…So I’ll just leave this as an open thread for election news — and let you all do the linking and “reporting” in the comments while I’m gone.
Oh. And a quick reminder why your vote counts:
Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins could not be reached for comment.
The Bill Ayers Switch Project.
You’re leaving? But I just brought the bagels…
Well… more smoked jalapeno salmon spred for me then…
At my polling place in an affluent, City of Pittsburgh neighborhood — smug, triumphalist O-Bots as far as the eye could see. But no Republican would ever stand a chance in my precinct. If McCain’s going to win PA, it’s going to happen in much more clinger-y neighborhoods.
Today marks the apex of influence and credibility for Baracky’s media. The rotting husks of newspapers start to stink for real before this day is out. And the rest what have distilled Baracky’s dirty socialist messagings are going to spin themselves to pieces like unbalanced centrifuges. NPR will be last one standing since they’re already latched tight to the government tit I guess.
hf – I wish I had your faith.
There’s a polling precinct behind my place of work, so I get to see the voters walking to & from the polls. No matter who wins, I’m as proud as can be to be a citizen of this great land. Think of how many other sad countries there are, in which democracy is simply a prelude to civil war. I hope the lesson isn’t lost on the candidates.
Benedick,
I live in Mt. Lebanon (south hills) and the yard signs were about evenly split. I suspect the city leans dem, but the suburbs are another story.
These things happen fast when they happen I think, B. And things are moving very quickly now, but do your part. Um. Democracy without a free press we used to know what that meant more better I think. Time to learn it all over again.
I think I will drink heavily tonight. Yes that sounds like a good idea.
Today’s not my holiday, but I’ll try to enslave a random passerby to honor the spirit of it.
It’ll be hard to do without ever catching each other’s eye, though, and that’ll ruin the whole thing.
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Ah, right.
I think psycho is saying that today is not a day what inspires pride. Peggy Noonan’s beautimous election is all kinds of death knell to my ears I think and Rick Moran’s new dirty socialist president is going to hurt a lot of people.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/021984.php
http://townhall.com/blog/g/cf47766b-5a6d-44ab-95e7-ce60631bcadc
Voter fraud at a polling place near you, courtesy the Democrats.
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down I think. I’ll be over here if anyone has a good idea they want to share.
Voter fraud only matters though if it doesn’t help Democrats. Funny how it all works out.
Got to my polling place at 6:45 this morning, the doors opened at 7:00, I was #27 to vote.
My family voted 4 to 1 for the Mav.
I voted at 8.15 am for McCain/Palin in the town where the Bush family has deep roots.
Based on conversations with longtime GOP stalwart voters, I am one of the few who filled in the blanks for M/P. All of them said it was the first time they had voted Dem for POTUS.
The day will be long.
NB–what Sanity Inspector said.
William – that’s where I grew up! Small world.
hf – while I don’t share your optimism that a massive, popular backlash against the media overlords is imminent, I do think it will be interesting to see what happens when some of the media folk chafe at the constant stream of marching orders from His Holiness, rediscover their independent streak, and start throwing rocks at the altar.
I don’t know. It won’t be long now before people have to ask themselves am I gonna cut my cable or am I gonna cut my cell phone… Pretty sure I know how that’s gonna go down. Cell phones get people laid. Cable not so much.
I’m in line now, ballot in hand, waiting for a booth. I had forgotten that Cynthia McKinney was an option.
Socialisms always bring amazing inflations with them. It’s like dogs and fleas. For real you’ll be amazed how fast this goes I think.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods
If you haven’t voted, do it.
Mr. Ayers didn’t just cast a ballot in this election. He created a mold and cast the candidate…
Arrgh.
Well said phreshone person. Is that an ethnic thing? phresh?
I could use a peppy folk song about now.
It was surprisingly slow at my polling place this morning. But I got there around 9am, and the election people said it was very busy earlier this morning, and they expect it to be the same later today. A couple of poll watchers were there, but they had to stay past the demarcation line out front. I don’t expect too many shenanigans here in Texas, but in more corrupt places (in other words, Dim-controlled) around the country, yeah.
