The US Election

Subject: The US Election
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:04 PM

I am following the US Election on BBC.

I think Pensylvania has gone with Obama.

is that it?

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:35 PM

several TV outlets have called Penn. for Obama. One source said Penn. is "Republicians fools gold"

It means McCain would have to win states he is VERY unlikely to win...

It looks good.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:40 PM

I ain't watchin'...

Watched too many and me watchin' ain't changed nuthin'... I got a killer CD on the pudder and headphones on my feeble head....

Pa. is a good thing... Very, very good...

Now if Florida 'er Ohio falls to Obama then it's gonna be "How do ya' spell 'President Obama'"???

Heck, Virginia would prolly do it, as well...

B~

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:40 PM

It feels, from over the pond, that things look good

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Sawzaw
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:48 PM

"How do ya' spell 'President Obama'"???

Dear Leader :=D

Hey Bobert, didja ever listen to http://pandora.com ?

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:55 PM

What's that, Sawz??? I ain't gonna go listen to it if if don't rock out... I used to play in band in the 60's and we frequently did gigs with another local band called "Pandora's Box"... We both sucked... lol... No, just way too loud...

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:00 PM

Look Bobert, can you just stay on the main subject?

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:01 PM

Sorry... I went away but now I'm back...

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:09 PM

That's good, we in Chorlton, Manchester, UK have bated breath

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:21 PM

Woo Hoo!!! Libby Dole's gone!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:23 PM

Ohio went to Obama!!!!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:23 PM

Yeah, I can smell it from here...

Aww, just funnin'...

You hang in there, Les...

BTW, you look terrible... When did you folks sleep last??? Hey, if ya'll hadn't put that tax on the tea maybe we wouldn't be havin' this discusssion...

Nevermind that tax stuff... I know it's like 2009 in the UK by now and ya'll been awake fir a couple years now so ya'll ain't expected to make no sense...

I ain't got no reasons fir not makin' no sense other than I gotta lotta experience in it...

B;~)

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:25 PM

New York State goes to Obama. Fifteen states so far. Electoral votes are mounting up nicely. Looks good.

(I hope I hope I hope!!)

Don Firth

P. S. Just about to post when THIS came in! OHIO goes to Obama!!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:31 PM

Ok, I feel a song coming on but what will it be?

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:43 PM

New Mexico for Obama.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:47 PM

Looks like it's sorted for President Obama.   Congratulations. (Touch wood.)

Mind, Dubya's still got a couple of months to go. That's frightening.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:48 PM

The Banks are made of marble?

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:54 PM

CNN is projecting 199 electoral votes for Obama, 69 for McCain. California is still to weigh in.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:00 PM

Iowa for Obama!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:02 PM

Elizabeth Dole is gone! Whoo Whoo
Chellie Pingree is in! Whoo Whoo

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Cllr
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:08 PM

amazingly UK tv is showing that the McCain party in Phoenix is not being shown the full results just the republican gains and unless they are getting outside information on mobiles is largely unaware of Obama sucesses! (3.am uk time)
Cllr

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: jeffp
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:14 PM

My fiancee's office is, unlike herself, heavily McCain. She said they were exhibiting most of the signs of grieving today -- anger, denial, etc. They even brought in food like a post-funeral gathering. Sheesh!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: GUEST,Rich
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:25 PM

pretty much if we don't pick up another state till the west coast we still got it!

North Carolina! Virginia!

Lots of house and senate seats!

Sweet!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:28 PM

PDQ, a bluegrass CD would be just fine, buddy.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:34 PM

Ya' know, the last place I was asigned to visit today was a trailer way back in Lucas Holler... I knocked on the door... A 30-Somethin' woman came out... She didn't see my Obama pin... She just looked at me and said, "I know why you're here... I voted for Barack and he is gonna win"...

Then I showed her my badge and she said, "Damned right"...

I shoulda known that if this poor woman back in a holler had this "faith" that I should have, as well...

B~

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: jeffp
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:42 PM

I am so proud of my country. I remember as a kid (I'm 54), my parents worrying about our pastor as he went to Montgomery and Selma to march in the Freedom Marches. Now a Black man is a major party candidate for President! I'm very glad to have seen this progress.

I have also seen our country go from taking women for granted to one being the Vice Presidential candidate on each party's ticket at one time or another. Not to mention a serious candidate for President in the primaries. Major changes, indeed.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:46 PM

WE got her done here in the Buckeye state but I'm still waiting for you Carol.......................Think you can get here sometime soon and put an end to this before California aces you and Florida out?

Good job on Libby though! Bob Dole loved dirty tactics and now one has bitten old Libby right in the ass!

Spaw----as happy as the proverbial clam

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:48 PM

We're working on it. JtS just told me on the phone that the people he's listening to have called Virginia for Obama. I'm watching MSNBC, and they haven't called it yet.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 10:57 PM

Not on CNN yet either...

