Open Bar – As The Numbers Trickle In
Please post your drunken thoughts as tonight’s election results come in.
Also, feel free to relate your own personal experiences at the polls.
Assuming the Black Panthers, ACORN and the media did not manage to suppress you.
I’ve already had two beers and I’m feeling good.
GOO PALIN/MCCAIN! YOU CAN DOOO EEEEEEETTT!!
And there was a extreme lack of Black Panthers, ACORN officals, or bitter white people clinging to guns and God.
I vote at a retirement community, alas. Just a bunch of old people.
Earliest poll: [FOX NEWS CHANNEL]
New voters: 3/1 for Obama over McCain
Virginia white men: 58% McCain, 39% Obama
[Ok...who else is bracing for the tidal wave of prejudice and stereotyping directed at them, as I am? I'm a WASP male from southwest Virginia, 41 y/o, and I am going to be grouped, categorized, and assumed to be RACIST from here on out, to be sure.]
Start the night off with my specially made NOBAMA sign being knocked over..
I am SO ready Ding Ding lets get it ON!!
Voting went fine. I had a couple shots of bourbon and walked down to the polling station with the kids. Got there and a woman with a Kerry Edwards sticker on her car walked in right ahead of me with her daughter apparently to show her the ropes. Being an actual regular voter I walked into the church, turned right, down the hall, left and right into the room they do the polling, walked straight to the table while Ms. Kerry was getting her bearings.
“We were here first.”
“Of course you were” I reply.
Not like there was a line, no reason to get stressed.
Cast my vote, rolled my eyes at the Obama mama and left.
Now seriously drinking and watching Pooh and friends w/ my kids. :-)
Now I’m just hanging out, listening to the Glenn Beck stream. I think Ann is gonna be on there…I can’t recall, though.
Hi, I have no predictions. Either way conservative thinkers will have to do a lot of heavy lifting in upcoming years, to sort this all out.
I went to the polls here in Los Angeles, California, and the line was very short, it took me only 11 minutes to get to the tables. The hype about huge turnout struck me as wildly exaggerated.
I was disturbed, however. Of 9 people waiting in line, 4 of them were seeking “provisional ballots.” All of them got to cast their ballots as I watched. These were people who claimed tried to register but never got a mailer back from LA County. They said they lived in districts very far away and needed to use our voting site even though they aren’t on the rolls and might not even be California residents. I hope someone checked their IDs, but I don’t know…. I just don’t know. That’s not a great ratio, probably worse because there is a university down the street. I have no doubt those folks were Obamatrons, and I am certain their ballots will get counted with the rest of ours. I don’t think people should be able to cast any ballot unless their names are on the rolls like the rest of us who followed the rules and followed up on things.
On the bright side, my 2 year old daughter came with me to vote and this was her first chance to experience an election! Hopefully in 2024, when she’s eighteen, she’ll have a chance to re-elect Bobby Jindal.
Hey, can someone on this site start a similar community for followers of Sarah and Bobby? They are our party’s future.
http://www.breitbart.com/artic....._article=1
HAH! Yea, your punk ass better thank them. They pretty much handed you the election on a silver platter. Now, be sure to thank the New York Times and bail them out, making them the first Government-Owned Media outlet.
…of course, if he does lose, that makes this victory all the more sweeter. We Conservatives would have beaten the MSM.
Which is always a great feeling.
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We could always just start a Facebook page or something.
Linkedin, perhaps?
Enjoy it while you can, guys.
McCain is in the lead 8-3 in Electoral Votes.
I am now heading up to the party headquarters in Valencia, California. Let’s see what the mood is like. I’ll be offline for the night!
I am so ashamed I pulled for McCain, but as a South Carolinian I abandoned his little buddy, Grahamnesty. Not that it matters, believe he’s the first Senate seat claimed to be saved.
I am sorry that one of the few great states that carried Goldwater would lead to McCain’s rise to this current situation. Oh, the mighty have fallen.
Dole. Screwed the pooch.. bad timing. Shame.
Current electoral projections (Fox News Channel):
81 Obama
39 McCain
I’m going to pour some vodka…
Damn…there goes Pa. Fox just came back from a spot break to call that Pa will probably go to Obama. After Murtha ran his mouth the way he has, I was hoping to steal that state from the Dems.
103 – 69
How in God’s name did Murtha get re-elected in PA?
It doesnt make sense.. how in the hell can they predict winners based on <1%? they might as well take last week’s polls to determine the winners.
It aint over yet. but the complicity of the press makes it easier for the insurgent Obamites to argue fraud when they lose.
Watching the elections in the sun over here in New Zealand, taking a little shot for every red state announced :p
I had no problem voting here in VA. But the very confused lady in front of me was allowed to vote despite not seeming to know what her last name is. First the poll worker told her to go in the M-Z line, rather than A-L. Then they were mentioning a different last name, which began with a K. They asked her several times if that was her last name and she gave confused answers. So they marked her down with that last name and gave her a ballot. Sigh.
