Did you see this??? Florida vote official confirms 1,210 vote lead for Bush??? This is the strangest thing I have ever seen.
… and some absentee and overseas votes are yet to be counted, more than 5000 in fact. Everyone is saying Republicans have the advantage here, but boy is this a close one. If there were any errors in the first counting, we may still have some fun time ahead of us…
It appears to me that Gore will win the popular vote, but barring some miracle during the recount of Florida, he will lose the Electoral College vote. All in all, a supremely fascinating evening.
…Which is just the opposite of what I thought was the more likely possibility (if there were to be a discrepancy between the two votes). But, boy, who in their wildest dreams could predict this. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
As of 5:22 am EST, Bush is ahead 987 votes in Florida.
NINE HUNDRED FRICKIN’ EIGHTY SEVEN.
And there will be a recount, of course. And the military absentee vote still trickling in for the next few days (it is expected to lean towards Bush…)
THIS IS TORTURE!!! PURE TORTURE!!! I just want to go to sleep, but NOOOOOOO! I am sitting here in front of my computer and my TV, refreshing CNN’s site, checking the vote count in Florida, and listening to talking heads on TV.
THIS IS TORTURE!!!
I’m going to bed. Someone wake me up in four years.
As of 6:18 am, Bush is up (according to C-Span’s site) 1,655 in Florida.
This is so bizarre.
Gore is now up in the national polls by over 200,000.
In an impromptu interview with CNN, Rob Reiner (a Gore supporter) said that this election night was too bizarre to even be in a movie. “This wouldn’t even make a credible screenplay,” he said. “They’d kick you out of the pitch office.”
Wish someone had told him that about “North.”
Anyway, the more I think about this the more it seems whoever wins this thing is gonna have a hell of a time leading such a divided nation.
Congratulations everyone, welcome to Hell!
While you did not notice, the Rapture occured. Why no one notice? The only person accepted into Heaven was a sweet elderly old lady in Yorba Linda, California. Everyone else, I’m sorry.
Do you think this election will end?
NO!!!
This is your future.
After the recount in Flordia, there will be a court proceeding about the Gore/Buchanan thing in Florida. Then there will be an investigation into irregularities in Missouri with the judge holding the polls open. After which each side will take alternating turns protesting each others moves in court. Things will get so out of hand, there would be five re-elections. All will be contested.
Television will turn over the airwaves to pundits, ponfonticators, bloviators, analysis experts, historians twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Seven years from now, President Clinton (he’d still be in office) would be found dead in bed with a sixteen year old girl. Nobody would even notice or care. This is your punishment for abandoning the way of G-d.