In light of Sarah Palin’s phenomenal popularity and potential to be an agent of change on a national level, what do you think she should do in the immediate future?

I like Palin, but if we can’t do better than her in 2012, Obamasan will win.

There is no way these results are accurate. Not a chance.

SaintOlaf on November 5, 2008 at 3:37 PM

Absolutely. Huge interest. Huge turnouts. Early voting. Palinmania.
All this equals a drop in voters? And convenient narrow losses in the swing states?
Stinks like a dirty fish.

Paul Murphy on November 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM

Here is a possibility, at 7:05 AM at my polling place there were already six of us that had Provisional ballots. They are not counted unless the race is close, and only 10 days later.

Yesterday, however, Ohio and Pennsylvania were called for Obama while voting was still progressing further west. Once those two states were called, the game was over for McCain. I imagine at that point many people in that remaining 12% of precincts just couldn’t be bothered to go vote.

factoid on November 5, 2008 at 1:18 PM

If we need to make anything illegal, it should be the press’ calling votes for a candidate. We need to stop all this analyzing of the polls while voting is occurring.
People are stupid enough to take the media’s word for this crap.

Badger40 on November 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM

EXACTLY, I`m not say this is the only thing that happened but it was probably a contributing factor.

It’s time to revolt against the media-ocracy.

In Va…there was WAY more Mccain signs than there were Bush signs in either election…and Bush won by nearly 10%!

Not only that but in 2004 there were WAY more John Kerry signs than Obsama signs.

There is no way these results are accurate. Not a chance.

Missing 20 million votes?

MS-NBC’s First Read
provides the Chuckle of the Day. They claim that the nation had a
record-breaking turnout despite the returns showing a lower voter
turnout than 2004:

*** Highest turnout rate since……

Please vote in our poll.

http://www.sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com

Will the LA Time release the Khalid video now? I really would like to know.

lizzie-e on November 5, 2008 at 12:02 PM

L.A. Times response:
Tape—what tape?
And who is this Khalidi guy you keep talking about?

I remember reading that after the 2000 vote when the popular vote was the main issue and the subject came up that nobody knows what the popular vote *really* was because so many absentee ballots in many jurisdictions were never counted because there weren’t enough of them to make any difference. I recall reading that more absentee ballots were thrown out uncounted nationwide than the difference in recorded votes between the candidates but counting them wouldn’t have made a difference in the electoral college outcome because in each given jurisdiction, there weren’t enough absentee ballots to make a difference … except in Florida.

So has the earth started healing yet? Anyone check the ocean levels?

rbj on November 5, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Not yet, but green house gas levels should decrease as white house gas levels increase.

The California people are NOT sold on the gay/liberal agenda as of yet. The North coast is Marxist territory, but even Obama and the heavy spending of the media’s darling homos couldn’t defeat Prop 8. The voters rebuked the state Supreme Court and took back the rule of law.

I say this to tell you it is not all lost, even in deep blue states. McCain was incredibly incompetent as a Republican and campaigner, but he is now finished. We can turn the state around, especially after 4 years of gay rights giveaways in an Obama administration.

The networks made false, biased calls in 2000 that had a huge impact on that election.

Don’t stop demanding to see it. Now that the elections are over, it’s even more critical.

Phoenician on November 5, 2008 at 12:44 PM

Are you being sarcastic? Clearly, no one who voted for this guy finds anything about him objectionable, even his suspected anti-Semitic views – and that includes a very large percentage of Jewish voters (77% according to exit polls).

It’s a shock to the rest of us that nobody cares, but obviously they don’t.

Yesterday, however, Ohio and Pennsylvania were called for Obama while voting was still progressing further west. Once those two states were called, the game was over for McCain. I imagine at that point many people in that remaining 12% of precincts just couldn’t be bothered to go vote.

factoid on November 5, 2008 at 1:18 PM

If we need to make anything illegal, it should be the press’ calling votes for a candidate. We need to stop all this analyzing of the polls while voting is occurring.
People are stupid enough to take the media’s word for this crap.