Your Official UK Forum Discussion Thread: Indecision 2008

[Anarcho-Socialist]

It's a little UK Forum tradition to have our own little thread alongside the rough n' tumble for the main forums.

Coffee at the ready, hopefully it's going to be an excellent night for progressives.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Mark Warner picks up GOP Senate seat for the Dems

Vermont goes blue, and Kentucky goes red. No surprises there.

[non sociopath skin]

12. Beeb says Faux has called Ohio for Obama!

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

16. Hope so! That would put him quite close to winning!

At least they may get an honest result there, now that crook Blackwell has gone.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. BBC and MSNBC call PA for Obama

Obama just needs VA now and that's without OH or FL.

[LeftishBrit]

11. Good; that is a swing state

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. OK, SC and TN called for GOP; Dems get NH, MA, CT, NJ, MD, DC, IL

Obama is at 103, McCain at 34.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. Shaheen picks up Senate seat for Dems in NH from GOP

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I caught just the end of it, but it looks like Dole is losing to the Dem in the N Carolina seat too

and they said the "she a secret atheist!" ads backfired on her badly. Good.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. MSNBC have called the NC Senate race for the Democrats

yay!

[non sociopath skin]

9. Looks like Liddy Dole is a not-so-secret loser.

Great!

Getting a little nervous about Virginia, though.

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

10. Good! What a repulsive campaign THAT was!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

18. agreed, she deserves to crash out of the Senate

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. Alabama called for McCain, no surprises

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. Georgia called for McCain

it would have been a huge ask for Obama to pick that one up.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Loonytunes Senator Inhofe re-elected in Oklahoma...

not a surprise, but ugh anyway!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. McCain takes WY, ND, KS, AR; Obama takes MN, WI, MI, NY, RI, ME

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. New Mexico called for Obama

Fox called Ohio for him too, but GDP seems to say they've retracted that. But NM is the first pickup of the night for Obama, then.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

17. good

in opinion polls Obama had a huge lead in NM.

[LeftishBrit]

19. And it looks like the Democrats are picking up the Senate seat vacated by Domenici

[Anarcho-Socialist]

20. MSNBC calls OHIO for Obama

Woooooohoooooooo! :bounce: :party: :toast:

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Damn - why aren't they calling the election yet?

I had 2:30am in the prediction thread as the time MSNBC would project Obama to win the whole thing - and with Ohio won, everyone says that must be it, but they're not calling it yet.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

25. Keith Olbermann brought that up in so many words on MSNBC

but the anchor David Gregory underplayed that because West Coasters are still voting.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

21. McCain takes Louisiana n/t

[non sociopath skin]

23. No surprise there. But Beeb has called West Virginia for Grampy ...

... which is a leetle more disappointing.

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

22. Obama leads 200 - 85 Electoral College votes according to MSNBC

[non sociopath skin]

26. New Mexico projected by MSNBC and BBC for Obama.

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

27. CBS and Reuters call Texas for McCain

[Anarcho-Socialist]

28. MSNBC calls Iowa for Obama (pickup from 2004)

no surprises there, Obama had a huge pre-election opinion poll lead.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

29. Montana, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina too close to call n/t

[Anarcho-Socialist]

30. MSNBC reports that the GOP have lost all their House seats in New England

They've been wiped out. A historic night.

[LeftishBrit]

33. Did they have any seats left in New England after 2006?

Chris Shays? Anyone else?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

31. Proposed abortion and contraception ban voted down in SC

:)

[LeftishBrit]

32. Didn't know about that proposition; but good news!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

34. McCain takes South Dakota

A solid red state.

[non sociopath skin]

35. Fox calling Virginia for Obama.

Seems like a narrower margin than predicted though.

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

36. Nice, we'll take it though

[non sociopath skin]

37. 4am. And that's it.

History is made.

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

38. woohoo

As expected, the West Coast puts Obama over the top.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

39. AP calls Florida for Obama

[Anarcho-Socialist]

40. MSNBC calls Colorado for Obama

[non sociopath skin]

41. Meanwhile on Faux, Karl Rove says how proud he is.

Two-faced lying barsteward.

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

42. What a thrill!

Good news!!!!

Congratulations Obama and Biden!

Goodbye Palin; hope you get impeached!

And wasn't the turnout amazing?

The only big disappointment is that apparently Proposition 8 is passing in California.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

44. It's fantastic!

I'm glad I stayed up to watch it.

[non sociopath skin]

45. Shame we lost the UK thread in the rush though!

I saw it through till Obama's speech.

Most promising.

The Skin

[T_i_B]

43. In other news...

...my Facebook friend list is having a collective orgasm over the election result this morning!

Well done to Obama, the real hard work starts here.