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Posted by Kevin K. on 11/04/08 at 05:00 PM • Permalink

Results.  I want some fucking results, damn it!

Drink for change!

Drink for change!

I gotta get started on that.

Feel good moment: My friend Amy is bringing by a friend from Rwanda she met when she was filming a documentary there.  He thinks there’s no way America would ever elect a black man for President. I can’t wait to shake his hand and proudly exclaim him, “Yes we can!”

Downtown Seattle is going to be one big party tonight.

Mind if I join you guys tonight?

I’m going out to drink beer for a few hours while we wait for results.  At some point, I should be calling in to Tommy’s show with some South Wasilla perspective.

Yes we can!

Watching from Australia! Hope levels dialed up to 11!
I’m calm, predicting a landslide...Allyson chewing the nails at every poll dip and duck.

Whatever the result just wanted to thank everyone, Kevin, Pop and Betty for the incredible work in keeping even australian US political junkies sane. Rumproast has been one of our first clicks when we get up in the morning and the last at night!

It’s been a pleasure and you should all be ridiculously proud at your commitment to fighting the good fight!

Good luck guys...we’re with you all the way!

Douglas and Ally
Your official antipodean political pals

Thanks, Douglas!

42,000 Indiana votes counted ... 51%-48% Obama.

No way to know for sure where they’re coming from but can’t be good for the Mac who claim’s he’s back.

And remember, Indiana picked Dole over Clinton, just to put in perspective what a total loser McCain is.

John McCain—Worse. Than.Dole.

3% in and Indiana still trending slightly Obama. Wow—early precincts show some southern Indiana counties trending blue. Still too early but this is astonishing. Southern Indiana is like Kentucky. No results in urban Indy, and the polls aren’t even closed in extreme heavy Democratic Lake County (near Chicago.) Gonna be a long night for John the Bomber.

My nerves are shot - why are IN and VA show so much of a McCain lead?

Man, I can’t watch!  But I have too!

I think I’ll go out for a walk and by the time I get back there should have been some major counting done.

I know, Denise, that’s why I have to go out for a walk. lol

See you guys in a while.

Obama taking Florida for now! Yes!

Guess tonight was the wrong night to give up drinking. Wait, I’m at work and I can’t even have a goddamned beer.

Denise, Obama’s big Indiana counties, urban Marion (Indy), and Lake (Chicago burbs) have not reported anything yet. Obama is looking good right now. As Matthews said, if Obama gets a net 80,000 votes in Lake County, he will take Indiana.

Also, hit the TPM and 538 links above and read about Vigo County Indiana.

Also, hit the TPM and 538 links above and read about Vigo County Indiana.

Those interactive maps are pretty damn amazing. You can break down voting in each sate by counties if you wish.

Thanks, pup - I just need my hand held, lol.  I was talking to my bloggy friend Paddy and she just told me the same thing.  Forgive my fretting?

No worries, Denise. And I mean that literally! :)

My PhD friend just gave me Obama and two percentage points in Indiana. The stakes are a night of drinks.

Hell, Obama might win Indiana outright.

Obama taking Florida for now! Yes

I sure as hell hope so. If Florida goes for Obama , it might help erase the stain of Jeb , Cruella De’Harris in 2000. After seeing the GOTV effort here first hand , I can honestly say that if we don’t carry this state this time , it won’t be for lack of effort.
I worked on the Kerry campaign in 2004 , and they were rank amatuers compared to Obama.

WOO HOO!!!!

PA came through!  Now I feel MUCH better!

That’s right! So do I!

MSNBC is calling states and races left and right and CNN is holding back like a bunch of pus*ies..lol

Yeah, I’m not sure who to believe

CNN just caught up..

KJ-Lo is gonna have a heart attack ... via Think Progress ...

