Oh sweet release valve of overnight threads.

Looks like it's going to be a strong turnout for this election. People know what's at stake.

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Any questions?

What election?

Get out and vote Lizards! John needs your vote!

I had 300 people in line behind me. Normally there is no line. They were all old white people. Don't know what that means. Could be because it was 7:00 AM.

Here's my pledge from Red State Kansas. I will not act like a Democrat monkey and throw poop at Obama for 4 years.

re: #6 tster

I had 300 people in line behind me. Normally there is no line. They were all old white people. Don't know what that means. Could be because it was 7:00 AM.

Yeah, we've been up since 4 peeing.

PUMA Pride!

/obscure Simpsons reference

All quiet here in east central Illinois at the polls. No riots yet. I was number 210 to vote. Good turn out for the small town I live in that is full of bitter gun owners.

re: #7 kansas

Here's my pledge from Red State Kansas. I will not act like a Democrat monkey and throw poop at Obama for 4 years.

Neither will I. I will work my arse off and survive his administration, hug my kids, love my wife and realize all that is good about America. No time for sour grapes, I got too much to live for and regardless of who occupies the White House, I WILL be the eternal optimist!

Election night preps: Coffee, friends, a mini dachshund, TV's and my laptop.

re: #1 astronmr20

Oh sweet release valve of overnight threads.

jeez. kinda sexy.

Neal Boortz just said he can't see McCain winning....what weird brain wave altering machine does Obama have to have Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot, and help Obama?

thanks charles... ...for being on top of it all for all these months.

Pretty long line by me this morning. I'm in suburban NYC so it's pretty blue.

re: #12 bellamags

Election night preps: Coffee, friends, a mini dachshund, TV's and my laptop.

I'll be stuck in a simulator until 1900 tonight. I'm hoping the fireworks aren't over by then.

Checking in from deep red suburban Atlanta. Our polling place had a wait of less than 5 minutes shortly after 10 a.m.. They moved the machines from their usual place in the school library to the larger multi-purpose room (i.e. the gym). About 12 machines, all in use, with perhaps 4 or 5 people waiting. I live less than 5 miles from two of the early voting locations that were clocking wait times of 2 hours or more last week. I think that kept the wait times in the precinct very low.

Kona coffee IS the real deal. Make it the official LGF drink I say.

McCain/Palin from Mississippi.....

Please lets have a Dewey Truman night!

It was a gorgeous, cloudless, unseasonably warm, springlike day at the polls in Massachusetts today. Bustling, but no lines, and no waiting. Signs said "you may be asked to show photo ID," but not a single person was asked to do so. As usual. I could have voted at least five times if I had wanted to.

Why do people have to show their photo ID when picking up their will call tickets at the baseball stadium, but not when they vote?

Wow. So, do you think the turnout will be just as strong when all the democrat voters go to the polls tomorrow?

/nudge nudge wink wink

Thanks Charles, the smoke, cig butts and dirty glasses and cold pizza was getting to be a bit much.

re: #14 ziggyelman

Neal Boortz just said he can't see McCain winning....what weird brain wave altering machine does Obama have to have Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot, and help Obama?

Boortz said Kerry would win for sure last election. He tries to piss people off.

re: #24 bellamags

Boortz said Kerry would win for sure last election. He tries to piss people off.

Much like Savage.

reloadingisnotahobby
I drove through Sevier county once, not on the 70 through Sevier the city, but along the 64. I was driving through for work with the wife, we stopped at Koosharem for lunch...and left as quickly as we could. I'm a big city kind of guy and that town gave me the creeps. Not the kind of town I'd like to break down at.

re: #17 Jetpilot1101

I'll be stuck in a simulator until 1900 tonight. I'm hoping the fireworks aren't over by then.

like a flight simulator? are there weapons you can "fire"? If yes, I wanna trade places.

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs

The St. Olaf (Minn.) professor who recounted tearing down McCain campaign signs in a well-read Huffington Post item has resigned.

Per the Northfield News, it appears that Philip Busse was forced out the St. Olaf College professor who admitted to stealing campaign signs in a national political blog read by millions, has resigned.

St. Olaf spokesman David Gonnerman issued the following statement Monday afternoon:

"The St. Olaf College administration first learned of Phil Busse's self-admitted theft and destruction of campaign signs on the morning of Oct. 31 as a result of his posting on the Internet.

"The St. Olaf administration immediately referred the matter to local law enforcement authorities and commenced an investigation of its own.

"Mr. Busse has tendered his resignation and is no longer affiliated with St. Olaf College.

Busse has been charged with misdemeanor theft.

re: #1 astronmr20

Oh sweet release valve of overnight threads.

Gonna' refrain.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am freakin' psyched! If my state (CA) goes to McCain/Palin I'm gonna shit a purple twinkie, blast some death metal at ear-bleeding levels, and guzzle beer like it's the eve of prohibition.

McCain/Palin 08!

re: #25 Jetpilot1101

Much like Savage.

Savage pisses me off WAY more than Boortz. Savage believes his lunatic fringe.

I was going to make a prediction, but screw it, too busy praying for a non-socialist government.

Mainlining Kona Coffee, Charles?
Cripes!
Thats what I call dedication!

re: #24 bellamags

Boortz said Kerry would win for sure last election. He tries to piss people off.

Did he? Great, let's hope his record of wrongness continues! I guess I should be listening to Glenn Beck, he doesn't piss me off as much as Boortz anyways! ;)

re: #27 bellamags

like a flight simulator? are there weapons you can "fire"? If yes, I wanna trade places.

Actually, this time I'm the instructor sitting in the back so I won't be doing much except failing engines and watching helmet fires from the students. Incidentally, I hope Olberman has a "helmet fire" when McCain wins tonight.

Boy, I hope Charles has some type of Superhamster relay teams specially bred for today's avalanche.

re: #19 MrPaulRevere

Kona coffee IS the real deal. Make it the official LGF drink I say.

Stop with the cheap Hawaii stuff, if you want the real stuff live like a capitalist... but some real Jamaican Blue Mountain.

It is the only thing blue this year that is worth having.

re: #6 tster

For the most part, Age=wisdom.
Instead of them having that group coffee clatch this morning at the local Denny's, they're coming out in droves to support their country!

re: #6 tster

I had 300 people in line behind me. Normally there is no line. They were all old white people. Don't know what that means. Could be because it was 7:00 AM.

Call me crazy but, I bet there weren't many BHO voters in that line. Those folks remember the Cold War better than many.

I got to kiss my state senator on the cheek at the polling place this morning.
re: #23 notutopia

Thanks Charles, the smoke, cig butts and dirty glasses and cold pizza was getting to be a bit much.

Barry and his friends were putting their cigarettes out in the carpet all night.

*BINGGG* .......... the captain has turned on the FASTEN SEAT BELT sign. Please return to your seats and fasten your seat belts. He is expecting turbulence ahead and will provide additional information shortly.

CHANGE!

(threads)

re: #7 kansas

Here's my pledge from Red State Kansas. I will not act like a Democrat monkey and throw poop at Obama for 4 years.

It's hard to throw poop at what's not there.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

I don't know about anyone else, but I am freakin' psyched! If my state (CA) goes to McCain/Palin I'm gonna shit a purple twinkie, blast some death metal at ear-bleeding levels, and guzzle beer like it's the eve of prohibition.

McCain/Palin 08!

Lets hope that proposition 8 brings out the good catholic vote for McCain...

If California goes red in this one I think I might stay drunk for a few days...lol

He's gonna chaaaange it.... re-araaaange it....

