I was wrong about Nebraska’s 2nd district ECV. It appears that there was a last minute (not a little suspicious) surge for McCain putting him a couple hundred points ahead. The result hasn’t yet been certified. I would like to see a comparison between these results and the printouts of the scanning machines before I’ll completely believe it.

So there you go. I am bitterly disappointed, as usual, with my fellow Nebraskans. So in the final analysis my fellow Omahawans voted in every conservative federal and ballot initiative choice. What a bunch of idiots my neighbors are!

Omaha is not my final destination (I hope). I look forward to blowing this dump sometime in the near future.

correction: a couple of hundred VOTES ahead, not POINTS. Sorry for the confusion.

What a fantastic image! The capture of the ‘blue’ sqeezing out the bleeding ‘red’ must encapsulate entirely what so many people (on both sides) must be feeling, about America now and moving forward.

TinMan,

My sympathies and appreciation for your efforts. My county went 3 – 1 for McCain so you might see where some of my cynicism is birthed.

As this picture portrays, these people ARE the heart of America. They live by emotion with scant consideration towards education. They wear their ignorance like a badge.

And like the heart of our own body, it would have perished long ago were it not for the brain and muscle that lifted it out of the primordial soup. (Unless, of course, we are actually by-products of some wayward ETs who found it ‘convenient’ to copulate with some local apesses.)

Jed Clampett

Does anyone else see the image of a phoenix rising from the flames in that contorted map? How’s that for a good omen?

TFH, hope you can come back around and contribute on occasion, it’s nice having a different perspective delivered in a rational, sensible manner. Live long and prosper, friend.

I live in Texas, so you can just imagine the way the vote was proportioned in this ‘neck of the woods’. Bill Frist’s redrawing of the congressional district map with help of demographics software in this region a few years ago guaranteed that Texas will be decidedly republican for a long time to come(take a look at the map and the contorted way it is drawn up and you will understand why). It will be very difficult to get enough democrats into state congress to get them redrawn in a more logical and equitable manner without court action, that court action cannot and will not happen without public outcry and sheer force of will; unfortunately, I seriously doubt anything can break through the public disinterest towards politics to bring that sort of change about, hard to get interested in politics when you are struggling with two jobs trying to make ends meet.

DD, we’ve been here way before ET arrived, otherwise we would have never developed the feats of engineering, medicine and spiritual development the ancients are known for. Their aim is to retard our development through engaging us in making war with ourselves and thus directing us to self destruction rather than self preservation and the protection of our piece of creation.

Peace

Why would a Republican be feeling good about after Tuesday?

LOL! I think Dennis is referring to the mythical ‘missing link’ and I’m not entirely convinced he isn’t joking. Who knows what happened there? I tend to think it was just evolution. If we evolved on the East African plain (where the oldest human remains have been found), we might have needed to learn to stand to see above the waist-high grass.

Jed Clampett

What he’s saying is that we are an aberration, an experiment by external forces, not a product of nature. Somewhat similar to what religion has tried to do by making us into a magical apparition. While it seems evident that is what we’ve become, we are very much a natural product of OUR homeworld.

You are quite right, the need to see over the grasses was what got us walking upright, but it was our desire, will and effort that helped evolve into what we are today, not to minimize the bit of ‘magic’ nature put in to help us along.

Peace

i want to think Tim, Rolling Stone and the posters on here for the coverage and comments about the Election. im glad Obama won after a correction period things should go well despite the nay sayers and allready circuling vultures.

@ RAY- So, we can’t even question Obama or say what conservatives think. I congratulate Obama but I find it hypocritical to say the least for Democrats, who have been on Bush’s back for EVERYTHING, whether his fault or not, and now that your candidate won he should be getting a free pass? Please…

W had a free pass for too long after 9/11. That’s why we’re in the mess we’re in now.
I haven’t heard anyone asking for a free pass, just some cooperation and maybe a little more unity between the parties.

Anonymous: Isn’t it a bit early to be questioning Obama’s policies? He hasn’t even put them in place yet. But, you’re willing to question them.

In case you didn’t notice, there was a complete, total referendum on the republican party and their conservative policies. You may say the popular vote was close, but, yet, the conservatives are the ones who fully support the electoral college, which was an absolute landslide.

What if he pulls a Clinton and increases jobs, balances the budget, creates a surplus, and is fiscally responsible? Then what? Aren’t those ‘alleged’ conservative philosophies?

One other OBVIOUS note from the campaigns:

McCain’s people were fighting for the 5% of people that Obama wanted to raise taxes on. Obama was fighting for the 95% of people he wants to give a tax break.

But, Obama was called un-American? 5% vs. 95%. Hmmmm. Keep fighting for those 5%ers Conservajacks. It’s over. Here’s to conservatives being shown the door! Center-right country MY A$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coach– He’s going to have to be fiscally responsible, or esle we just continue printing unbacked money, while our purchase power parity continues to slide into the crapper…

On the other side of the coin, with the economy the way it it, hopefully it will put his ridiculous spending increases on the back burner and force him into areas that will play to Biden’s strength’s, i.e. foreign policy…

The Republican party has been severely damaged by their own hyperbolic rhetoric. The McCain Palin campaign took on a cartoonish silliness in the final days, which contrasted dramatically with the serious, sober quality of the Democrats.

This ratcheting up of whacky rhetoric as Republicans became more desperate has in effect created a mandate for “soc.ialism”. The right needs to understand the totality of the failure of their pet ideologies (fat chance) and be prepared to put their preconceptions on the back burner. Watch and learn, suckers. Your predictions of the failure of the Obama Administration are premature at best. Get used to it. The people have jettisoned your philosophy.

