How far are you from the nearest polling station, as the crow flies?
Not too far, maybe 3 or 4 blocks by caw.
No, it’s not a crow joke. I’m in New Jersey. That’s how they tawk around heah.
Well yes, people do that regularly. BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE HERE. You are imagining that is is the case, BUT IT IS NOT.
CNN has all but called Florida for Obama. Their finger-pointing guy says he can’t find a way for Romney to make up the difference, with all of the uncounted counties in D territory. So, I’m crowing 10 minutes early.
If things change, I promise I’ll come back in the AM and apologize for my early crowing and eat some black feathers instead. I’m getting too tired to keep up – I’m signing off here and turning off the TV shortly after 11.
On the plus side, I have power back. Yay!
With Angus dusting off his ol’ soft shoe, Maine Ballot Issue #1 - Gay Marriage - at 53% Yes, and Obama looking like he’s in, I may be on the right side of my whole slate for a change. Of course, Romney could still pull something out of his ass - but I don’t see how - and The County could single-handedly overturn the 53% majority on #1, so you never know.
Is it just me or are the Republicans taking it on the chin in more than just the presidential elections? Lots of happy Democrats at least here at the voting center.
In April, I wrote on my blog: “I might as well give my prediction. Obama wins by between one and two percent.” It looks as if the popular vote may be heading to exactly that range.
Not like it’s any better than “40 more years”.
I knew something was off in that the mainstream media would never mention Bush, America’s best president since Reagan.
James Carville’s premise in that book is actually turning out correct though.
A great many people have deemed this past election as the last gasp of the white male voter and the demographics that came from this election show that they were all right except the last gasp didn’t come about as they hoped.
That book talks about the youth vote. Despite those who spoke of an “enthusiasm gap,” young voters did come out this year. Maybe not in droves compared to 2008 but more than enough.
Couple that with other demographic changes which favor Democrats - the Latino vote, the minority vote as a whole and single women (raising kids who will go onto vote) are getting bigger every year whereas the Evangelical vote seems to have gone down this election (you can attribute some of that to Romney being a Mormon but how does it explain how suddenly same sex marriage initiatives and marijuana legalization votes all failed so dismally in years past but performed quite well yesterday).
Then factor in that every year an old white guy is dying while 1.x minorities are being born.
The only thing about that book that is wrong is that it didn’t account the 2010 midterm into account (probably - I cannot tell by the synopsis and I didn’t read the book). History could very well see that election as the last gasp of the angry white male voter.
Or 2012 can be the start of a major shift in Republicans. We will see. But they have to do something. Trying to out-spend and making it difficult for large portions of the electorate to vote didn’t do the trick as we can all see.
I didn’t make a prediction that I can crow about, but I will crow about an election first for me.
I cast my vote for every candidate, measure, and initiative on the ballot–Federal, State, County, and City–and every single choice won!
I am the voice of the people for the first, and probably the last, time in my life! Yay me!
(I’ve been voting since 1980, by the way)
I can’t believe no one has jumped up to say “I see what you did there.”
That just encourages him.