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2008 General Election Live Thread
Poll Closing Times ^ | November 4, 2008 | xjcsa

Posted on 11/04/2008 3:49:45 PM PST by xjcsa

First whole states close in 12 minutes.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008election; election; electionday; mccain; obama; obummer
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To: defconw

Does anyone know where I can get a “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for McCain” bumper sticker?


1,441 posted on 11/04/2008 7:42:17 PM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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To: HollyB

That is ridiculous. IF Obama does win, we are going to be even more divided then we were under Clinton.


1,442 posted on 11/04/2008 7:42:20 PM PST by retrokitten ("That would be crazy...CRAZY EXCITING!" - John McCain)
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To: paul544

Here’s some reality for you and your loser mentality.

I do believe General Patton would shoot your a$$...

Quitters NEVER win.


1,443 posted on 11/04/2008 7:42:24 PM PST by Khepri (It's the audacity, stupid!)
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To: goldstategop
They have, but not by the margins I feared going into tonight. My worse fear was of a Dole-like blowout and even with McCain losing the EC pretty badly, the raw vote tally won't bear that out. And yes, it matters because if O wins alot of the battlegrounds on razor thin margins with alot of fickle voters, then its easy come easy go I say.

CA and the left coast will probably put O up by 5 million votes or so, but that's not that far off from Bush's 3 million vote win in 2004 that was an EC squeaker. With the crap we had to endure the last 2 years and with the tanking stock market this year (manufactured imo), we should have been looking at a Dukakis style asskicking.

I guess what I'm getting at is that a) alot of undecideds broke for McCain (but not enough) and b) the Dems are ripe for a beatdown in 2010 and c) unless O pulls off a great economy out of his hat in the 4 years (doubtful), he is already very vulnerable going into 2012. Oh, and c) the Dem manufactured bad economy is now on their necks...gl with that.

1,444 posted on 11/04/2008 7:42:30 PM PST by Citizen of the Savage Nation
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To: prairiebreeze
Exactly. For years we have heard: Tax cuts for the rich... has Bush, even one time, ever come out and explained how those tax cuts benefit us to keep jobs IN the USA and provide jobs for people????

Tonight a woman called Mark Levin from Alabama and said their doctor office will lay off their 10 billers if Obama is elected and puts in his tax plan... people have no idea what is about to befall them,... and WAIT until people finally wake up to the Dems plans for their 401k plans... as in no more and mandatory 5% deposit to SS to be administered by SS and only pay 3% a year, less than average cost of living.... vs avg of 7.6% ROV on individual retirement plans...

Gas prices today are down to $2.20... well good luck with that, another ploy IMHO to get people to forget about $4 fuel and high cost of food, under Bambi we will be at $7 or $8 a gallon.

Selfish, stupid, uninformed voters just sold us all down the river tonight... and yes, I am angry about it. I lived through Carter and it was hell!

1,445 posted on 11/04/2008 7:42:36 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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I hope that Talk Radio hosts like Rush, Neal, Sean Mark, Rust Laura, and Michael Reagan etc. do not get kicked off the air for good, but with Obama elected no sure bets....


1,446 posted on 11/04/2008 7:42:39 PM PST by yield 2 the right
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To: Citizen of the Savage Nation

VA called for Hussein Damn!


1,447 posted on 11/04/2008 7:43:17 PM PST by NYC Republican (PLENTY of time for analysis/I-told-you-so in 2 days. Now, Infuriate the MSM--- Support McCain/Palin)
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To: romanesq

If true I don’t blame them...here’s the current results from the Ohio SOS

Statewide Presidential Results[Statewide Precincts Reporting: 41.10% ]
Candidate % Of Votes Number Of Votes
Obama, Barack (D) 49.56 % 1,009,974
McCain, John (R) 48.80 % 994,636


1,448 posted on 11/04/2008 7:43:30 PM PST by mfccinsd
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To: Kitten1

[Statewide Presidential Results
Statewide Precincts Reporting: 41.10%]

Candidate % Of Votes Number Of Votes
Obama, Barack (D) 49.56 % 1,009,974
McCain, John (R) 48.80 % 994,636

*Ohio Secretary of State Official Election website
http://vote.sos.state.oh.us/pls/enrpublic/f?p=130:14:0


1,449 posted on 11/04/2008 7:43:35 PM PST by Kitten1 (12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55 -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
If anyone says anything to me tomorrow at work...I will have to just say “I am a conservative. We have different views..”

I've been thinking about my responses too. Like you, honesty is what I'm going to give. If this makes their lives fulfilled, congrats...but I will point out that I'm not big into hero worship, especially that of a politician. I simply can't understand people who pin their hopes, dreams and lives on politicians. I find it pathetic, kind of an admission of failure to care for oneself.

I will also reserve, with some of my snarkier liberal acquaintances, the right to say "I told you so" in a few years and remind them when they are bitching that they wanted 'change'...and got it.
1,450 posted on 11/04/2008 7:43:55 PM PST by LostInBayport (John McCain is the Luckiest Man Alive...mere mortals such as we can only wonder why...)
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To: prairiebreeze

Cannot believe Virginia has turned Blue!