/creepy child singing voice

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.

Seriously.

Welcome to the South Side of Chicago.

- jpt

This pretty much sums it up...

SPITS

re: #12 bellamags

Election night preps: Coffee, friends, a mini dachshund, TV's and my laptop.

Extra cuddles to that mini dachshund, and wuffs and licks from Miss Dog!

re: #28 musicman

Yeah!

re: #37 shanec99

Stop with the cheap Hawaii stuff, if you want the real stuff live like a capitalist... but some real Jamaican Blue Mountain.

It is the only thing blue this year that is worth having.

Much as I'd like to "buy American", JBM is, indeed, my favorite.

All aboard the McCain train!

Charles, please be careful. Make sure you have plenty of alcohol swabs and clean needles for the Kona IV drip.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

I guess there is no risk of purple twinkies appearing anytime soon.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

About as likely as your state (CA) not having a budget deficit.

re: #36 Sol Roth

yeah, just wait, in another 8 hours it wil be will impossible to get in.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

I don't know about anyone else, but I am freakin' psyched! If my state (CA) goes to McCain/Palin I'm gonna shit a purple twinkie, blast some death metal at ear-bleeding levels, and guzzle beer like it's the eve of prohibition.

McCain/Palin 08!

Your state would suddenly become half vacant if that happened. Mass suicides! Houses would be much cheaper, less traffic on the roads, man, just a win-win scenario! :)

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

I don't know about anyone else, but I am freakin' psyched! If my state (CA) goes to McCain/Palin I'm gonna shit a purple twinkie, blast some death metal at ear-bleeding levels, and guzzle beer like it's the eve of prohibition.

McCain/Palin 08!

I will happily join in and dance in the streets with you.

re: #14 ziggyelman

Neal Boortz just said he can't see McCain winning....what weird brain wave altering machine does Obama have to have Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot, and help Obama?

How can anyone see McCain winning? The polls are rigged, the democrats cheat, the media is in the tank in a ridiculous way. You see anywhere that McCain will win, or that we want to put up with the unrest that will surely follow if he does? I am resigned.

A sign? LOL...

I drove by my old apt earlier and saw a McCain and an 0bama sign in the yard, side-by-side.

It's windy today, and as I drove back the other way- a while later, the 0bama sign had blown down and the Mac sign was still standing.

re: #39 MandyManners

Call me crazy but, I bet there weren't many BHO voters in that line. Those folks remember the Cold War better than many.

You're crazy!

just woke up. police sirens and helicopters hovering low over my street. i'd blame election chaos, but this happens weekly in my part of hollywood.

still, i'm voting then getting the hell out of this neighborhood for the day.

p.s. starbucks is rumored to be giving away a free cup of coffee if you show an "i voted" sticker.

I'd like to have a mini Dashund. But regarding the election I'm probably going to have trouble sleeping at night.

re: #28 musicman

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs

Great to hear!

OK. Voted. Only once, but then, I'm in Minneapolis and not Chicago.

Here's hoping Sen. McCain eats Barry's waffle.

re: #28 musicman

Why bother... hell the only thing they do well is tear things down. The Democrats never build anything, but they are experts at vandalizing and tearing stuff down.

Over at The Corner, Jonah is posting some wonderful movie clips with rousing calls to action. My favorite so far is Aragorn's Speech at the Black Gate

re: #36 Sol Roth

Boy, I hope Charles has some type of Superhamster relay teams specially bred for today's avalanche.

Cue the Superhamsters!

re: #48 notutopia

Yeah!

I really enjoy hearing their choir sing each Christmas on PBS. I hope it wasn't their music professor.

Heading out to Vote at my spot on the way to work. will check in when at work

Keep the faith, Lizards. The fat lady hasn't sung yet and McCain/Palin have been closing in for a few weeks now. ;)

Judging from how long it took me to log on, I won't be able to post later tonight.
I'll still read every word.
No other way to survive this.
Thanks Charles and Lizardia,
And now, off to Vote...

re: #44 Tilly

If California goes red in this one I think I might stay drunk for a few days...lol

California..Red...drunk...

Suddenly, I'm thirsty.

re: #39 MandyManners

Mandy, are you that young, I pictured you my age due to your wisdom!
I lived through that Cold War nightmare. My rectal sphincter does not function correctly to this day, as a result of it.

re: #29 MandyManners

Gonna' refrain.

That is the refrain! LOL

If Obama wins, I plan to hide my money and firearms, my political and religious beliefs, avoid all government security checkpoints, avoid eye contact, go off the grid.

In fact, there may even be no grid from which to go off.

See you all in the bunker. ;)

I have turned off the avatars and plan to spend no more than 30 min at a time here today. Trying to make room for all of us to get in. So have fun lizards.
I got a gut feeling we are going to win this. And my guts are pretty smart.

re: #59 Occasional Reader

You're crazy!

I shoulda' known you'd say that.

If you want a shiver up your spine, Sing for Change.

re: #49 Occasional Reader

Much as I'd like to "buy American", JBM is, indeed, my favorite.

See you have good political instincts, kind of like your taste in coffee. Congratualtions... now get out and vote.

Probably.

I am hoping that all of the "polls" were fronts for the propaganda machine of the DNC and that the "Real Americans" will spill out en mass to put McCain/Palin in their place at the White House.
Otherwise, hang on to your ass because the DNC and all of their cronies will try to take as much of it as possible.

re: #18 doppelganglander

fifteen minutes at my polling place in Cobb County
wife spent 3 hours in line last week to vote early

I pray to God that He intervenes in our affairs today. He has before, and I believe with all of my being that America is His instrument of justice, peace and generosity. I believe that we are the guardians of the holy land. I believe that we are His scimitar acting as a bulwark against her enemies. I pray that He keeps our foundations and the strength at the base of our pillar, our children, safe and sound under the values with which we were founded.

I pray that He is with us on this day, and I pray that He is with all of you. I pray that He helps us, as we are on the precipice of what is the most significant election in world history.

re: #55 ziggyelman

Your state would suddenly become half vacant if that happened. Mass suicides! Houses would be much cheaper, less traffic on the roads, man, just a win-win scenario! :)

I'd still be here in CA, as would a number of my neighbors. Go McCain/Palin ~ Woot!

re: #63 amphibian

OK. Voted. Only once, but then, I'm in Minneapolis and not Chicago.

Here's hoping Sen. McCain eats Barry's waffle.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!

LOL!

This just in: Hugo Chavez wants "the black man" to win.

Oh goodie.

re: #58 jetprop

A sign? LOL...

I drove by my old apt earlier and saw a McCain and an 0bama sign in the yard, side-by-side.

It's windy today, and as I drove back the other way- a while later, the 0bama sign had blown down and the Mac sign was still standing.

That's almost like a Biblical parable.

House on the sand and all that.

My husband spoke with his business partner in NY and he said people started lining up to vote at 5am this morning. When he got to his voting place at 8am there were at least 250 people in line.

Oh well -- we couldn't get the new web server in time for today, so we'll just have to deal with the traffic surge as best we can.

re: #82 equable

Amen.

re: #80 taxfreekiller

market is up 280
if Obama had it
in the bank, the
market would be
down 500, nice

True that!

McCain/Palin !

re: #47 yma o hyd

thanks. : ) she prefers belly rubs. Ill give her some for you. and cheers to your pup.

re: #24 bellamags

Boortz said Kerry would win for sure last election. He tries to piss people off.

I remember that well.

