Well, I can’t actually verify this but it might look something like this.
Here is a little better view of it.
I might be done for the night; I am not sure I can watch this. FOX just called VA at 10:41pm for Obama. Virginia.
Jedi mind tricks.
Some GOP people I talk to hope for buyer’s remorse and a resurgence in the mid-term elections in 2010. As a historical parallel, Bill Clinton, in 1992, met immediate problems with his health care initiatives; one wonders if Obama’s pledge to make the Freedom of Choice Act his first legislative priority could be a parallel. There are any number of liberal proposals that Obama would do well to wait to move on if he wants to avoid what happened during the first Clinton term. The Contract with America came along in 1994 and helped revitalize the GOP.
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Exit polls start to tantalize
"I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage"
Reading the now removed post of Julietta Appleton on Obamatravel.org, I was really struck by her devotion to Barack Obama. I used to run a private practice in counseling as she apparently does, and I had a hard time getting away for a week’s vacation. The business suffers and your clients are put on hold (6 weeks!?). Here is what she posted:
Note that she says she has no money but she needs to get her man elected. I like McCain-Palin but I am not going to wreck my career over the election.
And then there is this young woman who is clearly emotional, but believes that Obama will end her financial worries.
When expectations that high are dashed, it can be very painful. I am sad when I hear people who are banking their personal well being on a political solution. I don’t know either of these women so I am willing to assume that their situations are more complex and that after the campaign, they may come back to a more realistic perspective. Hope so…
New sport: Cross country voting
Via Redstate and Palestra.net, we have the chronicles of a cross-country voter, Farah Minwalla.
According to these sources, she is registered in three states and apparently voted in 2.
(h/t: Charles Martin)
Coal emerges as last minute campaign issue
Some things just take awhile to sink in or get packaged in a way that people hear them. Here is the video with the sound clip of Obama talking about coal in San Francisco.
I think the difference between candidates is that Obama wants to impose more stringent regulations sooner (immediately). I think McCain’s view is that in view of the security needs of the nation, we cannot move so quickly and remove another source of energy based solely on environmental concerns. For an industry making a transition, the pace of change is important.
This is a very sensitive issue here in PA, OH and to the south in WV. My guess is that this will move some voters McCain’s direction. Speaking to Californians about economic issues in PA, and WV brings back Obama’s comments, also to a San Francisco audience, about rural Pennsylvanians clinging to guns and religion because they are bitter.