Tuesday
Nov042008
Live Blog: The Really Important News
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 22:59
11:18 p.m.: The CNN Interactive Map is showing the frist numbers from Kentucky. McCain up 60-38 with 3,800 votes counted.
I know, I know. I just wanted to report something.
11:11 p.m.: The even more dramatic Alert on the New York Times: Oprah will be attending the Obama rally at Grant Park in Chicago. This, truly, must be the anointment of the Messiah.
11:08 p.m.: CNN's dramatic "Voter Alert" has a man sitting in front of a computer pointing at a really tiny bar chart. All here note that this is not nearly as impressive as the BBC Swingometer.
11:02 p.m.: Polls closed in Indiana and Kentucky but absolutely no info coming from them. Nada. So random CNN specialists wander around saying, "Break it down", with nothing to break down.
Apart from the 93% who answered "Not So Good" to the question, "How do think the economy is going?"
10:55 p.m.: Polls close in five minutes in most of Indiana and Kentucky. Which means I have to mention:
In the European Champions' Football League tonight, Chelsea lost 3-1 to Roma with Deco (the football player, not the singer from The Commitments) red-carded and Liverpool got a "well-dodgy" penalty to draw 1-1 with Atletico Madrid.
I do not know what this portends for either McCain or Obama....
I know, I know. I just wanted to report something.
11:11 p.m.: The even more dramatic Alert on the New York Times: Oprah will be attending the Obama rally at Grant Park in Chicago. This, truly, must be the anointment of the Messiah.
11:08 p.m.: CNN's dramatic "Voter Alert" has a man sitting in front of a computer pointing at a really tiny bar chart. All here note that this is not nearly as impressive as the BBC Swingometer.
11:02 p.m.: Polls closed in Indiana and Kentucky but absolutely no info coming from them. Nada. So random CNN specialists wander around saying, "Break it down", with nothing to break down.
Apart from the 93% who answered "Not So Good" to the question, "How do think the economy is going?"
10:55 p.m.: Polls close in five minutes in most of Indiana and Kentucky. Which means I have to mention:
In the European Champions' Football League tonight, Chelsea lost 3-1 to Roma with Deco (the football player, not the singer from The Commitments) red-carded and Liverpool got a "well-dodgy" penalty to draw 1-1 with Atletico Madrid.
I do not know what this portends for either McCain or Obama....
Reader Comments (5)
So the Blues lost and the Reds mounted an unlikely come back.
When asked about his motivations for registering to vote for the first time Democracy Now!'s MIKE KIMBER responds...
"Well, I really feel that anybody that stands behind George Bush is like mentally retarded. And I wanted to have a voice in this, and I wanted to vote this time, you know."
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/4/felony_disenfranchisement_and_the_right_to
I heard that :
1- Obama's Grandmother's Absentee Ballot will be Counted by State of Hawaii,
2- and the entire village of Kogelo, in Western Kenya, is supporting Barack Obama on election day. Well, almost. If Obama wins, the bull will be slaughtered
3- For the first time ever in U.S. history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 billion.
that's it !
"Never has one bull given so much for the sake of so many."
3- For the first time ever in U.S. history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 billion.
Yeah, and Obama promised to limit his campaign to public financing. He reneged because he knew the liberal media would let him get away with it. The media was a huge wing of the Obama campaign. We need 100% publicly funded elections AND a widely distributed summary of the candidates' positions and voting records.