Boortz was going to be in SW Florida right before the election, and my sister got tickets to go see him with our then 71-year-old dad, who was thrilled to go - until he heard Boortz say that.

Needless to say, Dad refused to go after that.

There's an election today?

Who knew!

Who offered the most free stuff, that's my man!

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Just got back from casting my vote for McCain/Palin!

Walked the two blocks to my voter location at a local Baptist church; there were 5 voter stands where you could use paper ballots, and one little kiosk with the electronic voting machine. Nothing close to a line.

We walked in, I approached the table (which is divided by first letter of last name), showed my driver's license, signed my name, and was given the paper ballot to vote (it's way faster than the one electronic machine) and I was done. :)

By 9:30 AM, they'd only had around 150 voters. I love my little city.

Governor Palin voting in Wasillia, AK now on Fox. It's dark with snow on the ground.

re: #88 Charles

Have the hamsters been working out?

re: #19 MrPaulRevere

Kona coffee IS the real deal. Make it the official LGF drink I say.

Sorry, too watery-tasting for me. Sumatran, Indian or Mexican, roasted just the far side of second crack and infused in a French press. Or Ethiopian, lightly roasted, for Turkish.

I drink a lot of coffee.

I voted! I brought a book (Anathem), read one page, stepped right up. Colored in those bubbles, yes sir I did. My favorite part is the electronic box gizmo; you can feed in the sheet any of the four ways; up, down, forwards, backwards, it'll read them all. It'd be cool to make the sheet square, extend to eight ways.

re: #72 notutopia

Mandy, are you that young, I pictured you my age due to your wisdom!
I lived through that Cold War nightmare. My rectal sphincter does not function correctly to this day, as a result of it.

I remember a bit of it. I know that my dad was never home--he flew sub-hunters and those planes out of Newfoundland that flew to the edges of Soviet airspace and got pinged by the Red Menace's radar.

Quoted in whole, because it's so good:

My hopes and fears
By TigerHawk

I hope that John McCain wins tonight. If he does, I fear that his victory comes in a slim Electoral College majority hinged on narrow results in a single state. We should all pray that Ohio is not "Florida" with race thrown in.

I fear that the Democrats build their majority in the US Senate to 60. I hope that if that happens Lieberman switches parties. That would be extremely poetic.

I hope that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gov't is not as bad for business & good for lawyers as I fear it will be.

I hope that Obama does not mean what he says about corporate executives. If so, I fear that he will enact Barney Frank's various proposals to make my professional life miserable.

I fear that we will be overrun by lawyers. A dominating Democratic majority will not only result in massive benefits to lawyers of all sorts -- trial lawyers, labor lawyers, & regulatory lawyers in the fore -- but it will mark the return of the cognitive style of lawyers to the White House and cabinet. This is especially troubling in the conduct of foreign policy.

I fear that Obama means what he says about energy policy, because if he succeeds in enacting the program he has proposed, Americans will not live nearly so well for a generation or more. But our grandchildren should be able to eat Adirondack fish, so that will be an upside.

I hope & fear that Obama has destroyed campaign finance regulation in this country for a generation. I hope it, because the McCain-Feingold law ought to be struck down as an unconstitutional. I fear it, because we have learned from the Obama campaign's exploitation of the small donor loophole that current law has destroyed transparency in campaign finance. That allows foreigners to finance American elections without Americans knowing it.

I hope, if Obama wins, that we do enjoy some significant change in race relations in this country. Many conservatives argue that the result will likely be the opposite, but I do not agree. I hope that an Obama White House will realize that its best political interest lies in vocally denying that race is the cause of this, that, or the other social problem. Of course, I fear the opposite.

I fear we will learn who Obama's friends are. Who will be the Webster Hubbell & Vince Foster of the Obama administration?

I hope that Americans come to understand that David Axelrod is Karl Rove on speed.

I fear that Joe Biden is right in his prediction that our enemies will test the new administration. I hope the new president exceeds my expectations.

Regardless of which ticket wins today, I hope that the president lives for at least four more years, & not just because I am filled with the milk of human kindness. Neither running mate is ready to be president, & Biden never will be.

If Obama wins, I hope that we do see a surge of support for the United States around the world, as the transnational progressives expect. "Soft power" in its various forms does indeed serve the United States, because it is easier for foreign leaders to support us if their people have a positive view toward us. I fear, however, that the Obama administration will view international popularity as an end, rather than a means, & confuse the approval of foreign elites for the respect of the foreign masses.

I hope that the GOP gets a clue. Among the various clues I hope they get, I hope that they learn that there is a difference between opposition to elite sensibilities & tastes & anti-intellectualism. The former is fine, the latter is destructive. Go to NASCAR races, hunt, play lawn darts, drink beer, mock modern art, deplore political correctness, & admire serious book learning all at once. There has been too much of the former & not enough of the latter in this election.

I hope that blog traffic remains at the high levels of recent months. But not that much. We could all do to get back to real work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyVjqRApOoc
Hillary campaigns inside a voting - ballot area.

Hillary, go home, its over,

help Bill sign his X mark for Sarah and John.

Good luck, Republicans and PUMAs.
Here in Israel, I'm biting my fingernails.

The silent majority will speak. McCain/Palin will win by a landslide.

re: #49 Occasional Reader

Much as I'd like to "buy American", JBM is, indeed, my favorite.

gonna have to disagree. Kona coffee rocks. JBM is not the best crop product Jamaica has to offer.

I feel sick to my stomach...

re: #39 MandyManners

Call me crazy but, I bet there weren't many BHO voters in that line. Those folks remember the Cold War better than many.

AND they don't like telling strangers on the phone who they plan to vote for. They are the first to just hang up when pollsters call.

re: #88 Charles

Oh well -- we couldn't get the new web server in time for today, so we'll just have to deal with the traffic surge as best we can.

Are you going to disable the avatars? I wouldn't blame you if you did.

re: #57 kansas

How can anyone see McCain winning? The polls are rigged, the democrats cheat, the media is in the tank in a ridiculous way. You see anywhere that McCain will win, or that we want to put up with the unrest that will surely follow if he does? I am resigned.

Good question! Only thing that gives me hope, is Bush didn't look very good 4 years ago. Media was certainly for Kerry, but nothing like what we are seeing today.
The Fox poll yesterday had McCain up in Florida, NC, and a few other states....first time in quite awhile. best time in the world to peak. A lot of people feel like us. A lot of bitter folks! ;)

re: #66 Macker

Yesterday Our Aussies chased and grounded a tree squirrel and my spouse threw it in the garbage can.
I later opened the lid to find this rigor mortised Dramatic look frozen on it's cute little face, and almost wet my jeans laughing so hard!

I'll be voting here in north Cali in about an hour, just need to walk up the street to the voting station.
All these last several weeks, gleeful Dhimmicrats have been telling me with glee that my vote doesn't count in this Blue State. And I've taken real pleasure in watching their smiles crack and fear show in their eyes when I told them I'm STILL voting McCain.

I'm getting emails even this morning from these oh-so-SOPHISTICATED dhimmicrats on how they HATE Sarah Palin............and enjoying responding to them with a "Sarah for Prez 2012!" retort.

;-)

omfg I'm scared

I voted at 10 am and walked right in.

But all 20 machines were full all the time, and people were constantly coming and going.

And, I got to take an Exit Poll! Except they just asked how I enjoyed my voting experience, if the wait was too long, and if I would like to see more voting days (extended "early voting").

The McCains just voted.

Just got back from voting under heavy police presence.

Of course, since I vote in the same building as the police station, that tends to happen alot.

