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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Mark Warner was the first election called by CBS. Congratulations on your new shade of color, Virginia!
McCain's concession was tremendous. It makes me wonder what would have happened if McCain was allowed to run as McCain. I have a feeling the SNL spot and the speech were moments when he said, "ef you guys, I'm going to say what I want to say." Cal Thomas is chief idiot of America. In a world with Billy Cyrus, that's saying a lot.
The GOP is going to have to get their shit together from here on out. Stop the bowing to the religious right and embrace the crunchy cons.
Popular, but not populist. Maybe populists for blacks. They represented 22% of the vote, while consisting of 12% of the population. Michael Baisden can claim a huge part of this election.
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I was amazed by mccain's speech and it really was like looking back at the 2000 mccain, which makes me think his whole campaign was a sham and i'm wondering who really had control there. It was amazing, gracious, and very classy, far above anything this campaign has seen in a long time.
as for the GOP...i think this is great for them. so far, the popular vote is 7 million in favor of obama, that's craziness and the largest % diff since LBJ. The GOP needs to stop wtih the FAR right stuff, the ones palin seems to bring out and focus on the more central ones.
that said, i really hope the dems don't go far left on us.. I think this campaign has pointed out a lot of similarities between how mccain 'really' felt about issues and how obama has voted, so i think he's a good bit less leftist than the right is fearing. He also seems to, at least from the speech, want to unite the country....
and not one mention of "God told me i would win"