TinMan/Merk,

It will be interesting to see what happens with the Republican party, and by extension, all parties. The current GOP configuration reminds me of the Democrats in the 50s, lacking similarities.

The moderates in the GOP seem to have some problems with the Religous Right and it would appear the feeling is mutual.

Could this schism portend a reshuffling of the current ‘party arrangement?’ Refering to someone as a Dem or GOP doesn’t quite get it any more.

We truly DO need a Left, Moderate and Right party. Merk, I’m thinking Libs would be moderates, but perhaps that’s naive.

Perhaps ‘need’ isn’t the right word.

TinMan, I’m not so sure I’d categorize the results as the voice of the people. Less than half of this country’s citizenry saw fit to vote.

Dennis,
I have to assume that those who didn’t vote don’t care one way or the other. If this is so, Obama was elected by the remaining people who DO care. Thus, my original statement stands as is.

TinMan,

I can’t help but wonder at the results if, say, 80% of the population actually participated in elections. I think that kind of a response is possible with the new age of technology AND if they set aside several days for the voting period. Hey, Super Bowl weekend. I LIKE it. No, not the Super Bowl.

Dennis,
The right wing has shown over and over that they want to suppress the vote of “the people” (those unwashed masses who do not understand their entitlement to vast riches). Voter ID laws, voter purging, caging, robo-call scare tactics, and compromised voting machines are just a few of the weapons in their arsenal. Maybe in 2012 we will have a consensus that allows everyone in this country to vote. Until then, we live with what we have.

Jed Clampett

Any opinion on what is going on in Minnesota and the Al Franken election which has exposed many ‘reporting’ irregularities in a single county? Could it be the right wing attempting to negate the will of the people by controlling the reporting of the count? Truly PATRIOTIC and respectful of the constitution, “A”?

Peace

Jed -

Thanks for bringing this race up. It’s starting to get really ugly up here and people from both sides are all crying conspiracy. The fact is that MN is one of the best states in the nation to deal with any voting regularities. All of the ballots will be recounted by hand. I believe that they’ll be counted by two different election officials with lawyers from both parties being present to witness. It’s a very transparent process…and with PAPER ballots that can actually be reviewed in a case like this. More proof that we don’t need electronic voting machines.

This just in – The Coleman campaign has dispatched over 100 lawyers to oversee the election certifications ( not the recount_). What it looks to me like they’re doing is setting things up for a court challenge later. With many, many absentee ballots yet to be counted there’s a very good chance that Franken will come out ahead. Otherwise, it’s possible for the new Congress to seat one of the candidates.

regularities….should be irregularities….Donchya know??

Jed Clampett

Man, it’s getting crazy out there. Looks like the vote count in what is probably the least populated state in the Union is somewhat flawed, they keep finding new votes and lost votes, miscounts and misreporting. What country is this again, and what party is so adamant about achieving and maintaining power that they are willing to sh!t on the constitution to achieve it? Oh yea, the same ones that just ‘pushed the constitution though their shredding machines’

Peace

It’s my understanding that these fluctuations are quite normal. Here’s a post in the local paper from an election official:

“I served as an election judge in Maple Grove. The absentee ballots were not delivered to the precincts until after the polls closed at 8pm. The ballots were delivered by 2 election officials from Maple Grove City Hall. There are 23 precincts in Maple Grove. We didn’t get even get ours delivered to us until 11:30pm! It was very dark out that night. The lights in the parking lot of the church our precinct were shut off by that time. I could see how plausible it would be to miss a batch of ballots in someone’s trunk. By the way, I suggest all you critics volunteer your sorry behinds to be an election judge or shut the H up! I worked from 5:30am on election day until 2:00am the next morning. Everything is handled with the utmost responsibility. None of the ballots are handled by less than 2 judges from opposing parties. Only the head judges are allowed to feed the absentee ballots into the scanners, and only they remove the ballots from the scanner placing them into ballot boxes that are immediately sealed and signed off on by all of the judges. You as a citizen have the right to come in and observe the whole process.”

Also, Ritchie (Sec. of State), has appointed three Republican judges to the canvassing board. Choices that I’m sure Norm Coleman can be happy with.

A small part of me wants to see Norm Coleman win this thing. Only because I want to see the ethics investigation that is sure to follow after old Normy was named in two different lawsuits that alleged money was illegally funneled to the senator’s wife for his use. But, who knows who Pawlenty would appoint to the seat in that situation. Probably himself.

Jed Clampett

Interesting method of defense, we are too overworked so we can’t do our job right.

It’s very interesting to see the developments in the Alaska race for senate. Apparently they are having the same problems as the Florida undervote of a couple of years ago, where people voted for the more popular race but neglected to vote for the more controversial one, yet did register a vote for other issues. Thankfully, Alaska has all paper ballots that can be recounted manually.
Best of luck to Al, from what I’m learning of Coleman’s tactics, it’s better that he’s kept as far away as possible from any position of power. He seems to be a member of Stevens’ CBC.

Peace

Anoymous, id just like to see all Americans give Obama a chance these conservatives who play Captain America should quit trying to hurt the new administration before it even starts.

I didn’t realize Rolling Stone was so left-wing wacko liberal until I received my first issue a few months ago. They are clearly in the company of Michael Moore, Al Franken, etc. Republicans are your ‘normal’ real-world people while democrats / liberals are those who don’t live in the real world. Examples: Hollywood Celebs and College Professors.

Cancelling,
Yeah, as Stephen Cobert says “reality has a well known liberal bias”. You go on back to your “real world” now and leave the reality to those who have a clue.

Stupid people: the heart of America.