In and out in about seven minutes. The barely lifelike octagenarians working the polls said it's pretty heavy turnout for our little town.

re: #28 musicman

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs

Tee-double-hee!

Serves the [deleted] right - not just for stealing and damaging property, but for being such a blithering idiot to boast about it on the internet.
Someone as stupid as that should indeed not be allowed to teach at any college.

re: #57 kansas

If the election was a pure popular vote, then you would be correct. But the founders had the wisdom to weight the electoral college to give a benefit to smaller states.

McCain has a shot at the electoral college, but it relies on a Bradly-effect sort of surge in his numbers in the swing states and/or PA. I give it a 15% chance.

Said it before, Grandma in FL is crossing party lines to vote McCain for the first time ever. Supposedly many more like her (older, Jewish etc) are doing the same. I also live in a very Jewish (religious) NE area, and there was an enormous amount of NEW Orthodox voters waiting to vote for the first time. The community in general is very supportive of McCain. Three friends of mine who were going to vote for O, have switched and voted McCain. All anecdotal of course but interesting.

I'm surprised to see avatars...

Anyhoo - just heard on the news that a NJ polling place had to go to paper ballots because their electronic gadgets are malfunctioning....

And in a more bizarre story - some pollworker in Michigan OVERSLEPT and did not open his poling place on time.

*rolls eyes*

Just got back with the missus. Count two more votes for McCain/Palin.

Vote Tuesday and pray.

Amen! I will vote at 10:00 AM here in CA, then off to the local church to say a prayer for the republic. I bet I won't be alone.

I'll let you know.

mini dachshunds? them's good eatin'!

Well I am waiting for another guy to get here in IT so I can go vote. St. Paul-Minneapolis is awash in Obamaites so despair is a constant option. I am voting in a Viking way, the Old Gods may be doomed, but I am fighting on their side anyway. Do I have hope if Obama wins? yea, sorta, I hope Obama isn't as serious as he sounds.

re: #104 bellamags

gonna have to disagree. Kona coffee rocks. JBM is not the best crop product Jamaica has to offer.

Hey quit that... that other stuff is only used by Professors and Liberal Arts Colleges and ex-Presidents who don't inhale.

buckle up lizards its going to be a long, long, day.

is Detroit on fire yet?

re: #88 Charles

Oh well -- we couldn't get the new web server in time for today, so we'll just have to deal with the traffic surge as best we can.

Rationing will be the norm under Dear Leader. Hope & Change!

/starting Haldol drip....

re: #66 Macker

Cue the Superhamsters!

hilarious.!

re: #101 ibmkeyboard

She looks like an old hag.

I voted before I came to work - longest line I've ever encountered at my polling place. I even got to participate in an exit poll! That was a first.

re: #44 Tilly

Lets hope that proposition 8 brings out the good catholic vote for McCain...

If California goes red in this one I think I might stay drunk for a few days...lol

Forgot about Prop 8 on CA's ballot, hope it brings out the Catholic vote. We've been preached to for weeks to vote as a Catholic first when it comes to the Abortion issue. I have been quite surprised at hearing anything remotely political in a homily.

I did my part although it was a week ago by mail(Washington State).

GO MCCAIN/PALIN

and GO ROSSI

An Obama flyer gave me the wrong address to my polling place.

The candidate can vote for themselves?

Got out early. Heavy turnout here in Shelby Co. TN.

Interestingly, looks like the 0bama camp went on a use'em or lose'rm Astroturfing spree overnight with lots of yardsigns stuck up on highly traveled roads and intersections. Apparently a bunch of signs left over, whatever that might mean. Too much money? Too few takers?

My wife and I voted about 7 am (CST) here in rural Missouri.

I just hope enough of us rural McCain voters come out today to offset the votes cast in St. Louis and Kansas City!

Wow. Just clicking back to check the previous thread, then coming back to this one, took about 4 full minutes. Gah.

re: #56 Bobibutu

I will happily join in and dance in the streets with you.

Are you a dude or a chick? Ah, who cares. If Cali goes for McCain I'll dance with anything that moves.

/I said dance.

Later Lizards, keep your chins up, and VOTE!

I got to my polling place at 6:20 and wasn't finished voting till 7:45. I've voted in the same precinct for 10 years, and this is the first time it's taken over 15 minutes from arriving to leaving. When I left the line was about the same length, perhaps a few yards longer.

It's going to be a long day for our poll workers.

Somebody knows something, Dow up 280.

My daughter just voted in King county (WA state) They could not find her on the rolls, so she had to vote provisional.
There was a lady in line behind her that had to vote provisional as well and she was freaking out saying"no, I don't want a provisional ballot, It will never be counted. Remember 2004"

re: #80 taxfreekiller

The Market has already discounted an Obama victory and today's volume is way thin. I can't read anything into it.

My vote is in. Polling took no longer than 15 minutes and everything was cool, calm, and in order.

I'd still support indelible ink for each voter.

Got to the polls early, got in the long line, then had a Bob Ucker moment--got to go to the front row. Line was for streets A-L, the M-Z line was empty. In and out in less than 5 minutes :) Now its just finish up job one, then off to job two, then the gym, then break out the snacks and watch the elections until when ever the McCain/Palin shocking upset of Obamazilla and his sidekick, foot-in-mouth boy occurs!

What time is the result expected?

I'm on my way to drive an elderly gentleman to the polls, BBL.

re: #117 jayzee

Said it before, Grandma in FL is crossing party lines to vote McCain for the first time ever.

What do you think finally did it for her?

Just curious if you know?

re: #57 kansas

How can anyone see McCain winning? The polls are rigged, the democrats cheat, the media is in the tank in a ridiculous way. You see anywhere that McCain will win, or that we want to put up with the unrest that will surely follow if he does? I am resigned.

Resigned or not - tell me you did your part and voted?

re: #95 Who Watches the Watchmen?

Governor Palin voting in Wasillia, AK now on Fox. It's dark with snow on the ground.

Nov in Alaska - you expected sunshine and flowers?

/

this guy is very interesting to listen to and has a lot of great facts.

Machosauceproductions

Breaking: with 0 polls reporting in 0 states and 0 Electoral College votes decided, CNN Election Desk is calling a landslide for Obama. The racist McCain team is huddled in seclusion, so far refusing to concede what every decent human being in the whole fricken' world already knows: The One is Inevitable!

Serves the [deleted] right - not just for stealing and damaging property, but for being such a blithering idiot to boast about it on the internet.

People like this are blinded by the belief that the purity of their political convictions, makes their every action pure, too. He probably saw nothing wrong with his crime.

Someone as stupid as that should indeed not be allowed to teach at any college.

I'm afraid that if all the professors this stupid were to suddenly disappear, we would have an epidemic of college students with ruptured eardrums, what with the massive atmospheric pressure drop that would result.

And we were jocking about Red Ken...

STAY AWAY FROM GRANT!

I posted this before on the other thread. . .I am oddly entranced by my neighbors. . .they are behaving so strangely. . .

Should be an interesting night. . .

Count 3 more votes for McCain, mine, hubby's before he left, and one of my friends from work. . .

also 2 votes from my sons by military. . .the had BETTER get counted!

In classic "Hungover at the Hajj" style, I'm finishing my 4th Irish Coffee and headed out to vote for The Hero and the Hottie.

Tonight let's toast one another with champagne cocktails and crisp, dry martinis as TH&TH win in a landslide.

