Posted on 11/02/2008 5:17:00 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread for the week including our big huge election night discussion thread (it's all here!) Starting off with Howie's column in today's Boston Herald, "Five Reasons To Vote Against Obama". Howie Carr is a longtime Boston Herald columnist who also does a longrunning afternoon talk show in the northeast U.S.
Who knew? Sununu! Sen. Sununu on now; he says it’s a high
turnout in NH
raw numbers are starting to come in on Fox News Channel
from states like KY, ME, and NH but it’s less than one
percent of the vote so far...
I think Howie’s off at 7 and WRKO goes to Fox News
coverage with local tie-ins when nec. I’ll monitor TV and
maybe some radio and try to get results on races, ballot
questions.
from SaveWRKO.com
by Brian Maloney:
Memo To Howie: They Were Wrong In 2004
Is there a bigger downer on the air today than Howie Carr?
Perhaps he’s right about the outcome, but jeez, Howie, those exit polls were dead wrong four years ago.
Why do you believe them now?
BTW: I wrote in Carr’s name to prevent having to vote for tyrant-coddling scumbag Bill Delahunt. Luckily, I didn’t run into Hugo Chavez’s buddy at the polling place.
—B.Maloney
NECN —with 5 per cent of vote in they have
Shaheen 57%
Sununu 43% I think
another senate pick up
been a pretty bad night—we’ll see what happens w/
ballot questions. Jeane Shaheen the Taxing Machine wins.
I have NECN on at the moment—they say F’n Kerry about
to speak. Click! Back to Fox News
CT: Will the only GOP House member in New England lose?
Which one is the R Rep in CT?? Any word on Olver?
Shays, and he’s losing bad.
Q1 in Mass—eliminating income tax
WBZ-TV 4 News On Ch 38 says it’s losing 71-29, I think.
People love paying income tax!
Olver winning big
US Representative - MA 1st District
29 of 255 Precincts Reporting
NAME VOTES Pct.
John Olver (D) 21,240 70% (W)
Nate Bech (G) 9,186 30%
The questions. We love income tax, we want to decriminalize
pot, and we want to throw dog racing employees out of
their jobs.
MA Question 1 - Income Tax Ban
419 of 2168 Precincts Reporting
NAME VOTES Pct.
No 375,000 69% (W)
Yes 165,200 31%
MA Question 2 - Decriminalize Marijuana
418 of 2168 Precincts Reporting
NAME VOTES Pct.
Yes 348,488 65%
No 188,207 35%
MA Question 3 - Dog Racing Ban
418 of 2168 Precincts Reporting
NAME VOTES Pct.
Yes 299,257 56%
No 232,038 44%
This state is pathetic!
So is the entire NE of the country for that matter.
Here’s what’s happening with Diane Wilkerson’s seat
State Senate - 2nd Suffolk
8 of 73 Precincts Reporting
NAME VOTES Pct.
Sonia Chang-Diaz (D) 5,203 93%
William Leonard (S) 266 5%
Write-Ins 144 3%
If you’re wondering about the various incumbents,
all Dems like Markey, Frank, Tierney, Olver? They all
won and won big.
It’s worse than I thought. We’re screwed locally.
I decided tonight I am looking to move South. I love New England but enough’s enough.
There is either massive voter fraud in this state or everybody here is insane. I surrender. Seriously. I’m getting out if at all possible.
There is either massive voter fraud in this state or everybody here is insane.
Insanity rules.If you go, it looks like N.Carolina has gone blue
ALl the Mass Rats that moved down there took their voting habits with them. It’s like a virus...
I know a few of them..
There goes Swifty...
Gone to the dogs: Mass. voters approve racing ban
BOSTON - Massachusetts voters have approved a ban on greyhound racing.
The measure will force the state’s two greyhound race tracks to close their doors by Jan. 1, 2010.
Supporters argued greyhound racing is inhumane and that greyhounds are routinely injured during races, including broken legs, paralysis and even death from cardiac arrest.
The state’s dog tracks say the greyhounds are well cared for and looked after by veterinarians. They also pointed to their efforts to ensure greyhounds are adopted once their racing days are over.
The track owners say eliminating the tracks will take a financial toll on the state. They said up to 1,000 workers will lose their jobs.
A similar question narrowly lost eight years ago.
We’re f-—ed.
Wed. column ping, show ping.
It’s a moonbat nation - but I’m no citizen
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo
Photo by AP
I’ve gotten used to living in a moonbat state, I’m just not sure how well I’m going to adjust to living in a moonbat nation.
Here’s how bad this election was. The night before every election, in the final hour of my radio show, I always give any candidate who calls in one minute to make a final pitch to the voters.
Monday night, I had 29 candidates call in, from two states, from U.S. Senate to county commissioner. Yesterday at least 27 of them lost, maybe more, and I’m only sure about one guy who won - Sen. Scott Brown.
Last night for Republicans was like 1994 or 1980 for Democrats. They were standing on the shore when a tidal wave hit. The only Republican congressional candidate I saw who ousted a Democrat incumbent was down in Florida. That guy - one of the Rooneys of Pittsburgh Steelers fame - was lucky enough to be running against a one-term incumbent who’d just been outed for paying off a female campaign worker $121,000 for sexual harassment.
The Republicans couldn’t even take out John Murtha in Pennsylvania after he called his own constituents racists and rednecks.
For once I agree with the moonbats who will shortly run the nation: It’s all Bush’s fault. Maybe it would have been better if Kerry had knocked him off in - no, I won’t go that far, not even now.
Not to sound too much like a 12-step program, but sometimes in life you do have to hit bottom. The Republicans reached their nadir last night.
But let’s look on the bright side. Question 2 passed. Marijuana possession has been decriminalized, officially, as opposed to unofficially, which happened here around 1970.
Everybody must get stoned.
I can’t believe Question 1 to abolish the state income tax lost by more than 2-1. This now gives everyone at the State House who’s not going to Washington carte blanche to raise taxes. You know what the hacks will say: “The people of Massachusetts are too smart not to know that they need higher taxes for the children.”
All I’m left with is an ancient Mr. Dooley column that sums up the devastation when one party gets wiped out. Here’s what he said, with the dialect removed:
“Something will turn up, you bet. When the lads that are baskin’ in the sunshine of prosperity find that the sunshine has been turned off an’ their fellow-baskers has relieved them of what they had in the dark, we’ll take the boys by the hand and say, ‘Come on over with your own kind. Now that you’re down we’ll not turn a cold shoulder to you. Come in and we’ll keep ye - broke.’ ”
Until then, it’s a moonbat nation.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1130167
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