I remember way back then when everything was true and when we would have such a very good time such a fine time
Such a happy time
Hey, for you and me
I haven’t voted yet. Waiting for Dearest to come home from a federal hearing.
G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
Heh. My girlfriend (who’s a Democrat and comfrotably left of center but says she’s voting for McCain) just emailed me:
When she got to the polls (with a 103 dgeree fever and a chip on her shoulder, apparently), people in line were wearing “Shadyside for Obama stickers,” which were being passed out by volunteers on the sidewalk. Knowing this is against the rules, my girlfriend went up to the election official and demanded that everyone be required to remove their stickers.
The official asked her if she was really offended or just trying to cause trouble. If you knew my girlfriend, you would know that this was the wrong approach to take. My girlfriend loudly insisted that they comply with the rules. So, reluctantly, the official announced that everyone had to remove their stickers because “this woman is offended by them.” Whereupon my girlfriend voted and then called the state elections board and made a report of voter intimidation by public officials in our precinct.
I love her more and more each day.
You gots a keeper I think Mr. B.
HF – not an ethnic thang. With my first name, your were going to pick up the nickname no matter the ethnicity in the late 80’s…
Benedick
That’s marrying material.
Oh… please have her call 866-976-VOTE, too, and report the incident.
Wow, Benedick, she IS a keeper.
Yep, hang on to that one. Just don’t piss her off.
To repeat a comment I made in the pub:
So Philadelphia has evicted poll watchers and Milwaukee disbanded their anti-fraud unit. Has St. Louis extended the hours for voting yet?
I’m a little embarrassed to admit I hadn’t thought they’d be this obvious.
oh. got it. I don’t have much left now from the 80s. I wish I’d taken pictures.
Rob
I refuse to turn on the tv today, but I predict about …oh… 4-5 pm EST (well before close of polls here in the west) CNN/NBC/CBS et al will be crowing and strutting the Obama landslide in hopes of suppressing voter turn out elsewheres.
Kirk – I know better, believe me. Funny . . . when I met her three months ago, she trashed Sarah Palin on our first date. I immediately concluded that we had no future. But I kept seeing her because she was otherwise fantastic. Between that day and today, I gradually turned a sure-thing, blindly obedient O-vote into a McCain vote. It’s a credit to her more than to me that she was willing and able to be persuaded.
Update: My girlfriend emails to tell me she just received a call informing her that someone is on the way over the the precinct to investigate her complaint. And since she’s ornery from having a 103 degree fever, she figured she’d call a couple of local tv stations while shivering under her blanket. I told her I’m proud of her and passed along Darleen’s suggestion.
hf, I’m not so sure that newspapers and the old media are lost. I mean, the single reason that O! has gotten to his place on the edge of the throne, and why Maverick is our nominee instead of someone who actually represents us, is the media. There are still millions of people who get their news from the nightly television newscast and the dead tree papers. And they will continue to do so. The internet is a curiosity to them. And they vote in droves for candidates they are told to.
If O! wins, I think the traditional media will feel vindicated and empowered, and you’ll see four years of happiness and flowers unlike anything we’ve seen for the past eight. Not representing reality, of course, but all joy and bubbles nonetheless.
Ah, the day of reckoning is here.
Dear weeping freepers, please form a line to your left if you would like to revoke your U.S. citizenship.
Wow, Benedick, your girlfriend rocks.
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Ed Rollins looks like a Gremlin who’s been fed after midnight.
There.
I said it.
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Patrick
we may have to take on one bit of the old media at a time. For instance, the Los Angeles Times, bleeding readership and laying off reporters, absolutely refuses to release the Obama/Khalidi video.
time to work not only on getting subscibers to cancel, but in contacting advertisers and convincing them to stop advertising with the LAT. Make the paper close.