Former Republican senator Rick Santorum has had his right to vote challenged in Pennsylvania, “and election officials will not count his absentee ballot (or that of his wife) until the matter is resolved, Allegheny County Elections Department director Mark Wolosik confirmed. Erin Vecchio, chairman of the Penn Hills School Board and chair of the Penn Hills Democratic Party, says she challenged the Santorums’ right to vote in Pennsylvania this morning because they really live in Virginia.”

PUMApac in meltdown mode. I’m enjoying this.

Stupid Sailor
Pass me the bottle of booze
It looks like McCain’s gonna lose
He ran his campaign on fears
On lies, innuendoes, and smears
And Palin is now old news

Former Republican senator Rick Santorum has had his right to vote challenged in Pennsylvania, “and election officials will not count his absentee ballot (or that of his wife) until the matter is resolved,

(Snicker) , They should be disqualified on the grounds of being mentally incompetent alone.

O-H, I-O!

O-H, I-O!

HAHAHAHA I bet the PUMAS are drinking the kool aid right about now!! OH HI O!  O HI O!

OH HELL YEAH !! Ohio goes blue. I can breath again.

I’m now going to see PUMA heads explode.

No Quarter in MELTDOWN!
Best. Night. Ever.

Best comment so far (And most likely a concern troll...but STILL!)

“Comment by Brian | 2008-11-04 21:40:25

There is still time, release the Michelle Obama “whitey tape”–the polls in California are still open.”

PUMApac is hysterical! Their anguish nourishes me!

But FreeRepublic is even funnier—THEY ARE PRAYING FOR DELIVERANCE ON THEIR ELECTION NIGHT THREAD.

GOD, THIS IS GREAT!!!

Nate Silver has called it for Obama!

Holy shit, we did this.

I’m going to cry or yell in joy.

Or both.

Well he should, Obama has Cali’s 55 locked up along with Oregon and Washington. It’s just about over ... jesus fucking christ humping a moose I wanna be at home.

Obama still leads in FL and is pulling away in VA.

God damn, this is great.

Kevin K --

Cry. Yell. Shit. Piss. Cum. Bark at the moon.

WE FUCKED THE BASTARDS OVER!

And Kevin, I’m celebrating with Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout.

murphy 11.04.08 at 8:43 pm

hang tight you silly pumas, we’re going to be here tomorrow and the next day no matter what

we may have a bigger job than we signed up for back in January and June, but then — so be it.

LOL, is she talking to her kindergarten class?! ROFL

I’m gonna cry.  The world just witnessed a black man - who had said the Iraq war was the wrong war at the wrong time - beat the shit out of a white self-proclaimed war hero who had frequently joked about bombing other countries, and fighting hundred year wars. Fuck John McCain, the motherfucking (tm - HumboldtBlue) moose-humping asshole all to hell.

Something that I think is awesome , Obama will have his victory party in Grant Park in Chicago. The same park where it all went wrong for the Democrats in ‘68. I ran accross this on YouTube , and it seems somehow apropos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFsBF1X1ow

PUMAs come full circle:

mountainsong 11.04.08 at 10:25 pm

I think Hillary was a well thought out distraction strategy. They divided us right from the get go. That’s why she bailed when she could have won.

Yes, Hillary was the gawddamn McGuffin all along! Goodnight, Darragh!

Huffington wasted no time, President Elect Obama!

One other thing, when this shit is over and done with, can we dispense with Harold fucking Ford as a Democratic spokesman, please?

I’m back!  I had an appointment with my counsellor (I’ve got agoraphobia) and what did we talk about?  The US Election of course!

She was looking forward to watching the results come in until I told her they were calling things early when I left home. lol

NC is so close, I can’t believe it!  I wish Arizona would stay the way it is at the moment (55-40 Obama) lol

THEY ARE PRAYING FOR DELIVERANCE ON THEIR ELECTION NIGHT THREAD.

Deliverance as in “Yew gotta purty mowth boy”?

No, no, no. None of that. They can squeal like pigs without help from les inbreds.

