11-03-2004, 12:32 AM | #251 |
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I'm going to read this thread again from start to finish so I can enjoy the progression
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11-03-2004, 12:34 AM | #252 |
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Kerry cries foul in Ohio!!!!
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11-03-2004, 12:37 AM | #253 |
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Wouldn't it make sense for the Dems to just congratulate GW if Ohio does end up going to GW? It just looks bad IMO and would turn 50/50 voters off to their party. I know if I was an undecided I would think to myself "here we go again, the Dems just can't let it go, they'll just drag the loss out for weeks and weeks just like in 2000". That would turn me off to vote for them in the next election. Just my 2 cents.
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11-03-2004, 12:40 AM | #254 |
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I'd call New Mexico by now. Bernadillo County is hardly a stronghold for the Democrats, and a large number of the remaining votes are from there.
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11-03-2004, 12:41 AM | #255 |
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This guy from Ohio is saying that they won't start counting provisionals until 11 days after the election per state law.
Once again, we'll be waiting for a couple of weeks or longer for a final decision.
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Looks like Iowa might be called soon for Bush as well.
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Tell that to the Kerry camp. They seem to have dug their heels in. Maybe they'll change their tune once 100% of the votes are in, but I doubt it.
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11-03-2004, 12:43 AM | #258 |
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Gotta love Rather. "We understand that other networks have called Ohio for Bush, but this isn't a race. We want to make sure that we are 100% sure before we give it to Bush. We don't mind if we are the last to make the call". Too bad they were calling states earlier like madmen before any other network and now they stop all of sudden. Stop flip-flopping Dan. You want Bush to lose and you just can't bear to see it not happening.
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11-03-2004, 12:49 AM | #259 |
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Amazingly, I gotta say CNN has been doing excellent all night.
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Ditto, I think this it's over. I could be surprised in a day or two, but I can't see how Kerry pulls it off now. 150K and he's down over 100K right now. If that holds, he'd need over 68% of those ballots to be in his favor. This, in a state that's split 51-49. Good luck with that one. It also looks like a near certainty that he'll also win the popular vote. Sorry, Mr. Kerry, I think this thing is over. |
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11-03-2004, 12:55 AM | #261 |
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CNN is saying Kerry is readying lawyers in Ohio and Iowa. It ain't over, even though it's over.
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Are you kidding? I watched about 30 minutes of there coverage and they are constanly messing up with different states. It is been pretty bad.
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11-03-2004, 12:56 AM | #263 |
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The Ohio website only lists 36,000 provisional voters in Ohio.
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The website has been pretty good. |
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They haven't jumped the gun on going 'official' with any states. Now, a case could be argued that they're just being slow to keep people glued, but regardless, the fact that they aren't trigger happy with calling winners is good enough for me. Edit: And I've been mostly watching the website rather than the broadcast, though I occaisonally head to the other room to watch on the Uber TV (tm) Last edited by Coffee Warlord : 11-03-2004 at 01:00 AM. |
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The gap keeps growing. It's now almost 125K unlike before when it was around 100k.
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This election, much like the Big 10 most years, will come down to Ohio and Michigan
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Michigan is a non factor at this point.
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I know this sounds odd but the black guy who is doing the commentary on CNN (I keep missing his name- anyone want to give me some help on that), his pitch and timbre sounded just like that of Bill Walton. I was looking at my computer and had it on in the background and I swore I was listening to that nightmare of an announcer doing politics: "Ohio is the BIGGEST state in the HISTORY of the Electoral College" (ok, he didn't say that but it sounds like something Bill Walton would say).
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Basically but I was looking for some umpth. We're just hanging around out there, twidling our fingers. It's boring. We did have a fight counting votes at least. |
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11-03-2004, 01:11 AM | #273 |
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Now I hear that John Henry's plane is being readied for the Kerry lawyers. Talk about blowing the nation's (or at half of its) goodwill toward the Red Sox!
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I am wondering if NBC or Fox will be the first to declare a winner.
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http://election.sos.state.oh.us/ProvBallots.htm
I am sure these numbers are off, but I find it difficult to see how CNN is specualting that there may be as many 500,000 provisional votes.
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Technically, they both already have, since a tie is a Bush win.
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Has anyone seen updated Hawaii numbers? All of the networks seem to be showing the same 0% reporting, 69K to 55K Kerry lead. Very odd.
