THIS IS THE ELECTION NIGHT THREAD

Posted on | by Ed

Obscure race to watch: if Christopher Shays loses his House seat in Connecticut, there will not be a single Republican in the House from any of the six states in New England (VT, NH, ME, CT, RI, MA) barring a huge upset in another race.

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We may not be in for as long of a night as you think. Indiana and Virginia have the first poll-close time and the results should be fully reported by 10 (barring an unforseen delay) with no paper ballots involved.

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Sure, it's only two states. But trust me – if McCain loses Indiana and/or Virginia, he's fucked.

76 thoughts on “THIS IS THE ELECTION NIGHT THREAD”

  • Ed says:

    With only 2% reported, Indiana is 50/50. But they are counting deep rural counties like Knox first according to the CNN breakdown. If the best McCain can do is split rural Indiana (even 60/40) he's going to get cornholed when Indy, Bloomington, Gary, and Fort Wayne come through.

  • J. Dryden says:

    I think we can all agree that we'd pay big money to see Ed giving the live election night coverage, if only for Wolf Blitzer's expression when Ed explains how "low rural turn-out in Virginia will turn this election into a prison-rape–McCain will be choking on Obama's cock while Biden takes the back-door duties." Priceless; you'd never get that kind of direct honesty from George Stephanopoulos.

  • Mike says:

    What are people watching in real-time? I'm at work for another hour and a half, sadly.

    nytimes has county-by-county. Check out Indiana Ed – McCain's at like 52% in the counties that border both Ohio and Michigan. I assume that's about as red as Indiana gets, no?

  • Mike says:

    Wells County, IN:

    2004
    Bush 9,168
    Kerry 3,112

    2008 (96% Reporting)
    McCain 7,951
    Obama 4,119

    No jinx – but still a good sign, no?

  • Ed says:

    Indiana does not look good for McCain thus far. If he isn't absolutely blowing Obama away in the rural parts, he's going to have problems.

    I am providing live commentary at this party.

  • J. Dryden says:

    Looks like Wells broke apart a bit: McCain 65% at 8500, Obama 34% at 4400. A move in Obama's favor, but is it a significant one? (No, I'm not being a 'rhetorical-question-asking-dick'–I honestly don't know.)

  • Misterben says:

    Interesting to see that a lot of VA rural counties have reported in, but the populous northern counties (Arlington, Fairfax, etc) have not reported yet. I voted in Arlington this morning, and there wasn't a single admitted McCain supporter in line. Google says the current VA breakdown is 56% McCain, 43% Obama; it will be very interesting to see the results from the northern counties.

  • Ed says:

    McCain is about to get raped. He's already lost, but now he's going to get spanked. His anus will look like a pound of hamburger by the end of this evening.

  • pmayo says:

    John Lewis is out of his mind. His interview with Stephanopolous right now is just pure unintentional comedy gold.

  • pmayo says:

    Steph has John Lewis on. Lewis beings rambling immediately, trampling all over his intro. He launches into some stories about his time with MLK, then meanders into a story about he and some others crying, then into saying how tonight is all possible because of LBJ, then onto a story about Obama. Steph finally gets a word in, and asks Lewis how he feels about tonight. Lewis says he's been crying for two days, and doesn't have any tears left, but that when Ohio reported tonight, he jumped for joy, then cried. Then he says he expects to do more jumping tonight. It was a complete trainwreck of an interview and it was glorious.

  • pmayo says:

    Oprah is now being interviewed on ABC. She seems to have had a few champagne spritzers. Now she's comparing Obama's election to 9/11, saying 9/11 was the last time she experienced something this life-altering.

  • pmayo says:

    That's okay, Ed. I had to endure Charlie Gibson's surprise at learning the Kenyans have televisions and are able to get real-time election results.

  • Misterben says:

    Well done, Peggy!

    OK, I'm trying my best to tolerate John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but they are really REACHING right now. Come on, guys. "Funny". You remember "funny". Try for funny.

  • Misterben says:

    Peggy, I've been on champagne since 8PM. Which is a typical night for me anyway. But hey.

    MSNBC and the AP wire are also calling it for Obama. By a lot. Including Virginia, ha ha ha!

  • Evan S. says:

    “Obama was elected tonight because so many Americans do not remember the civil rights movement.”

    —Karl Christian Rove, just now on Fox News

  • Ed says:

    Karl Rove is on Fox News talking about how great it is that Americans look past race.

    The man who spent 8 years appealing to the vilest, most knuckle-dragging racists in the nation spins this by hand-jobbing Americans on their racially-neutral virtue.

