Round three: CO, NM; Update: Fox calls Ohio for Obama; Update: CNN calls Iowa for Obama; Update: Fox calls Virginia for Obama; Update: Denver Post calls Colorado for Obama; Update: NBC calls the election for Obama
posted at 9:06 pm on November 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
At this point I’d be shocked if either of them mattered, but the polls have closed so here’s a new thread for results.
As I’m writing that, CNN calls Minnesota and Michigan for The One.
Update: Turns out my prediction was too conservative: I had Ohio going for McCain. Fox calls it for The One. And with that, the hour of reckoning is at hand.
Update: I said in this post over the weekend that under no circumstances could Maverick lose more than one among Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia. Unless the network projections are drastically wrong, he’s already lost two. According to MSNBC, with both PA and OH in the ledger, Obama has 195 EVs with 55 still to come from California. Florida would put him over the top.
Update: Ohio’s the first red state from 2004 to flip, incidentally, and the only one Obama needs thanks to its high EV number. He can win the election now simply by holding Kerry’s states.
Update: The nets will be appropriately cautious about calling Florida early after the fiasco eight years ago but Obama’s leading steadily by 150,000-200,000 votes with 60 percent reporting and the bellwether counties don’t look good. If that flips, we’re approaching landslide territory.
Update: Obama wins New Mexico, unsurprisingly.
Update: The polls are closed now in Nevada and Montana too, but neither will matter. CNN calls Iowa for The One.
Update: With 84 percent reporting, Obama’s now ahead in Virginia by 13,000 votes.
Update: With 91 percent reporting and a lead of more than 50,000 votes, Fox hands Virginia to The One. That gives him 220 EVs, according to my tally. California will put him over the top.
Update: More blood on the floor: The Denver Post says Colorado belongs to The One. We should have a call on California from the networks within the next five minutes, and that should wrap things up.
Update: And there’s California, and there’s the election.
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I’ll call this douche bag Senator or Mr. Organizer until he leaves office, even if it’s 8 years from now. I didn’t vote for this POS.
I’ll do what the other side has done for 8 years. It was always “Mr. Bush”, or chimp, never President Bush. Well, it’s Mr Obama or POS or something but never president. He’s not my president.
worlok on November 4, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Time to rally the troops and stay together – we are in this for the long haul here.
In the words of Glenn Beck… “Know what you believe.”
And God is still in control – I just pray He will continue to bless this great country after we have trampled on His laws, His Word, all that our founding fathers built this country on.
2 Chronicles 7:14
outwestdownsouth on November 4, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Well Boys and Girl 4 years of Lent to come … but we better have our crap together in 4 years come about and get back to what made us great.
NorDak75 on November 4, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Now this is a REAL Mandate, not those that Bush thought he had.
Time for Real Leadership and change!
damian1967 on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Here we go..blah blah blah. black man. blah blah blah…black man. blah blah blah…Choke on it, Juan.
HornetSting on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Dear God in heaven, what has America done?
mountaineer for liberty on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
History is made.
Congrats to Obama/Biden.
Let’s see what they can do.
The Ugly American on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Good.
CanadianGuy on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I dont fucking believe it
HawaiiLwyr on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
IT’S TIME FOR A REVOLUTION!
Muslim, White hating, Barack Hussein Obama is president?
Al Franken is in the senate?
You have got to be kidding me…
The media and the voting system is corrupted and under Obama it will be irreperable.
The fight against abortion is over.
Gay marriage will pass and Hate Crime legislation will be used to persecute Christians and shut down Christianity.
Guns will be taken away and the fairness doctrine will eliminate free speech in America.
America is dead….and with it goes the world.
SaintOlaf on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
oh for crying out loud Jaun Williams is crying
boomer on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Strategy:
Exercise your Consitutional rights: speak freely and own a gun.
Recognize that the Republican Party is on a slow death spiral. Welcoming millions of immigrants who hate everything the GOP stands for is the prime example. We cannot stay fooled any longer.
Put together a new political party that will fight socialism, affirmative action, immigration, gay marriage and other payoffs to minorities at the expense of the common good.
Do not bow to the Pretender President. He is the Pretender because he pretends to tell the truth.
Whenever Obama breaks a promise and raises taxes on the middle class, or spends less than planned on a welfare program, make sure to exercise your free speech and call attention to it.
Remember everything the Pretender President says falls into two categories. It is either (A) so obvious a schoolchild could have said it, or (B) a lie.
Remember that government propaganda (NBCABCBSFoxPBSNPRNYTimesAPReutersBBCCNNWaPoHuffTime) is a trying to destroy your interests as Americans, as Christians, and as human beings. They hate everything we are and stand for.
