presidential turnout

trekkie · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 11:51 am

today is election day and as i did last time, i will be posting an up-to-date message tonight as states start showing the results of this election. members are welcomed to post when the results start coming in. in the mean time, i'll sticky and lock this and tonight i'll reopen and see what happens.

may the best candidate win

okay seems results are starting to come in now.
here is the CNN link if you would like to see the map.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

electoral vote predictions:
Obama, 80 thus far (including those they predict will win on the east coast)
Mccain, 34 (including those predicted will go toward Mccain on the east coast)

so far Obama has gotten an early lead in Ohio one of the battleground states. numbers are still coming in.

So far, Obama has an early lead in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and many other states on the east cost.
is predicted to win Vermont,Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire

Mccain has won Kntucky, and south Carlina.
He is predicted to win Wyoming, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

Both are still very early to tell but so far Obama is predicted to have a huge lead in the beginning.

Adbot · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 11:51 am

Brad · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:34 pm

195-90 Obama at the time of posting. Looks like he'll take Florida as well. With the west coast safe states for the Dems this is pretty much over. Unless, as one of the guys on the BBC coverage said; 'you believe in the tooth fairy, and McCain wins California'.

Jason · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:36 pm

Obama wins!!!!! He has it in the bag.

trekkie · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:37 pm

Obama has now won ohio. with only 16% of the precient counted obama has a lead of over 200,000 votes. No president has won without Ohio in the past 16 years

Jeff · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:48 pm

and No Republican has ever become president without winning Ohio.

trekkie · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:52 pm

right now the popular vote is very close, mccain has 49% of the popular vote while obama has 50% with around a 300,000 lead.

Adbot · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:52 pm

Brad · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 7:55 pm

trekkie wrote:

right now the popular vote is very close, mccain has 49% of the popular vote while obama has 50% with around a 300,000 lead.

With the US voting system though popular vote counts for very little. As was proved in 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency to Dubya.

Besadon · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:00 pm

The dude at CNN proved it technically impossible for McCain to win, but it's not over until it's over.

He pointed out that if McCain gets every state from now on besides California, Oregon and Washington, he still doesn't have enough to get 270.

It's not over until it's over. Spread the word.

jointntoday · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:03 pm

nikeballa435 wrote:

Obama wins!!!!! He has it in the bag.

no, obama has not one anything yet, please shut up til he does. :roll:

no one has won. anything can still happen. doesnt mean it well. but it can.

Brad · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:04 pm

jointntoday wrote:

nikeballa435 wrote:

Obama wins!!!!! He has it in the bag.

no, obama has not one anything yet, please shut up til he does. :roll:

no one has won. anything can still happen. doesnt mean it well. but it can.

Err.. it is pretty much over. Obama has won the majority of the swing states thus far and he's fast closing in on 270, with California and the rest of the west coast a cert and Florida looking very good for him, he's practically won it. It would be the comeback of the century if McCain took this election now.

jointntoday · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:06 pm

Brad wrote:

jointntoday wrote:

nikeballa435 wrote:

Obama wins!!!!! He has it in the bag.

no, obama has not one anything yet, please shut up til he does. :roll:

no one has won. anything can still happen. doesnt mean it well. but it can.

Err.. it is pretty much over. Obama has won the majority of the swing states thus far and he's fast closing in on 270, with California and the rest of the west coast a cert and Florida looking very good for him, he's practically won it. It would be the comeback of the century if McCain took this election now.

i know that, but no one has really won yet..thats my point.

Besadon · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:06 pm

Brad wrote:

jointntoday wrote:

nikeballa435 wrote:

Obama wins!!!!! He has it in the bag.

no, obama has not one anything yet, please shut up til he does. :roll:

no one has won. anything can still happen. doesnt mean it well. but it can.

Err.. it is pretty much over. Obama has won the majority of the swing states thus far and he's fast closing in on 270, with California and the rest of the west coast a cert and Florida looking very good for him, he's practically won it. It would be the comeback of the century if McCain took this election now.

What McCain needs now is some sort of Christmas miracle. But seeing as how California likes Obama...idk.

Jason · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:07 pm

jointntoday wrote:

nikeballa435 wrote:

Obama wins!!!!! He has it in the bag.

no, obama has not one anything yet, please shut up til he does. :roll:

no one has won. anything can still happen. doesnt mean it well. but it can.

If McCain wins the election at this point then it would be the most amazing thing to ever happen ever.

1/21/09- I can't wait.

trekkie · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:16 pm

over 75% votes added North Carolina is still very divided. Obama winning by 50%

same in Florida Obama is winning by 51%.

right now obama is winning with 207 EC while mccain has 95 EC

jointntoday · **Posted:** November 4th, 2008, 8:18 pm

trekkie wrote:

over 75% votes added North Carolina is still very divided. Obama winning by 50%

same in Florida Obama is winning by 51%.

right now obama is winning with 207 EC while mccain has 95 EC

fox news says its obama 207 mccain 135.

EDIT: mccain got bumped up to 138. (wow 3 points...)