Place your bets - Elections 2008

[Cerise]

It's his middle name, and I believe he opted for it when he changed his name from "Barry Soetoro."

 

[BeardofPants]

Obama 54%-43%

56% registered voter turnout.

 

[spike]

If you see McCain win, you'll know you were right and I was wrong then.

Actually that wouldn't prove either of you right or wrong.

 

[2minkey]

yeah we'll see cerise.

either tomorrow you're going to feel pretty silly, or...

my plans to move to canada will be greatly accelerated.

 

[MrBishop]

...

 

[Gato_Solo]

yeah we'll see cerise.

either tomorrow you're going to feel pretty silly, or...

my plans to move to canada will be greatly accelerated.

Not after they see your posts here.

Doesn't matter who wins. There will be enough angst and disappointment on the loser side to make the winner marginal at best, anyway.

 

[2minkey]

Not after they see your posts here.

"i hereby swear and affirm that i am not bringing any firearms into canada. there is nothing hidden in my ass."

 

[Gonz]

McCain 49.6%
Obama 48.4%
Other 2%

That is barely better than the other option

 

[H2O boy]

As for the apologists, I'll bet they don't outnumber the closet racists.

i'll take a piece of that action

I hope that most people would vote their conscience with no regard for skin color but I don't have a lot of confidence that this will be the case.

would be ideal in a pefect world, but we dont live there.

in fact, i would hope more people vote educated (about the office and its limits) than by their conscience. i would prefer to see more people vote informed than empassioned. but it wont happen.

 

[spike]

yeah we'll see cerise.

either tomorrow you're going to feel pretty silly, or...

my plans to move to canada will be greatly accelerated.

Do you think Cerise feels silly yet?

 

[2minkey]

i'll take a piece of that action

you are a piece of that action.

 

[GrandCaravanSE]

I bet Obama wins 364 votes to 163 votes for McCan't

 

[paul_valaru]

I can't wait until tomorrow, at least half of you will STFU.

I think I lost that bet.

 

[GrandCaravanSE]

I have to tell you something to tell you, i cheated, look at the time i posted.

 

[paul_valaru]

I have to tell you something to tell you, i cheated, look at the time i posted.

...

yeah, we got that.

 

[MrBishop]

[cue crickets]

 

[catocom]

9484.06 -141.22 / -1.47% 10:03am ET

ain't no crickets in the market.
They're heading for the hills...

 

[chcr]

So, who won?

 

[MrBishop]

Popular vote 52/46

AP estimates turnout like this

It looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted for president this election, based on 88 percent of the country's precincts tallied and projections for absentee ballots, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 64.1 percent turnout rate.

Electoral college
66.8% v 33.14%

 

[MrBishop]

So, who won?

If we go via electoral college...everybody was WAY off. Popular vote is a closer run.