929PM EST
Okay, this is where news people start to cheese me off.
Maybe its an attempt to stretch the night and keep people from deciding to go to bed or maybe its an attempt to create drama. Regardless of the origin, the various channels (I picked up my remote) are all saying that this will be closer than they themselves were saying it was two hours ago.
They are doing this based on the same facts. To the best of my knowledge, no new states have been added to the Union and the population of the United States has not exploded by three million in the northern tip of Indiana. Canada has not been assimilated, Mexico has not invaded and cloning has not run the math off of the rail. Howard Dean has not made your head explode, has he?
So what’s the issue?
They’re not counting fast enough.
Seriously. Because they don’t have the numbers that are already scrawled on their cheat sheets from the exit polls coming in as quickly as they should, they are perceiving a shift that does not exist. McCain is still loosing Florida and North Carolina. Obama is still losing Indiana and Virginia is still too close to call.
These votes are not in metric. The corrupt officials are not slowed by having to convert their bribes from sacks of Euros into sacks of dollars – there is no mystery.
I guess sitting at an anchor desk warps your perception.
Oh wait – it’s all better because Ohio just went into Obamaland! It is going exactly as planned!
Sweet balls of Elvis.
The pols are watching Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio. McCain needs all of these and he just lost one. Obama leads in Florida and North Carolina the others are very close. If they split, this will precisely match the expected outcome and John McCain has just lost.
Joe Scarborough is rapidly becoming my favorite (my left testicle just rose into my body) because he just pointed out that “the thread [to victory] has just broken”.
Do I need to do all the heavy lifting here?
4 November , 2008 at 10:41 pm |
Get that testicle down, fer crissakes! Someone has to take care of things.
My poor sister is a lone point of blue in a huge red spot of red of Florida. If FL turns blue, she would be a happy happy girl.
4 November , 2008 at 10:45 pm |
I am enjoying your coverage of the election much more than anything they’re vomiting up here in the Australian media. I’d stick with you for the duration except, well, I now have to drive a mini-bus to a monumentally huge Liquor Barn and, let’s face it, restocking our booze cupboard is just a touch more important than finding out who the next leader of the Free World will be. My priorities are firmly in the right place.
4 November , 2008 at 11:14 pm |
Don’t forget California. What is it, like 45 electoral votes for Obama. I’ve been trying to keep it light all day, doing a marathon of blogging. But hell, the math is simple even for me. Well, back to trying to find something funny to say. It’s getting more difficult all the time. Later.