Congrats Barack! Now lets get things done.
Exciting night! Results are starting to pour in, so let’s get to it…
8:30pm—MSNBC is showing 103 – 34 with a lot of pre-9pm states still not called. My projections are showing 66 safe electoral votes are pretty safe to call for McCain (WV, AL, KS, MS, TX, AR), so that would put McCain at 100 [...]
I took a look at the latest polls and projections on FiveThirtyEight.com and RealClearPolitics.com and mapped them out by when the polls close in each state to see how things should progress tomorrow night. All this assuming that states report fairly quickly and that the projections play out as expected.
By 8pm, the race should be [...]
Cautious optimism.
Map created using Real Clear Politics map generator. Data using FiveThirtyEight’s polling projections. All poll projections greater than 6% margin were deemed ‘solid’, less than that ‘leaning’, and anything less than say 1% were ‘toss up’.
The election has boiled down to this, in my opinion: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (F.U.D.) versus Hope.
The McCain/Palin campaign and right wingers sling the F.U.D. better than anyone. Remember, when you go to the polls next Tuesday that Barack is: black, an Arab, a Muslim, a terrorist, a friend of terrorists, a communist, a socialist, [...]
Is there anything she won’t exaggerate or lie about?
Today in Ohio while introducing Joe the Plumber:
“He’s a fellow Alaska[n], and he’s a fellow military man who has served our country proudly. I’d like you to meet him.”
The problem is, he isn’t either. But I guess we his name isn’t really Joe, nor a plumber, I [...]
