so I asked her if I would have to cancel my enrollment after two months by contacting them, or if it is cancelled automatically. She said Id have to do it, so I said now way, man.

Exit polling sucks. Still, Bush loses Ohio and Pennsylvania, but still wins Florida and the popular and electoral votes. Daschle loses. Check my datestamp.

I live in Alabama, so I felt safe voting Badnarik. Bush should be more conservative. Except I didn't want to send the message that Iraq was a bad idea.
 
2004-11-02 08:59:48 PM
come on MN!! 1 in 100 it goes bush
 
2004-11-02 08:59:52 PM
I voted for a guy named Scotty Bowman today. Don't remember what he was running for, don't know if he was the ex-coach of the Wings, but hey, I voted for him!

Yee-Haw!
 
2004-11-02 09:00:07 PM
Michigan (my home state is coming up!)
 
2004-11-02 09:00:12 PM
Wow.. FNC is sounding very defeatist...
 
2004-11-02 09:00:17 PM
Neurochemist-
The Florida division of elections website is running a bit behind. If you look at what they're reporting for Alachua county, and what the county elections website reports, the numbers are off.
/praying that Kerry takes Florida.
 
SMF
2004-11-02 09:00:52 PM
Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up amphetamines.
 
2004-11-02 09:00:52 PM
damitjim

It's well hidden, under a futon where I keep my dads Playboys. I think when the excitment is over I'll call a 900 number to keep up this cry for help up. :)
 
2004-11-02 09:00:53 PM
I don't think the urban goldmine has been counted in Florida, it could still easily go Kerry. Ohio, I dunno. Bush is prolly going to lose NH, so he better pick up something he lost in 2000, or he really can't afford to lose anything.
 
2004-11-02 09:00:55 PM
2004-11-02 09:00:12 PM vicejay

Wow.. FNC is sounding very defeatist...

They are putting me through hell.
 
2004-11-02 09:01:22 PM
BilldaCat10

what's wild is the % of change in that one. -17/+20 in one day...
 
2004-11-02 09:01:23 PM
yah, its kinda high, but its probably just indicative of the precincts that have reported in so far. by the time its done, i doubt his tally will be above 1%.

Yah -- I'll tell you what it tells me. If 6% are willing to vote for alternative candidate, those are liberal locations that should be heavy Kerry. Looking from the results, they aren't.
 
2004-11-02 09:01:34 PM
I guess it's our turn to be the battleground state.

Wonder if we'll have an Ohio tag for '05....
 
2004-11-02 09:01:48 PM
Nebraska just went for Bush about 60% to 40%
 
2004-11-02 09:01:48 PM
Bush should be more conservative. Except I didn't want to send the message that Iraq was a bad idea.

Don't take this wrong but that sounds...nuanced. ;-)
 
2004-11-02 09:01:51 PM
CNN is reporting 155-112 Bush/Kerry
 
2004-11-02 09:01:53 PM
I just want my name in this thread somewhere

Kerry wins
 
2004-11-02 09:01:55 PM
Fox stunningly downbeat right now

/worrying me...
 
2004-11-02 09:02:01 PM
Do you think Texas will go to Bush?
 
2004-11-02 09:02:06 PM
CNN going out on a limb and calling New York for Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 09:02:09 PM
Nebraska is nice and purply...
 
2004-11-02 09:02:23 PM
i am having a tough time coping
this might just be too much for my system
 
2004-11-02 09:02:24 PM
Texas U.S. Rep. District 7 has the coolest candidate in the country this year. The Libertarian guy is a heavily bearded nuclear physics prof. Can you beat that?
 
2004-11-02 09:02:36 PM
CBS is saying 172 bush and 112 Kerry
 
2004-11-02 09:02:39 PM
Bush just picked up a whole lot of EVs, not suprising ones but still...155 - 112
 
2004-11-02 09:02:43 PM
fluffybelly - don't waste your prayer. I'd bet my ass that Bush has won Florida and I voted Kerry.
 
2004-11-02 09:02:43 PM
The only winner for me is the mute button on my remote.
 
