# Nov '04 Election Comments Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 2, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563 "2004-11-02T16:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/321 "2004-11-03T03:53:12Z")
Whatever made anyone think that a kid who can afford a cell phone (or their parents) would ever vote for Kerry? ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/322 "2004-11-03T03:53:42Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Apparently the youth vote failed to show up. Way to go, kids. :mad: I just saw a stat on tv that the youth vote was up by 50% (from 14% to 21% of something) ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/323 "2004-11-03T03:54:30Z")
Ohio remains interesting. Bush is up by 140,000 votes, but most of his big counties are in. Cuyahoga and (to a lesser degree) other big Kerry counties are lagging. My math shows that Kerry will probably make this gap up. It’ll be very close. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/324 "2004-11-03T03:55:30Z")
My ancestors are Scots/Irish…they like to drink don’t they? Ya reckon I could move there w/out gettin in too much shit. I can fake an accent if I have to. 😃 hey I just remembered a bottle of Cuervo I’ve got stashed in the freezer…welp I guess it’s gettin about that time. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/325 "2004-11-03T03:55:38Z")
All indications I’ve seen is that the vote IS out…and the youth vote is up from any other election. -XT ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/326 "2004-11-03T03:56:35Z")
Looks like California just went blue on CNN’s website, still, it’ll be a close one 197 bush 188 kerry just got off the phone with my college freind who’s originally from England, and he is really concerned about the perception of the American public overseas if bush gets re-elected, it’d send a \“screw you guys, i’m going home”\ type of message to the world… ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/327 "2004-11-03T03:57:13Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > Whatever made anyone think that a kid who can afford a cell phone (or their parents) would ever vote for Kerry? I can’t swing a dead cat around the poorest black neighborhood here without hitting someone with a cell phone. The folks there would just wonder why a crazy white dude was swinging a dead cat in the hood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/328 "2004-11-03T03:57:17Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > My ancestors are Scots/Irish…they like to drink don’t they? > Ya reckon I could move there w/out gettin in too much shit. I can fake an accent if I have to. 😃 > > hey I just remembered a bottle of Cuervo I’ve got stashed in the freezer…welp I guess it’s gettin about that time. Hmmm, go figure, Tequila… ---
**Author:** ![bashere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bashere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bashere)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/329 "2004-11-03T03:57:42Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I think the exit polls being used in some places have all the accuracy of goat entrails this election…least thats my take on it so far. -XT I’m posting because I want to warn you that the Haruspex Antidefemation League is going to have a few words with you for putting them in the same class as exit polls. Also, I’m chewing my nails and drinking '78 Duckhorn, carefully smuggled into Canada\*. somehow this seemed relevant enough to post, implying that I am actually rather concerned about this election. - by “smuggled” I mean legally imported under the two-bottles-of-wine exemption. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/330 "2004-11-03T03:57:57Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > We have lots of voting problems and long waits in Milwaukee too, but the whole state and the city itself is run by the Dems. So it seems that election officials from both parties are a bunch of incompetent morons. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/331 "2004-11-03T03:58:28Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > My ancestors are Scots/Irish…they like to drink don’t they? > > Ya reckon I could move there w/out gettin in too much shit. I can fake an accent if I have to. > > hey I just remembered a bottle of Cuervo I’ve got stashed in the freezer…welp I guess it’s gettin about that time. Ironic. My ancestors are mostly all hispanic and I’m on my second bottle of fine single malt scotch (15 years old :))…and yours are Scots/Irish and you have a bottle of Cuervo. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/332 "2004-11-03T03:58:52Z")
(On the Daily Show, they had clips from 2000-damn, Bush has aged a lot in four years.) I’m surprised though that Specter’s behind. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/333 "2004-11-03T03:59:05Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Looks like California just went blue on CNN’s website, still, it’ll be a close one Based on the Exits only. ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/334 "2004-11-03T03:59:41Z")
> [@Random](#): > > Ohio remains interesting. Bush is up by 140,000 votes, but most of his big counties are in. Cuyahoga and (to a lesser degree) other big Kerry counties are lagging. My math shows that Kerry will probably make this gap up. It’ll be very close. Much of Hamilton County is not in yet… that should go to Bush, but interestingly at the moment Kerry is holding even with Bush. ---
**Author:** ![pervert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@pervert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervert)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/335 "2004-11-03T04:00:15Z")
CNN just called Pennsilvania and California for Kerry. That makes it Bush 197 Kerry 188. This is still going to be close. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/336 "2004-11-03T04:00:19Z")
I guess poor is a relative term…at least my relatives anyway. Guess I’m outta touch. tequila=t-keela go figure…didn’t take much common sense to figure that one out did it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/337 "2004-11-03T04:01:24Z")
good evening friends i worked the poll for my precinct in nebraska. we had a huge turnout, almost 74% we had quite a few young voters casting their first ballot. the initiatives to legalize gambling are losing, the state has been called for mr. bush to no one’s surprise. it looks like our house seats are all going to the gop. the district 3 house seat is held by tom osborne who is winning with 85% of the vote mainly based on the three national championships the cornhuskers won while he was head coach ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/338 "2004-11-03T04:01:31Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Ironic. My ancestors are mostly all hispanic and I’m on my second bottle of fine single malt scotch (15 years old :))…and yours are Scots/Irish and you have a bottle of Cuervo. > > -XT I’ve decided that I’m ethnically American; but, I’m not going to drink a spill mat special. Texas tea for me. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/339 "2004-11-03T04:02:09Z")
FL, OH, NM From what I understood, all three of the above states were “battleground” states, yet, from CNN we see that Bush is currently leading by about the same margin FL 52% to 47% OH 52% to 48% NM 52% to 47% Those numbers are eerily close to each other. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might start suspecting that something was fishy. Anyway, maybe the numbers will be different when all the votes are counted. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/340 "2004-11-03T04:02:40Z")
Bush’s lead in OH is shrinking. An hour ago it was over 250 thousand. Now it’s 113 thousand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563.md?page=18)