“how in the hell can they predict winners based on <1%?”
They have exit poll results for all the precincts, or at least most of them.
They compare the exit polls with the actual results to see how far off they are. If the exit polls are accurate for the first few precincts, they can call it pretty quick.
Brit just now asked the panel on Fox News Channel whether or not, as of the results so far tonight, we are a different country than the former “center-right” we used to be, in favor now of being a “center-left” nation.
*sigh*
Ohio has been called for Obama on FNC.
Already through one stiff drink, here. Heading for another soon…
(at least Virginia and Florida are currently too close to call)
Sam Adams black lager here.
Is it just me or does Britt Hume seem a little loose and giddy tonight? Like maybe he’s been tossing a few back himself?
I’ve been watching/listening to him all evening. I’ve been listening for hints of that from him, but honestly, he isn’t slurring, which is usually the first sign.
Otherwise, he’s on for hours, tonight, compared to his usual hour each night. He’s probably running on next to empty, already, but he isn’t stumbling or slurring at all, yet. I think he’s doing well.
And, as far as my personal experience at the polls: I voted two weeks ago, shortly after Florida’s polling centers opened. Mine was trouble-free, due to a mostly-elderly room full of people. I preserved it all on my blog, accessible from clicking my name here.
Well, at least Texas did it right. I can take solace in the fact that I live in a sane state. Maybe if the whole country goes socialist we can secede or something. Honey, can you bring me another beer?
Anyway, who is John Galt? ;)
Haven’t been drinking but am looking for a bucket
I can tell you who John Galt is…John Galt is the Prometheus who changed his mind.
I am reading Atlas Shrugged right now and had to ask.
Harry is proclaiming a “mandate” all ready. I only have two pints of Guiness Draught remaining before I go into the liquor and an alarm clock set to 5:30 AM. Someone give me a happy thought.
Atlas Shrugged is a beautiful masterpiece from a woman who knew communism far more than I pray our children ever shall.
Well, it’s settled. My wife and I have already decided that the McCain/Palin signs stay up in the yard indefinitely as a form of protest.
Well, so far it reads as if Ayn was watching the Obama campaign unfold while writing it.
Comrades, what will happen to us? I have ingested 1/2 a bottle of wine on an empty stomach so I’m sure I won’t feel well tomorrow anyway.
Our yard sign is up too and will be until there is nothing left of it. I am hoping VA at least votes for McCain although I knew Gilmore had no chance in hell as I voted for him this morning.
I am depressed and now hate Fox news. Harry Reid and Botox Nancy make my skin crawl. I think I’m going to go and puke.
Palin/Jindal 2012-what do you all think?
Will check in tomorrow comrades.
catie
Well, Obama’s over the top. Unless California goes for McCain which I don’t expect. :-)
Anyone know where I can get a “Don’t blame me I voted for McCain” bumper sticker?
I don’t hate Fox News yet, but I can tell you I’ve had my fill of Bill Kristol . . . but not of this black lager. What would Sam Adams think of Obama’s tax plan?
I hear ya, James. I’m working on some vodka tonight. About to mix a third one, now.
BTW, the passage that explains the question can be found on page 486 (early in chapter V) in my Signet (Penguin), 1985 copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Trying to avoid drawing conclusions from Fox’s 220 vs 138 projections. Where’s that vodka?
And Sam Adams was part of the crowd that started a NEW NATION because of 3% taxation!
*sigh*
Fox just called Va for Obama…
I think what we need to do is to keep nominating these moderate Republicans. It always works so well. I mean, just look at how McCain carried the moderates and undecideds. Running as Democrat-lite always gets us a voctory over the liber . . . have I had too much to drink?
Fox just called the election for Obama, after getting Ca projections in.
11:47pm McCain begins his concession speech. He looks chocked up as he waves off the many “boos” that ramp up as he strikes the tones that any of us can read a mile away.
The fight is over. For John McCain.
im leaving before his speech starts, B. Hussein Obama, that is.
I was booing along with the people when McCain congratulated obama.
but thank you, to this site which i frequently checked (almost daily)
2012 is our only hope.
It’s official.
In the words of the old negro spiritual, “we have been overcome.”
I do think we owe it to the Democrats to show their newly elected President exactly the same level of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican President.
Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.
Say Goodnight Gracie
Oh brother. The end is at hand.
Well, any of you who are out there, stop by my blog from time to time — http://www.bronzepage.com. I’ll keep throwing ideas out. And Godspeed to all — radio silence until 2012.
Palin/Jindal 2012.
