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Election Night Broadcast at Hot Air!

posted at 6:00 pm on November 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Tonight, I’ll be broadcasting from AM 1280 The Patriot in the Twin Cities, covering the election returns live with my Northern Alliance colleagues Mitch Berg and King Banaian — and you can join us as well! Starting at 8 pm CT, we will broadcast our show live via Ustream with video right from The Patriot’s studio. You can keep up to date with all of the election returns, nationwide as well as the critical Congressional races here in Minnesota.

Don’t miss our terrific chat room, where you can interact with the hosts as well as each other! Jazz Shaw and Lady Logician will moderate the chat after their own talk show, Midstream Radio, concludes its 5:30-6:30 pm CT broadcast at BlogTalkRadio.

If the log-in prompt doesn’t come up in the chat box below, use this link instead. You have to be registered at Ustream in order to participate in the chat!

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Will there be an open thread for this topic without the stream, Ed?

ManlyRash on November 4, 2008 at 6:03 PM

Megyn Kelly’s on Fox tonight! WOO HOOOOOO!

Tony737 on November 4, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Ed – wrong link for MSR volume 2

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ladylogician

That is the correct address.

Lady Logician on November 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM

Word in Chicago is spreading: Obama loss is expected. Grant Park rally downgraded to “tens of thousands” instead of the million Obama promised

RushBaby on November 4, 2008 at 6:11 PM

Megyn Kelly’s on Fox tonight! WOO HOOOOOO!

Now how does that make Mrs737 feel?

keep the change on November 4, 2008 at 6:11 PM

Ed, I’ll be feeding you, King & Mitch results from the special Election in SD-16 as well as St. Cloud races for the Minnesota state legislature as the night rolls on.

LFRGary on November 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM

RushBaby,

That’s amazing. Hope I want to believe in.

I just returned from a Kroger store that was overrun with the absolutely happiest group of Obamamites imaginable. As I walked in, I noticed smiles. A lady was loading a big red, white & blue baloon into the back of her vehicle. I suspect that she and Michelle O have something more in common now. I saw several hand made Obot t-shirts in the parking lot.

Inside, people who would never look you in the eye, or if they did would only stare at you with hatred, were engaging. Several passed me (probably presuming from my appearance that I supported McCain) and said, “Obama!” When there was trouble scanning a bottle of wine, I said that maybe it’s a sign I shouldn’t buy it. The clerk said, “No, you got to celebrate tonight!.”

Waiting at the meat counter, one shopper did confide that he was a broker and that two weeks ago he shipped all of his funds offshore. He plans to fire all of his employees and possibly set up shop offshore. Obviously self employed, he indicated that he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure his income stays below $180,000 next year.

EconomicNeocon on November 4, 2008 at 6:45 PM

I like your bookshelf Ed. Someone on Amazon made a list entitled, “Books which will be banned if Obama becomes president.” I think a few of those are on there.

Sir Corky on November 4, 2008 at 6:49 PM

McCain just took Kentucky

Guardian on November 4, 2008 at 7:10 PM

Here’s how it’s going to go down:
9:27PM ET Nov 4th: Victory celebrations break out across America as every state on the Atlantic coast from NC to ME, plus VT, goes early and heavy for Obama. 60%+ vote totals lead MSNBC to call the race for Obama at 9:10ET, and millions take to the streets to share their euphoria. Obama vote totals exceed 110% of registered voters in some precincts.

11:17PM ET Nov 4th: Trouble across the ‘bitter-belt’, as Bible Clingers in MO, IA & IN and Gun Clingers in OH & PA send those states to the McCain column. In So. FL, Obama suffers from a version of the ‘Bradley Effect’ as single issue ‘friend of Israel’ voters, in the privacy of the voting booth, succumb to their fears (and ‘Obama is a Muslim’ smears) and neglect to pull the lever for Obama. Combined with higher than expected pro-McCain turnout on W. FL’s ‘Redneck Riviera’, this pushes FL into the McCain camp. Glee gives way to a cautious optimism for the Obama supporters in the streets.

