# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/881 "2004-11-03T08:58:26Z")
**t-keela**! That is bizarre! No wonder you don’t give up easily! I’m glad I’m on your side. So **DtC** is a coonass! You never know what you’ll find out in the middle of the night when you are snokered. Is that a word? I once spent the best drunk of my life at Mardi Gras in Mammou – but I can’t spell it right. I confuse it with the name of a cat I used to have. People falling off horses and chickens running everywhere. A good time was had by all. NBC said that last time 90% of the provisional ballots were valid in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/882 "2004-11-03T09:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > **Hail Ants** : Its GWB that’s causing so much division in this country. What kind of President doesn’t want all of the votes counted? Oooh. I get it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/883 "2004-11-03T09:04:57Z")
As NBC just reminded us, they don’t certify who is President of the United States. It’s not as if Kerry is bucking some kind of official declaration. ---
**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, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/884 "2004-11-03T09:07:08Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > What kind of President doesn’t want all of the votes counted? > > Oooh. I get it. damn **Zoe…** I thought you’d left. You sure the horses weren’t running eberywhere while the coonasses was trying to ride the chickens. haw-haw 😃 Yeah…I’ve been through some stuff. I could tell ya some things but I’d probably scare ya. 😉 So where you from? ---
**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, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/885 "2004-11-03T09:10:19Z")
Does nobody but me recall Bush talking about how he was gonna reach across partisan lines and join the Republicans and Democrats? Wasn’t that the big promise he campaigned on in 2000? ---
**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, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/886 "2004-11-03T09:46:42Z")
So Tom Brokaw just said…“the American people have strongly decided that they probably want GWB for their president.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/887 "2004-11-03T09:53:47Z")
NPR and C-SPAN now calling Wisconsin for Kerry. Doesn’t seem like anyone has followed yet. ABC still not calling Michigan MSNBC still not calling Michigan or Nevada ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/888 "2004-11-03T09:55:50Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > MSNBC still not calling Michigan or Nevada or New Hampshire. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/889 "2004-11-03T09:55:55Z")
I love strong, direct equivocation like that. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/890 "2004-11-03T09:57:31Z")
Good grief, how long did it take me to type that…and two other posts come in while I’m doing it. My comment above is in regard to **t-keela’s** Brokaw comment. ---
**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, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/891 "2004-11-03T09:59:19Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Good grief, how long did it take me to type that…and two other posts come in while I’m doing it. My comment above is in regard to **t-keela’s** Brokaw comment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/892 "2004-11-03T10:59:04Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > NBC said that last time 90% of the provisional ballots were valid in Ohio. What last time? It’s a new law. ---
**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, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/893 "2004-11-03T12:02:37Z")
What’s up **Lib** …where ya been? I think I’ve about wore everybody around here. Myself included. :o Can’t quit now and besides…it’s tomorrow again. ---
**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, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/894 "2004-11-03T12:52:16Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > What’s up **Lib** …where ya been? > I think I’ve about wore everybody around here. Myself included. :o > Can’t quit now and besides…it’s tomorrow again. You still awake?? I had to crash so I could make it to work this morning. Head fuzzy… ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/895 "2004-11-03T14:01:43Z")
Not going to gloat much. Congratulation on the election. I hope you can all live with the results and I’m sure you’re going to be overjoyed to learn that the Danish election supervisor (a Trotskyites) in Ohio thought everything went fairly alright even though he wasn’t allowed within 100 feet of the election room and he was a bit pissed off about the whether. [Would you imagine, he’s even in Wikipidi](http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%F8ren_S%F8ndergaard)) And I can’t see how [this election room I brought up earlier](http://www.zombietime.com/ny_broome_st_polling_place_11-2-4/) is not criticized when it’s not legal to push political opinions in the election room. It’s not like anybody doubt what the message is or whom it was supposed to endorse. I just hope all the bitching and moaning is going to die down a bit. Noting good is going to come from trying to undermine the legitimacy of an elected president. And nothing good is going to come from excessive partisanship between elections. I thought it was bullshit when that stupid fool what’s his name Kenneth Star did it to Clinton, and I think it’s bullshit now with all the BushHitler idiocy and incessant Michael Moore conspiracy babble. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/896 "2004-11-03T15:08:09Z")
Barnicle is reporting that Kerry will concede this afternoon. **Diogenes** , will you fight for a side that has already surrendered? You’ll be like thise pathetic Japanese soldiers in the Pacific who fought on, sometimes for decades, well after the Emperor surrendered. Why don’t you let this one go, and work for the next one? It’ll be better for your emotional state. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/897 "2004-11-03T15:10:54Z")
I hoe Kerry does not conced. He should make Bush wait the whole two weeks just to be a prick. Oh…and I don’t buy the results in Florida either. Diebold. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/898 "2004-11-03T15:51:17Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > I hoe Kerry does not conced. He should make Bush wait the whole two weeks just to be a prick. That strategy just makes Kerry look like an idiot and give Bush the moral high ground. Bush can sit back, knowing he won, and let Kerry make a fool of himself. > [@](#): > > Oh…and I don’t buy the results in Florida either. Diebold. Prove it. If you can’t, then we’re not buying your assessment. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/899 "2004-11-03T16:10:28Z")
MSNBC reports that Kerrry concedes. Good for him. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563/900 "2004-11-03T16:11:23Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > That strategy just makes Kerry look like an idiot and give Bush the moral high ground. Did Gore look like an idiot for contesting in 2000, once it was discovered what a train wreck Florida was? After what the Pubs got away that year, if I were Kerry I wouldn’t concede an inch until every scrap was noted. Barring, of course, another completely nonpartisan Supreme Court ruling that orders Ohio to stop counting those immoral provisional ballots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-04-election-comments-thread/272563.md?page=46)