An Early Finish on Election Night ?

[Trajan]

I was hoping for an early call Next Tuesday evening, and it appears we just may get that early call for Obama ...

Because the battlefield is so tight for McCain, he cannot afford to lose a single battleground state, nor can he afford to lose Pennsylvania ... He has to run the table, and so we will know soon after the polls close in the Eastern time zone whether Obama has indeed closed the deal with the American people ...

New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida are all in that Time Zone.





I am hoping for a quick job of it, with no cliffhangers or confusion, and an early bedtime ...

Let's hope so ....

:toast:

[bluestateguy]

1. Depends on how quickly the networks call Pennsylvania

If Obama wins it by 8-12 points, then it should be called between 8 and 8:30 EST.

[Trajan]

3. Heck .. I'm still at work then ...

or driving home ... (Oregon) ...

Pennsylvania is SO far into the Obama camp .... That should be a quick call ....

IF I were to guess which battleground state on the eastern seaboard is going to call first: I am guessing Virginia .... (New Hampshire is hardly a battleground .. )

[FreeState]

5. Networks will hold off on calling PA no matter what

they sell more ads that way... they want to make the night as long as possible - even if that means they dont call a state they know Obama has won.

[GrizzlyMan]

2. Bedtime?

No such thing for me next Tuesday night. I'm probably going to go to bed right around the time GMA and Today come on the air.

But I do agree. I'll have a laser like focus on VA in particular.

[tedoll78]

17. You stole my response!

Virginia Virginia Virginia. Even if the polls tighten a bit, this state will tell us if we win. It seems to be just a smidge more solid than Colorado at this point.

I'll be up all night, watching the fallout. Democrats in my lifetime haven't won that many Presidential elections, so I'm going to cherish every minute of this.

Heck, I might just stay up until 10AM so that I can watch the morning shows, take a 6 hour nap, and wake-up for Hardball/Countdown/Maddow at 6PM. I'm off until Friday night anyway.. :D

[rogerballard]

19. Virgina 5 PM Colorado time MST

If it is called I am going to stay up regardless, I am so anxious about how Colorado is going to play out in this election. I think we are going to turn blue this election. Dare I say landslide?

http://carlysimon.com/news/news.shtml

[KingFlorez]

4. I think it will be early too

[Arugula Latte]

6. Good. Gramps McCain needs to get to bed early. nt

[Trajan]

8. Daddy Trajan has to wake early for work ....

I would just as soon have an easy election night ...

It's been awhile, you know ...

[mwooldri]

7. Well BBC America is covering the election but....

... they have normal programming in the schedule starting at 3AM. If it isn't over by then and there's stuff worth covering BBC will scrap that "normal programming" but the fact that they've scheduled normal stuff probably means the schedulers think it is going to be over early too.

Mark.

[4lbs]

9. Once the election looks like it will just about be called for Obama without a doubt, I'm going to

start recording Faux News for 4 hours so I can forever have their gloomy faces to review for the next couple of years.

:rofl:

[Secret_Society]

10. well i think we'll need california to break 270...

so i'm not celebrating anything till then.

[Trajan]

11. Steal California ?

Now that would be quite a feat ....

Where is that race ? ... like 58% ?

[Secret_Society]

15. I didn't say steal California

I was just looking at poll closing times today and I don't think we'll get to 270 until the west coast closes. (btw I do think Obama will come close to 400 but news organizations are goin to be hesitant to call alot of these states without hard numbers because a Dem hasn't taken them in about 40 years)

[ORDem]

18. Sorry, West Coasters are going to be a bit disappointed this time around.

McCain MUST get 3 of these 4: PA, VA, OH, FL to even have a chance. PA is ours, so if VA goes to Obama, it's over. Likewise, if OH or FL go blue, though these seem more iffy.

:dem:

[JJ]

23. Ohio now has a Dem S.O.S.

Before it was Blackwell.
Pollsters probably haven't accounted for that in their LV models.
Ohio will go for Obama.

[billyoc]

20. Obama will have 270 without that entire time zone.

CA, WA, and OR could all go to McCain and not change the outcome.

[izzie]

12. I do not feel sure about any of this.

The glass is usually half full in life for me but never when we vote. I want to see what happens but we need to wait. What if he gets more votes but does not win?

[Trajan]

16. Dont look at popular vote so much ...

Look at STATE votes, and electoral votes from the battlefields ....

IF Obama wins Pennsylvania, AND ANY one of the following: Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, ... Or any other 'red state' ... It's over for McCain ...

It's actually pretty easy math this time around ...

[izzie]

21. I do so want to think like you but who votes does carry each state

I just can not feel at ease until this is over. I have looked at my retirement fund this month. I read the paper and see the mess this country is in and I am just so old it is hard to sit back and say I have 20 years to wait and it may get better. Maybe being born in the Great Depression rubbed off on me even if we were not poor. Or it may be watching Bush for 8 years. Also McCain and Palin lie.

[WCGreen]

13. Virginia. Georgia and Indiana all close at 7:00 PM...

If there is a quick call from VA, I think the game is over.

If there is a slow call in Indiana and GEorgia, I think the game is still afoot but swinging our way.

It all depends on TO in Northern Virginia.

[briv1016]

14. It's not going to be called before California closes.

The only real question is how much longer after that is it going to take? Either way I don't plan on going to class on Wednesday.

[Lil Missy]

22. Sleep? On Election night?

After the last 2 were stolen?

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