02:44AM ET Nov 5th: CO win puts McCain at 269 in the EC, within 1 vote of victory. At 30 Rock, company doctors advise treatment for Keith Olbermann.*
(*no ill wishes of course for the real Keith, but it would seem appropriate for the caricature of himself he plays on tv to “blow a fuse” at this point. )

05:41 ET Nov 5th: NV and the west coast go Obama. Wednesday morning the Nation awakes to an apparent 269-269 tie. Campaign officials and House leaders on both sides scramble to deploy squadrons of lawyers and to whip delegations as they gird for the expected battle to come in the House.

In the streets, disappointment and despair gives way to anger as scattered reports of unrest begin to come in.

At Bellevue Hospital, GE execs refuse demands to air one of Keith’s obviously obsessed, Krazed & outraged orations. (K.o.o.K.o.o. Comment)

02:22 PM ET Dec 15th: A female Democratic elector from ME (and former Hillary supporter), still seething over the passage of Prop 8 in CA and having never been comfortable with Obama’s opposition to gay marriage, shocks her colleagues in Augusta and the whole nation when she crosses party lines and votes McCain, declaring ‘that’ll teach you to be nice to womyn, sweetie’!

12:02PM ET Jan 20th: John Sydney McCain is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. America goes on to see her troops come home victorious from the war on terror amid 4 yrs of unprecedented peace and prosperity under the McCain Administration.

God Bless America

Bob Mc on November 4, 2008 at 7:46 PM

I got a chat room too if you want to come over!

http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/

Rightwingsparkle on November 4, 2008 at 7:51 PM

KEEP, she knows Megyn’s hot too! :-)

Wow, there must be lots of people on HotAir, it’s loading so sssllloooowwww

Tony737 on November 4, 2008 at 8:29 PM

ED, where can I find the precinct numbers state by state as they come in?
real clear politics had them in 04, but I don’t see them there now.

OneEyedJack on November 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM

Ya know, that pizza is making me hungry.

boomer on November 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM

Keep the faith my brothers and sisters! With a little hep from the Lord above we will decimate the Ohblammatrons! I wonder what OOOprah will wear to the concession speech? Maybe a nice canvas burka sewn by Omar the tent maker? Long live the P.U.M.A’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GlocknRoll on November 4, 2008 at 9:08 PM

Obviously self employed, he indicated that he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure his income stays below $180,000 next year.

EconomicNeocon on November 4, 2008 at 6:45 PM

It’s $120,000 at the moment, but it’ll be $42K by springtime.

rbj on November 4, 2008 at 9:35 PM

Massachusetts voted 2-1 to decriminalize marijuana.

Colleges are big business there. Who is going to pay big bucks to send their kids to smoke dope?

pedestrian on November 4, 2008 at 9:42 PM

Tomorrow I will fly the American flag upside down to show a vote of no confidence to Obama

Lynken on November 4, 2008 at 9:48 PM

uh, don’t listen. we can’t lose. it’s unamerican. strange, i swear they stuffing ballot boxes big time. i heard report saying that repub turnout in ohio lowest ever. NO WAY!!!

anti-boomer on November 4, 2008 at 10:01 PM

Ok, now we can start talking about how McCain blew it. And it wasn’t Palin.

bobby04040 on November 4, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Rush and his cohorts covering for Bush has borne its bitter fruit.

FactsofLife on November 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM

OK, 10:23 EST – I think I see one small example of how they skew results to influence the west – for polls that closed at 8 EST, they show Delaware for Obama by 51 to 48% with 2% of the vote in, but they won’t call Missouri for McCain at 54% to 45% with 5% of the vote in. Bigger margin with much more of the vote in and they won’t call it. Can anybody explain to me why Missouri is NOT being declared for McCain at 10:23 EST?

