How will you get your elections news tomorrow? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

irateplatypus · 11-01-2004, 01:56 PM

From what source do you expect to get your primary election coverage from? I have a wireless router hooked to the ol' cable modem... so i'll probably use the laptop to surf TFP and watch for headlines on Drudge while taking in the cable news.

Flyguy · 11-01-2004, 01:57 PM

Listining to AM news while flying the aircraft at work and CNN in the hotel when I get there at midnight.

Averett · 11-01-2004, 01:58 PM

I'll be tuned into one of the networks. Most likely either CSPAN, ABC or NBC. I'm sure I'll check out what TFP has to say during the results

irateplatypus · 11-01-2004, 02:00 PM

dang... 2 responses before i could generate the poll. you folks are on the ball.

daswig · 11-01-2004, 02:01 PM

I plan on doing lots of legal drugs tomorrow. If I don't wake up, I'll know Kerry won and the world ended.

inharmony · 11-01-2004, 03:42 PM

Most likely NBC or the internet.

mattevil · 11-01-2004, 03:47 PM

probably fark.com

Averett · 11-01-2004, 04:15 PM

I voted for NBC in the poll... Anyone know if Comedy Central will have some sort of webcast? Damn, not having cable sucks

Lebell · 11-01-2004, 04:20 PM

I have no intention of going out of my way to find out tomorrow.

I figure I'll hear about it soon enough.

Ustwo · 11-01-2004, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lebell

I have no intention of going out of my way to find out tomorrow.

I figure I'll hear about it soon enough.

Ditto, I could listen to each state return and have networks call them with 1% reporting or I could just relax and see what happens after its over.

ARTelevision · 11-01-2004, 04:39 PM

Yeah. Not going to follow it too closely. I figure at some point it will shake out and some sort of consensus will be arrived at...

filtherton · 11-01-2004, 04:40 PM

I'm going to read the paper the next day to see who is suing who.

JustDisGuy · 11-01-2004, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ARTelevision

Yeah. Not going to follow it too closely. I figure at some point it will shake out and some sort of consensus will be arrived at...

LOL - that statement says a lot about the public level of confidence in the electoral process.

radioguy · 11-01-2004, 04:58 PM

i'll check out cnn.com at work and then turn the news channel on once i get home.

hammer4all · 11-01-2004, 06:47 PM

indymedia.us
electoral-vote4.com
democracynow.org
dailykos.com
and Pacifica Radio

Mephisto2 · 11-01-2004, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ARTelevision

Yeah. Not going to follow it too closely. I figure at some point it will shake out and some sort of consensus will be arrived at...

That's the funniest thing I've read on this board for some time. And rather pragmatic and refreshing too!

BTW, where's the BBC on that list?! I had to vote OTHER...

Mr Mephisto

Paq · 11-01-2004, 08:57 PM

i'm gonna go proudly vote, then go shopping, then hang out in the coffee shop at a group thing with a chica and i'll know by the end of the night...which lends the question that i'm thinking about posting to the forum...

Will we know the new president by Wednesday as we have known before the 2000 fiasco...I don't think so bc of all hte lawsuits already going on in florida....and i know ohio is gonna have a lot of problems

Go_AVS · 11-01-2004, 09:06 PM

I figure we will all find out by the end of the year so no reason to get too caught up following it all along the way.

All I know is my vote is in so I did my part, now it will probably be up to the lawyers ...

MuadDib · 11-01-2004, 09:22 PM

I'm getting anxious already, tomorrow is going to be crazily stressful! Though I have to admit that I can't wait to watch the politics board tomorrow as the results keep pouring in.

Ustwo · 11-01-2004, 10:11 PM

What I really think I need to do is go game shopping and leave the TV off. I have Rome Total war and its a good game, but its getting old. I haven't been following the industry lately, whats good thats come out in the last month?

aliali · 11-02-2004, 09:32 AM

http://www.tradesports.com/

Follow the money. Follow the money.

irateplatypus · 11-02-2004, 10:57 PM

i've been flipping around quite a bit. my favorite coverage has been consistently coming from CNN and Fox News. Their analysts and commentators just seem to be a cut above the rest. Dan Rather has provided a bit of comic relief.

for the internet side of things... CNN.com has been getting most of my traffic.