I worked the polls at my local polling place. Nothing totally beyond the pail but do I really need to say who were the most obnoxious voters, having to be reminded numerous times that electioneering is not allowed at the polls? Several people screamed his name on the way out the door after they finished voting, probably thinking they were the first to cleverly get the last word over us mean old election workers.
Also, my daughter was told at her school (not a polling place) to remove her pro-McCain sign from her locker by a teacher. And so it begins…
Oops. My mistake. It wasn’t her locker. It was taped to her coat.
Well I picked up my son from school and took him to vote. Was harassed by the gay mafia on prop 8 (CA measure to ban gay marriage). I told them how I felt in a non confrontational way (In Cali it is considered a hate crime if you disagree with a gay…go figure). Voted against all odds for the McCain and Super Woman ticket….left and told the dude from the gay mafia I voted against him; a great feeling(thank God I can afford to pay for private schools or my kids would be warped in this state).
I have never seen so much hatred from the left as I have seen in this election. Signs removed from the yard, vandalism and an overall sense of “it our way or no way.” I love the party of free speech and brotherly love. I actually taped a Yes on 8 sign to a beam on my house(as all the other signs had been stolen) and some bloke entered my property, climbed on my roof and removed it. The only joy I have tonight is to see we have defeated these fascists on Prop 8 in the heart of the liberal beast. The next step is to start transferring my money offshore and working on my gun collection. I am really kind of anxious on what the next 4 years have in store for us. I think the next step is to hop across the boarder to Nevada and save myself 10% on my state taxes.
Bro, you can always come to Texas where sanity still rules.
I think Latinos blog post really helped put me in a better mood. I mean, sure, what’s coming will be horrid and scary…but you know what, I’m really looking forward to it. I’m really looking forward to the Race Card(TM) being invalid for now on.
I’m really looking forward to the end of Jesse Jackson & Rev. Al Sharpton. Where is their evidence now? They have nothing, for 52% of Americans had voted for Obama. That includes white people too; that means white people appear to accept blacks. You can kiss their those hustlers goodbye.
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LEAST, GOD ALMIGHTY, WE’RE FREE AT LAST!!!
Now let’s see how those two (and others) do without any race cards backing them…
Virginia isn’t the Old Dominion anymore. We were planning to move next year; now we’ll need to find a new state.
CIV – the top two states in our running are TX and AK. Both still have great gun ‘laws’ and taxes are sane (among other things). Most especially for people like us – retired military.
We are just waiting until my hubby graduates – 2010 can’t come soon enough now.
I am so ashamed this AM – of course most of the problem lies with the GOP putting forth a RHINO. . . We have met the enemy and he is us.
@ Latinos, have added your blog to my list of favorites. Agree let’s start working towards Palin/Jindal 2012.
Celina, that is terrible about your daughter. What a nightmare.
I can’t believe the Old Dominion is blue. I’m sick about it. THe only reason Webb is now the senior senator here is one word-Makkaka.
The Republican Party is Useless, whoever is and has been in charge at the top should get a one way ticket to Iraq!
I really need to move back to Kentucky, post haste.
Palin/Jindal would be a great ticket for ‘12. Let’s hope that we can get them involved in a fair election this time.
I’m really looking forward to the Race Card(TM) being invalid for now on.
It will be less valid, especially for formerly apathetic onlookers & whatever percentage of blacks will now finally be convinced that whites aren’t actually lying awake nights plotting how to keep them from succeeding. But it will still be valid to those who don’t want to have to tell themselves a very difficult truth for any fragile ego: while there certainly still are bigoted individuals there is no glass ceiling. That’s a hard truth b/c it means they’ll have to face the fact that they actually were passed over for that job or promotion b/c they weren’t competent enough or b/c their self-aggrandisement &/or self-pity made them too difficult to deal with, not b/c of their skin color. A lot of people will never be willing to acknowledge that about themselves.
This applies to some females, too. Despite Hillary’s strong showing & Sarah Palin being a VP nominee, there will still be females who will go around whining about how that evil glass ceiling still remains intact.
I’m really looking forward to the end of Jesse Jackson & Rev. Al Sharpton.
They’ll go on doing as they’ve been doing. After all, they earn very comfortable livings at it, so wherever there’s anything they can shout ‘Racism!’ at, they’ll do it. Their charges of racism will simply seem even more hollow than they already have been for quite some time.
One thing that will be interesting to see is how much the Race Card(TM) will be used by Obama in trying to get any unpopular policies of his passed. Especially certain policies like amnesty & health care (which, imho, he’ll probably attempt soon). He did use the race card in his election when he had to, albeit mostly via surrogates, so is he going to say anyone who opposes certain policies of his is motivated by racism? And if he, or more likely his surrogates, do that will the American public be cowed into white guilt-induced submission by this or will they see that for the manipulation it is & keep fighting? We’ll see…
Sir Corky, I don’t blame you.