HUSSEIN vs WILLARD: Rumble in the Electoral College

Im in preparation for tomorrow night Halfwise! That will be an all nighter watching your electorate potentialy destroy the future of the world (again!). Besides its only 3.16 am and I still have 3 barrels left.

And the crabbit dont need much sleep- if you are sleeping you cant see as much stuff to get crabbit about.

(years of working nighshifts might have something to do with it too)

You'll be up until at least 4 AM tomorrow! That's when the California polls close (by British time) and there's no way you can call the election before Cali is in. That said, if Obama takes Ohio and Pennsylvania, it's as good as over.

NB I think both of you are spot-on with regards to history education.

Eldorion wrote: Personally I think it would be better to just rewrite the rules from scratch to reflect the political reality of the past 200 years but sweeping changes to the constitution are almost always controversial.

Whenever you get around to that Eldo, i just want to be on record that those of us in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington and British Columbia) want to secede from our respective nations and form our own little nation of sanity called Cascadia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_%28independence_movement%29
You don't have any objection do you?

Rigth I'm all set- going American tonight- got my double pack of oreos- huge bag of doritos and some dr peeper and mountain dew (not easy to get hear) and a personall favourite- root beer.
I was going to substitute buckie for American budwieser but as thats a ridiculous idea (I want to be drunk not full of gas and water!) I'm sticking with buckie.

David- I support your noble cause- fairer election- social policies? Did a lot of Scots set up in that bit of the US by any chance?

Don't care 4 Budwiser but I heard that Instead of brewing beer the company has been making cans of water for NJ/NY free of charge

Is this true???

carly wrote:Don't care 4 Budwiser but I heard that Instead of brewing beer the company has been making cans of water for NJ/NY free of charge

Is this true???

As much as you can trust the internet and some very convincing pictures, it's true and I salute them!

http://www.examiner.com/article/budweiser-cans-water-for-sandy-victims-ny-and-nj

Though some would say they've been canning water for the last century, and calling it beer.

David H wrote:Whenever you get around to that Eldo, i just want to be on record that those of us in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington and British Columbia) want to secede from our respective nations and form our own little nation of sanity called Cascadia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_%28independence_movement%29
You don't have any objection do you?

In general I do my best to support independence movements and the right to national self-determination, so if the majority of people in the Pacific Northwest want to then I don't have much of a say. I'll miss getting to visit without needing a passport though.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Rigth I'm all set- going American tonight- got my double pack of oreos- huge bag of doritos and some dr peeper and mountain dew (not easy to get hear) and a personall favourite- root beer.

I'm shocked that you'd be willing to go that American. I can't endorse Mountain Dew though, that's stuff's nasty.

Also, very cool of Anheuser-Busch to donate water like that.

Fingers crossed that Democrats in Ohio and Florida are able to tough it out despite being required to wait up to seven hours to vote in some cases.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/no-one-in-america-should-have-to-wait-7-hours-to-vote/264506/

The silver lining is that Obama is leading in Iowa and Virginia as well this morning so even if he loses Ohio and Florida he still has a good chance of winning the electoral college, but what's going on in those two states is a national disgrace.

I just got back from voting at one of the the local elementary schools (which I briefly attended when I was five). We got there just after noon so I assume a lot of people came by during their lunch hour, but the line was surprisingly long. We had to wait for a little over an hour before spending three minutes voting. Definitely worth it though, and I'm glad I voted. Maryland has a referendum to allow gay marriage on the ballot this year and it was very satisfying to vote for that.

In the meantime though, I cannot wait until 7:00 to see the results start coming in.

Instead of brewing beer the company has been making cans of water- Carly

Im betting they just changed the cans not the contents!

I'm shocked that you'd be willing to go that American. I can't endorse Mountain Dew though, that's stuff's nasty. - Eldo

One of the, advantages, benefits, not sure those are really the right words, but anyway, from having had a US base here for decades is the left over traces (and not just a lot of people whose father was American! Over sexed and over here indeed! ) but also a local economy capabale of supporting a shop that specialises in selling American imports (but at a much higher price- it was over £2 each for the can of root beer!)- fortunetly the rest- the doritos ect are now made and sold here too so I didnt have to pay inflated prices for those.
And if your going to sit up all night watching an American election you may as well get into the spirit of things.

I actually like mountain dew, Eldo (at least in comparison to other sodas), but I don't drink it because of the high caffeine content, and I'm rather anti caffeine.

You do realize, Petty, that the basic American diet you are so perfectly emulating will add twice as many pounds to your body as you consume. The food barricades itself at some strategic point in the intestinal tract and proceeds to hold all following food hostage. Just thought I'd give you a heads up.

It''ll have to get past the deep fried sausage (square of course) and the porridge that was a bit, stodgy, that I had earlier. Besides the buckie I wash it all down with will soon eat its way through everything else (including my liver).

This is f****ing genius!

http://www.romneytaxplan.com/

About two hours until state-wide results begin to come in, but Obama is up 28-14 after midnight voting in New Hampshire.

In case you don't know, there are these two small towns in New Hampshire that always vote at midnight on election day so they can say they were the first in the nation. I'm pretty sure they have close to 100% voter turnout each year.

Once I actually.....(darn it, come back here!)....hit the damn button....(gotcha cornered you rascal!)....I'll let you know if his explanation is genius or not....(wha ... where'd you go now!?)....

I did it !
get just on top of icon,slowly get to icon & hold left side of mouse & you "catch" it, ofcourse theres no reward, but thats typical of politics !

First reports should be coming in about five minutes.

Going with the BBC live stream I think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20009190

Dunno if its plays outside the uk or not.

I'm actually at school because they have a big screen set up to show the news. ABC, though.

ABC calling:

Indiana: Romney
Kentucky: Romney
Vermont: Obama
Georgia: too close to call
South Carolina: too close to call
Virginia: too close to call

No surprises here. Virginia is the most important one to watch so far.

BBC got Romney for Indiana too.

They've got Obama on 3 and romney on 19 out the required 270

Yup, 3-19 so far.

Updated the map and total lists in the OP. I'm using the paint bucket too in GIMP; I feel so high tech next to the holographic tools the cable networks love to show off.

I wish we were watching the BBC here. I want to see David Dimbleby stay on the air for 18 straight hours again. He was amazing in 2010.

Edit: Pulled up BBC on my laptop with headphones, lol.