Election Prediction Thread

Originally posted by Celeste:

Originally posted by sweetcell:
wanna hate foreigners even more? check out this article on CNN. below are a few quotes….

This all sounds pretty much right on to me.

yeah, me too… oh, wait, i'm a damn foreigner. this all makes sense now.

ah, the dead milkmen… <wipes a tear>

Tester was just awarded Montana.

NY Times

Originally posted by vansmack:
Tester was just awarded Montana.

NY Times

i was just watching CNN on lunch break, and hate to tell you, but Burns has not yet conceeded in Montana. THey are now talking about a recall there, but according to montana law, it makes it quite difficult, it would have to be a closer race (burns being down by <2000 votes). and gotta love new yorkers, the whole office cheered when rumsfeld resigned!

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
Burns has not yet conceeded in Montana.

Have we not learned anything from 2000?

He doesn't have to concede, we just have to claim victory and move on!

Originally posted by you be betty:
I was on CNN like a hawk last night until I turned over and fell asleep during the commercials around 10something.

AND NOW I'M FRANTICALLY CLICKING to find out what the hell happened after I went to sleep.

I know what you mean. I headed down to DC to see The Elected right after voting, and had no idea what was going on until getting home at almost three in the morning. I turned on the news and hopped online as soon as I walked in the door. :)

The results are so much better than I could have hoped for. The Dems gained even more seats in the House than I expected, and the fact that they might actually take the Senate surprised the hell out of me. And even though I was expecting it, seeing Santorum lose was quite satisfying.

And Rumsfeld stepping down!! Talk about icing on the cake! And not that crappy icing, either, but the whipped cream kind that's actually good! I definitely didn't see that coming.

Favorite quote from WTWP "Here's something you did not here when he was here before, Heath Shuler won."

i like this one-

"Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world - a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!"

THAT WAS amazing.


But Jesus H. Of course we live under a corrupt system of law, hell, I NEVER questioned that. But if you know a flying fuck about anything having to do with politics then yes, this does matter. It matters a lot.

Frankly, if you're going to sit there tossing in your hat saying that it doesn't matter and it's too corrupt a system to change, the same corrupt a-holes are going to keep getting elected and you will only contribute to the flawed system.
You have no right to sit there and whine if you aren't going to even care enough to ATTEMPT to evoke some sort of change. So don't criticize me for caring.
If you're so pissed with the way they've been handling things, YOU should be the one following this and putting in your two cents and getting out there and doing something about it. If everyone sat down and said their votes didn't matter than no one would go to the polls at all.

I voted a straight democratic ticket. Hey, do I want my son's benefits cut…

even as a canadian i couldnt be happier about this day. (hell, i am marrying an american and honestly plan to live here the rest of my life!)

i gave money and supported o malley and cardin and even attended the rally at the Hippodrome last night, man was it a great scene.

i am truly excited and very optimistic about the direction the country and the state i live in (especially the state i live in) is going to take. i may not have had a vote to be counted, but i like to think i am helping the place i live to be a better one!

i am happy to be living in America today! :)

I wish I lived in Canada. Northern Ontario. MD sucks!

Allen to concede.