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larryhodges

Obama Wins!, End/Start of an Era, Senate Races, FOX News, Dirty Campaigning, 2012, Voting, Quiz

Nov 05, 2008 01:07

This marks the end of the "Reagan-Gingrich-Bush" era, circa 1980-2008. (Technically it lasts until 2009, but there's not much Bush can do at this point as the lamest of lame ducks.) It also marks the start of what presumably is the "Obama era."

Three people are primarily responsible for what happened tonight.

First, of course, is Barack ( Read more... )

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IN has turned BLUE! stephan_laurent November 5 2008, 15:39:06 UTC

Interesting that at 1am Indiana was still 50-49 the wrong way. It flipped soon after, and even our ruby-red paper The Indianapolis Star called (correctly) our state for Obama: 50-49 for him!. NC is still undecided (50-50), as is MO (49-50) and NE's 2nd district. Now I can be proud not only to be American, but even to be a "Hoosier"!

Re: IN has turned BLUE! larryhodges November 6 2008, 02:14:36 UTC

It all comes down to the order that the results come in. In the case of Indiana, areas around Indianapolis came in toward the end, and they were for Obama. There's an example going on right now, in Oregon, where the counting for the Senator's race has been slow. They are only 73% done, and while it rounds off to a 47% tie, the Republican Smith is up by 9000 votes. However, much of the uncounted total is from Portland, and so most insiders seem pretty confident that the Democrat Merkley will win.

ext_121365 November 5 2008, 18:03:59 UTC

The election's finally over and Obama's won.

I'm no morning person, but I got up after only 5 hours of sleep and waited in line yesterday 3 hours before work. I detailed it on my blog.

Now the hard part comes, Obama has to fix the mess Bush Jr. and the Republicans put the country in.

Here's hoping.

larryhodges November 6 2008, 02:15:17 UTC

It'd be nice to see an job approval poll of Obama circa 2012.

maggiedr November 5 2008, 23:24:19 UTC

Oyster ice cream? I love oysters but...

I tried a sardine jelly bean once from a box of Berie Bott's. It was so vile that I spat it out. And I like sardines.

William Henry Harrison studied Medicine. anonymous November 6 2008, 01:49:45 UTC

Was he the only one to have done so. I am not sure about that, but of him, I am sure. Please let me know if this is correct.

Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor New Mexico Sun News
(the paper that printed Obama Wins! as headline 11 days before election, the first to call it for Obama)
stephen@santafefineart.com

Re: William Henry Harrison studied Medicine. larryhodges November 6 2008, 02:11:38 UTC

You are correct! However, he did not enjoy studying medicine. When his father died, he didn't have money to continue, and so he withdrew from school and enlisted in the army, where he'd later become the hero of Tippecanoe, which would lead to his becoming president.

Congrats on the early call! I remember reading about it, and actually looked for a picture of the newspaper headline online, but couldn't find it.