ElRonaldo on November 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM

sigh

John The Baptist on November 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM

How do all the “educated” folks not see thru Obama? I don’t get it!

qestout on November 4, 2008 at 10:27 PM

Take then the Flag; I may never touch its folds again – nay never draw again my naked sword in its defense – yet the “Old Flag” will still wave and the time will come when its starry folds will be greeted again with respect by the nations of the earth, floating in the air of their rivers and harbors. They will greet it more readily, because when scorned and maligned by evil men, a million loyal freemen rushed to its defense and beat them back until it waved again over our mighty rivers and lakes from the St. Lawrence to the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada’s. It shall still wave to greet the coming millennium, which when arrived, shall salute the “Old Flag” in heaven.

W.H. Gibson on the occasion of presenting the “old Flag,” carried by the troops under his command in the 49th Ohio Voluntary Regiment. This flag was presented by, then returned to the citizens of Tiffin, Ohio during the course of the Civil War on a 30 day furlough given to the troops in the winter of 1864.

ronsfi on November 4, 2008 at 10:36 PM

Sigh!

ronsfi on November 4, 2008 at 10:50 PM

My two cents:
1. The republicans need to find a way to be competitive in major cities. It seems that as soon as an area hits a certain density it goes Democrat. That might mean finding out what the “community organizers” are doing and adopting or improving on it.

2. Republicans really need to reach out to minorities. This is a desperate point. It has to happen. The party is going to die if it doesn’t. The republicans if anything have a better history with respecting the rights of minorities but the democrats have ruled the issue on largely specious grounds. If that doesn’t turn around eventually the republicans are doomed.

3. I feel like a lot of the republican’s problems stem from the “social issues” but perhaps that’s because it’s never been a strong point for me. For me it’s always been the economic policies and civic policies of the party that were relevant. The religious aspects particularly have never resonated with me. Maybe the republicans could become more relevant especially with the urbanites if they had more inclusive policies that that were not in fact or even perceived as being faith oriented.

Final: Either way, there will be another election in a couple years that could shift the congress either way. In that time the democrats are unlikely to have made too much of a mess of things. So that will either give the reps the ability to take it back or the dems will have vindicated themselves at which point the reps get to sit out in the cold for awhile.

Karmashock on November 4, 2008 at 10:57 PM

they just showed six American flags at the Obama celebration. i’m surprised none of them were on fire.

cpr on November 4, 2008 at 11:02 PM

Ok, now the republicians lay low for awhile. Give it 6 months before the state run media starts to eat it’s own.

bobby04040 on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM

how’d the nice, clean unaggressive campaign go for you John?

cpr on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM

Massachusetts voted 2-1 to decriminalize marijuana.

pedestrian on November 4, 2008 at 9:42 PM

Awesome! If there’s anything good that might come of an Obama administration, I hope decriminalization of sugary sweet plants will be the one!

Other than that, we’re so screwed….

FloatingRock on November 4, 2008 at 11:11 PM

The moderators who run this chat room are intellectually deficient cowards. COWARDS.

Christoph on November 4, 2008 at 11:13 PM

I just got home from FIFETEEN hours at the polls.
I WILL NOT call that socialist BASTARD president!!!
NOT NOW. NOT EVER!!!!

annoyinglittletwerp on November 4, 2008 at 11:18 PM

The best instincts of Man are eventually undone by his worst; past a certain point, the reversal is without recovery. Greece…Rome…now it’s our turn. The Great Experiment begins to end here. What earthly light we may have enjoyed will begin to go out shortly.

