AMERICAblog: In Georgia, Chambliss is below 50% with "undetermined number of votes to be counted"
grandma
· 1 year ago
Damn....AP saying Coleman won in MN
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Did AL concede? I thought there would be a recount, in any case.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
come on Georgia..we need the Senate... dKos says there are 600,000 uncounted votes yet...
grandma
· 1 year ago
OT:
Yglesias:
Early word on the shape of the Obama administration:
1. Chief of Staff: Jeremiah Wright 2. Secretary of State: Rashid Khalidi 3. Secretary of Defense: Bill Ayers 4. Attorney-General: Bernadette Dohrn 5. Secretary of the Treasury: Tony Rezko
I feel like we have redeemed ourselves in the eyes of the world!
Today anything is possible, even Saxby Cambliss could lose
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
What is going on with Al Franken? Last time I saw it was tied 42% ea.
grandma
· 1 year ago
AP reporting Coleman won...damn
Rab
· 1 year ago
We need a recount grandma, too close to call even if the repug organization AP reported it. I live in MN and I can't believe they voted to send that little weasel back to the senate. Lets count the votes again.
WadeMD
· 1 year ago
Franken is down by just over 600 votes according to CNN. Surely there will be a recount.
grandma
· 1 year ago
With 99 percent of the 4,130 precincts reporting, Coleman maintains an unofficial margin of less than 800 votes out of nearly 2.9 million cast, almost assuring that there will be a recount. Required in races with a winning margin of less than one half of 1 percent, the recount could delay a final result for days while ballots are retabulated across the state.
Franken said this morning his campaign is investigating alleged voting irregularities at some polling places in Minneapolis, and that “a recount could change the outcome significantly.”
It is great waking up in the morning, feeling like a heavy burden has been lifted off my shoulders. I am savoring the feeling, and I feel that finally we have been vindicated. We, as a nation, have suffered under Bushy/Cheney and the republicans. Bush and Cheney were America's biggest mistakes, and America's failure. We have suffered tremendously because Americans bought the BS Rove shoveled at us, and they naively voted for failure. It is a pity that they will never be held responsible for the lives lost in Iraq, and the tremendous debt this bloody war put us in. At the end sad to say, Presidente Elect Obama (love to say that), would inherit a huge pile of crap, that Bush and Cheney has accumulated for this country. I wonder how arrogant the right winger's feel today. Does Limbaugh, Hannity, and others feel a bit small today?
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
to Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Beck et al... you and your views are not what this country wants or needs. here's the proof.
i'm sure they'll continue to ignore reality. fine. see where that got them?
WadeMD
· 1 year ago
How could those asshat Alaskans elect Stevens? WTF is wrong with them?
AlBenson
· 1 year ago
In Missouri Ralph Nader made the difference between Obama and McCain, and McCain won...what a tool...he needs to be be exposed for what he is a GOP Tool.
WadeMD
· 1 year ago
Obama should give Nader some small position in his administration to get him off the presidential campaign train he's been of for 10 years now.
AlBenson
· 1 year ago
How about a spot in Guantanamo in a cellâ¦
foxy
· 1 year ago
Any news on Amendment 2 in FL and Prop 8 in CA?
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
check Pam's House Blend- they've got good run-downs on the initiatives...
foxy
· 1 year ago
The news is sad...
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
:(
grandma
· 1 year ago
Vanity Fair on Michelle Obama:
Michelle Obama is outstanding by any measure: a black girl from a working-class family whose academic excellence propelled her through Princeton and Harvard Law School; a distinguished lawyer who gave up a lucrative big-firm career to work in the non-profit sector for the social issues she and her husband believe in; a devoted mother who puts her children ahead of all other considerations; a wife who wanted her husband to wait until their daughters were older before running for president, but who deferred to his decision that now was the time, and then participated in his campaign with total loyalty and commitment.
To anyone living or working in DC. I suggest going down to the NEWSEUM. They print a copy of the front page of a newspaper from all 50 States and DC. And they display out front of the building. It really is an impressive site to see all the front pages from all over the country. ( and countries around the world too)
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Good news, as well as the probable recount for the Franken/Coleman race.
I heard a snippet of this great song this am, written and sung by the wonderful Sam Cooke, over 40 years ago, and which makes me cry every time:
I was born by the river in a little tent Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
I go to the movie and I go downtown Somebody keep telling me don't hang around It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
Then I go to my brother And I say brother help me please But he winds up knocking me Back down on my knees
Ohhhhhhhhh.....