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And the Ohio lead grows more.
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Ok, I may be missing something since no one else has mentioned this but isn't this wrong? If Bush leads by 100k votes, Kerry has to get 100k MORE of the provisionals than Bush not merely 100k of the provisionals. If he wins 50.000001% of the 200k unless all the others are for third party candidates he still loses. Right?
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You are right Axxon.
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Yeah, he'd need a 75-25 split (150K to 50K). SI
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"Introducing the next VP of the US..." That's funny.
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Again, lets say he wins 70% of the provisionals. That's 105k votes in this scenario. Bush would get 45k. Kerry still loses. True your statement is technically true but he needs a lot more than 68%.
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Let's see here ... Ohio:
Still more than half the precincts out in Ashland County (currently 64% Bush) Still 26% of precincts out in Clermont County (currently 71% Bush) 49% of precincts in Coshoction County (currently 56% Bush) 22% of Hamilton County (currently 53% Bush) 2% of Knox County (currently 66% Bush) 5% of Lucas County (currently 60% Kerry) Somebody got a meat thermometer? I think Ohio might be done.
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Maybe not. If Kerry can pull in 200% of the provisionals we still have a race.
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Time to go to sleep. Popular vote is now approaching a 4 million difference. I think it's over.
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They keep championing this argument on CNN. But, really, as long as we have the Electoral College, I fail to see how this is relevant. Sounds like Gore in 2000 beating the "popular vote" drum when it's unimportant. SI
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WaitAMinute ! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I think I'm gonna crash too actually. Nothing I can do to speed the process nor change any votes already cast thousands of miles away ... and we'll still be looking at the steady stream of lawyers heading to Ohio in the morning.
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Kerry and Edwards risk some longtime fallout with this strategy. So far, the networks are cooperating by assuming hanky-panky with the vote reporting in New Mexico. And some of them by not calling Ohio itself.
At some point, they need to assess the provisionals (because there's no way they're getting anything but a slightly bigger deficit with the live vote tally) and decide if there's even a tiny chance they will win based on a fair counting. What's going to happen when these provisionals are assessed is that people are start checking into each vote, and they're going to find dead people, houses with 100 residents, fictional people, etc... and the Republicans are going to have a field day with it. Meanwhile, mathematically, it's still not going to help Kerry all that much. The result: people across the country are going to see the Democrats as whiners who can't accept even a fair election. So much has already been made of the bizarre ACORN practices when registering voters. Once Kerry and his team have assessed what really happened with the vote, they need to make a good decision on this. Edwards' assertion that they will "fight" for every vote has me worried that they may tilt at windmills and draw this out for weeks unnecessarily. |
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Whatever happens in Ohio I just want it to end. I hope it's not close. The last thing we need is another month of talking heads and lawyers. I'm tired of hearing people bitching in the grocery line.
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BTW, just checked through Iowa, and it seems dead certain in the Bush column. The networks are being a little silly not calling it. Lee County may be worth as much as 3,000 votes for Kerry and looks a bit unfinished despite the 100% claim, but everything else is likely to produce Bush votes, if anything. So the 13,000-vote seems very safe.
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If they call either Iowa, or New Mexico, or Nevada for Bush and also have called Ohio...that means he crosses the threshold of 269, and viewers drop out.
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Just an interesting tidbit that hasn't been picked up by the media:
Ohio (99% in): Bush - 2,764,809 - 51% Kerry - 2,620,594 - 48% Pennsylvania (99% in): Kerry - 2,848,193 - 51% Bush - 2,717,493 - 49% These are essentially the same situation statistically (Penn is actually closer), yet CNN and some of the networks are unwilling to call Ohio for Bush and Kerry may be setting up all these challenges. Meanwhile, Penn was called for Kerry hours before and there is no mention of any challenges (or illegitimacy) there. Last edited by Arles : 11-03-2004 at 02:53 AM. Reason: Updated Penn to 99% |
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OK, there's 100% of the precincts reporting in Nevada and Bush is up 51-48 (+20,500). I think they can call that for Bush now.
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Checking Wisconsin, that's going to hold up for Kerry. His lead should increase a tiny bit, if anything.
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To follow up on my above point, the gap in Pennsylvania is currently 2% (130,700) and the gap in Ohio is 3% (144,215). How can CNN have called Penn, but not Ohio?
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Nevada finally called.
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