America is still mine, even if Obama wants to fundamentally change it into Socialist Europe.
Americans will just have to take it back from the Left cultists.
Thor – how could I “revoke” my own citizenship? Wouldn’t I have to renounce it instead? Would you like a dictionary?
Remember, folks, thorboi wants a dictatorship. He longs for a strong man.
Probably much in the same way Andrew Sullivan does. NTTAWWT.
I just got back from the polling station here in Long Beach, adjacent to NYC. I was shocked, shocked!, at the number of people with McCain stickers and openly relishing voting for Mav…
I realize that this won’t offset the Manhattan liberal vote, but it is encouraging. You see, at my former residence, in PG county Maryland, the elections board contacted me to be an election judge-seeing how I was one of a handful of registered RethugliKKKans in that precinct, and state law required an even party representation at the polls! So, to live in such an ideologically refreshing town, so close to NYC, is heartening for me. And who knows, there may be a whole lotta disgruntled PUMA’s voting in NY state today…
Anyway, my small family voted unanimously for Mav, as well as my in-laws and extended family back home. And, over the last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of converting several of my wife’s liberal girlfriends and their husbands from the cult of O!. While much of the ideological ground was gained on the tax front and redistribution issue, consideration of Israel,and the distinct possibility that O! would send them under the bus once elected, has also goven a few cause to reconsider…
Let’s all stay strong and keep the faith…
And, Benedick, all I can say Bro, is marry that honey as soon as possible!; she is a keeper for sure!
Best Wishes…
Thor, instead of being part of the voluntary Soylent Green brigade, I’d like to volunteer for a spot in a re-education camp.
Well lookey there, our first re-ed volunteer.
Once you get accustomed to busting slag all day, the nightly campfires and poetry readings are really quite quaint.
You got me there. Would you like to volunteer to proof the workers party daily?
No thanks, Thor. I’m going to volunteer to live in the Potemkin Village where we all get to pretend for the visiting dignitaries that life is swell here. I bet we’ll eat real good.
Maybe socialist’s dads aren’t strong men. Or moms. Or something.
Probably the State can bring them into conformity.
JHoward
The One has demanded universal pre-school starting at 3 y/o. “Parent” is such an oppressive, classist term. Physical Custodian will need to be substituted, along with the new responsibilities that all ideological instruction be State compliant.
oh. got it. I don’t have much left now from the 80s. I wish I’d taken pictures.
I went to see my parents last summer, big anniversary party, and there was an album being passed around that featured a picture of me going to my senior prom. 1979. Disco baby! Everyone laughed and laughed.
I went and took a drive because of all the laughing. When I got back, the dog just looked at me and shook his head.
So they bleed and bleed. Laying off reporters (who aren’t actually, you know, reporting anything) won’t hurt the propaganda maching a bit. They can still get their news from NPR and the wire services, and it’s all for the children…
I’m feeling pretty dark today, and for that, I denounce myself.
I like this thread the best so far today.
Yeah, it’s easy to get gloomy when you think about all the fucking idiot drones all voting the the human smiley face.
Hey, who wants PIE?
The good news is, when O! wins, he’s got a readymade subject for his third book. “How I suckered the cracker into accepting limited federal financing for his campaign, while I bought the Presidency with mounds of untraceable cash”.
OK, the editor will have to shorten the title a bit. But, as a working title, s’all good.
I got to my polling place about 9:00 this morning. Cow-Eater County closed the schools today because so many of the polling places are at schools, and the high turnout expectations were somewhat bolstered by the long lines for early voting at the county offices in downtown Newnan over the last few weeks.
Even with the school being closed for the day, I wasn’t sure at first I’d be able to find a parking spot, but I did. And from getting out of my truck and getting back in after, about 40 minutes — of which 30 were spent standing in line just to get into the gym and show my photo ID.