This Will.I.Am via hologram at CNN is quite possibly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in election coverage!

in the words of ultra right wing Satan buttcheek Grover Norquist….I will use his quote to say .."America’s goal is to cut GOP in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub”

Indiana?!?!?!?!

Up 8K with 94% counted!

Great line from Josh Marshall:

Deep Thought

Why can’t Obama close the deal?

Obama has won fucking Florida!

PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CNN has just called it for Obama, they’ve included the CA vote.

YES WE DID!

I never thought I’d see the day and I’m only 40.

My children have to do news reports for school every week and they both chose to do them about the US election and wanted Obama to win after reading all news reports week in, week out and watching the debates.

This is so fantastic.  I think I’m going to crack open a glass of wine!

YES WE DID !!!!!!
After the last two elections , it feels SO good to say that.

TAKE A BOW, FOLKS! WE DONE IT!

LOL!!! The PUMAS are exploding!!!

I refuse to look at those people.

I can’t believe Bachmann is winning.

ITS A LANDSLIDE BABY!!!!!

Indiana?!?!?!?!

Up 8K with 94% counted!

Real Clear Politics has suddenly gone backwards and it’s 86% counted when it was 94% 20 minutes ago.  Buck up, people!

John McCain on CNN, he’s said “My friends” three times already.  He’s conceded.  They’re booing.  He said “please”.  He says he respects him by inspiring millions of Americans.  He deeply admires that. etc etc.

America today is a world away from the bigotry of that time, let there be no reason now for any American....damn, they cut off the feed. *sigh*

McCain’s crowd is ugly. Yikes.

Our talking heads just slagged off the people that booed when John McCain conceded and gave him props for telling them to STFU (in a nice polite McCain way) and said that was more the John McCain that they knew before.

Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I’ve often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I’m all right, I’m all right
I’m just weary to my bones
Still, you don’t expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home

And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
or driven to its knees
but it’s all right, it’s all right
for we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
road we’re traveling on
I wonder what’s gone wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong

And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying

We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hours
and sing an American tune
Oh, and it’s alright, it’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest

Crap now all our coverage on free TV from CNN and ABC has gone!  The news is on Prime and then I get to see an hour of Fox News.  Yay! :-|

OK, just got done with latest update, I’m gonna go cry now before I go back.

I can’t get into any American sites to see what’s going on. Grrrrrr!!!!

But Prime News is going to cut to Obama’s speech as soon as he turns up, Yay!!!!!!!

man McCain didnt even let Sarah Palin speak...looks like she was gonna cry.....he didnt even hug her or hold her hands..he must be blaming her for his loss

i feel sorry for McCain...he should have switched parties after 2000....he was in the wrong party

Does anyone else feel scared for Obama’s safety in Grant Park right now?

I really don’t understand why he went hard right.  The hard right never thought he’d win the Republican nomination, people voted for him in the first place because he wasn’t like that lot and the hard right was shocked!

He let his supporters down going down that road so they left him in droves.

Obama’s speech is on! :-D

Puppies!!!

Does anyone else feel scared for Obama’s safety in Grant Park right now?

Last I knew they were going to have a bullet proof screen all around him.  I saw it earlier but it doesn’t actually look like it’s there now.

I really wish Madelyn Dunham had lived to see this. 

Awwww....what he said about Michelle!  lol @ the puppy.  Awwww...grandmother speech...this man is fantastic.

I just saw a camera angle where you can see the screen, Cello.  They were leaving nothing to chance.

We’re getting the Fox feed, they just said “If Senator Biden is allowed to give a speech we could leave right now and pick it up again in the morning” lol

the only one thing that is so far ruining this great party for me is that fetid scab Bachmann leading the house election in MN...fuck.

the only one thing that is so far ruining this great party for me is that fetid scab Bachmann leading the house election in MN...fuck.

And Prop 8 is winning, we don’t want that.