There been times that I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
grandma
· 1 year ago
President, North Carolina Results Candidate Votes % Barack Obama (D) 2,101,986 50% John McCain (R) 2,089,826 50% Bob Barr (Lib.) 25,181 1%
NC made me so proud............voted in a woman Governor (D) and a woman US Senator (D)......replacing the horrid Liddy Dole............
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Confirmed: Rahm Emmanuel will be Obama's COS. (If he accepts the job) What do the AmericaBlog Kidz think?
(I guess Obama wants an abrasive shtarker in the job--at least, he'll do a great job screening the calls and telling unwanted callers to getthefuckouttahere).
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
very interesting... there are things i haven't liked about Rahm... let's just say, he won't be taking shit from anybody.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I thought Daschle would be a smoother Chief of Staff, but I guess Obama wants a tough guy.
I'm kind of ambivalent.
Whoever Obama thinks he needs to get the job done is fine by me.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I'm wondering if Rahm is waiting to see if he can get the open Senate seat first.
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
For 3 months, FOX NEWS said McCain was ahead in their polls. Hmmm.
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
With several "Army" Forts down there, and the Flak Jacket ad's, could a lot of absentee ballots be from the Military and be against him? Would that be enough?
Please let this go to a runoff...President-elect Obama will be able to campaign with Mr. Martin...
EmGD
· 1 year ago
I'd like to say this bodes well for Martin, but four more weeks in a heavily Republican state wilh the end all but guaranteed to have much lower turnout doesn't favor a Democrat.
All Comments
dKos says there are 600,000 uncounted votes yet...
Yglesias:
Early word on the shape of the Obama administration:
1. Chief of Staff: Jeremiah Wright
2. Secretary of State: Rashid Khalidi
3. Secretary of Defense: Bill Ayers
4. Attorney-General: Bernadette Dohrn
5. Secretary of the Treasury: Tony Rezko
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008...
hah
Today anything is possible, even Saxby Cambliss could lose
Franken said this morning his campaign is investigating alleged voting irregularities at some polling places in Minneapolis, and that “a recount could change the outcome significantly.”
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/se...
It is a pity that they will never be held responsible for the lives lost in Iraq, and the tremendous debt this bloody war put us in. At the end sad to say, Presidente Elect Obama (love to say that), would inherit a huge pile of crap, that Bush and Cheney has accumulated for this country.
I wonder how arrogant the right winger's feel today. Does Limbaugh, Hannity, and others feel a bit small today?
you and your views are not what this country wants or needs. here's the proof.
i'm sure they'll continue to ignore reality. fine. see where that got them?
they've got good run-downs on the initiatives...
Michelle Obama is outstanding by any measure: a black girl from a working-class family whose academic excellence propelled her through Princeton and Harvard Law School; a distinguished lawyer who gave up a lucrative big-firm career to work in the non-profit sector for the social issues she and her husband believe in; a devoted mother who puts her children ahead of all other considerations; a wife who wanted her husband to wait until their daughters were older before running for president, but who deferred to his decision that now was the time, and then participated in his campaign with total loyalty and commitment.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/...
I suggest going down to the NEWSEUM.
They print a copy of the front page of a newspaper from all 50 States and DC.
And they display out front of the building.
It really is an impressive site to see all the front pages from all over the country. ( and countries around the world too)
I heard a snippet of this great song this am, written and sung by the wonderful Sam Cooke, over 40 years ago, and which makes me cry every time:
I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die
Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me don't hang around
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
Then I go to my brother
And I say brother help me please
But he winds up knocking me
Back down on my knees
Ohhhhhhhhh.....
There been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
Barack Obama (D) 2,101,986 50%
John McCain (R) 2,089,826 50%
Bob Barr (Lib.) 25,181 1%
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/electio...
(I guess Obama wants an abrasive shtarker in the job--at least, he'll do a great job screening the calls and telling unwanted callers to getthefuckouttahere).
there are things i haven't liked about Rahm...
let's just say, he won't be taking shit from anybody.
I'm kind of ambivalent.
Whoever Obama thinks he needs to get the job done is fine by me.
Would that be enough?
Dunno..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/obamas...
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/