The Finish Line:
Liveblogging the Election
Politics — By Joe Carter on November 2, 2004 at 6:09 pm 1:30 — This Just In
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The Finish Line:
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Open Thread: Election Blogging And Commenting
2:43 p.m. — I’m on my way to the polls. I will try to update this post as often as I can. In the meantime, keep everyone up to date with the latest information on the returns.
May they be happy returns! :)
3:32 p.m. — Well, that was spectacu…
I’d guess Bush has a real shot in Ohio though.
Nerds
Ambra,
Nerds
Yep, that’s me. And to think that I used to make fun of people for liveblogging…
You are probably right about NC, but it’s a little early for your sigh of relief. The local news here reports Bush 51, Kerry 49 with 6% of precincts reporting.
Ambra! Come join my live-blogging!
TEXAS TO BUSH?!???!?!?!?!?
Yawn.
Election Night Liveblogging
Scroll down for the latest updates ~7:15 EDT: According to Fox News, with 1% reporting, Jim Demint 62% Inez Tenenbaum 35% I will update this post shortly and make it my only post for liveblogging of results tonight, primarily centered…
Hey Joe,
No worries. I’m a nerd in my own right. And chances are, Id be liveblogging too if I wasn’t on the West Coast and three hours behind EVERYTHING.
After Kerry wins Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, then we need only concern ourselves with Ohio and Florida. And unless the data starts to break soon, I doubt we will know before tomorrow at the earliest the results from those states.
So pour another glass of chocolate milk and let it rip. The odds are 50/50 that Bush can pretend to be President-elect for another day (Joe’s electoral college lesson notwithstanding).
Hey y’all. Why isn’t there some live ticker/raw election results numbers feed available to us nerds hanging out in the net. Or is there, but I don’t know about it? Does any know of any such thing?
Or is would that be just too small “d” democratic? You’d think some ad streamer would pay big time for that.
Or is that the killer app for 4 years from now?
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Mark,
Wizbang has one.
Thanks
Actually, those look like polls not election count returns.
What is up with Florida? 15% left, and a 5% split. I would think the panhandle is still left and it has gone GOP in the past. Why don’t they call it yet?
Mark,
Why don’t they call it yet?
They’re being way to cautious. Bush can put FL in the win column.
Oops. Oh well, I wasn’t even paying attention.o
Compare
“What students did the exit-polling here? The Social-Work students. Seriously, not only are they freaking retarded …”
versus
“Bribing [the mentally handicapped] with ice cream is an affront to their dignity and shows a lack of concern for their … well-being.”
“They’re being way to cautious. Bush can put FL in the win column.”
Early voters ballots won’t be counted until tomorrow. There were a lot of them.
KJL at The Corner wrote, “Hearing it’s possible that NJ will go back into play.” Highly, highly unlikely, I guess, but I can dream…
Daschle v Thune reports…
Daschle v Thune:
Our local ABC station just said ABC has called Florida for Bush.
Fox calls Ohio for Bush. NBC has not.
Drudge has called the election for Bush.
Wolf Blitzer won’t give up on Kerry’s chances. Larry King wants to, but Wolf won’t let him.
Folks, Ohio and Florida won’t be finished counting until tomorrow.
It’s interesting that FoxNews is playing the same game they played in 2000.
I wonder if it will work again in Bush’s favor?
I doubt it.
Larry,
It’s interesting that FoxNews is playing the same game they played in 2000.
Change the channel to MSNBC and you’ll find the same thing.
I would say it’s pretty much over for Kerry.
Joe, never imagined you’d be slumming it with the live-bloggers like us at Infinite Monkeys.
I’d have to think Bush will prevail. I don’t see how Kerry can make up 150,000 votes plus in Ohio. Congratulations my friends, twas a long grueling campaign season, and hopefully we can all work together this next four years.
Good work, Joe. Being in Japan, I got to follow the endgame after y’all went to sleep, and miss the tedious middle part of the game (I stayed up late last night to watch the opening saga, then slept in–was so fortunate as to have Japan’s “Culture Day” today).