  • Chris says:

    Obama pulls it off! As the philosopher Duffman once said, OH YEAH! It is great to see the Democrats just kick ass and take names.

  • Heqit says:

    YES!!!!!

    (this is worth five exclamation marks)

    I'm so damn proud to be a Virginian right now, I'm all choked up.

    And McCain has called Obama to concede, according to the NY Times.

  • peggy says:

    Amy here is convinced the heckler is yelling "Obama Sucks Balls," can anyone tell what it is? TiVo avails us naught.

  • Misterben says:

    I love watching the electoral maps updating… the AP is up to like 879 electoral votes for Obama. There aren't even that many, but that's how well Obama is doing. YES. Surreal levels of success for the Democratic Party? Sweet.

  • Ed says:

    As usual, if McCain had actually behaved like this during the election he might actually have had much better success.

    Dole did this too. I don't get it.

    Don't wait until you lose to start acting like a human being with personal appeal.

  • john says:

    CNN shows 4 undecided senate races, with the Ds holding 56 and the Rs 40. Who are the last 4, what can we expect?

  • Misterben says:

    This kind of victory is exactly what we needed. Obama didn't just win; he kicked McCain's ass. Obama has a clear mandate in a way that Bush never had. Bear that in mind as you get into political arguments in the next few years.

  • Ike says:

    I'm dreading going in to work tomorrow. Today I had to endure Obama-bashing and discussions about socialism and state-mandated health care and how somebody's dad's business is going to go into the shitter and they are going to take away all our guns and we might as well move to Canada.
    Every few minutes someone would stand up from a cubicle to exhort us to "Go Vote! …for McCain!"
    Argh.

  • Ed says:

    Chambliss wins – Martin couldn't close the gap.

    Franken/Coleman will go to the wire.

    Oregon just closed (Merkeley/Smith).

    Alaska isn't closed yet. But trust me, Stevens is fucked.

  • Ed says:

    Ike, just ignore them. Say "OK" and walk away.

    They sound retarded. There's no point in engaging them and their paranoid delusions.

  • john says:

    I wonder where the first "he's not a natural born American citizen thus the election results are invalid" lawsuit will be filed…

  • Misterben says:

    I walked away from a fight earlier this evening with a drunk, surly, angry McCain supporter stumbling home from the bar. I felt all Zen. And now, I wanna go find him and taunt him. Of course, that's the champagne and Madeira talking. Also, the confidence of the enormous Obama mandate.

  • john says:

    I'm mainly glad we're not faced with months of litigation again…that was torturous and would be worse a second time around…

  • Misterben says:

    My God. We're living in one of those moments in history that really matters. This is amazing. Can you imagine being a former Bush voter right now? How stupid must those people feel? THIS is what a president sounds like. THIS is what HOPE sounds like.

    Here is one cynic turned optimist, on the strength of one election.

  • Nate says:

    What the fuck is up with Wayne county, IN? 0% Reporting? Do they only have sticks and dirt as ballots in the eastern part of the state?

  • Ed says:

    I'm guessing there was an electronic voting fiasco in Wayne Co. Nothing else could account for the delay.

    Or it could be simple incompetence, like Lake Co. in the primary.

  • cerb says:

    Obama will win Indiana. Only counties not reporting are Lake and Jasper. Lake will break more for Obama and Jasper is too small. It's over.

  • Ed says:

    Indiana and NC are so close that I don't think we will really know who won for a while – mandatory recounts (which are pointless with electronic voting) followed by the wait for absentee, military, provisional, and miscellaneous non-traditional votes.

    As we wrap up tonight we will say Obama won Indiana and NC, but that may change. This is reminiscent of 2004, where we weren't entirely sure who won Iowa but at the end of the evening we knew it didn't matter.

  • Ed says:

    And that was not to suggest that I'm wrapping anything up. My ass will be waiting to taste the sweet tears of Ted Stevens' defeat.

    More importantly, to see if Merkley holds on. Multnomah County is going to be the key, and he's killing Smith there so far.

  • Warmbowski says:

    Man, what a night! I'm so glad that enough people said to themselves, "what the fuck was I thinking 4 and 8 years ago!" to make this not just a win, but a blowout that dragged the senate with it. It's not just a presidential mandate, but a legislative one too to try to fix this mess.

    I also think that McCain would have fared MUCH better had he acted more like pre-2004 McCain (the one we heard in his concession) and less like the suck up candidate to the right wing. How can you be a Maverick and a Suck up at the same time?

  • j says:

    A little late, but boy I gotta say that today I am proud to be an American! I wept tears tonight because of my pride in this country. I never thought I would say that. USA USA USA!

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