Second Victory Thread

by: Chris Bowers

Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 22:49


The networks will all officially call the election at 11 p.m. So, consider this an media official victory thread.

Also, I am going to bump the House Forecast above all others. So, consider this an open thread for the Georgia and Minnesota Senate race as well.

Update: With 40% reporting, Franken and Coleman are tied at 40%.

Also, its bedlam in West Philly. Horns honking everywhere. People on the street hugging each other. It feels sublime, and I don't use that word lightly.

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Phila turnout? (0.00 / 0)
What's the Phila turnout as a percent of eligible voters?  I'm guess something like 80-85%.  It's about 700,000 voters counted!
80% here (4.00 / 1)
The poll I worked in Upper Darby (just outside West Philly in Delaware County) hit 80% turnout.

The other precincts in the area were similar. VERY heavy turnout.


Karl in Drexel Hill, PA

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Less than 90 seconds... (0.00 / 0)
To official victory
and there is VA on CNN
javascript:void(0)
Yes! We got a Southern State! (4.00 / 2)
Obama is behind by about 13,000 votes here in NC but Buncombe, Warren and a couple of other counties that went to Kerry have not reported yet.

But, Obama has OFFICIALLY WON. He IS our President Elect!

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Obama now ahead in Indiana! (0.00 / 0)
Deeg posted it in Quick Hits, with over 90% of precincts in:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20...

Indiana! (4.00 / 2)
This is the one I want...well Montana would be cool too.
OOOOHHHH (4.00 / 1)
Up 8K in Indiana and down 700 in NC
Losing NC would be a bummer (4.00 / 1)
I'm being all kinds of greedy tonight!
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Although... (4.00 / 1)
...I must say, it's really starting to sink in now that Obama will be the next president.  And that sure feels good!
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Crowd going wild in Grant Park (0.00 / 0)
Good stuff.
wow (4.00 / 1)
the clock hit eleven and everybody in my neighborhood started screaming and laughing and chanting. I can still hear people blocks away, yelling.  
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okay (4.00 / 1)
now they're setting off fireworks. Somebody was prepared!
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Hennepin (0.00 / 0)
Minneapolis and inner burbs is barely reporting yet, So the senate and CD3 are looking fine right now.
MSNBC called (0.00 / 0)
WOOOOOOOOOOO
This is absolutely freaking awesome. (0.00 / 0)
Indiana might just make it.  Wayne county may decide it, no reporting there yet.
Richmond in Wayne Cty does have an AA population there. (0.00 / 0)
not sure how big though.
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Florida sailing to the finish (0.00 / 0)
Obama keeping a 51%-48% lead with 83% of precincts reporting.
This so totally rocks (4.00 / 1)

  Obama RULES!

  America is BACK!!!  

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn

Is it just me (4.00 / 1)
or do all the pundits seem really depressed? On CNN it's quite striking.

Montani semper liberi
Gene Robinson is getting verklempt on MSNBC (4.00 / 3)
Sure sounds like the emotion is getting to him.
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and John Lewis (0.00 / 0)
Jesse Jackson is crying.


New Jersey politics at Blue Jersey.
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Ha (4.00 / 1)
no-drama Obama strikes again. Maybe they were hoping for last minute upsets.
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Not on MSNBC. (4.00 / 2)
All the reporters have been glowingly speaking about what a momentous occasion this is.  Even Gregory is beaming.  
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Damn my cheap cable. (0.00 / 0)
I don't get MSNBC.

Montani semper liberi
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Can't wait to see Barack speak to the crowd (4.00 / 1)
That's gonna be AWESOME!
wow... (0.00 / 0)
Still tearing up.  Amazing!  Even Bill Bennett wasn't an asshole.
We Did It (4.00 / 1)
I have nothing more to say, except that this day is one many of us in the Obama movement knew would come.

We did it. Again, WE DID IT! I cannot hold back my emotions any longer. God Bless America!

Damn! (0.00 / 0)
Even Brit Hume is gushing over Obama!

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!
Of course that Uncle Tom on Fox... (0.00 / 0)
...is dis'ing him!

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!
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Damn! (0.00 / 0)
Even Karl Rove is gushing over Obama...

I guess he's trying to stay out of jail!

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

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We have an African-American President! (4.00 / 3)

  I'm a white guy. And I think this is just so indescribably AWESOME.  

  I am just overwhelmed. I can only imagine how the African-American community must feel.

  What a fantastic moment for America. For what we represent to the world.

  Wow. A good friend of mine just called me. He was in TEARS. And he's also white.

  The United States of America.

  Hope defeats fear.

 

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn

Florida just called for Obama! (4.00 / 2)
Landslide here we come!
McCain conceding now (4.00 / 1)
His peeps are booing Obama.
McCain is being classy. (4.00 / 4)

 His supporters...not so much.

 They're embarrassing.  

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn

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I was impressed, too. (4.00 / 1)
Especially by the line, "he will be my president." He showed more dignity than I expected.

