Will tonight see the expected blowout for Obama? Or a crazy comeback by McCain? We’re gonna do some live blogging for a while, providing some snarky analysis and bad pop culture references for that ass. Right now it’s just me, but Matt will be joining in soon enough. I am flipping between CNN and Fox News, neither of which have called PA as of yet, unlike what I hear from other news organizations. So this is still a race!
tom – 8:20 – I think i sort of love Brit Hume. I can’t really say why, but I’d like him to voiceover my life. He cracks me up.
tom – 8:23 – Fox News’ ticker just called the NC senate race against Dole. I wonder what this means for Obama’s numbers down there?
tom – 8:25 – Fox News: Sununu FAIL
tom – 8:31 – CNN’s board is just like a giant iPhone.
jamie beth – 8:32 – i’m on MSNBC and david gregory is wearing what?! that’s what you wear for the biggest night of your career?!
jamie beth – 8:35 – and msnbc called PA for barack — go PA!
tom – 8:36 – VA senate looks good for dems, another indicator?
jamie beth – 8:36 – which is exciting on a national level but also makes JimC WRONG … again!
tom – 8:38 – the best possible result from today’s election for me would be the dems winning enough senate seats to be ble to tell joe lieberman to go fuck himself
jamie beth – 8:40 – jamie is proud to report that barack took bucks county, pa — again, good on a national level and good on a personal level. bucks has come a long way in 4 years!!!!
matt – 8:47 – 21st century voting
matt – 8:50 – i’m calling this for obama.
tom – sometime in early August – i’m calling this for Obama.
tom – 8:51 – now pay me.
matt – 8:52 – you will be paid in the giant stone coins of the yapp islanders
tom – 8:54 – some nerdy guy on Fox news just said that he didn’t want to stake his bipartisan election decision committee’s reputation by calling states early. i guess he is unaware that no one believes their shit anyway.
matt – 8:54 – congratulations to kay hagan, atheist-hater or not
tom – 8:57 – some hooker on Fox News is talking about how free markets don’t do anything for most people and how the country is now center-left. The armageddon is here.
matt – 8:58 – it’s been a really long time since i had fox news on, it’s like they are discussing a totally different election. also talking about a totally different democratic party, as if the liberals are going to be in charge. looks like i picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
tom – 9:02 – Fox News calls Ohio for Obama, then takes it back claiming “we have all kinds of maps and stuff to play with”. I think Brit Hume is drunk.
matt – 9:03 – david axelrod looks like he goes roller skating every saturday night
matt – 9:05 – i enjoy fox’s repeated use of the word passel, mostly because prop joe used it in the wire
matt – 9:07 – dems ran someone named nick carter for senate in WY? really?
tom – 9:10 – joey fatone was too busy to run.
matt – 9:10 brit hume is most certainly not sober
tom – 9:11 – brit reminds me of john kerry with a bit of down syndrome
matt – 9:11 – how many times is megyn kelly going to say “hispanic”
jamie beth – 9:11 talk about a night for change? you people are making me put fox news on?!
matt – 9:11 – megyn kelly: “these voters is not white!”
tom – 9:12 – it’s fun to watch these guys eat a gigantic shit burger
matt – 9:13 – i was actually wondering who was in fox’s “nerve center.” the answer is apparently “crack babies”
tom – 9:14 – you gotta do something with them after you don’t abort them
jamie beth – 9:14 – agreed, brit hume = drunk.
tom – 9:15 – someone should get him some magic mushrooms, then it could really get fun
matt – 9:17 – karl rove is on with “the math”
tom – 9:18 – Ohio goes to Obama according to Fox. the fat lady is singing.
jamie beth – 9:18 — for reals? ohio?
matt – 9:19 – barack obama: president of hittin that ass.
tom – 9:20 – McCain could still win California, you never know. this might not be over.
matt – 9:21 – in the words of the pre-reality-tv flava flav: “we got a black quarterback so step back”
tom – 9:24 – i might just watch Fox News for the rest of the night. its too good to see these guys have to keep a straight face while discussing the absolute decimation of the neoconservative movement. it feels so nice.
jamie beth – 9:24 – i would like to add that the win in OH is good on many levels: (1) i think it might be a final blow to mccain/bitch woman (2) JimC is wrong, again. (3) JimC is from OH, right?! HA! (4) it also makes matt wrong, which effing NEVER happens!!!!!!
tom – 9:25 – except when he takes my sucker bets
tom – 9:25 – josh marshall over at talkingpointsmemo.com might also be drunk:
F–K Ya Blogging
9:23 PM … MSNBC and Fox call Ohio for Obama.