2004-11-02 09:02:57 PM
Bush, Kerry, glad I'm Canadian
 
2004-11-02 09:03:02 PM
New York, and Rhode Island go Kerry... Bunch of them too close to call.
 
2004-11-02 09:03:08 PM
My old Diff EQ professor was handing out Kerry propoganda in line. She handed me one of those "sample ballots" that was already filled out. I looked at it and told her "I don't think mine's going to look like this." She seemed disappointed.
 
2004-11-02 09:03:13 PM
Evil Camel, Cobb is the national green party candidate, since the green party is a recognized party. nader is running as just an independant
 
2004-11-02 09:03:13 PM
Can anyone tell me why Ohio is such a battle ground?
 
2004-11-02 09:03:25 PM
Hmm. Looks like Bush has a vertical Tic-Tac-Dough.

Still no Ohio or Florida, though.
 
2004-11-02 09:03:26 PM
Popular Vote 11% of Precincts Reporting

George W. Bush 55%

8,101,550


John Kerry 44%

6,502,610
 
2004-11-02 09:03:27 PM
Pray to Bush's Jesus that Kerry wins!
 
2004-11-02 09:03:45 PM
ZeNemo

As a Bush voter and NOT a fan, I'm am licking my chops waiting for a McCain & RUDY!!!! Ticket in 2008!!!!!!

Honestly, I'm I am SO waiting for either one of them to run.

/Worked for McCain twice
 
2004-11-02 09:03:51 PM
Neurochemist

could be. could be 1 massively kerry precinct, and a lot of other (smaller) mostly bush, or midground precincts.

dunno. it'll all come out in the wash.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:03 PM
2 more hours in Oreegun. Go, Badnarik! Go, HowlingFrog! Go to the the fridge! BEER, YEEEESSS!

I love America.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:08 PM
Ohio just got a bunch more votes on cnn, Bush now up 52-48%.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:09 PM
Can anyone tell me why Ohio is such a battle ground?


Because Ohio blows!!!!!!!
 
2004-11-02 09:04:10 PM
ZeNemo - it's 50/50 and if all things remain constant, if it turns, the election turns.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:12 PM
what's wild is the % of change in that one. -17/+20 in one day...

agreed.. 55 bush / 45 kerry last night, then bush 30/70 kerry earlier today, and now 40/60 kerry .. crazy swings.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:13 PM
156 to 112 in favor of Bush on MSNBC
 
2004-11-02 09:04:16 PM
Wow, check out that Red belt up the heart of the country!
 
2004-11-02 09:04:21 PM
lol @ Alexandra. I think we get more funny links posted than Florida anyways. This election just might do it.

/trying to figure out why my state is so farked up
 
2004-11-02 09:04:31 PM
Texas to W New York to Lurch.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:35 PM
haha, yahoo is farked
 
2004-11-02 09:04:47 PM
Neurochemist-
I think that Bush will get FL too, but hey, Zook got canned, so good things can happen.
 
2004-11-02 09:04:55 PM
CSpan's map, when the uncalled states which have results posted are taken into consideration, has the Electoral Vote as:

Bush 239
Kerry 99

Oddly, Cspan has 'called' Maryland for Kerry, yet their own numbers show Bush leading by 5%.. weird
 
2004-11-02 09:04:57 PM
Ha! Bush is winning Ohio and florida!!!!

http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/SingleRaceSummary.aspx?race=PP

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_SUM_PRE.html

It's over libs....
 
2004-11-02 09:05:19 PM
Broward just came in. Almost 2-1 Kerry.

Bush's lead just dropped to 52 to 48.
 
2004-11-02 09:05:23 PM
I haven't even begun to drink beer. I'm pacing myself. Come 9:00 though...

Yeah, that's a direct threat to my beer. You hear me ones that are cold? I'm going to PWN U!!!
 
2004-11-02 09:05:23 PM
OH MY GOD!! BUSH GETS TEXAS!!
 
2004-11-02 09:05:23 PM
pretty much over already. damn. gg republicans.

