Tuesday
Nov042008
And We're Live from Birmingham!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 22:01
10:09 p.m.: Apparently John McCain is still campaigning in Arizona and neighbouring states like New Mexico. If you're living in the vicinity, you may want to hide and avoid answering the door.
10:04 p.m.: CNN has first exit polls. Surprise, surprise --- the economy was the #1 issue for voters (62%).
I am in shock at this revelation.
The hyper-active Bill Schneider is explaining in great detail the form that CNN uses for its exit polling and the procedure for telephoning early voters. You think the network still has a whopping great inferiority complex from missing the Florida call in 2000 and tilting exit polls towards Kerry in 2004?
9:54 p.m.: Well, I just got whammed on by Canuckistan's 14-year-old son in NHL on the XBox --- hopefully, my political skills will be better than my pseudo-hockey ones.
We're still in the blather stage on the networks who have nothing of substance to report. (Apparently, I missed CNN's grilling of Joe the Plumber, who is no longer holding up as the hero of the Common Man.)
Fox is running a lot of stories on "Voter Fraud" as 1) a defence mechanism for the McCain folks as they ponder getting a whipping and 2) another question mark to put against Obama. Given Fox's role in the 2000 Florida debacle, this may have re-defined the meaning of the word "audacious".
Wolf Blitzer is running CNN's coverage, which is notable only for the fact 1) that his name always me laugh and 2) that, with moniker, he really should be a military correspondent.
Best election night story so far: a friend, who is on a research stay in New Zealand, convinced a pub in her village to subscribe to Sky News for a month so she could watch the results --- so, here's to you, Professor Kerry.
10:04 p.m.: CNN has first exit polls. Surprise, surprise --- the economy was the #1 issue for voters (62%).
I am in shock at this revelation.
The hyper-active Bill Schneider is explaining in great detail the form that CNN uses for its exit polling and the procedure for telephoning early voters. You think the network still has a whopping great inferiority complex from missing the Florida call in 2000 and tilting exit polls towards Kerry in 2004?
9:54 p.m.: Well, I just got whammed on by Canuckistan's 14-year-old son in NHL on the XBox --- hopefully, my political skills will be better than my pseudo-hockey ones.
We're still in the blather stage on the networks who have nothing of substance to report. (Apparently, I missed CNN's grilling of Joe the Plumber, who is no longer holding up as the hero of the Common Man.)
Fox is running a lot of stories on "Voter Fraud" as 1) a defence mechanism for the McCain folks as they ponder getting a whipping and 2) another question mark to put against Obama. Given Fox's role in the 2000 Florida debacle, this may have re-defined the meaning of the word "audacious".
Wolf Blitzer is running CNN's coverage, which is notable only for the fact 1) that his name always me laugh and 2) that, with moniker, he really should be a military correspondent.
Best election night story so far: a friend, who is on a research stay in New Zealand, convinced a pub in her village to subscribe to Sky News for a month so she could watch the results --- so, here's to you, Professor Kerry.
Reader Comments (2)
Twitter's been buzzing all day with talk of voting problems, particularly in VA. The worry in the Twitter community (or at least the parts I've been following) is that this'll disenfranchise potential Obama voters:
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/phony-flier-says-virginians-vote-different-days
Shivering African-American correspondent in Virginia on CNN, complaining about the weather. Which, come to think of it, is what we do in Britain....