The entire on-screen MSNBC crew is in tears.

bimbo, I agree.  Fundie Bachmann looks like she’s gonna win.  At least Marilyn Musgrave lost.  And Virgil Goode is losing.

Looks like Prop 8 passed.  What a travesty.

Wow, historic eve!

Just wanted to thank Kev and the rump roast crew.

You’ve brought me many a hearty laugh this election season.

History..... with a smile.

P.S. I took a gander at Flowbee’s house of batshitcrazy......

BAHAHAHAHAHA! Funny!

I have a friend in CA and she was worried that if the election was called before CA voting was over that Prop 8 would go in the winning column because people would not bother to go vote. :(

Then again, shows how much people in CA care about Prop 8 if they’re going to let it slide into being.

But back to the good stuff…

RALEIGH, N.C. - Democrat Kay Hagan knocked Elizabeth Dole out of the U.S. Senate after just one term in office today, likely ending a storied political career for one of the biggest names in the Republican Party.

Darcy Burner’s currently leading in Washington’s 8th district.  Go Darcy!

Its not over yet for prop 8...Only 22% reporting..

Early country’s reporting are southern Ca, you know Northern Ca will go heavy against. SO wait for those numbers to come in…

Looks like Franken is going to loose a close on up in Mn. I really wanted him to pull it out against Colman. Norms a dick and a scumbag. He needed to go. Bad for Mn. Looks like they keep that Nut Backman (sp?) also in congress.

Mercy…

Yeah billy, I may have called it too soon on Prop 8, but it’s not looking good.  If Prop 8 passes, it’ll be a major buzzkill.  Just goes to show how much more work we have to do to realize full equality and justice in this nation.

Rebecca, poor Liddy.  Now she’s gonna have nothing to do but fend off her Viagrafied hubbie.

More good news.  Looks like Dino Rossi’s gonna lose in Washington.  Christine Gregoire for the win!  (Whew!)

Dawn comes to Pumaville:

Susie1945 11.05.08 at 12:41 am

Well Pumas - I’m pulling my money out of my ira tomorrow - I am calling Hillary’s campaign office and demanding my money back from her

I am forever an independent and as soon as I can I’m leaving this country -

I sure would like to know where the hell the 4 million PUMAs are - has this whole damn thing been a fantasy and we all fell for it - is it real - what the hell did we work our butts off for the last 5 months for? I want some answers because I feel betrayed in a big way……………………….

What country does “Susie1945” think will actually take her?

Exit poll results:

“Who Did You Want to Win the Democratic Nomination?”

Clinton Democrats:  Obama=82% McCain=17%
Obama Democrats:  Obama=97% McCain=2%

14% of respondents were Clinton Democrats, and 21% were Obama Democrats.

So 82% of Clinton Democrats came home.  That’s a pretty typical result for a Presidential election.  The PUMA phenomenon had no impact on the election.

Another telling exit poll result:

“Worried About Another Terrorist Attack in U.S.?”

Very Worried (25%):  Obama=43% McCain=55%
Somewhat Worried (45%):  Obama=51% McCain=48%
Not Too Worried (23%):  Obama=67% McCain=30%
Not At All Worried (5%):  Obama=69% McCain=27%

So McCain and the Republicans got the fear vote.  Republicans are frightened little children.  Pity them.

Cello,

Poor dears, tiny little insignificant scared nothings…

One last exit poll result:

Vote By Region:

Northeast (22%):  Obama=58% McCain=40%
Midwest (24%):  Obama=53% McCain=45%
South (32%): Obama=47% McCain=52%
West (22%): Obama=55% McCain=42%

So Obama won every region of the country except the South.  No offense to the Southerners here, but if it weren’t for the South, this would be a much more liberal nation.

What country does “Susie1945” think will actually take her?

Damn, you beat me to it!  I’d have to think she doesn’t want a country with socialist taxes so that takes out Europe and the antipodes.  Saudi Arabia, maybe?