Ustwo · 11-02-2004, 11:35 PM

Ok I shouldn't have but I did watch.

CBS was awsome for comic relief. It was amazingly bad and biased.

I got most of my info when it mattered off the net though.

irateplatypus · 11-02-2004, 11:47 PM

i've decided that i actually feel sorry for dan rather. it really saddens me (strangely) to see someone i've watched ever since i can remember off his game so much.

brit hume is solidifying my endorsement for our finest newsman. there are some excellent anchors on the BBC... and there are some others domestically that stick out of the crowd. still, the man is rock solid. in some ways i wish he weren't on the fox news channel so that he'd get a fair shake from those who discount fox right away.

Ustwo · 11-03-2004, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irateplatypus

i've decided that i actually feel sorry for dan rather. it really saddens me (strangely) to see someone i've watched ever since i can remember off his game so much.

I'll be honnest by the end of the night when he was saying some really amazingly wacky things, I felt sorry for him. I'd have given him a beer and given him a one arm hug or something. He looked really bedraggeled.

MikeyChalupa · 11-03-2004, 04:27 AM

I'm out to sea right now, and the only channel that comes in crystal clear is FOX. Brit Hume did a good job, with the exception of the occasional funny slip up like "President Kerr... er, SENATOR Kerry..."

-Mikey

MSD · 11-03-2004, 05:12 AM

CNN.com has a bunch of nicely organized tables with numbers, and even a little check mark to tell you who won. Being undermotivted, I just went there because I figure that it doesn't matter where I get numbers from, it's kind of hard to bias them in any direction.

I was disappointed by everything I saw. All the states with ballot measures got everything ass-backwards with the exception of California and Colorado, and every candidate I voted for lost.

View Poll Results: Where will you get your election news from?
ABC	9	14.06%
NBC (or cable affiliates)	9	14.06%
CBS	4	6.25%
Fox	16	25.00%
CNN	14	21.88%
Comedy Central	16	25.00%
Internet	29	45.31%
Other	5	7.81%
Won't bother with it tomorrow.	8	12.50%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 64. You may not vote on this poll

11-01-2004, 01:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
irateplatypus can't help but laugh Location: dar al-harb	How will you get your elections news tomorrow? From what source do you expect to get your primary election coverage from? I have a wireless router hooked to the ol' cable modem... so i'll probably use the laptop to surf TFP and watch for headlines on Drudge while taking in the cable news. __________________ If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ Winston Churchill

11-01-2004, 01:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
Averett Is In Love Location: I'm workin' on it	I'll be tuned into one of the networks. Most likely either CSPAN, ABC or NBC. I'm sure I'll check out what TFP has to say during the results __________________ Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

11-01-2004, 02:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
irateplatypus can't help but laugh Location: dar al-harb	dang... 2 responses before i could generate the poll. you folks are on the ball. __________________ If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ Winston Churchill

11-01-2004, 03:42 PM	#6 (permalink)
inharmony Psycho Location: happy place	Most likely NBC or the internet. __________________ "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." Ghandi "Things do not change: We change" Henry David Thoreau

11-01-2004, 01:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Flyguy Banned Location: Swooping down on you from above....	Listining to AM news while flying the aircraft at work and CNN in the hotel when I get there at midnight.

11-01-2004, 02:01 PM	#5 (permalink)
daswig Banned Location: BFE	I plan on doing lots of legal drugs tomorrow. If I don't wake up, I'll know Kerry won and the world ended.

11-01-2004, 03:47 PM	#7 (permalink)
mattevil Addict Location: Virginia	probably fark.com

11-01-2004, 04:15 PM	#8 (permalink)
Averett Is In Love Location: I'm workin' on it	I voted for NBC in the poll... Anyone know if Comedy Central will have some sort of webcast? Damn, not having cable sucks __________________ Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

11-01-2004, 04:20 PM	#9 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	I have no intention of going out of my way to find out tomorrow. I figure I'll hear about it soon enough. __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!

