They finally finished the count, and McCain won Missouri.
Also, Ted Stevens concedes in the Alaska Senate race.
So now it’s down to the runoff in Georgia, and the recount in Michigan.
Category: Presidential Campaign
And Now For Your Daily Dose of Batsh$# Insane
Courtesy of, as always of Alan Keyes, who has filed suit in California challenging Barack Obama’s citizenship.
The depressing thing is that I have to share a state with this loon.
Heck, it’s depressing to share a country with him.
Nope, No Residual Racism Here
That outlier in Colorado is Saguache County…Which appears to be a data entry error, that has been corrected in later versions of the NY Times map tool.
It Now Appears that the McCain Campaign Was Even More Fracked Up Than We Knew
It appears that the McCain and Palin were waging war on one another.
Considering some of the stories that I’ve heard, the war is ongoing.
Time to buy more popcorn.
More Circular Firing Squad
Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to McCain for years, got fired a week before election day.
It appears that he was leaking stuff to the press that dissed his fellow campaign members to the apparrent benefit of Palin:
One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading “disinformation” about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials.
“He was positioning himself with Palin at the expense of John McCain’s campaign message,” said one of the aides.
And I thought that Hillary’s campaign team was dysfunctional.
I’d rather have Mark Penn on my side than any of these guys….I can’t fracking believe that I just said that.
Wasilla Hillbillies Looting Neiman Marcus from Coast to Coast
That’s got to be the quote of the campaign.
The circular firing squad has begun.
The Onion Election Headlines
Nation Finally Sh%$tty Enough To Make Social Progress
Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job
Bush: ‘Can I Stop Being President Now?’
And my favorite, “McCain Gets Hammered At Local VFW,” though, “Hillary Clinton Resumes Attacking Obama,” is a close second.
The Race Has Been Called for Barack Obama
Woot!!!!
Ohio Goes for Obama
Happy dance.
More States Come In
McCain (70 EV): KS, ND, WY
Obama (175 EV): NY, MI, MN, WI
The MSNBC Interview With David Axelrod
He had a good shot at Mark Penn, about how they weren’t “microtargeting”.
That was Mark Penn’s thing, but he screwed that up in the primaries too.
Heh.
An Observation on ALL The Networks
I’m getting sick and tired of the music with all the melodramatic that they play as they go to, or come from, ad breaks.
Jon Stewart has ruined it for me.
Just a Note
MSNBC has not called Texas, it will, of course, go to McCain, 34 EVs.
More States Come In
MSNBC Calls, Pennsylvania, all of New England, NJ, DE, CD, MD, and IL for Obama.
McCain got KY, SC, OK, and TN.
FL, WV, NC, GA (?), IN, and OH are still too cloes to call.
Current number Obama 103, McCain 34.
Election Update
MSNBC calls VT for Obama and Ky and SC for McCain, so 3 EVs for Obama, and 16 for McCain.
First Call of the Election Night
Wolf Blitzer talking to a pseudo “hologram” of Jessica Yellin is unbelievably lame.
It’s a camera trick, and it’s a stupid camera trick.
George Lucas did this in 1977 (help me Obi Wan, you’re my only hope), they just have a few more cameras, and some more computers, so they can do it real time.
CNN is dead to me tonight.
The Polls from 2 Years Ago
Regardless of what happens today, Obama will have picked up a few EVs over the past 2 years.
Ok, So I’m In Line to Vote, and Blogging From My Phone
Because Maryland does not have early voting.
I wasn’t there when polls opened, because it’s my mom’s Yarzheit,* so I was at Shul to say Kaddish.
In all liklihood, mom would have appreciated the voting more than the Kaddish.
I will vote straight Democrat, not crooked Republican, and I will vot yes on Question 1, allowing for early voting, but no on Question 2, slot parlors.
I don’t think that it will raise much money, and that it is a give away to the race tracks.
Additionally, I think that it is very bad policy to rely too heavily on “sin taxes” and related revenues for too much of the budget. It makes people think that taxes are punishment, when they are dues to live in our society.
The line is pretty long, and someone said that when the polls opened, the line snaked through the parking lot.
In any case, thank God that this election will be over in a few hours.
*Anniversary of her death in the Jewish Lunar Calendar.
A prayer said by mourners and people observing Yarzheit. Interestingly enough, it’s in the now almost dead language of Aramaic, as opposed to most of the prayer book, which is in Hebrew. The languages are very similar though, with most of the differences being in the pronunciation of vowels. You need to have at least 10 people praying together to say
So I won’t have to go through this crap to vote again.
Editorial Cartoons
Bob Geiger has a collection of a dozen or so editorial cartoons. They are amusing…and sad…check them out.
Mithras is Dead Wrong
The proprietor of Tales of the Reconstruction is making fun of Sarah Palin, after she says something so stupid that you hope someone cuts her meat for her.
I’m cool with that, but then s/he says this, “She’s George W. Bush without the intellect. God, I hope this woman is a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination in four years.
No….What’s more, F$#@ no. I have occasinally quoted what my my father said in 1968, which was something like, “Those stupid bastards, they’ve nominated Nixon, there is no way that we can lose now.”
Never, EVER wish a bad candidate on the public. They might just win.
On the other hand, you should clikc on the link and read the blog post. Sarah Palin is very, VERY, stupid, and it’s fun to laugh at her.