Rebecca, poor Liddy.  Now she’s gonna have nothing to do but fend off her Viagrafied hubbie.

Aw well...serves her and her bad face lift right, eh? ;)

I’ve got Al Franken and Coleman at 42% each with a difference of 6309 votes, 93% counted.

I’ll cross my fingers for Al because I’ve got his “Lies and the Lying Liars” book and it cracked me up.

Rebecca,
I’m keeping a close eye on that race as well…

I’ve gone through the whole state county by county’s, some blue counties are low in the precinct count, so hopefully there’s some votes there for Al. Loved Lying Liars. Great book, I listened to him pretty regularly when he was on Air America too, I know he would be a good senator, and he really does care about America…

Make that a 1212 difference with 94% reporting.

Bachmann appears to have won, 47-43.

billy, I didn’t know who Al Franken was but the love of my life lives in Iowa and he sent the book to me saying that he thought I might like it.  I totally LOVED it!  But then I’m always up for people that speak plain English by saying “fuck” and stuff. ;-) j/k

Cali Prop 8 is currently 53% yes 47% No - 48% reporting
Abortion Limits is currently 52% No, 48% yes - 47% reporting.

Why has the abortion limits not got as much press as Prop 8?

“This measure would amend the state constitution to require physicians to notify the parents or legal guardian of a pregnant minor at least 48 hours before preforming an abortion involving that minor.  The measure does not require that parent or guardian’s actual consent to perform the abortion etc”

So if no consent is sort, what is the point in this?  Let’s put the minor through added stress but let her do what she deems best for herself anyway...doesn’t make sense to me.

The way the vote is going, let’s not stress out a teen at a stressful time in their life (agree) but dear lord, don’t let people that love each other marry! (disagree).

Al’s back on top!!

1,065up…

Mercy!

Al’s in the lead!  1065 in front, 96% reporting.

Dammit, you sniped me, billy! lol

1377 in front

**looks around for billy**

Oooh Keith Ellison romped in!  I’m so glad he didn’t get done by all that anti muslim stuff thrown at Obama.  I thought there might be a rebound on him.

He’s a good guy (Ellison), I’m glad he’s till in congress too.

Al come on!! Pull this off.

Norm blows…

prop 8 is killing me.

Damn rednecks in the northeast of the state, all central and most of southern all ‘yes’ buy big percentages. Ugh. The commercials they had were the worst. Full of lies and bullshit.

Mercy…

Grant Park was crazy, thrilling, unbelievable. I feel like I haven’t slept in weeks so I can’t imagine how the Obamas feel right now. But I’m still not able to go to bed—I’m reliving it all.

I’m proud, happy, shocked—and fully aware of how much work lies ahead. But tonight, I feel like I have my country back. Meet the “real” America, everybody.

Oh, and if anyone is still wondering just what it is that community organizers do? They change the world.

Looked incredible out there Kerry!

The tears were flowing here in Cali watching.

Great stuff…

I remember how I felt 4 years ago.

The difference between now and then seems like a lifetime ago. Specially these last 2 years watching this amazing story open itself up in front of all our eye’s as well as participate in it all…

Amazing!

Mercy!

Rebecca,

This Franken race is killing me. He’s up, he’s down…

Shit!

I was in D.C. Tuesday morning, actually inside the White House, and spoke with a few Secret Service types who were really looking forward to the election AND the inauguration being over. (They have already begun inauguration preparations all over D.C. Pretty amazing.)

Made it back to CT in plenty of time to vote (Jim Himes beat Chris Shays! Thanks in part to me!) and was up until midnight last night, crying tears of joy over my keyboard as I covered the election live. Just added Obama’s acceptance speech and some other cool stuff, which is definitely worth a look (hint). : )

ITS A LANDSLIDE BABY!!!!!

hope he can promote economic development,my new website:http://www.diggingshop.com can give me some profit.