DISQUS

blackwolf · 1 year ago

We can't afford to drop the ball on this one. No matter what they're calling it, we have to hang tough until Obama and Biden are actually in the white house.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Yes, I think the Repugs will do their best to steal Ohio and Florida. They will try in PA, too, but I think PA is too long a shot.

fl79tr · 1 year ago

I agree and that's when the real struggle begins....

anneeeliz · 1 year ago

John--check the last line. "Rear her head." I'm pretty sure Palin can't read.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

I hate to be a wet blanket, but even if Dems wind up with 60 seats in the Senate, lots of the Dems will still be conservatives and difficult to work with.

jescot · 1 year ago

Man I am sick of this last week already ...I voted ..Have you?

hawkseye · 1 year ago

The tension is terriffic, isn't it?
I'll pop my ballot in the mail tomorrow or Wednesday. We have Permanent Absentee Voter ballots in California, and it's very popular because it guarantees a paper trail. And machines are gone unless they can provide verifiable results and can't be tinkered with. (Please don't ask me to define "verifiable results".)
Our new Sec'y of State, Deb Bowen, is a strong, progressive Dem and she went to the mat with the Gov and Rethugs for all the best practices.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

that's looking pretty similar to what www.fivethirtyeight.com is showing...

Palin may have other problems in Alaska once she gets back home since there has been light shed on her activities and spending habits wrt state funds...

On another note, remember the 2 call center workers last week that walked off their jobs rather than read the crap the McCain camp ordered??? Well several dozen workers in an Indiana call center did the same thing... walked out and refused to read a McCain script...

KSUwildcat · 1 year ago

I voted on the first day of vearly voting in my county in Kansas. Paper ballot, of course. We DO have a repub secretary of state in Kansas and he's planning to run for governor in 2010, unfortunately, so I' don't trust using a voting machine. I realize it's a lost cause voting democratic for president in Kansas, but it felt SO GOOD to cast that vote for Obama/Biden. We have some dumb ass law that we can't wear any buttons or shirts with candidates names to the polling place. It's been a law for years but for some reason THIS year they felt the need to publicize it and enforce it.

Mark217 · 1 year ago

Absentee ballot sent to Florida some time ago. Voted for Obama, of course. Heck I even voted for sex stud Tim Mahoney. I also voted against anti-gay Florida Constitutional amendment (Florida's hateful version of Prop 8 which gets no media coverage).

green_libertarian · 1 year ago

It ain't over.
Don't forget about the margin of corruption.
Floridians are right now being denied the right to early vote due to (voter supression) LONG lines at the polls.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

After the John Kerry fiasco with his expected win I have been fairly reserved about the possibility of an Obama win.

This past weekend, I changed my mind because 3 die hard Republicans I know voted early and voted Obama. I was surprised, actually shocked. All three said they thought he could change the direction of the country.

One of them gave me something to think about though, she said she wished she could change her vote. When I asked why, she said she was "hearing things" about Obama that make her rethink her vote. She didn't like the Muslim background and she didn't like his insurance plan.

So I am back to thinking that the election could still go either way.

cmpnwtr · 1 year ago

The hand-wringers are out in full force tonight. Just can't stand hope and optimism I guess.

justndav32 · 1 year ago

I dont trust any polls period, this thing is to tight. All these sights that say Obama 303, 349, 348, 286 EV's. It doesnt make a bit of difference if people dont vote or its close in the key states and those states are stolen.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Palin is already planning to read her head in 2012 - we need to put a stop to that now.

I hope she does try. Even the Republicans will laugh in her face. The most loyal Republicans have managed to keep a polite, straight face while saying they support her, but in 2012, there would be no reason for them to treat her as anything but what she is, a total blithering idiot. Quayle was an idiot, but at least he had enough on the ball to get a degree in law, which isn't such a shabby accomplishment even at the worst law schools. Quayle was not treated too politely by the Republicans when he was foolish enough to try to mount his own candidacy for president. Palin is even more laughable than Quayle.

mauro7inf · 1 year ago

What? NC's supposed to be blue, not red!

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

This is not over. Georgia apparently has purged fifty thousand voters from it's rolls. you watch as the GOP starts the vote stealing this week. As Joe Stalin said, it does not matter who votes, it matters who counts de votes

cyninbend · 1 year ago

That's still a lot of red. A lot of greedy idiots? I know most Republicans base their vote of the idea they will personally pay less taxes if the Republican candidate wins. Crazy usually, as very lowly paid people identify with those hammered by estate taxes--I cannot even think of an example of someone who was! But that's a whole lotta people who are so ignorant they think Sarah Pallin is smart/knowledgable enough to be president......and who are not freaked out by the thought of the President/Commander in Chief jumping around frenetically, spurting out the "c" word, while the V.P. winks....

I sure hope that the next 8 years will be a real education for these people. How an extremely intelligent, articulate, mature, self-contained gentleman behaves in the role of President. "They" are already plotting to undermine his presidency the same way as they did Bill Clinton's. I am so very impressed by Senator Obama's preparation for office! He appears to be clean as can be...if they must dredge up Ayers--a distant campaign donor, rather than a close friend or business partner, no marital dalliances, no anything they can put on him--it must be driving those Spectator types nuts! President Obama may change that map forever if he can govern as he has campaigned. Set an example that cannot be undermined, that shows how we have been ripped-off these last 8 years with a part-time chimp in the oval office, starting wars unplanned, unprepared, ignorant, unilateral, illegal....well, governing the same way he started wars.... Show them how it can be done...should be done....and don't give them the ammo to blow up your presidency like Bill did....