The OFFICIAL United States Presidential Election Thread! II

[Dinner]

MSNBC is showing Bush ahead in Nevada by 2k votes but with tens of thousands of absentee ballot still to count. Most of them from Clark County which is more liberal then the rest of the state.

[Jack_www]

Bush is ahead in Nevada now.

[imacowmoo 3-:-o]

Reminds me of good old Maddox.

You've got some issue's there if ya get worked up over an election like that. You voted, fine, you lost. Its done. Do something more next time to help your guy win.

[Ben Kenobi]

California gave Kerry a very solid 55 electoral votes, the most in the nation, by a big margin.

4%?

California's in play.

[Lul Thyme]

In any case Although the Bush lead in Ohio is down to 100K , were now at 93 % precinct reported.
Notice Bush is back at 52% popular vote nationwide.
And that there is about 100 Million vote counted up to now, which was one of the commonly heard estimate, but it was vastly under estimated...

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by imacowmoo 3-:-o
Reminds me of good old Maddox.

You've got some issue's there if ya get worked up over an election like that. You voted, fine, you lost. Its done. Do something more next time to help your guy win.

I agree.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lul Thyme
Actually even with Nevada, Iowa and NM, without Ohio Bush loses...

Nveda and Iowa remain to close to call, New Mexico is to Bush. Ohio is likely Bush but there are lots of ballots still to go.

[joncha]

CNN has just officially declared Ohio "too close to call"

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk


OOOOOH NO...you guys are NOT taking Washington DC AGAIN!

We'll throw in a roll of hockey tape.

[Lul Thyme]

Ohio is now officially too close to call for CNN


beaten it seems

[Dinner]

Originally posted by imacowmoo 3-:-o
You've got some issue's there if ya get worked up over an election like that.

So says the guy who's spent two pages shouting OMG!!!!111!!! DASHAL LOST!!!!!!111!!11!!1!!

Are you honestly accussing someone of getting to worked up?

[Ned]

Democrats have a lot to think about. They continue to lose ground nationally. Republicans have controlled Congress for 12 years. (With a short hiatus due to Senator Jeffers going Independent.) Republican Congressional margins are increasinng. An unpopular, inarticulate president is re-elected over a smooth and eloguent Democrat candidate. In fact, no Democrat presidential candidate has won even 50% of the vote since Carter in '76. Carter was also the last Democrat to sweep the South. (Note please that Clinton, like Carter, was also a Southern Democrat.)

Why are the Democrats increasingly becoming a minority party?

The consensus view among the talking heads is that they are on the wrong side of the social values equation. Since Reagan, social conservatives, regardless of economic status, are increasingly voting Republican. There seems no way for the Democrats ever to reverse this trend until and unless they move once again to America's social values center.

[Lul Thyme]

Kerry retakes the lead in Nevada (by 400 votes)

[Dinner]

Kerry now up by 400 votes in Nevada. It's a real hand ringer in Nevada.

[Lul Thyme]

Iowa, Nevada and Wisconsin and MAYBE Ohio will remain within recounting range.
To win , Bush needs either Ohio, or all the other 3.