Network with other Resistance members. Trust only the ones who can be trusted.
Keep your faith in the Lord.
Obama Resistance League Youth
OLRY
indythinker on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Marx is dead.
mycowardice on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Wait you live near the Obama rally? Get over there man, find yourself a cute moonbat chic. You’ll get laid easy tonight! Then tell her when you’re done, you voted McCain, but thanks for the handout.
Daemonocracy on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Awesome. A sixties hippie learning to navigate the Internet.
Esthier on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Ugh…
changer1701 on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I see Obama following in the footsteps of Chavez. He’ll nationalize everything, rewrite the constitution, and make himself leader for life, not allowing another election, but he will himself select his heir.
capejasmine on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Exactly.
BallisticBob on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
This election was won by manipulating the American people. The same tactics will work for us too. It will take some time but, the Democrats will sow their own defeat.
WisCon on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Yeah.
Look, I know McCain isn’t liked around these parts.
But he deserved better than this.
Vyce on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Dems don’t think – they feel. Unfortunately for them (and us) they are about to have their feelings hurt when they find out about B.Hussein’s lies about who will getting a tax cut and find themselves included. Or maybe they will have their eyes opened when he shows his true colors – it won’t take long for them to figure out what we have been trying to tell them –
HE’S A RACIST, THUG, FRAUD, MISOGYNISTIC MARXIST.
Sporty1946 on November 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM
11 pm and CNN give Obama 297 EV including the left coast, which has zero precincts reporting.
AnotherOpinion on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Well, that was depressing.
Mattpat11 on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
And yeah, race played a big part. Blacks voted for him ONLY for his skin color. Biggest part of them bought a bill of goods and the rest knew they were getting a socialist so they could sit on the upholstered couch on their rundown front porch and suck off everyone else.
This man was voted in my a bunch of people who know nothing about BO other than they were looking for a free ride. They make me sick. Always did and do now more than ever. I hate them.
Oink on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Well, that’s good – thank you…I’m looking for small victories tonight. We have a tight governor’s race here in Washington state – Dino Rossi trying to re-defeat the woman who stole the election in ’04. At this point, I’ll take whatever I can get.
capitalist piglet on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Obama Resistance League Youth
ORLY
indythinker on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I’m only interested in one more election. And the ass-clown damian1967 brought up the exact issue that I am concerned with because of it. Charlotte Dennett is running for AG in Vermont and pledging to prosecute President Bush with Vince Bugliosi. Bugliosi has said he would ask for the death penalty. I have served in combat and agreed with the entire prosecution of the war. If she wins and fulfills that promise or anyone else prosecutes him, I will demand to stand with him and face the same charges.
hawkdriver on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
GopherGirl,
God Bless you and May GOD bless America
mountainmanbob on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Jaun williams is about to cry. Oppressed minority and the rest.
Ozark_sky on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Just remember folks….
Its Not About Race.
or so they kept telling us….
Always Right on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Drudge headline: GOD DAMNS AMERICA!
j/k Heh
econavenger on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
That puke Markos Moulitsnfdsaowod’s ideology will now have total precedence over everything else.
Bah.
MisterTurtle on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Hope?
ronsfi on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR COMPUTER SCREENS!
YOU ARE IN ANOTHER REALITY or UNIVERSE!
or,THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE OF THE NET!!!
IF STUART GETS IN,HUMANITY IS OVER!!
canopfor on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I feel so ill. God help us.
LickyLicky on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Congratulations president elect Obama.
wise_man on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
America has officially gone insane.
VanPalin on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Horribly disappointing.
None the less, God bless the new president of the United States.
SouthernDem on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Hear, hear!
Christoph on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Wow, what a horrible evening this turned out to be.
changer1701 on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
In the rest of the world maybe. But here in America, Marx has only begun to rule.
petunia on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Note to Israel: Commence bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities–now.
watchmen on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Franken 42
Coleman 42
27%
WisCon on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
“when the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
reaganaut on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
shut up Juan Williams – fox no more
audiotom on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Don’t give the Rats any support. They treated Bush like garbage for 8 years and said he stole both elections. Obama isn’t getting any support from me.
Speedwagon82 on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Well, I can hope that my home state will be putting Landrieu out of a job.
Lay-Z on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
goodnight and goodluck
ThePrez on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
I couldn’t care less. You can’t get more inconsequential than the U.S. Department of Education. Of course he’s going to surround himself with lefties. And that’s why his presidency will be either an utter failure or utterly inconsequential. And with San Fran Nan and Dusty Harry all atwitter about a “mandate,” I think the former is the most likely scenario.