11-01-2004, 04:39 PM	#11 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	Yeah. Not going to follow it too closely. I figure at some point it will shake out and some sort of consensus will be arrived at... __________________ create evolution

11-01-2004, 04:40 PM	#12 (permalink)
filtherton Junkie Location: In the land of ice and snow.	I'm going to read the paper the next day to see who is suing who.

11-01-2004, 04:58 PM	#14 (permalink)
radioguy Registered User Location: Texas	i'll check out cnn.com at work and then turn the news channel on once i get home.

11-01-2004, 06:47 PM	#15 (permalink)
hammer4all Insane	indymedia.us electoral-vote4.com democracynow.org dailykos.com and Pacifica Radio

11-01-2004, 08:57 PM	#17 (permalink)
Paq Junkie Location: South Carolina	i'm gonna go proudly vote, then go shopping, then hang out in the coffee shop at a group thing with a chica and i'll know by the end of the night...which lends the question that i'm thinking about posting to the forum... Will we know the new president by Wednesday as we have known before the 2000 fiasco...I don't think so bc of all hte lawsuits already going on in florida....and i know ohio is gonna have a lot of problems __________________ Live. Chris

11-01-2004, 09:06 PM	#18 (permalink)
Go_AVS CSU RAM fan Location: Hockey time....	I figure we will all find out by the end of the year so no reason to get too caught up following it all along the way. All I know is my vote is in so I did my part, now it will probably be up to the lawyers ... __________________ MIA...

11-01-2004, 09:22 PM	#19 (permalink)
MuadDib Psycho	I'm getting anxious already, tomorrow is going to be crazily stressful! Though I have to admit that I can't wait to watch the politics board tomorrow as the results keep pouring in. __________________ "The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751

11-01-2004, 10:11 PM	#20 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	What I really think I need to do is go game shopping and leave the TV off. I have Rome Total war and its a good game, but its getting old. I haven't been following the industry lately, whats good thats come out in the last month? __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.

11-02-2004, 09:32 AM	#21 (permalink)
aliali Insane Location: Missouri	http://www.tradesports.com/ Follow the money. Follow the money.

11-02-2004, 10:57 PM	#22 (permalink)
irateplatypus can't help but laugh Location: dar al-harb	i've been flipping around quite a bit. my favorite coverage has been consistently coming from CNN and Fox News. Their analysts and commentators just seem to be a cut above the rest. Dan Rather has provided a bit of comic relief. for the internet side of things... CNN.com has been getting most of my traffic. __________________ If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ Winston Churchill

11-02-2004, 11:35 PM	#23 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	Ok I shouldn't have but I did watch. CBS was awsome for comic relief. It was amazingly bad and biased. I got most of my info when it mattered off the net though. __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.

11-02-2004, 11:47 PM	#24 (permalink)
irateplatypus can't help but laugh Location: dar al-harb	i've decided that i actually feel sorry for dan rather. it really saddens me (strangely) to see someone i've watched ever since i can remember off his game so much. brit hume is solidifying my endorsement for our finest newsman. there are some excellent anchors on the BBC... and there are some others domestically that stick out of the crowd. still, the man is rock solid. in some ways i wish he weren't on the fox news channel so that he'd get a fair shake from those who discount fox right away. __________________ If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ Winston Churchill

11-03-2004, 04:27 AM	#26 (permalink)
MikeyChalupa Squid Location: USS George Washington	I'm out to sea right now, and the only channel that comes in crystal clear is FOX. Brit Hume did a good job, with the exception of the occasional funny slip up like "President Kerr... er, SENATOR Kerry..." -Mikey

11-03-2004, 05:12 AM	#27 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	CNN.com has a bunch of nicely organized tables with numbers, and even a little check mark to tell you who won. Being undermotivted, I just went there because I figure that it doesn't matter where I get numbers from, it's kind of hard to bias them in any direction. I was disappointed by everything I saw. All the states with ballot measures got everything ass-backwards with the exception of California and Colorado, and every candidate I voted for lost.