1,451 posted on 11/04/2008 7:44:00 PM PST by StarFan
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To: dfwgator

No. but this is no joke. They will arrest you.


1,452 posted on 11/04/2008 7:44:33 PM PST by defconw (Vote for the Lipstick NOT the Dipstick)
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To: goldstategop
Slightly under half the country rejected their candidate...

Oh you watch. Pelosi and her gang will call this a mandate.

1,453 posted on 11/04/2008 7:44:40 PM PST by 386wt (Be free and don't die!)
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To: mystery-ak
Hi, Mystery, they sure did...

BTW tell R4R I hope she gets involved and they start looking for someone to defeat Harry Reid, I want that skinny little jerk gone in two years.

1,454 posted on 11/04/2008 7:45:04 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: prairiebreeze
Prairiebreeze loses her cookies.

Yep. I switched back to Ace of Cakes on Food Network. They are making a cake that looks like a dog.

1,455 posted on 11/04/2008 7:45:13 PM PST by retrokitten ("That would be crazy...CRAZY EXCITING!" - John McCain)
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To: StarFan

Mandate? Mandate my ass, pardon my language.
To do what? Cut taxes for “95% of Americans” and be a phony Reagan.

What else? Kill babies who survive abortions.


1,456 posted on 11/04/2008 7:45:13 PM PST by romanesq
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To: Flightdeck

You couldn’t be any more spot on with your comments.

Living in what has now become the welfare capital of America. Cuyahoga County. if you look at some of the local/state issues you wouldn’t be suprised.

Somehow, Dennis Kucinich wins his Congressional seat. AGAIN.

Attorney General Marc Dann’s replacement, Richard Courdray is winning by something like 85-15. Again, Dann resigned his position in disgrace but it didn’t matter.

Another attempt to get casinos in Ohio failed again. Why, because adding 10,000 jobs gives the opportunity to take 10,000 people off of welfare. But in the welfare capital of America, where everyday is the weekend, that couldn’t be allowed to happen.

2 out of 3 Cuyahoga County commissoners are involved in a federal investigation. The one who isn’t involved, Peter Lawson Jones, is beating his Republician opponent 65%-35%.. It really doesn’t matter that Cuyahoga County spent 45% of our local tax dollars on entitlements, and that 1 in 3 working aged residents get some kind of taxpayer funded support.

I could go on, OK, I will. The last time Cleveland was any good. Where jobs were good paying and weekends only lasted 2 days, and where maybe 10% of residents were paid not to work, a fella by the name of George Vonivich was mayor. That was 1981.

Since, with more than 25 years of complete Democratic control we see what has happened. I owning a grocery store am on the frontlines. I know who works and who doesn’t. If I dare try to tell one of them to work. I get laughed at. And if I try to make issue of it to any leaders, it is dismissed as me not being knowledable of the situation.

Then there are the having kids to get more money crowd. We are very proud of having a 17 year old mother of SEVEN living in our county. See it makes to much sense for the school leaders to go into the schools and tell the kids, if you have a child we’re done taking care of them. But no, generation after generation of welfarers go unchecked, and then the eldest get Social Security that they didn’t even fund with their own tax dollars.

Meanwhile those of us who still work see more taken away from us. It has to stop sometime. But tonight didn’t provide that opportunity.

Pray very hard for America. We really need it now!


1,457 posted on 11/04/2008 7:45:32 PM PST by cleveland gop (I FREEP, Therefore I am! There is no other choice---MCCAIN/PALIN '08)
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To: goldstategop

the DEms won..THAT IS ALL THAT COUNTS!

And they will win again and again and again! “Real substance “ or not.

NONE OF THIS MATTERS IF FRAUDULANT ELECTIONS ARE THE NORM!

Look at the actual vote numbers...they are very very close if you count the hundreds of thousands of Acorn fraud registrations and votes!

Who the Helllll cares about issues and what we should do in campaigning and how to deal with the DEms in congres????

It doesn’t matter if the Rats can steal the election.


1,458 posted on 11/04/2008 7:46:04 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Obozo.....friend of dictators and wannabee revoluuuushionaries !)
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To: retrokitten
but hopefully this makes you smile a little...

It does :) Thank you for that.

I'm still praying, fervently.

Father, You know the desires of our hearts before we can even speak them. You know things that we can't understand. You guide our paths always. We ask you, Lord, to please spare us from this man who does not love this country, who pretends to know You, but by his own actions proves otherwise. Have mercy on us, Jesus. Nothing is impossible for You! Amen.

1,459 posted on 11/04/2008 7:46:49 PM PST by silent_jonny (You are always with us, Lord)
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To: StarFan

Electoral Landslide. Looks like the polls were right, although not necessarily on the Popular Vote. Time to rebuild the GOP from the bottom up. Eject out the RINO-trash. So, two years in the shitter. Thank GOD I live in TEXAS!!!


1,460 posted on 11/04/2008 7:46:53 PM PST by Tuxedo (Texas Secession, Anyone?)
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