Wednesday
Nov052008
Live Blog: "Keep the Rural Margins Down"
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 0:58
1:03 a.m. CNN's shocking statistic of the hour: white evangelicals went for McCain 84-16 in South Carolina.
1:02 a.m. Our professor in New Zealand has tipped us that National Public Radio in the US has already projected Pennsylvania for Obama --- that, of course, is huge.
1 a.m. Here comes the Obama wave: CNN calls Massachusetts (12), Illinois (21), Connecticut (7), New Jersey (15), Maryland (10), Maine (4), District of Columbia (3), Delaware (3) for the Democrats. McCain gets Oklahoma and Tennessee (11).
But why no call on Alabama? Good Lord, I thought my home state was the reddest one in the country (bar the folks in Idaho).
12:59 a.m. Canuckistan is sweating a bit. Obama down 55,000
12:58 a.m. Polls in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Missouri --- amongst others --- closing in two minutes.
12:57 a.m. CNN calls South Carolina for McCain.
12:56 a.m. CNN's John King is wetting himself. He's playing up-close with the Indiana map and is going on at very great lengths that Obama is doing better than Kerry '04 in the state. Well, since Kerry lost it big, that doesn't mean the break-through Democratic gain, but it does mean the GOP is going to sweat this as urban votes come in.
1:02 a.m. Our professor in New Zealand has tipped us that National Public Radio in the US has already projected Pennsylvania for Obama --- that, of course, is huge.
1 a.m. Here comes the Obama wave: CNN calls Massachusetts (12), Illinois (21), Connecticut (7), New Jersey (15), Maryland (10), Maine (4), District of Columbia (3), Delaware (3) for the Democrats. McCain gets Oklahoma and Tennessee (11).
But why no call on Alabama? Good Lord, I thought my home state was the reddest one in the country (bar the folks in Idaho).
12:59 a.m. Canuckistan is sweating a bit. Obama down 55,000
12:58 a.m. Polls in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Missouri --- amongst others --- closing in two minutes.
12:57 a.m. CNN calls South Carolina for McCain.
12:56 a.m. CNN's John King is wetting himself. He's playing up-close with the Indiana map and is going on at very great lengths that Obama is doing better than Kerry '04 in the state. Well, since Kerry lost it big, that doesn't mean the break-through Democratic gain, but it does mean the GOP is going to sweat this as urban votes come in.
Reader Comments (1)
BBC says 103 electoral votes for Obama and 34 for McCain till now