No signs of voter intimidation, other than the length of the line. One guy ahead of me in line looked like McCain, and I was wearing a cap with “Alaska” printed across the front, and we were both permitted to vote despite our obvious electioneering. Come to think of it, nobody asked anyone to peel off their skin for fear of it influencing anyone else’s vote. Maybe next time.
I voted this morning, had to wait 2+ hours in line. I felt disenfranchised. There was a Team Baracky lawyer there bitching and moaning about people being disenfranchised, and how everyone should just be given a paper ballot instead of using the electronic machines so they would not have to wait in line. For some reason, he thought that I would agree with him. I disabused him of that notion, quickly. Seemed like what he was itching for was any reason to make things messy, but that was just my impression. FWIW, both of my younger brothers are voting against Obama, and they are traditionally Dem voters. My side of the family is voting 4-2 for McCain, and Better Half’s is voting 6-0 for McCain.
And you’re in an actual swing state. I’ve never known that feeling ever.
This is the first time ever for us happyfeet. Let me assure you it sucks. I havfe seen no less than 8,938 Baracky propoganda commericals since the primary. It is fucking painful. I barely watch TV anymore.
can’t wait to hear if RTO has any stories. I doubt it, it being Texas, but still. Probably it’s just the “knowing he’s in town, but I probably won’t hear from him til late this evening.” dude got up at 4:45.
don’t like the uncertainty.
I was surprised that my polling place had a line, but it only took about 20 minutes total to vote. There was no sign of intimidation either, as Minnesotans would not put up with such impolite behavior. All we had were helpful people. I wish they made ID check mandatory, though. It was all on the honor system. “Yeah, that’s my name there.”
Minnesota has not voted a Republican for president in a long time, but I still felt that it could happen this time and either way I wanted to give the Palin/McCain ticket one more in the popular vote count.
You sound neurotic today datadave person. Are you just kind of worked up or is something wrong?
One might think that dataless would be happy today. Instead, he comes by to call names and lie. Didn’t he get banned?
I voted at about 11 this morning. My polling place has always been exceedinly well run, orderly and quick. No exception today.
At midday lull, there was no waiting at all. There was a steady stream of arrivals but no lines.. I announced my name which is still hyphenated on the rolls and is a bit of a mouthful, got my ticket, was ushered immediately to the machine, voted my R ticket in less than a minute, and was on my way. THe only snag was I got my “I voted” sticker in my hair.
I felt better after. I drove down the parkway and river road and the leaves on the trees were so beautiful. I think I haven’t been paying much attention to them this year. I’m glad I got a look.
datadumb thinks people like Joe should just learn their place is all. When Obama ascends the steps of the White House next year, those kinds will know what’s what, I tell you…
Um, it’s Obama’s answer to Joe that was the problem, DD.
“I have seen no less than 8,938 Baracky propoganda commericals since the primary.”
You know, I wonder about that – there have been so many Obama commercials on in Chicago that I been thanking God repeatedly the fast-forward button on the DVR. Why, in the banana republic O!-worshipping city-state of Chicago, was the stuttering prick blowing his money on local TV advertising? Wouldn’t he be best using it in a swing state?
Absolutely packed at my polling place today – spent an hour in line. Extremely concerned about getting home tonight – Metra (the competently-run train service, not the Third World-level Chicago Transit Authority) cancelled a bunch of outbound trains tonight so they’d have extras to bring in people for tonight’s torchlit coronation.
Oh, if he loses, that would be just peachy; the resulting riot in downtown Chicago might actually improve the surroundings.
JD —
I voted this morning, had to wait 2+ hours in line.
Same with us, with about 30 people ahead of us — and a new paper ballot. What I noticed though, is that mostly everyone was trying to conceal their choices, hunching over the ballot in all kinds of strange poses to guard against peeking.
We’re in a blue, blue county, though, so they may have been afraid of rethughlicans swooping in and sending them to Gitmo or something. God help us all.
Percy – Because that market also covers the northwest section of Indiana.