Looks like it’s a lock for Bush, with Daschle getting beaten, to boot–and lots of other good news. Check out the numbers on the gay-marriage proposals (they *all* won) and the House / Senate / governor counts (all moved in a conservative-friendly direction).
I finished with a few comments about a Michael Novak column that ran on National Review Online. Would love to hear your thoughts.
hopefully we can all work together this next four years.
unfortunately four years of the GOP saying F-U to anyone, including those in the part that don’t toe the part line, leads me to believe that isn’t the case. If they read a mandate into losing the popular vote in 2000, imagine what they plan to do with 51% popular vote? They have working for them now an even further majority in the congress and more importantly the new congressmen are of the far right not moderate blend. That portends to more extemism and unilateralism in American politics, not less.
I think Bush will prevail. I don’t see how Kerry can recoup 150,000 votes plus in Ohio. Congratulations my friends, twas a grueling campaign and hopefully we can work together the next four years.
opps sorry for the dub, my PC is glitching. Mod relax, Bush is a decent guy. He isn’t going to start a new Reich or anything.
“If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.”
It’s not close.
Karl Rove is a genius.
Right on the mark, Mr.Moderate:
unfortunately four years of the GOP saying F-U to anyone, including those in the part that don’t toe the part line, leads me to believe that isn’t the case…. That portends to more extemism and unilateralism in American politics, not less.
Between a brewing GOP moderate in-fight and even more partisan ugliness (see eg: the GOP House tactics of bending rules), it’ll be an interesting 4 years of interparty and intraparty feuding.
After this day, I’ve been washing my brain cells out with this…
http://lastdays.org/miv1mlt.htm
Plug in the ‘phones, crank it up, kick back and enjoy…
They say Ohio is too close to count. But with close to, if not actually, 100% precincts reporting, Bush leads Kerry by some 140k votes. They say too close because there are upwards of 250k provisional, absentee, or whatever votes yet to be counted. Do the math, it is a 9th grade math problem (and watch me get it wrong!).
For Kerry to beat Bush in OH, he needs 140k more votes than Bush.
250k remaining votes
140k more to Kerry than to Bush (let’s imagine)
110k left to be divided equally between B and K (55k each)
I what fantasy world would Kerry in any state get 195k and Bush only 55k votes?
Second point, unrelated (almost) to the first. In the front page this morning of The Toledo Blade (subtitled: One of America’s Great Newspapers) is the headline that Ohio and Michigan voted to ban gay marriage. I do not recall reading in the proposed amendment language of “banning gay marriage.” There were other county issues that involved tax levies (or continuation of levies) to support schools, mental health, senior centers. All those passed. Did the newspaper call those “votes to reject decrease in taxes?” Why does the marriage definition amendment get a negative spin (“ban gay marriages”) rather than the affirmative (“define marriage for legal purposes”)? Of course, that is a rhetorical question. Finally on this issue, you must know that as an academic, especially in a humanities department, I am a political rare bird. Most humanities faculty are left of Kerry. So one of my colleagues in the History department has a letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Blade claiming that the marriage definition issue is one put forth by a few far right religious conservatives. And the marriage definition amendment passes 62% to 38% in OH. Now who is out of touch with reality? Go ahead and claim that we Ph.D.s know better, that it must be the ignorant populace. And they wonder why citizens are not happy about the amount of tax monies that go to support higher education? Hello! This is not a 9th grade math problem–it is even easier than that!
Cheers,
Eric
As it stands now
Blogroll Highlights Vanderleun: Kerry, lacking manliness in defeat, sends his boy out to say that while “Hope” is no longer on the way, lawyers are. Sigh. The Democratic Race ends as it began, classless and leaderless. Juliette: Ohio: Bush.
Eric:
I what fantasy world would Kerry in any state get 195k and Bush only 55k votes?
Washington DC. Kerry won 9 out of 10 votes cast.
The Bronx, NY is about the same.
RJD:
My point precisely. Those two are more fantasia (and who starred in the Disney movie? None other than Mickey Mouse?) than not.
Tongue in cheek,
Eric
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