--Ho@tH

Sent my absentee ballot in last week.. If McCain wins its going to be a party in my neighborhood!

re: #140 nucular_option

My vote is in. Polling took no longer than 15 minutes and everything was cool, calm, and in order.

I'd still support indelible ink for each voter.

I'd way rather have a purple finger than this sticker they gave me, anyway!

re: #88 Charles

Oh well -- we couldn't get the new web server in time for today, so we'll just have to deal with the traffic surge as best we can.

Thank you, Charles. You're a gracious host. I hope someone reminded the hatchlings to tip their waiters.

re: #151 DisturbedEma

I am oddly entranced by my neighbors.

Is it their perfume? Did they get new hairdos?

Update from Philly (where GOP poll watchers were booted from the polling place):
Update 10:53am: Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes says this matter is already being heard in court and should be resolved soon. He says there was a dispute of the names of the poll watchers on record. This is a different story than the Democratic officials told Fox News earlier this morning.

146 + posts in 21 minutes...I predict...a new thread every 1-2 hours...and McCain wins! Gonna try to get some rest, and say a prayer again for McCain/Palin.
It's going to be a long night. You just know some states will have to have hours extended, and with more votes than ever cast, it will take longer to count.

I know some of you here consider me a troll, but I want not to gloat over Obama's impending victory, but to praise McCain. He didn't stoop as low as he might have. He is, as one commentator put it last night, "a happy warrior." He's bold, decisive, patriotic, brave and more. He's a D's favorite R. Last night's "Frontline" made clear he pulled Bush's bacon out of the fire with the surge when the Iraq war was floundering. It's a shame he didn't get the GOP nod in 2000 ...

Voting Twice

comforting.

That, and the PA situation, are not good.

I hear the Obama-SS marching outside...I'm so scared.

Obama was asked if he thought he has the election wrapped up. He said something to the effect that they are trying not to be overly confident.

MY ASS!

Then why did you arranged a victory party a week ago?

re: #127 redstateredneck

that 'splains why I didn't see you this morning on the overnite thread.
Is there no such thing as a DDT now? :(
Where have all my DDT friends gone?

Checking in from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts:
I was able to get to the polls on my way to work this morning and did my part to try to restore sanity to our Government. One exciting development was that Barney Frank was not running unopposed so for once I got to vote against that fat POS. Our esteemed Junior Senator Jean Francois was also opposed by a Republican so it was like a two for!
Lastly we had a ballot initiative to eliminate the state income tax. CHECK. Around here it's the little things that matter on election day. My polling place was a little busier than normal but not unlike we saw during the last Presidential cycle. The P.R.M. will, of course, fall into the Obama column but I didn't see any big change in the number of people at the polls. I hope that's a good sign for Mac and Sarah nationally. Now it's back to checking the ammo and rations... Later Lizards....

Here in Bklyn the lines are stretching around the corner, yet I will gut it out and wait with my 7 month old to cast my vote for McCain. New York is a goner, but I will fulfill my patriotic duty of casting what will turn out to be little more than a protest vote in my state.

I have put my home on the market, at the very least I will at least be voting in a county where I can find more like minded people in the next election. I'm just amazed at the amount of kool aid flowing like a river in this neighborhood. My so called, "rational, pro Israel, fiscally conservative and well educated friends and family are pulling the lever for possibly the greatest scam artist to ever run for our nations highest office. Nothing I have said, no link, no video absolutely nothing will change their minds. MSM brainwashing and indoctrination has literally created a cult.

They would have been better off with Jim Jones.

All of you swing stater's get out there and bring this thing home for all of us!

Kudos to the WSJ for highlighting conservative bloggers and web sites. it is refreshing to see a story that doesn't lead with Huff'N'Puff and Diarrhea Kostco.
So Charles mainlining coffee huh? I thought the natural nitrogen enriched enviroment of the underground lair was enough to keep you operating at a high level.

re: #103 sadhu

The silent majority will speak. McCain/Palin will win by a landslide.

Agree! Mr and Mrs Silent Majority will NOT have this socialist/messiah/elitist/wimp in the White House. The huge numbers reflect them coming out to STOP him and the MSM dead in their tracks.
Go home, Barry, bury your grandma, spend time with your family.
The government is in the Hero's hands.
Sigh of relief!

re: #19 MrPaulRevere

Kona coffee IS the real deal. Make it the official LGF drink I say.

nowhere near enough etoh for the LNDTs..........

i'm thinking everclear. %-)

Oh, Orrin Hatch on Glenn Beck. Even he is worried for the country if the Senate has 60 Dems.
And Beck played a clip of Charlie Rangel chanting to a group Obama, will save the country, Obama will save the world...good grief!

I haven't voted yet. Still making up my mind. If Obama really will hand me powerful military-grade weapons as part of a Civilian Security Force, he may just have my vote.

But seriously... in my experience here in DC, trying to vote early is futile; massive lines. I'll go to vote in about a half hour; usually much better. And it's not like I'm in a big hurry... DC ain't exactly a "swing state" with a razor-thin margin of victory.

going to bike now
eat some breakfast
go vote
830 am here in Vegas
I wish I can say we will be fine either way but I dont
really believe it. I have become a worse person
I have a hard time being civil to people when they tell me they like Obama.Especially other jews,I feel like they are wearing blinders,I can't believe this is even close and people can't see through this phony.
Anyway thank you folks at LGF at least it is good to know I will have some people to whisper to at the reeducation camp,if I survive the shootout when they come for me.

re: #156 Occasional Reader

Is it their perfume? Did they get new hairdos?

Snort!

No, it is how they are acting. . .like well, prowling. . .is that the right word? Just . . .waiting to. . .act it is like watching a documentary, on the voting day behavior of city dwellers. . .

still feeling sick...

re: #97 amphibian

And the hair is growing on my chest just thinking about that!

re: #137 Quintus_Arius

I was noticing that. Wall street seems optimistic..
/hmm

re: #132 Dar ul Harb

Got out early. Heavy turnout here in Shelby Co. TN.

Interestingly, looks like the 0bama camp went on a use'em or lose'rm Astroturfing spree overnight with lots of yardsigns stuck up on highly traveled roads and intersections. Apparently a bunch of signs left over, whatever that might mean. Too much money? Too few takers?

Hundreds of signs all over the parking lot.

One sign 1- uno - for Obama Biden.

It must be hard to find a Bambi sign in NC?

re: #147 scrad

this guy is very interesting to listen to and has a lot of great facts.

Machosauceproductions

That's James T. Harris.

I'm 90% sure McCain will win. The Obama campaign has been heavily reliant on their hopes that people will be affected by the bandwagon strategy, but i think it will have the opposite effect.

There was only one guy in front of me! Lines all around but apparently not many people in my district vote...I flirted and chatted with the little old guy who was there to show me how to use the lever - after he explained I asked him if he had any advice on who to vote for (he was in the booth with me behind the curtain). he said he couldn't tell me that but when I felt satisfied with my decision - really satisfied from the heart pull the lever. I had my little flip vid on and fairly well hidden but no luck.
NO ID WAS REQUIRED. I even offered and they said "we don't need all that."

Fox news was covering Obama voting this morning and it took him a long time. I understand his confusion. For once there was nobody or nothing on the ballot labeled "PRESENT"

Engineers around my cubicle impatiently waiting for McCain to concede.... Dumbasses.

re: #163 Texas Heathen

that 'splains why I didn't see you this morning on the overnite thread.
Is there no such thing as a DDT now? :(
Where have all my DDT friends gone?