/voted Kerry
 
2004-11-02 09:05:33 PM
What's funny is I was born and raised in Michigan. I moved to Ohio in 1993.
 
2004-11-02 09:06:04 PM
Now lets see if my "Bush wins with 300+ EV's" comes true :D
 
2004-11-02 09:06:10 PM
Allegheny County PA keeping polls open longer
 
2004-11-02 09:06:16 PM
thebacknine

I'm hopin so too, I can see it if Kerry wins this one, Hillary vs Rudy, I see that one kinda in the way I look at Alien Vs Preditor.

Gonna be a good fight and worth watching no matter who wins, but I know who my vote would go for.
 
2004-11-02 09:06:27 PM
the electoral college should be based on land mass instead of population

/serious
//people die, land is forever
 
2004-11-02 09:06:28 PM
2004-11-02 09:05:23 PM WrathX

pretty much over already. damn. gg republicans.

Just watch Ohio and remain optimistic.
 
2004-11-02 09:06:29 PM
Tip to the dems in 2008...



Don't nominate an ASSHAT to beat the incumbent ASSHAT



-iCoach
 
2004-11-02 09:06:30 PM
Look at all the red on CNN's page and the geen with envy on the faces of Kerry losers, I mean supporters!
 
2004-11-02 09:06:38 PM
Anomaly: How could I guess you're for Bush... you're coming off rather snide.
 
2004-11-02 09:06:39 PM
Bush's magic# - 114
 
2004-11-02 09:06:52 PM
Did my eyes deceive me or is Nader winning in Louisiana.


/going to go get her glasses
 
2004-11-02 09:07:02 PM
Looks like Diebold is kicking in in Ohio
 
2004-11-02 09:07:09 PM
How cool would it be if Bush won the popular vote but still lost the overall election?

How Gore-ish....
 
2004-11-02 09:07:19 PM
schma2000:

And the land is free to vote

/man, are you HIGH!
 
2004-11-02 09:07:36 PM
Kerry 72-28 in PA.

/my vote asplode
 
2004-11-02 09:07:58 PM
Why was my post deleted?

I inlined the image http://www.supermasterpiece.com/features/stephen/election01.gif
to show the pre-results status and got many comments on this. (just search for HairBolus or Poland in this thread) and I got no angry responses.


So why did some mod decide to delete my post. I wish the mods were required to send an email explaining the reson for deleting a post.
 
2004-11-02 09:08:11 PM
where is cspan showing the bush landslide? i can't find it.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:07 PM
Nope Farkin_Lady...


LOUISIANA
3176 of 4124 precincts - 77 percent

Ralph Nader TBL 17,820 - 11 percent
James Harris SWP 17,760 - 11 percent
Walter Brown PWF 17,700 - 11 percent
Gene Amondson Pro 17,640 - 11 percent
David Cobb Grn 17,580 - 11 percent
Michael Badnarik Lib 17,520 - 11 percent
Michael Peroutka CST 17,460 - 11 percent
George W. Bush (i) Rep 17,400 - 11 percent
John F. Kerry Dem 17,340 - 11 percent
 
2004-11-02 09:09:18 PM
On the bright side for Floridians. I watched the trends during the Gubernatorial race. Jeb manipulated the Division of Elections in his back pocket. He deliberately released favorable numbers during the Governor race in '02.

Once the votes were all tallied, Bush's win fell significantly.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:20 PM
How cool would it be if Bush won the popular vote but still lost the overall election?

How Gore-ish....


Won't happen! Bush is winning ohio and Florida! It's over LMFAO! Bush won!
 
2004-11-02 09:09:28 PM
Have the major urban areas in Florida been counted? Have Colorado residents voted to split electoral votes? What is happening in Hawaii, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan? It could still go either way. Damn this is exciting.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:29 PM
Baltimore County is looking Bushish, but the City hasn't reported yet. Baltimore City's going to be deep blue by the end of the night.

Ah, good call.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:34 PM
I call for unrestrained panic.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:40 PM
Hair, it appears that this entire thread has no images posted in it. Mods probably keeping it image free for faster loading.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:44 PM
HairBolus

Why was my post deleted?


