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We now have an assload of big states reporting, but there’s no real numbers yet. However, we do know that apparently Kentucky has no interest in being a part of history and has decided to vote for the old white guy.
Or maybe it was Sarah Palin, she’s so genuine and totally not practiced in her carefully crafted folksiness.
Kentucky is pulling about 70-30 for McCain. Kentucky bourbon is the finest of the brown liquors that come from Kentucky. By any other standard, it blows.
The part of Indiana that has reported is breaking about even with a teeny, tiny dignity-of-an-Hasselhoff edge to Obama. But, if I was paying attention, I might know that the last part of Indiana to report has a couple of areas that will pile up Obama votes. So, the Hoosier State is still up in the air, which must be a terrifying state of affairs for the people in Illinois and other bordering states. When the urban areas report, hopefully the state will settle gently back into its giant dirt print.
It may also give us some meaningful numbers.
I appreciate that TV producers once lived in a world where sets had to be built and numbers had to be written on white boards, but do they need to keep putting people in CGI set ups with wacky (but seriously majestic) Greco-Roman columns that vomit electoral data?
In a down-ballot story, Elizabeth Dole is headed to a rumored defeat. While it is far from certain, if she does lose, it will be the first time in about 50 years that a Dole or a Bush was is not holding elected office.
…and the Plantangenets will one day rule all of England.
The big numbers start next.