{HEATHEN}! ! !
There's nobody left of the old DDT crowd hardly. UFO TOFU is in and out. Newmelleman makes an occasional appearance. Haven't seen m in ages. Beach Lover and aussie drop by when they can. Lance got his ass banned. Looks like the good old days are gone!

re: #178 karmapolice

I'll have what you're smoking, buddy.

re: #164 Dave_Da_Kid

... Now it's back to checking the ammo and rations... Later Lizards....

I've got a good stock of popcorn and a box of 230gr .45ACP JHP with a spare mag ready to go. The popcorn certainly tastes better and is better suited to microwaving.

re: #144 Buck

What do you think finally did it for her?

Just curious if you know?

For my Grandmother is was just the accumulation of information regarding Obama's anti Israel and anti semitic cadre. She hates Palin, but hates Jackson and Farakhan and Khalidi more.

That's pretty much it. What's interesting is that she is not internet savvy and gets all her info from bs'ing with her friends (other retirees ins SE FL) and this has been a hot topic. To the older generation, apparently, Jewish issues still count. What was fascinating I think is that they refuse to discuss it openly. She was polled and told the pollster Obama even.

re: #180 Just_A_Grunt

OOOH SNAP

re: #170 Occasional Reader

I'll go to vote in about a half hour; usually much better. And it's not like I'm in a big hurry... DC ain't exactly a "swing state" with a razor-thin margin of victory.

Know whacha mean. I voted even though my state is bluer than navy. IL isn't even in play. :(

re: #180 Just_A_Grunt

Fox news was covering Obama voting this morning and it took him a long time. I understand his confusion. For once there was nobody or nothing on the ballot labeled "PRESENT"

I think you win this thread. I've been in a jovial mood today, but that made me laugh even more than usual.

re: #179 missviolin

NO ID WAS REQUIRED. I even offered and they said "we don't need all that."

Welcome to my world. In DC, they freak out if you even start to offer them ID. No, no, we don't need it! They recoil like Superman to kryptonite. It's ridiculous; our voting "security" procedures here would not pass muster in a third world country.

re: #7 kansas

Here's my pledge from Red State Kansas. I will not act like a Democrat monkey and throw poop at Obama for 4 years.

Speak for yourself ;)

My goal now is to make sure that ObamaMessiah lives up to his halo.

I'll just sit this orgy out, thank you.

Voted this morning in SE PA. Crowded at 7:30, but then again the poll volunteers were fairly clueless. As I was standing in line I contemplated the following things, in no particular order:

1. Americans have been voting for a president every 4 years for 230 years. That's a long time to sustain a democracy, and we should be proud.

2. Voting is like a long shower after a hot day of work: it lifts the sweat of worry from your mind. I've done what I can, and now we just have to see what everybody else decided.

3. Whoever wins, he will be your president and mine. Let's have none of this "He's not MY president!" horseshit like the leftists do.

4. We absolutely, positively need to insist on nationwide voter ID requirements and use of paper ballots. It's the only way to restore confidence in the process.

5. Republicans need to figure out what kind of party the want to be, because what we've got now isn't cutting it. That's a post for a later day, though.

6. I'm glad the election is over. It's time to get on with our lives.

re: #180 Just_A_Grunt

Fox news was covering Obama voting this morning and it took him a long time. I understand his confusion. For once there was nobody or nothing on the ballot labeled "PRESENT"

Ha!

re: #107 Macker

Are you going to disable the avatars? I wouldn't blame you if you did.

I would disable everything but the threads...

re: #187 midwestgak

Know whacha mean. I voted even though my state is bluer than navy. IL isn't even in play. :(

Oh, we've got you beat on "Am I Blue?"! We even voted for Mondale, fer chrissake! Top THAT!

Good morning,Lizards...

It's....showtime!

re: #57 kansas
Polls rigged? Isn't that what moonbats say when they lose elections?

re: #150 Serge GoFan

And we were jocking about Red Ken...

Yeah - but see who beat him: Super-Boris Johnson, Tory!
Against the odds, too - I hope that'll cheer you up!

re: #191 joncelli

3. Whoever wins, he will be your president and mine. Let's have none of this "He's not MY president!" horseshit like the leftists do.

This is something I've been hearing a lot of from Conservatives, and I like it. It means we still have class. I still can't believe that people think in terms of "The REAL President of the United States, John Kerry".

Regis and Kelly have Poll on website and McCain is winning 54% to Obama 45%.

[Link: bventertainment.go.com...]

re: #182 redstateredneck

THAT SUCKS!
:(
I guess I'll just have to be an on topic poster from now on. Not nearly as much fun but still interesting.

re: #100 Kenneth

TigerHawk sounds optimistic. I'm not, should BHO win.
Bill Clinton was very much aware of the people who did not vote for him. Did his best to accomodate them.

Based on what I've seen, BHO will give the MCain voters the 'finger'.

Just got back from voting in our precinct. We took the whole family. In order to beat the crowd, we rolled the kids out in their jammies, put the sneakers on along with the rain coats and umbrellas. I grabbed my coffee, made sure we had our voter cards, and we were off to the little Calvary church's basement to vote.

We got there about 20 minutes before the polls opened. There were already about 15 people in line ahead of us. Traditional paper ballots were being used. With the traditional double checking of the ballot numbers being called off to each other.

Obviously, our little part of the world was not expecting the turn-out. They only had one table set-up to vote with fold-out privacy screens. The little old ladies seemed to be overwhelmed from the start. We cast our votes, deposited our ballots in the locked box and proceed to exit. We were there all of twenty minutes.

By that time, the voting line had been splintered into two lines according to last names and was going out the door. (Usually, in our part of the country, there are very few that show up to vote and one can just walk right in, vote, and leave.) And, the church staffers had set up scones with jam and coffee service. Then were were off to the train station.

While driving, my husband quipped, " I sure hope that we won't be seeing change." And I replied, "I don't either. I want to keep the change in my pocket."

Good voting everyone!
McCain/Palin '08

Portae Inferi Non Praevalebunt.

And it's time for the Poll Hammer:

God bless us all

Polls are BS. Ojoe's poll hammer:

1. Polls are public. There are at least 2 people present when a polling question is asked. The Ballot is private.

2. Poll questions can be worded in leading, tricky ways. The ballot is simple.

3. Polls never measure the opinions of those who refuse to answer them. Polls are the responses of the 20% or fewer of people who answer the phones and respond to pollsters. The other 80+% of people either hang up or never answer the phone.

4. Polls can be used to try and influence the outcome of an election, so the motivation behind them and their reporting is suspect. The ballot is the election.

5. You can lie to a pollster. You cannot lie to the ballot.

6. Polls come to you. You have to get up off your ass to vote.

7. Only God knows the future anyway.

(see you all in 48 hours minimum)

re: #191 joncelli

6. I'm glad the election is over. It's time to get on with our lives.

um, it's not over.

Just got back from voting -- for Palin, natch -- and I have never seen anything like this morning's crowd! Normally it's in and out within 5 minutes, 10 at the most, but this time it was 40 minutes, with the voting line along three walls of the fire hall's social room ... and the line didn't get any shorter the whole time we were there.

Helluva line at my place in Noe Valley, San Francisco. 40 minute wait. Unreal. It's never more than 5. If I voted the winning tickets, John McCain will be giving tax breaks to homosexual couples in California.

re: #194 Occasional Reader

Oh, we've got you beat on "Am I Blue?"! We even voted for Mondale, fer chrissake! Top THAT!

LOL. Bowing, Bowing

re: #200 Texas Heathen

THAT SUCKS!
:(
I guess I'll just have to be an on topic poster from now on. Not nearly as much fun but still interesting.