Look, the folks have given Obama “a chance.” He’s not qualified. They know he’s not qualified. When he screws it up, they’re going to say “OK, we gave you a chance. You screwed it up. Now go away while we look around for an adult.”
Seriously, everyone relax. He can’t entirely screw the pooch in 4 or even in 8 years. A democrat was going to get to appoint Supreme Court justices sooner or later. We’re all cleansed of that persistent, systemic racism the left’s been telling us we suffer from for years, so that’s off the table. And now President Obama has to lead. He has no work experience, and no one to turn to for advice but ardent leftists. He. Is. Screwed. I predict a disastrous presidency, a Carter-esque disaster. And if not? Well, good, then it won’t be a disaster and the country will thrive. Again, it’s a win-win for conservatives.
4 years minimum; 8 years max, and the very likely scenario that Americans won’t want to elect another democrat for decades. In fact, think it through rationally: They will blow it. They can’t help themselves. This is the beginning of the end of the American democrat party. It really, really is.
Rational Thought on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
time to be like democrats and crave power more than patriotic duty….
when the drawdown hits you’ll see a lot of folks vote with their feet.
sven10077 on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
I feel real bad for McCain. He deserved better.
Mattpat11 on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
II am still waiting for Manly to ask for forgivness for fooling us. And mark my words:never again trust a Clinton.
clemycali on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
i am utterly sick. numb.
pray hard for america comrads.
quakerfrat on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
There is only one thing worse than a sore loser, and that is a poor winner.
Christien on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
This is the worst night in my entire life of following politics. Clinton 92 was a distant second.
CanadianGuy on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Yes, there’s nothing like a return to the Carter Administration.
amerpundit on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Time to humble ourselves and pray. I predict the Christian Right in this country will be fasting and praying for the next 4 years. This could be a good thing in the sense that maybe it will possibly wake America up.
*sigh*
Palin 2012
mcplumbercuda on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
So, I’m watching Rome burning and I get that feeling the people are going to have to see how bad it’s going to go before it gets any better.
SkinnerVic on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Let’s hope.
Jim Treacher on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
In 2012, Conservatives are going to have a posse. No dicking around this time.
CherokeeJack on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
I just got an email from a friend in law enforcement saying that gun sales may be suspended in many states starting tomorrow.
This is NOT good news.
Vernon Hardapple on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
RealClearPolitics shows California called for McCain. Must be a typo.
Tuning Spork on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
melting bunny please.
lorien1973 on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Our turn to raise some hell.
*lurks*
Grue in the Attic on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
The only real question remaining is will Cindy beat Nancy in San Francisco?
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
How can this be, when West coast voting only ended 6 minutes ago?
capejasmine on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Tav on November 4, 2008 at 10:50 PM
(The Eight Years of an Obama Presidency)
Well done. We can sing it at Christmas.
MrLynn on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Good luck, America.
We’re going to need it.
Tennman on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Not all votes were counted in some States. This is rigged. This wasn’t no damn election. This was bought and paid for. This was a scheme. And there needs to be some fukking people that need to be accountable for the money that was stolen right out from under our noses. They had this rigged, no doubt about this. I am pissed. Our Country is not the same. We have to fight and raise holy hell. Sorry I am cursing.
sheebe on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
The country hasn’t moved left. Chalk this election result up to the mainstream media’s refusal to portray Obama as the radical Marxist he clearly is and the Obama’s campaign’s shifty ability to pretend to be fiscally conservative and even hawkish during the general election. Massive voter registration and campaign finance fraud made it impossible for McCain, the GOP or private groups to get the truth to enough people.
It also hurt us that Bush is unpopular and that Obama was successfully able to blame the financial hiccup on Bush, while defining it as the worst thing to happen to our economy since the Great Depression. If the media had covered this thing properly, very few people would believe those lies and the liberals who delivered the financial crisis (which is what it now truly is) would have been punished across the board tonight.
The worst thing we can do now is to accept any of the liberal Democrats’ undeniably flawed premises. Real conservatism is what wins in America. That’s why liberal Democrats who disguise themselves as right-leaning moderates can win but moderate Republicans who brag about their liberalism always lose. The real liberal Democrats will take a Democrat over a Republican pretending to be a Democrat every time. The real Republicans will not trust either one of them.
Sign of the Dollar on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Not.My.President.Not Now.Not Ever.
Babino on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.
Please protect this nation from the turmoil set in motion tonight and her enemies who are rejoicing in this national stupidity.
Elizabetty on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Rush, Sean, Laura, Great One….see you in 2012 or make that 2016
LordMaximus on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Ugh, and O’Reilly tomorrow night opines McCain and Palin “didn’t do The Factor”.