–Josh Marshall
matt – 9:28 –
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matt – 9:29 – i think nicole wallace is going to cry. i know she is delusional.
jamie beth – 9:32 – i HATE nicole wallace — she’s on all the morning shows because she’s “pretty” — she’s been delusional this whole time.
tom – 9:32 – McCain takes Louisiana. what a maverick, he’s the comeback kid. thank god he has Joementum on his side.
tom – 9:34 – nullus on “ramming through their liberal agenda.” according to the Fox analysts, the dems are going to have forced abortions for all conservatives. we can only hope so.
matt – 9:34 – fred barnes: no moderates of conservatives left in dem caucus. man i wish i could smoke/snort whatever he’s on.
tom – 9:35 – when bill krystol makes you look like a raving lunatic, you know sanity is not on your side.
matt – 9:36 – bill kristol is making sense. maybe i am on what barnes is on.
matt – 9:37 – hume: maybe obama won’t be the “ultra liberal obama of the campaign.” just fucking shoot me.
tom – 9:37 – if obama was what conservatives say he is, i’d have been out there voting for him.
matt – 9:38 – i’d pay a lot of money to my cable company to set it up so that when i was looking at the fox news schedule it said “fantasy” rather than “news”
matt – 9:40 – marc ambinder: A very senior McCain aide just told me: “At this point, we need a miracle.”
tom – 9:44 – there’s something really hilarious to me about tom cruise killing hitler.
matt – 9:45 – according to the exit polls – stuff white people like: barack obama
tom – 9:45 – he’s so well spoken
jamie beth – 9:46 – i am college educated white person!
tom – 9:46 – me tarzan
matt – 9:53 – cnn calls CT-04 for himes. adios chris shays!
matt – 10:01 – the wheels are falling off on fox. rove just did the “hook ‘em horns” because mccain won texas. you lost dude.
jamie beth – 10:07 – when can we start talking about a man-date … i would SO man-date obama over bush!
matt – 10:04 – fox reporting mccain campaign throwing in the towel
jamie beth – 10:07 – south dakota abortion ban FAILED, so says rachel maddow, so says AP. THANK BEJESUS!!!!!!!!!
matt – 10:10 they don’t call it taxachusetts for nothing
matt – 10:18 – cnn’s graphics are insane. it’s like they’re playing wipeout xl.
matt – 10:19 cnn shouting out bucks county, pa. woot!
tom – 10:21 – delusional Fox heads believe palin was an asset. however, “swinging on Palin’s basis” sounds like it could be fun.
jamie beth – 10:25 – californians can click here: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/ after 8pm PST for prop results.
matt – 10:25 – palin is on the phone right now talking to donors for 2012. i guarantee it.
matt – 10:27 – is anyone else really sick of tv ads featuring announcers whispering?
jamie beth – 10:33 – can someone please clarify? is the inauguration really the day after martin luther king jr. day? really?
matt – 10:36 inauguration day is in fact the day after mlk day.
matt – 10:40 – marc ambinder: A senior McCain campaign official says that Gov. Sarah Palin plans to speak to the Biltmore crowd at around 11:00 pm ET…
jamie beth – 10:41 – the repub on MSNBC just referred to dr. smirnoff….. apparently they are drunk, too!
jamie bethjamie beth – 10:55 – i have switched to comedy central…anyone want to join me?!
tom – 10:56 – i have already been watching Fox all night!
jamie beth – 10:56 – comedy central just called VA for obama….so let’s think about this….i have lived in the following states: PA, MD, VA and CA…. sensing a pattern?! woot!
tom – 11:00 – and that’s that. let’s hope that obama does some good things. hope now really is all we’ve got.
jamie beth – 11:02 – i’m such a girl, i’m crying. i have found hope! i am in shock.
tom – 11:05 – let’s spend this time to reflect on the great liberal record of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Welfare Reform, NAFTA. i’m sure we will see plenty of the same from Obama. no support for gay marriage, talk of bitpartisanship with the same people who ran the country into the ground over the last 8 years, etc etc. god bless the USA.
jamie beth – 11:08 – the night is still early in CA — keep an eye here for prop results: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/allprops.html
jamie beth – 11:09 – and BTW, tom, thanks for the reality check. tears of joy stopped.
tom – 11:10 – as the Wolf would say: “Let’s not start sucking each others’ dicks just yet.”
tom – 11:19 – mccain sounds like he might cry. at least he sounds sincere tonight even if he didnt previously. i think he just said that the US is not racist because his tactics didn’t help him win.
JimC – 11:25 – Congrats to Sen. Obama…I humbly accept him as my new President, history has been made. I was wrong (again) about who would win and hopefully I will be wrong about how he governs. Good night and may we have a pleasant tomorrow…
jamie beth – 11:43 – just spoke to matt, he was surprised i didn’t live blog the fact that jaime pressly voted at my polling place — she was there when i was there and she smiled at sam! i hope she voted no on 4 and 8!
matt – 11:45 – on cnn, soledad just said that the face of america is changing, and it’s not joe the plumber. hahahahha!
matt – 11:48 – analyst on cnn: this is a come to jesus for the gop. man is that an unintentionally funny line.
tom – 12:17 – that was not obama’s best speech, but i imagine he is drained and probably a bit shell shocked right now. jesse jackson is crying. good night.