You can still throw in your double entendres. We don't want to get too serious around here!

I live in a state that will go for Obama but I am off to cast my vote for McCain anywayZZZZZZZZZZZZzz............

Vote for McCain/Palin at 7am. Wait 5 minuts, but people were more then usual for this time.(good sign for republican district) My wife, register democrat and Hillary supporter also voted for McCain. My co-worker from NJ waited 1 hour in mornig and left because of meeting at work, will vote later. She claimed, on line 70% were first time voters, most of them for McCain. Hope dies last!

re: #205 Empire1

just curious....were there a lot of young people?

Hope for the best,
Prepare for the worst.

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs.

The St. Olaf (Northfield, Minn.) professor who, in a well-read Huffington Post item, recounted tearing down McCain campaign signs has resigned.

Per the Northfield News, it appears that Philip Busse was forced out.

St. Olaf spokesman David Gonnerman issued the following statement Monday afternoon:

"The St. Olaf College administration first learned of Phil Busse's self-admitted theft and destruction of campaign signs on the morning of Oct. 31 as a result of his posting on the Internet.

"The St. Olaf administration immediately referred the matter to local law enforcement authorities and commenced an investigation of its own.

"Mr. Busse has tendered his resignation and is no longer affiliated with St. Olaf College.

Busse has been charged with misdemeanor theft.

This guy is even stupid by HuffPo standards.

Finally got through to be able to post!

Pro-Obama people are all over campus trying one final time to get people to vote for him, and pro-Obama messages have been graffitied all over campus, but . . . I am seeing many more McCain stickers, t-shirts and buttons being worn by students than Obama ones. I'm hoping and praying that this trend is being repeated on campuses across the nation.

I'm dreading going to my next class; it's taught by a complete communist. Perhaps I'll bring my laptop along to "take notes" (ie, read LGF)!

Off to vote in CO!

re: #204 midwestgak

6. I'm glad the election is over. It's time to get on with our lives.

um, it's not over.

I'll be thrilled if it's over by tomorrow.

re: #173 cblesz

still feeling sick...

Me too ...

Looks like we'll be feeling sick for quite a while yet :-(

re: #213 jorline

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs.

This guy is even stupid by HuffPo standards.

Ah, the tolerant Left... champions of free speech, so they are!

Let's have a moment of silence for the new comments button.

re: #173 cblesz

still feeling sick...

me too!

I hope the Hampsters have got their HGH(Hampster Growth Hormones), they will need it today, like no other day.

If they fail, I think it is time that Charles brings in someone to help them out, like this little guy

re: #213 jorline

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs.

This guy is even stupid by HuffPo standards.

What an asshat!

OK, done with my duty for the day. In my small precinct just north of Motown, voter turnout from 2004 is up at least 75% for this time of day. In 2004, I was voter #215 or so at 10:30am. This time my number was #397. Mostly young folk, well younger folk, standing in line with me. Mostly white. Perhaps cancelling out the 'Detroiters for Democrats' vote? Hope so but doubt McCain can overcome here in Michigan. Saw at least 4 older guys with Vietnam Veteran Patches, or jackets, and thanked them for their service.

If you haven't done so, step away from the keyboard now and GO VOTE! We'll wait right here for you.....

McCain/Palin 08

re: #208 redstateredneck

You can still throw in your double entendres. We don't want to get too serious around here!

excelleeeent
/monty burns

It is hard though on the on topic threads. Posters don't throw the same softballs like on the old ddt threads. You really have to work at it.

re: #216 redstateredneck

I'll be thrilled if it's over by tomorrow.

An exchange before the Supreme Court of the United States:

SUPREMES: So on what grounds are you challenging the results of this Presidential election? Clearly you lost by a landslide in every state that counted.
OBAMA: I'M THE ONE, DAMMIT! I WAS HAND-PICKED BY TERRORISTS TO RUN THIS COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND! ELECT ME OR SUFFER!

I just dropped off my ballot in Phoenix. No one was in line and only 2 people voting.

Go Mac & Sarah!

re: #204 midwestgak

Well, okay, technically speaking the campaign is over and the election is ongoing. Let's just hope there are no lawsuits to keep things boiling even longer. My blood pressure would definitely not benefit from that.

re: #213 jorline

Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs.

This guy is even stupid by HuffPo standards.

LOL. Now that's stupid. :)

re: #191 joncelli

3. Whoever wins, he will be your president and mine. Let's have none of this "He's not MY president!" horseshit like the leftists do.

A minor correction. He is THE President. He is not MY President.

I am committed to exercising the same restraint that the left has done during ObamaMessiah's reign. They need to see to it his halo doesn't slip, because I will be right there to note it.

Voted in Ft. Lauderdale this morning (famous Broward County). Usually no line, this time, what looked like a small line caused a two hour wait! We had a five page ballot and some inefficiency going on, I believe. Still- more people than I have ever seen in our little precinct! The poll workers were offering chairs and drinks to those in line. They also appeared to be setting up for hot dogs later! Seriously!

re: #224 Texas Heathen

excelleeeent
/monty burns

It is hard though on the on topic threads. Posters don't throw the same softballs like on the old ddt threads. You really have to work at it.

I'll be here to tee it up for you whenever I can!

re: #159 Red Lion

I know some of you here consider me a troll, but I want not to gloat over Obama's impending victory, but to praise McCain. He didn't stoop as low as he might have. He is, as one commentator put it last night, "a happy warrior." He's bold, decisive, patriotic, brave and more. He's a D's favorite R. Last night's "Frontline" made clear he pulled Bush's bacon out of the fire with the surge when the Iraq war was floundering. It's a shame he didn't get the GOP nod in 2000 ...

Whether you are a troll or not ...I can tell you that by the democrats selecting Senator Government as their candidate ... all 20 of democrat members of family are voting McCain ...they may be democrats but they are Americans first ...the democrats have lost many of their traditional democrats and many will never return if my side of the family is any indication ...

re: #216 redstateredneck

I'll be thrilled if it's over by tomorrow.

Ditto. The agony of lawsuits and whinning losesrs. arg!

I am off to take some people to the polls to vote.

Keep it Frosty, Lizards. . .:)

I will vote in my little conservative desert California town, along with retired Navy men and women, guys who test the rockets and the jets, the Mormons, the desert rats and all the rest. This is a Red dot in a Blue state and I am Proud of My People!

I voted first thing this morning. My wife is voting at 3. Thats about All I can do. I am at working trying to raise the funds that I will need to contribute to those who choose not to work should the unthinkable happen.

I just read a Twitter remark: "I just voted for that nice young man Obama who is going to shake up the world" I just wonder how many Germans thought the same thing in the 1930's.

Please for the love of all that is good and sweet if you haven't voted yet get out there and do what you can to prevent this disaster.

New election thread folks! step to the right! (heh)

Coming in to work this morning, I will vote this afternoon, passed several small groups of people standing on street corners with various candidate signs. A couple of groups with the McCain/Palin signs. They seemed to be in good spirits and smiling, which is good to see in light of this intense election cycle.
Granted this is ATL, and they were on the right side of town but it was still refreshing to see. Conservatives coming out of the closet and the shadows, to borrow some well worn liberal cliches.

re: #219 Jimmah

Ah...seems to be working again.

It took me about 40 min to vote here in KS as soon as the polls opened at 6am. Pretty heavily district for the Chosen One here. This country does NOT need to become a Kakistocracy. God willing, McCain will pull off an upset.