I am not a moderator, but I play one on TV and my guess is bandwidth.
 
2004-11-02 09:09:47 PM
farkin_lady


Did my eyes deceive me or is Nader winning in Louisiana.



I just about hope so, though as a conservative I wouldn't vote for Nader.

Maybe in '08 more people will vote third party...if Dubya isn't dictator by then....
 
2004-11-02 09:10:01 PM
As someone who lives in MI and not a fan of OH, they have ALWAYS been a factor.

/F OHIO!!!!!
/BUSH
 
2004-11-02 09:10:08 PM
me:... Bush should be more conservative. Except I didn't want to send the message that Iraq was a bad idea.

SherKhan: Don't take this wrong but that sounds...nuanced.

Don't take my quote out of context. Badnarik is a great conservative/libertarian in every other way, ideal for my vote because I'm in Alabama and can send a message to Bush that he's not conservative enough, but Badnarik wants to pull out of Iraq. So who do I vote for?
 
2004-11-02 09:10:23 PM
Ohio must have screwed up tallies. ALl of Cobbs votes disappeared and Bush's lead just jumped.
 
2004-11-02 09:10:31 PM
drudge has ohio pink (leaning to bush) for the first time
 
2004-11-02 09:10:35 PM
lovehate

No split votes in Colorado...
 
2004-11-02 09:11:03 PM

This is very odd:


For Florida, CNN is reporting:
Bush: 1,822,029 (56%)
Kerry: 1,415,004 (43%)
with 41% precincts reporting.


But Florida's Department of Elections is reporting:
Bush: 1,737,535 (52.3%)
Kerry: 1,552,498 (46.8%)
With 41.2% reporting


In other words, CNN is reporting more Bush votes and fewer Kerry votes than Florida itself is. My question is: Where does CNN get it's numbers???

 
2004-11-02 09:11:11 PM
Entity79


Nope Farkin_Lady...


LOUISIANA
3176 of 4124 precincts - 77 percent

Ralph Nader TBL 17,820 - 11 percent
James Harris SWP 17,760 - 11 percent
Walter Brown PWF 17,700 - 11 percent
Gene Amondson Pro 17,640 - 11 percent
David Cobb Grn 17,580 - 11 percent
Michael Badnarik Lib 17,520 - 11 percent
Michael Peroutka CST 17,460 - 11 percent
George W. Bush (i) Rep 17,400 - 11 percent
John F. Kerry Dem 17,340 - 11 percent



No freaking WAY! Nine-way split so far!?

GO PEROUTKA! w00t!
 
2004-11-02 09:11:25 PM
The polling place here at UPITT is staying open till 9:30. This election night will never end.
 
2004-11-02 09:11:52 PM
If Kerry looses Ohio and Florida he's done. I just wanted to comment in this thread being that I've been reading it all night.

NJ farker voted for Kerry
 
2004-11-02 09:11:52 PM
thebacknine

ZeNemo

As a Bush voter and NOT a fan, I'm am licking my chops waiting for a McCain & RUDY!!!! Ticket in 2008!!!!!!

Honestly, I'm I am SO waiting for either one of them to run.

I wrote in McCain in 2000 and again this year. I'm not so sure about Rudy, but if McCain is on the ticket in 2008, he could have pretty much anyone as VP and it would be worth it.

/Worked for McCain twice
 
2004-11-02 09:12:11 PM
And Peroutka has more votes than Bush so far in LA!?

w00t!!!!!!!
 
2004-11-02 09:12:19 PM
Whoa. Kerry just jumped 5 points in Florida and they haven't counted Miami-Dade yet.
 
2004-11-02 09:12:47 PM
cannibolic :
This is very odd...

even more so because exit-polls had count chocula 52-48 over President Bush

/why i dont trust the polls...
 
2004-11-02 09:13:30 PM
What Great American said Bush 300+ EV w/ 40 state landslide?

Who indeed?
 