Not. Going. To. Watch.
Marcus on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Psalm 46, everyone.
And write down the numbers of your representatives. No matter how this night ends, we’re conservatives – we have the correct philosophy; we need only act on it.
Don’t mope. Don’t mourn. Steel yourself. You are needed, by your children and grandchildren. Let them have the joy that WFB described:
This is not the end!
emailnuevo on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
very, very, VERY disappointed.
and scared…
homesickamerican on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Dude, even worse, MICHELLE is going to be first lady.
What an awful awful night for this country. These morons turned their back on a legitimate war hero in favor of…. what, exactly?
jr.ewing.78 on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Keep The Change
Grimpond on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Hey, Juan is a good guy. This is a huge moment for him and black Americans everywhere. As nuts as I think Obama is with his Socialist leanings, i’ll let black America have their moment. It’s been a long time coming. America certainly has proved the liberals wrong, we are not a racist nation.
Now I don’t want to hear a damn thing about the race card from liberals anymore. I know I will, but they lost one of their biggest guilt trip weapons with this election.
Daemonocracy on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
All hail the messiah, Obama, Obama
El_Terrible on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Yes. Me too.
Yes. Sure did. Didn’t it.
Good luck to all of us. But I think our luck just ran out.
last thing to say. Good night.
wise_man on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
ManlyRash: where is your God now?
/sarc
I’m still clinging to my own little bit of hope. We shall see, tomorrow.
Ugly on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
revolution… not just the party… the entire country…
i’m sick of being taxed to death and getting nothing back but crappy roads and defense… but paying the way for everyone else’s laziness… and thievery.
it ends here.
he can be president… but he’s gutted the country of all virtue… and for that… he will never be forgiven
Fozzy Bear on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
I am proud to be an American, and not for the first time in my life.
Now, Black America just might understand something about this country that they have been blind to.
This is not a racist country. It is THE GREATEST COUNTRY in the world.
In a short time, after the party is over, Black conservatives are going to be coming out of the woodwork. They will not want to be associated with the demise of what it is that makes this country great.
And we will finally see a country where the political argument will be about ideology.
The race game is done.
The time is ripe for Black conservatives, many of whom have yet to discover that they are conservative, to come home to the Right, take leadership positions in larger numbers, and help put this country back on its feet again.
No longer will the Democrats carry 90% of the black vote.
It’s over.
Saltysam on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
I’m starting to wonder if Fox is pandering now, and giving in to the msm’s?
capejasmine on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
RealClearPolitics shows California called for McCain. Must be a typo.
Tuning Spork on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Nevermind. They just changed it to Obama.
Tuning Spork on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Lets.
Monkei on November 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM
And world Markets Rise!
damian1967 on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I refuse to watch any of this on TV. I will not watch the inauguration either. Somehow reading about it is easier.
But I leave the visuals to others.
This is how John Howard’s people in Australia must have felt.
Terrye on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Okay….now Fox is ruining it with their racial platitudes.
Just shut up for once and let us ALL live the moment together.
The Ugly American on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
i just got a text saying ohio is being recalled?
anyone else hear this?
Fozzy Bear on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
completely shocked. i really thought the american people would come through. is it 2012 yet?
lmwyman on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Oh you will. You will.
wise_man on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I would really like to offer some kinda erudite, coffin-nail dismissal of the type of thinking displayed here but truth is I can’t. For all your lack of nuance, you’re very probably entirely correct, RedNewEnglander.
I’m in NYC. My windows are open and I hear the whooping and whistling and cheering for the election of Obama. Fireworks going off now. It’s like triple-quadruple Gay Pride Day!!
Well, like moveon.org said: we bought the Democratic Party, we own it. And now indeed they do. I plan on holding them responsible for every single little bit, and I look forward with relish to their inevitable, built-in downfall.
Screaming outside increasing, along with fireworks and honking. The Mob has spoken.
Gilda on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Long Lived Freedom
Kini on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
OH HELL NO — I’m in a high rise on the north side of downtown chicago .. have my windows open and a view of the whole city .. just heard a HUGE moronic roar.
Gave me shivers.
cgoode777 on November 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM
cgoode777 on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I have to say, I found it so funny when O’Reilly said that on his radio show. As if McCain needed more of the base.
mycowardice on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
And I turn off politics and pop culture starting…….NOW.
carbon_footprint on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I feel as though I am in the movie “On the Beach”
drjohn on November 4, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I can’t stop crying. This fraud is not, and will not ever, be my President.
califcon on November 4, 2008 at 11:09 PM
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