On the bright side…this can only accelerate All That Must Come. Don’t know if others can take any solace in that, but I do.

splink on November 4, 2008 at 11:22 PM

I don’t know if this live stream is the same as the northern alliance I’m listening to on the radio, but the guys I’m listening to are already bending over and grabbing their ankles.

peacenprosperity on November 4, 2008 at 11:36 PM

One policy issue I’d REALLY like to see addressed is the education of our children..in particular the HISTORY of our great country. It’s AMAZING how little they learn/know and how LIBERAL it IS!! Not to mention the liberalism of the educators themselves, unionization, etc. Such a pit in my gut tonight.

lyfsatrip on November 4, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Can we get an update on Bachmann?

lyfsatrip on November 4, 2008 at 11:38 PM

Well, we just got the worst “Thing” money can buy.
How long will the MSM honeymoon last?
Will he come clean on all thoes unanswered questions?
With all this crap in his past….how long before he’s impeached?

samhill on November 4, 2008 at 11:43 PM

Mark Levin says the Gop has a lot of work to do.
I agree. Lets focus on some changes that must take place before the next midterm election.

Item one: Ditch Youtube. I am sick to death of seeing GOP ads which, if all things were equal, would go viral being sucked off the net after a half dozen page views.
What we need is a dedicated service which NEVER removes a single GOP ad, and will play it back on demand no matter if 2 Billion Chinese find a hankering for a dose of small government preaching all at once. GET ON THAT NOW.

Item two: Ditch Youtube. Because I know you pinheads weren’t listening the first time.

Item three: Ditch Youtube. GOPTube has a ring to it.

Item four: I’m not kidding. Ditch Youtube. From the month of August straight on through to this very minute I haven’t seen a single video that HotAir, Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, Gateway Pundit, Patterico, Ace, or a plethora of other conservative or right leaning websites posted regarding the election, the outrageous behavior of Democrats, or Mr. Obama’s unsavory associations which was linked from Youtube. NOT ONE.
THAT WAS A TRAVESTY.
From the Democratic convention right through to election night nothing but “This video is no longer available”.

I mean Jesus K Rice, if you are going to cut your own balls off by taking public funding for the campaign, the very least you should do – I mean with the first $50K – is set up your own online video news service – because Youtube is the enemy’s playing field. And they painted the visitor’s locker room pink and cut off the water to the showers.

Item five: Ditch Youtube. Because you pinheads might have missed it the first four times.

By the way this is my first post on Hot Air. I would have commented on the tremendous waist of time it is post vids from Youtube earlier, if you had openned registration more then once a year.

papertiger on November 5, 2008 at 4:59 AM

Mark Levin says the Gop has a lot of work to do.
I agree. Lets focus on some changes that must take place before the next midterm election.

Item two: Ditch Youtube. Because I know you pinheads weren’t listening the first time.

Item three: Ditch Youtube. GOPTube has a ring to it.

Item five: Ditch Youtube. Because you pinheads might have missed it the first four times.

By the way this is my first post on Hot Air. I would have commented on the tremendous waist of time it is posting vids from Youtube earlier, if you had opened registration more then once a year.

I know that the first post is probably hung up in a buffer waiting for approval from on high, but it’s worth repeating anyhow, so I’ll go ahead and repost.

papertiger on November 5, 2008 at 5:13 AM

how long before he’s impeached?

He won’t be impeached by a house and senate that kiss the ground he walks on. Impeachment won’t happen.

ErinF on November 5, 2008 at 6:17 AM

Obama’s public secret:
em>Scio me nihil scire.
I know that I know nothing.

THIS is the election that will never end as Obama’s propagandists perpetuate his campaign ad infinitum.

You can tell yourself, thank God at least it’s over, but don’t fool yourself and don’t blame God for the choice our neighbors made.

All things considered, we made our consonant voice heard over the massive din of the world’s most wealthy and powerful dissonance. Obama has no popular vote landslide victory bragging rights.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived!

Imperare sibi maximum imperium est.
To rule yourself is the ultimate power.

Fortitudine vincimus.
By endurance we conquer.

Conservatives have vetted many candidates this past primary season. We know who will coordinate conservative efforts, and how we must appreciate each other’s strengths in order to bond for a victory.

Michelle Malkin put it in print.
Buck up.

maverick muse on November 5, 2008 at 7:53 AM