2004-11-02 09:13:42 PM
cannibolic: Networks and other media types often get vote counts from the precincts themselves, since the vote total for a precinct is usually publicly announced at that precinct at the same time that it's phoned in to the state. So network vote counts may reflect a different set of precincts reporting than the state's vote counts do.
 
2004-11-02 09:13:45 PM
Daum the internet is slow tonight.

wonder why? hehe
 
2004-11-02 09:13:57 PM
RichMeatyTaste, I saw the same thing. Weird.

/tin foil helmet with the two little beer holders on the sides and a straw going to my mouth
 
2004-11-02 09:14:06 PM
Entity79

If Nader wins here I DEMAND a Louisiana tag.....


/loves marching to the beat of a different drum
 
2004-11-02 09:14:10 PM
Back to how exit polls suck, look at the DOW today. It was +70 until the exit polls came out saying Kerry was doing well. Then it went -40 within an hour. I'd put the graph here if I had the skillz.

Soldiers and businessfolk like Bush. What does that say?

I hope I'm wrong about Pennsylvania, but I can't wait for Daschle leave.
 
2004-11-02 09:14:18 PM
***World Exclusive, you must credit Purdue_Pete

George W. Bush Wins Second Term.

Developing...
 
2004-11-02 09:14:22 PM
GOP taking a lot of governorships tonight
 
2004-11-02 09:14:27 PM
OLdbutfat.. who was it???
 
2004-11-02 09:14:30 PM
RichMeatyTaste

It's called the Diebold effect. Sometimes votes just jump from one candidate to the other. To this day, no one understands it.
 
2004-11-02 09:14:30 PM
Darn it, most of the House races in Texas have numbers up on CNN, but the one I voted in doesn't. Where are my numbers, CNN?
 
2004-11-02 09:14:39 PM
OldButFast [TotalFark]

What Great American said Bush 300+ EV w/ 40 state landslide?

Who indeed?


You called a 48 state landslide for Bush. What happened?
 
2004-11-02 09:14:48 PM
Oooh, Bush has a nice line down the middle, but he hasn't secured the corners - Kerry could still outflank him and flip those.
 
2004-11-02 09:14:49 PM
RichMeatyTaste


Ohio must have screwed up tallies. ALl of Cobbs votes disappeared and Bush's lead just jumped.


WHAT!?

Diebold anyone?
 
2004-11-02 09:14:49 PM
I keep feeling Bush lost, and then that there is hope, I see Kerry supporters thinking Kerry is losing, I don't know what to think, I'm going crazy!! omg..omg...my head!..stop that ringing!
 
2004-11-02 09:15:05 PM
2004-11-02 09:13:30 PM OldButFast

Bam!!! There he is!
 
2004-11-02 09:15:23 PM
I understand well enough Kangaroo. Like any other conscientious and informed voter, you voted how you felt best to express yourself in the process. Nuance is not a dirty word.
 
2004-11-02 09:15:25 PM
OldButFast:

Who?
 
2004-11-02 09:15:52 PM
I just wanted to be in this thread so when it goes to "top comments" i can see myself.

GO BUSH!
 
2004-11-02 09:15:54 PM
NetOwl

I'm in Dist 26, where u?
 
2004-11-02 09:16:31 PM
Are Ohio and Louisiana weirding out?
 
2004-11-02 09:16:32 PM
Calm down, OldButtFart. The night is young.
 
2004-11-02 09:16:34 PM
KickahaOta: Cool. Thanks for an informative response!
 
2004-11-02 09:16:38 PM
I wanna know about the important issues.

I want to know how Weed's doing in Alaska.
 
2004-11-02 09:16:44 PM
"hey awesome, the american president is playing on fx right now. finally! a leader everyone can get behind."

I'm more of a Bob Rumpchon man myself....
 
2004-11-02 09:16:46 PM
Your mother.
 
2004-11-02 09:16:48 PM
Sloth_DC:

Oooh, Bush has a nice line down the middle, but he hasn't secured the corners - Kerry could still outflank him and flip those.

You owe me a new Coke cause half is on my monitor now.
 
2004-11-02 09:16:50 PM