Or the other explanation is that they were voting for McCain, but didn’t want their blue friends to see their choice. That thought almost makes me smile.
DD wouldn’t the racist be the one that sat in a racist church for 20 years? Whatever why even respond to you, you are a freakin idiot.
I voted Thursday. Took me 30 minutes in line. I had to take out a few nation of islam types with roundhouse kicks and deliver some knuckle sandwiches to a couple of dirty hippies on my way through the parking lot.
Maybe that was a dream, where I was Chuck Norris.
I voted by mail a week ago. California has a slough of ballot initiatives, took me an hour and a half to read all the state literature on them and make my decisions. I voted “yes” on only 3 out of I think 11. There is no way some one could go into the booth and caste a responsible vote relying on TV ads to inform them. I’m confident that like past elections, I have picked the ones that will be defeated.
Some of the initiatives made me uneasy, that those kinds of things were put up for a general vote. Takes away from the concept of Representative Government.
One thing I liked though was the one to take gerrymandering away from the pols. That’s why California has been blue for so long, and Nancy will die in office a very old woman. They have drawn their own districts and permanently secured their seats.
If Dems do a sweep, you will ALL be Californians soon.
McCain will be my new president and that will be exciting except I’m not slaughtering a goat. What sounds good is split pea soup really. I wish I had thought last night to set up something in the crock pot.
lee, I got a mail-in ballot this year for the first time. Usually I enjoy the act of going to the poll, but this year we had a slew proposals and admendments. I dropped it off during early voting — very easy and I could take my time. I think I’ll do it that way from now on.
Plan what destruction? I don’t get that. I will do my best to not be part of the problem but that’s what I always do. Seriously doubt poor bankrupt California is on the front lines of whatever Baracky’s socialist bender is gonna amount to. We’re already well on our way here. I have a bit of practice at abiding peacefully while people do stupid shit.
I am just thinking his economic team is a bit too conservative.
Good Allah, help us all.
Proof that he is a skinhead? Having a tax lien and being a tax cheat are not quite the same. You should know tax cheating quite well. Obama approached him on his lawn. Rewriting history in real-time today, huh, asshat?
“He longs for a strong man.”
Oh, how true is that. Stupid weak person, needs strong man to assist him in everyday life. Plus, he’s hoping O! will throw him the cock.
DD? You still around?
Voted around 11:30 am. I don’t know if it was busier than normal because we moved here 3 years ago so I only have 2006 to compare with. It was busier than that one but no real line. In and out in 10 minutes.
One thing I noticed is this year they asked for ID. That is good. My better half voted absentee so we are now done. Fingers crossed for the rest of the day.
I had a “Brazil” like nightmare last night. I don’t want to live it for real.
Percy,
A couple of weeks ago my alarm went off to “I’m Barack Obama…” I quickly hit the snooze. A couple of snoozes later I heard the rest of the radio spot – it was aimed at IN voters, not IL. Crazy talk about how John McCain doesn’t support the troops because he doesn’t want to raise taxes on companies that build things offshore. A couple of IN people saying how disappointed they were and Baracky shouting that those companies should pay. Sounds like it’s aimed at Gary and Hammond to me.
Either way, I’m hoping the boss lady will let us go home early to avoid the craziness downtown (I’m just a couple of blocks from the park where O! will be), but it’s not looking good for us.
okay, so any bets on how many comments pat is going to run before he realizes nobody cares here?
I’m going with seven.
Today I had the distinct pleasure of voting AYE to retain Justice Charles T. Wells on the Florida Supreme Court. Though appointed to the court by Lawton Chiles, a democrat, Chief Justice Wells (at the time, no longer), wrote a dissent in Gore v. Harris which was decided 4-3 in favor of Gore, overturning the lower court decision of Judge Sauls, remanding the case to him and ordering a “hand count” of approx. 9,000 machine-read “non-votes” or “undervotes” in Miami-Dade county. Justice Wells was also the sole dissenter in the later case Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris (consolidated).