My neighborhood's going to go for McCain, judging by the yard signs. My state's going to go for Obama. The jury's out regarding the Coleman/Franken race.
The polls are just closing in a lot of places, but east coast is electoral-vote HEAVY. So if he wins a lot of the electoral votes in the east, the popular vote can lag and he's still got it.
The votes are the tally of electoral votes he's won, where the 50/50 percentage is the number of popular votes, yes.
In America, you need 270 electoral votes to win the election. If you win those votes, they can call a victory even before the total popular vote has been tabulated.
This has worked to our disadvantage before (twice), but it looks like we might be able to turn that around tonight.
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Have a feel for it yet?
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I saw that thing with Coleman's husband on TV the other day, and I was like, What?
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The polls are just closing in a lot of places, but east coast is electoral-vote HEAVY. So if he wins a lot of the electoral votes in the east, the popular vote can lag and he's still got it.
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In America, you need 270 electoral votes to win the election. If you win those votes, they can call a victory even before the total popular vote has been tabulated.
This has worked to our disadvantage before (twice), but it looks like we might be able to turn that around tonight.
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you know what would be the most awesome to me? if texas went blue.
but i know that is just a dream...
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I was frankly amazed that it didn't happen when Bush was running, considering what I was hearing about how most Texans felt about him as governor...
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