Spaw

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:00 PM

NBC announced for Obama!!!!!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: jeffp
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:01 PM

NBC has just called the election for Obama.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:01 PM

Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:02 PM

He's done it.

273

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:05 PM

I'm here by myself- but it feels like party time! If I'd thought, I'd have provided myself with a bottle of wine; it would be a GREAT time to pop a cork.

Yes, we can!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:06 PM

What a night!!!


Spaw

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:07 PM

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."


"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

Somehow, I think the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. will be smiling today.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:09 PM

I am sitting here in tears. Someone is setting off fireworks. Times Square looks like New Years Eve.

I can not believe that in my lifetime a black man has been elected president. I am speechless.

Hope...

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:10 PM

Florida just went for Obama!!!

Ain't that a snort!??

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:19 PM

While I feel the party comin' on my mind can't help but be overwhelmed at the monumental change that has taken place.

Obama is President.

Forty-five years ago, 4 little girls were killed by a KKK bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham. Somehow I can't help but think of that now and the first song that went through my head was Richard Farina's "Birmingham Sunday."

Come round by my side and I'll sing you a song.
I'll sing it so softly, it'll do no one wrong.
On Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine,
And the choirs kept singing of Freedom.
That cold autumn morning no eyes saw the sun,
And Addie Mae Collins, her number was one.
At an old Baptist church there was no need to run.
And the choirs kept singing of Freedom,

The clouds they were grey and the autumn winds blew,
And Denise McNair brought the number to two.
The falcon of death was a creature they knew,
And the choirs kept singing of Freedom,

The church it was crowded, but no one could see
That Cynthia Wesley's dark number was three.
Her prayers and her feelings would shame you and me.
And the choirs kept singing of Freedom.

Young Carol Robertson entered the door
And the number her killers had given was four.
She asked for a blessing but asked for no more,
And the choirs kept singing of Freedom.

On Birmingham Sunday a noise shook the ground.
And people all over the earth turned around.
For no one recalled a more cowardly sound.
And the choirs kept singing of Freedom.

The men in the forest they once asked of me,
How many black berries grew in the Blue Sea.
And I asked them right with a tear in my eye.
How many dark ships in the forest?

The Sunday has come and the Sunday has gone.
And I can't do much more than to sing you a song.
I'll sing it so softly, it'll do no one wrong.
And the choirs keep singing of Freedom.

Tonight we can still sing of freedom but now loudly and with feeling as this country has passed a great milestone in its history. William Sloane Coffin said that to be an American patriot was "to have a love/hate affair with your country." Many times I feel as James Kunen felt when he said, "America.....I love what it could be; I hate what it is."

At least for now and in this moment.....I love what it is.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:22 PM

That's a very good concession speech from McCain.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: jeffp
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:28 PM

I really think that when he isn't running his ass off for the Presidency, he is a good man. It's just that the race warped him. I wish him well.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:42 PM

Yup, it was a very honourable speech.

What struck me though, was that ALL the faces I saw in his audience, over here on the BBC news, were white....and the cameras swept around the audience a great deal.

In contrast, the earlier pictures of Obama's supporters couldn't have been more different, white, black, hispanic...the whole mixture of the world was there.

And that's the way it should be.

Apparently, President Bush (spit) has just called Barak..I bet that was a strange call. I wonder if he got Barak's name right. ;0)

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:42 PM

Looks like North Carolina's going to go for Obama, but they're not announcing it yet.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:54 PM

I was in Mississippi is 64 & 65...and now I see why it was worth the effort and the struggle...

This is only partially about Obama...it is about the changes in my country that made it possible for Obama to be where he is.

There is still work to do...and John McCain was eloquent in his concession, and made it clear that he DOES care, and will help us go on, even as he deals with defeat.

Thank you, Senator McCain.

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CamiSu
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 12:17 AM

For eight years I have tensed inside when I heard our president's voice. I am truly going to enjoy hearing this man. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. My son has been working almost full time (or more) for Obama and at his "real" job as well. He told me the other day that he was going into campaign headquarters and was not coming out again until Obama was elected. I am laughing and crying and too excited to go to bed.


Wahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

CamiSu

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 12:26 AM

"Apparently, President Bush (spit) has just called Barak..I wonder if he got Barak's name right. ;0)"

I don't know how I'm laughing, after being up all night, but what a clanger that was from me..

Barack, Barack, BaraCk. (darn it!) LOL


That was a such a wonderful speech he just gave.


Er...would you guys like to swop Barack for Gordon Brown, by any chance?

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 12:38 AM

umm...no, but thanks anyway

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 12:59 AM

The United States has unequivocally and in a landslilde vote elected Barack Obama as their next President.

"Let the word go out from this day forth, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,."


A

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: CamiSu
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 01:00 AM

Lizzie--

Not on a bet! We JUST got him!

Subject: RE: The US Election
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 01:02 AM

Now that they're done with election coverage, our PBS station is running "The Windsors: A Royal Dynasty". How weird!

~ Becky in Tucson