Who's got the hamster chow?

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Thomas Jefferson

Obama went to his poll the same time as Bill Ayers. Obama waited outside until Ayers was finished voting. The One could not vote the same time as his neighbor was. Funny thing about associations, heh!

Stood in line at my precinct for the first time ever! Not much of a line, but twenty or so folks waiting at the door for the polls to open when I arrived at 0650.
Hope this is a good sign

If Obama wins..g_d forbid.. I am going to make a list of predictions and hang it on my fridge. This way the young Heathens get to see what happens when the country elects a socialist. First on the list will be O going after freedom of speech via the Fairness doctrine.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

I don't know about anyone else, but I am freakin' psyched! If my state (CA) goes to McCain/Palin I'm gonna shit a purple twinkie, blast some death metal at ear-bleeding levels, and guzzle beer like it's the eve of prohibition.

McCain/Palin 08!

Me too, it would make my year to see this state go red. It did for Reagan and hopefully there are enough pissed off Pumas to turn the tide.

Nobama Ever

re: #165 steveoh

The don't vote on issues. Its the anti-establishment vote (while at the same time they discuss the expensive wines to buy). Let's see their property values in a Nobama depression. Spoiled children in the disguise of adults breading more spoiled children. They are all useful idiots.

Its raining here in Raleigh, NC so maybe a lower turnout for the messiah

re: #214 ConservativeCollegeStudent

You don't have to name your school, but is it a State school, private, religous, liberal arts etc...? Just curious.

College was the 80's for me, and my kids are in elementary school, so I have no idea what it's like on campus anymore. I get the feeling from watching the news that it is just a sea of liberalism not only from the professors but also from the students. Your comments are encouraging.

CASTED MY VOTE IN NEW JERSEY - hope springs eternal for blue to turn red here. I like the fact that McCain was first on the electronic ballot.

It seems like more people at the polls this year than in the past. I hope and pray that is the silent majority coming out. Go McCain/Palin!

I am off to vote.

re: #247 TheBull271

Its raining here in Raleigh, NC so maybe a lower turnout for the messiah

I saw that on the weather map this morning and that was the exact thing I thought.

re: #148 Kenneth

Slight modification from CNN, "The polls are NOT yet open; Obama has a significant lead with 100% of the thousands of the 'votes' cast thus far. It's going to be a very long day for the McCain campaign and a short night for the results."

re: #21 Last Mohican

It was a gorgeous, cloudless, unseasonably warm, springlike day at the polls in Massachusetts today. Bustling, but no lines, and no waiting. Signs said "you may be asked to show photo ID," but not a single person was asked to do so. As usual. I could have voted at least five times if I had wanted to.

Why do people have to show their photo ID when picking up their will call tickets at the baseball stadium, but not when they vote?

Here in FL, no ID, no vote.

re: #248 JarHeadLifer

You don't have to name your school, but is it a State school, private, religous, liberal arts etc...? Just curious.

College was the 80's for me, and my kids are in elementary school, so I have no idea what it's like on campus anymore. I get the feeling from watching the news that it is just a sea of liberalism not only from the professors but also from the students. Your comments are encouraging.

It's a private school; it's a Catholic (Jesuit) run school, but that doesn't have much effect on the demographics of the students--I would estimate that the make-up of the student population is about the same for any other average college.

Many (but far from all) of the people I've met who are supporting McCain are moderate Democrats who don't like Obama.

re: #252 LaMano

Slight modification from CNN, "The polls are NOT yet open; Obama has a significant lead with 100% of the thousands of the 'votes' cast thus far. It's going to be a very long day for the McCain campaign and a short night for the results."

CNN can bite me.

Emailed sister in northern MO this morning with a little be-sure-to-vote reminder, she said that she and her husband had already voted (McCain, of course) and mom in southern MO was just about to head out to vote. I voted a couple of weeks ago here in northern Calif. McCain at the top on my ballot both literally and figuratively.

GO McCAIN/PALIN!

At least I have a good day, regardless. First, vote. Second, lunch with Michael Medved at Fleming's in Scottsdale as he broadcasts his show. Third, tickets already in hand for the 2008 McCain/Palin Victory Watch Party at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Good company all day.

re: #159 Red Lion

He didn't stoop as low as he might have.
Yea nice praise PISS OFF

re: #129 Truth Stick

"I did my part although it was a week ago by mail(Washington State).
GO MCCAIN/PALIN
and GO ROSSI"

Got my Rossi shirt on right now. I plan to go to the store in a bit and make sure it's seen :)

re: #251 redstateredneck

I saw that on the weather map this morning and that was the exact thing I thought.

Especially b/c wake county is where a lot of votes come from and many yankees have moved down here..

re: #258 kcladderman

He didn't stoop as low as he might have.
Yea nice praise PISS OFF

Why is it the left never sees itself the way we see them? See through them?

I heard a conservative radio commentator the other day say that IF Obama wins he'll have to scrap most of his socialist ideology and will govern from more of a centrist position. That scenario is only possible if the repubs pick up more seats. Otherwise it's Pollyanna thinking.

That commentator failed to mention all the judicial appointments that will steer our nation in the wrong direction for the next 40 years. Judicial activism is a scary thought.

re: #211 Texas Heathen

No, not unless you count a few children along for the experience. Most were middle-aged or older -- this is farming country, and we were in about 10, when most non-retirees would have been at work.

BTW, Mr. E voted for the first time since I've known him (Repub, straight ticket), and our neighbors, life-long Dems, were adamant that they'd never vote for Obama. Heck, Carl won't even allow his name to be mentioned in their house!

Chalk up 2 more Mcain votes in Ohio.
My wife was actually undecided going in. Its not her fault, she works at a university. She thinks I am paranoid about him being a communist. In any case as we were leaving she said "I couldnt do it"
I told her I was afraid to ask.
She said she didnt understand how all her mentors and people she works with could have been snowed by someone who has never done anything.
After explaining to her how the socialists first infiltrated higher education and went on from there, she went back to thinking I was paranoid.
anyways, its in Gods hands now.

OT
Brady Quinn - Change I can believe in

re: #109 notutopia

Yesterday Our Aussies chased and grounded a tree squirrel and my spouse threw it in the garbage can.

Are your Aussies Australian Cattle Dogs (Blue Heelers) or Australian Shepherds? I ask because I have a Blue Heeler. He's a great dog!

re: #115 yma o hyd

[snip].
Someone as stupid as that should indeed not be allowed to teach at any college.

If the ones as stupid as that were all to resign, there would be owls roosting in many lecture halls.

re: #19 MrPaulRevere

Kona coffee IS the real deal. Make it the official LGF drink I say.

Meh. As someone who by heritage is among the highest per capita consumers in the world universe, I would kill launch into a pillow fight for a cup of this. On the other hand, this one is just as good.

Then of course, at this time of year, what could be better than this?

Hey, Finns are so coffee obsessed, look at their garbage trucks!

I voted at about 8am EST this morning in northern Virginia. Turnout was about the same as in previous elections. I was offered an electronic (smudge screen) voting option, but there was a line for that. I went with the old "fill in the blob with a marker" ballot instead.

/new lizard

my daughters both voted yesterday in a mock election at their grade school. The 5th grader voted McCain and the 1st grader voted Obama. I asked my little obamite why she voted Obama and she said that if he wins the boys all get batman toys and the girls get Hannah Montana toys. I have no idea what she is talking about but doesn't that pretty much some up the Obama mentality. "we're voting Obama because he's going to give us _______" (fill in the blank)