Pennsylvania.....

Nov 04, 2008 20:16

Remains BLUE!!!!

All right now, come on--all that needs to happen now is the rest of the country has to follow....

politics, election

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sly_redux November 5 2008, 01:20:11 UTC
That would totally work for me!

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anahata56 November 5 2008, 01:43:41 UTC
How are things where you are?

Have a feel for it yet?

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sly_redux November 5 2008, 01:48:50 UTC
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.

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anahata56 November 5 2008, 01:53:19 UTC
THAT'S a real interesting story, isn't it?

I saw that thing with Coleman's husband on TV the other day, and I was like, What?

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anigo November 5 2008, 01:40:36 UTC
K, quick tell me what I'm looking at. How come Obama has 81 votes vs. McCain's 34 but they're both at 50%?

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anahata56 November 5 2008, 01:42:53 UTC
Popular vote vs. Electoral vote.

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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anigo November 5 2008, 01:43:45 UTC
so the "votes" are the polls themselves? and the percentage is the actual number of votes?

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anahata56 November 5 2008, 01:46:53 UTC
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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batchfile November 5 2008, 01:41:40 UTC
YAY!

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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anahata56 November 5 2008, 01:48:12 UTC
That WOULD be cool.

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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