Election Day Open Thread

Well, this is it — election day. It’s been an enormous pleasure covering all the downballot races with you over the past couple of years. Let’s hope we have a lot of reasons to celebrate tonight.

We’ll be rolling with liveblog coverage of the House and Senate races later this evening, so go vote (if you haven’t already) and strap yourselves in for one long night.

Feel free to use this as an open thread.

UPDATE (David):

Man that felt good!

33 thoughts on “Election Day Open Thread”

  1. This is so stressful.  The weather is icky and I don’t know… sigh.  I just need the voting to be over so I can breathe again.

  4. 1. Republicans were so gleeful that I thought the Murdoch news group must have ferreted out a Jew in Berlin. Turned out to be an illegal Kenyan in Boston who also happens to be Obama’s aunt. Anyway, Republicans are delighted.

    The Boston Herald (where you can read about McCain’s victory tomorrow morning) covered this in greater detail than its pro Democratic counterpart the Globe.

    2. Why do the republicans do so well at state level in DE?

    3. Stuart Rothenberg will be giving away wisdom free of charge on PBS this evening.

    3. JLT, Gregoire and Perdue have, among Democrats, 3 of the worst campaigns (Perdue may not). I hate to bash them as much as I would like to because I am afraid of being seen as an MCP.

    4. (Contd. from above) Kanjo was better. I called him everything. I even asked to cut him loose and not spend any money on him a long time ago.

    5. Eagleberger should have sworn an oath to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

    6. Is Specter up in 2010? Other than Vitter, whom are we targeting?

    7. Bill Jefferson got into trouble before the 2008 election. Why is he not indicted yet? Has the White House slowed down the wheels of Justice?

  6. came out during the 11PM (PST) news last night. At a small town in NH on the Canadian border, voting started at 12AM local. The results were announced soon afterwards. Obama – 15, McCain – 6, Nader – 0. Bob Barr must have thought it beneath his dignity to contest in such a place.

    May the good news roll.

    To those of you who have not heard about Canada:

    It is a big province north of us. We get our weather from there.

  7. Hey everyone,

    I kinda posted in the wrong place earlier about this, so here it is in the right thread.

    There’s a victory party being held by the state Democratic party this evening, from 8 PM to midnight EST, over in Hartford, which is about 45 minutes’ drive to get into the city from here.  I won’t be able to be online then, of course, and I likely won’t be online when I’m at the party either, so I won’t be able to liveblog anything or be on IRC (even though, yeah, I know not many people go on there, even though I’d love for more of ya to stop by!).

    Or I can stay home and keep both the TV and internet connection going, and save gas and $5 parking.

    What do YOU think I should do?

  8. My local paper always does a poll of morning voters in Boone County.

    This is not a scientific poll and it may reflect that Democrats were more enthusiastic and voted earlier.

    Boone County went 50/50 for Bush/Kerry with Bush barely winning in 04. Hulshof is from Boone County so losing big to Nixon here if true would be a big problem for him.

    Boone County makes up 25% of the Missouri 9th district and will be from 25 to 33% of the districtwide vote so Baker’s 62-38% lead in Boone County (if the actual results are like this) would require her to stay within 8-12 points in the rest of the district. I predicted that her path to victory would require about a 20 point win in Boone County and staying within 7-10 points elsewhere. The drop off in total votes cast on the D side of the ticket is a bit of a potential problem.

    Encouraging is in the election day story they cite a Republican who is crossing over to vote for Judy Baker.

    http://blogs.columbiatribune.c…

    http://www.columbiatribune.com…

    THESE UNSCIENTIFIC POLL RESULTS ARE BOONE COUNTY ONLY

    PRESIDENT McCain: 58 l Obama: 103 I Barr: 3 l Baldwin: 1

    GOVERNOR Hulshof: 59 l Nixon: 100 I Finkenstadt: 3 l Thompson: 1

    NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Luetkemeyer: 58 l Baker: 94 I Millay: 6

    This is mostly just for fun. Not much you can tell from exit polls, so treat it as mostly for entertainment value.  

  10. Auburn, AL here… I noticed that many student voters here in Auburn seemed to prefer to vote straight party ticket… do you guys think it’s going to help Josh Segall here or work against him?

    By the way, the line is only a bit longer than it was in 2004… but it could be that I’m too early (my family and I went to the Best Western voting place around 8:30, and got out about 9:10).  Though I still think Josh should’ve spend more time on the Auburn Campus…

    Also, is it just me, or the state constitution amendments are getting more annoying year by year?  

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