Montani semper liberi
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Very impressed (4.00 / 1)
Ultimately McCain let his advisers lead him into the mud.  I'm glad in the end he decided to try undoing at least a little of the damage.  We need to be one America - one liberal America.  :-)
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And McCain is now conceding! (0.00 / 0)
"The next President of the country we both love"
"America is now a world away" (4.00 / 2)
"from the cruel bigotry of the" past

Senator McCain is being gracious, and I salute him for it.

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Very great speech of McCain. (4.00 / 2)
Sincere, true, patriotic.

It's because of such a veteran gentleman like him that makes USA a great nation. He reminds me of what American true statesman used to with somebody you can argue and fight with  no hard feeling but trust and understanding.

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Agreed (0.00 / 0)
He gave a nice speech... His supporters are DICKS.  Fuck them.
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uh .. sure (4.00 / 1)
no hard feelings with trust and understanding .. understand McCain is like a rattlesnake in the weeds. Trust that.
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snake may be (0.00 / 0)
a politician for his years of service can't be a little Sarah Palin, right?

And furthermore, at least he rattles to give a signal, right? For nowadays politics, that's something comparable to John Wayne's being the Duke.

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Freerepublic is down... n/t (4.00 / 1)


REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!
Bye-bye Sarah, bye-bye Joe (4.00 / 4)

 Two figures I hope to never hear about again.  

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn
Are you kidding? (4.00 / 1)
I'm praying for Palin/Wurzelbacher 2012.

Montani semper liberi
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OR-Sen (0.00 / 0)
Polls tightening

28% reporting

Merkley 52
Smith 44

Netroots Director for Oregon Senate Candidate Jeff Merkley

tighting even more (0.00 / 0)
Merkley 50
Smith 45

Netroots Director for Oregon Senate Candidate Jeff Merkley
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Burn in hell motherfuckers! (4.00 / 2)
I am indescribably happy (and possibly a bit intoxicated) to learn that Barack Obama has won.

Now I lack the excuse of racism when my father argues that the U.S. is a third world country because it lacks a national health system and a ban on capital punishment.

Now I expect a program of systematic reform of the U.S. economy away from gas and defence towards renewable spending.

Yes, I know I'll be disappinted. But I'm readying for those battles. Hell, when those battles are won, I'm on the first flight in there.

Because goddamnit, nobody else is going to want an expert on sagas and my type 1 diabetes isn't going away on its own.

Americans, thankyou for voting Obama. Please keep that kind of thing up. One more parasite would like to enter.

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We would be glad (0.00 / 0)
to have you.

Montani semper liberi
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There are people gathering outside the White House (0.00 / 0)
Hope that won't be any violent development. Otherwise, it's a real pity of this great election
The DSCC now has Franken leading by 10,000 with 42% reporting (4.00 / 1)
Does anyone have any more news on this race?
CBS has Franken winning by 6,000 tied at 42 percent. n/t (4.00 / 1)

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God that would be sweet. (0.00 / 0)
The author of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" in the Senate would just be ... perfect.

Montani semper liberi
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Obama back up in NC (0.00 / 0)
By about 30,000 votes with 95% precincts in.
NC has flipped (4.00 / 2)
And NV has been called.  We're up in MT, too.

Seeing John Lewis and Gene Robinson tear up is moving beyond words.  I'm so very proud to be an American.  As a Chicagoan I'm even prouder.  I'm saddened Studs and Toots didn't make it, but this is my Dad's birthday and he helped instill progressive values in me.  I'm moved, thrilled, proud.  Wow.

Perriello might win VA-05 (0.00 / 0)
CNN shows him up by about 2000 votes with 99% precincts in!
goddammit I wish I was back in West Philly right now... (4.00 / 1)

feeling a little down (4.00 / 1)
because the down-ticket races in Iowa are not going well at all. Greenwald is losing in IA-04 and Hubler is losing in IA-05.

In my statehouse district, where both Democrats and Republicans expected a Democratic pickup, the Democrat lost by 141 votes out of more than 16,000 cast.

Join the Iowa progressive community at Bleeding Heartland.

Recount? (0.00 / 0)

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Wow... (4.00 / 1)
I think my EV prediction will be 3 off... and that's a positive three as I think we are going to take Montana.

NC is looking Obama... Indiana is looking Obama but with a Recount in the wings it could change

MO I think will be close but no cigar.

Still 367 votes, possibly 378...

I guessed 364 too - but would love to see 378 (0.00 / 0)
Coleman (MN) and Merkely (OR) currently look like nailbiters - but as others have noted, Hennepin (Minneapolis) and Multnomah (Portland) have barely reported.
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Sasha and Malia get a new puppy (4.00 / 2)
LOL.
Hugs all around (4.00 / 2)
But wait, no terrorist fist jab between Barack and Michelle?
I haven't cried since my wedding day (4.00 / 1)
six and one half years ago.  I haven't stopped for the past 20 minutes.
The Fascists are reeling (0.00 / 0)
I am glad.
goddamnit (0.00 / 0)
tears won't stop
People Are Still Screaming In the Streets (0.00 / 0)
in NYC.  We had our window open and were joining them.  I have been of voting age for every Pres election since 1984 and I never remember people getting this excited over an election.  It is an unreal and truly wonderful moment for our country.
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