Ohio: Called for Obama by Fox and MSNBC after PA goes with Obama.
 

Game over man! Game over!

(isn't it?)

It is if Florida goes Obama (and it probably will). Florida = 27, California = 55.

California: we've got a shitload of Americans.

Gotta love the media..."2% of the votes have been counted and we have a winner...."
Besides the Truman upset way back when, the media a few years back had declared Jim McGreevey the next NJ governor....he wasn't. At that time, Christy Whitman had won. McGreevey got it the next time tho.

the west coast states, with new mexico - which has also been called - and that's that.

Do you see McCain winning any west coast state?

There we go ladies and gentlemen, that's the winner.

Oh, I think Florida, NC, Virginia and Indiana are going for Obama. Honestly.!

I hate being this much of a junky to the spectacle.

it doesn't matter which way Florida goes, the only thing holding this back is the fact that reporters aren't going to call it until the polls close.
but it really is over...now to the important elections: senators!

America's turning blue....

WOOOOOOOOO
HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm calling it!

Looks pretty done and dusted - unless no one shows up to vote on the west coast, can't see how McCain can win.

I believe I beat you to it.

*raises glass of delicious honey rum*

I hope so!

I won't believe it until I see it.

I'm very proud of my state... YAY Ohio! :)

...purple

I remember Florida in 2000. Until it is a mathematical impossibility with the gap in between them greater than the number of ballots left, I don't believe it.

I raise my glass ehrm CUP of tea...a toast.
"To our new President~ Barack Obama!! Long may he live!"
(maybe I should get something stronger to drink... something a bit more celebratory)

think of this - how many people will be convinced Obama is not a muslim, different, socialist extremist after 4 years in office?

Even Texas isn't too far this time... What about next?

and that is a good thing, how?

well, red is such a pretty colour on balance sheets and corpses.

i'm not even slightly drunk and I can't manage to post the frickin picture...drat. thank god that will all change once Barack takes office!

Based on my math, it's won for Obama. Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC have Obama with 207 electoral votes. If you give him California, Oregon, and Washington, he's won--55+7+11=73 electoral votes, and he's obviously going to carry these states.

They just called VA for Obama

Drink! (Oops wrong thread)

Who called VA for Obama... CNN hasn't yet.

And blue looks so nice on those drowned, suffocated and frozen to death :lol:

They just called California for Obama on Jim Lehrer. Obama FTW.

NPR (I've got it on the computer)

CNN just called Obama the winner.

CNN called it.
O
Ba
Ma!

So have NBC and Fox News.

!!!!!!

Unless someone fucked up a lot, it's over and done. Happened faster than I'd expected.

McCain called Obama and conceded (then again, Bush lol).

They gotta do away with this electoral shit...how do you take more states and lose??

Obama 29 states, McCain 22 with 3 still in toss up.

or are you not counting commonwealths?

When I wrote that, CNN was reporting states as red that now are blue.
This is what's wrong with these newscasts. They dont' WAIT, they speculate for 12 hours.

One thing to mention is that even in Florida and Ohio there are still probably three million ballots to be counted, and both races are within 100-150 thousand votes.

It's probably over...probably :lol:

Just for the record, I dont believe CNN or any network reported any states first as red, then as blue.

this is fantastic. I'm so happy that my kids will grow up in a country where the idea of a Black President is not extraordinary

Yea, California for one...live map online(not watching tv) . As the votes went in, the states changed color based on the tally.

*insert own Clinton comment/joke here* :lol:

To those of you in the U.S. on this board, I first hope you voted. Second, I want you to know you
reputation around the world has just gone up at least 10%.
You know one reason why the rest of the world cares so much (Brits like Tisonlyi, Daniel,:mapleleaf:'s like me)?
It because your Gov't has been perceived as bullies around the world for the last 8 years.
Everyone is wary of a bully.

Those of you who didn't vote for him, I'm cool with that, that's why it's called
Democracy.

Counting down to the first spurious attacks on Obama's Presidency starting now:
5,4,3,2,............

So it wasn't the newsfeed's fault... they were showing a different set of figures than might have been expected, s'all. :)

Electoral stuff, fairly ok.

Democrat winning is ok, right? ;)

Eh, they're all the same in the end. Rhetoric, empty promises, then business as usual.


Just a side note of how the media plays: I totally understand that this is truly history, that a man who is half black, half white, became the president. What I don't like is the media's constant use of "African-American" because I can guarandamntee that, while they continue to hyphenate, they will also keep espousing the "coming together" of American people.
It all reminds me of the "one drop rule" and it's covertly racist in my mind. If we are really supposed to "come together", let's stop with the drop and get down to business.
For the next four years, his color and background will overshadow everything and the media will feed it to us.
/end cynicism

ngdawg....it really troubles me to see comments like this....but I'm glad you agree that this election was truly historic.

We would have to put ourselves in the skin of a Black American (even "one drop") to fully understand the impact in the Black community.

The country should celebrate this historic moment....but in short order, the press will move on beyond the issue of Obama's race....the vast majority of American will move on beyond the issue of Obama' race... the Black community will move on beyond the celebration of something many thought they would never see in their lifetime.

The focus will be on attempting to solve the enormous problems we face as a nation....hopefully in a way that attempts to bring people together.

Will race be an issue? Only in the sense that Obama is in a unique (and most powerful) position to provide the opportunity for a national dialogue to address the racial divide in this country that still exists in many respects.

Will Obama's color and background "overshadow everything" for the next four years? Hardly.....unless some cynics chose to make it so in a less than honest manner.

I don't see why you're "troubled". Truth is that thru media feed, it gets almost impossible to see beyond skin color. History, of course, and maybe that's what troubles me-it should be a matter of course, not a prominent factor. *shrug* Oh well, sometimes I have to hear it being said before I realize someone is black, so to me this isn't as big a deal as it's being made, but I get it.

When Carter was elected, he was because no one wanted anything to do with the Nixon years, so we "wiped the slate clean". Man, did that GA. boy fuck up...and when he did, it was blamed on his "peanut farmer" background, his inexperience, his roots.
Time will tell if we're repeating ourselves now.

How do you take more states and not win? So every state should have an equal vote?

Wow. That would create rebellion. I don't think New York and California would sit tight with Alaska and Nebraska cancelling out their votes.

Alaska already gets two senators (one officially corrupt and still winning). They should be damn happy we send them checks every year to rape their state.

I am always troubled by cynics who look for the worst outcome rather than contribute to, or even acknowledge the possibility of, something better.

Nope. Popular vote only. Not that it would have made a difference in this election, but it might have in past ones. In 2000, Gore won the popular vote, but Bush took the electoral and thus the presidency....that alone tells us the Electoral College should be done away with.