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OMFG! How is this possible?! McCain won the election?! WTF!!! I’m moving to Canada!
That’s how you’re gonna feel if you don’t vote tomorrow. Don’t be that guy (or girl).
… and be careful to not turn this into a hate-fest.
oh.. anyone see any good widgets for electoral college votes so we can discuss the play by play on cvillain?
anyone see any good widgets
The polite term is Caucasian little person, Thor.
YOU BETTER VOTE
Or else we’ll take away your ability to write without Capslock and outlaw the use of auxiliary verbs in idiomatic phrases…
/Really though, you should.
i absolutely adore that virginia is a swing state this year. this is so much more exciting than the last two elections…
/feeling the love at 6am, woohoo
@6 You don’t live with someone who’s damning to hell all the liberal Yankees who moved from the North to the South and are corrupting and tainting his beloved state…
Motivation.
OMFG…how come I don’t have a job in 2 years because I didn’t understand basic economics. But it’s for the children. Move to Canada? This will be Canada. You won’t need to bother. Right…you are all about 25. Good luck! Disney…wishes DO come true.
Talie, I’m trying to leave the country in the next couple years, so all I want is for the rest of the world to not hate America.
Don’t vote- we will pick up your slack in Falls Church.
@10: Can you be deported for being too drunk? Weird.
@9 That just begs to be lobbed back onto the court but I thought I read somewhere about not engaging in political discourse. Even so, I’m of no faculty to support a counter-argument with evidence… Body has not adjusted to the change in daylight. Plus, it’s hotter than a whorehouse on nickel night in this place… It’s making me tired.
A plethora of election night widgets may be found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/election-results-electora_n_139361.html
I just got back from voting at the Cherry Avenue church precinct. I got in line at about 5:45 and it took about 45 minutes to get inside once the polls opened. I’d say the line was about 200 yards long at 6 am. There were democratic party supporters handing out water and granola bars.
@ 15 same deal at carver. i’ve never seen lines that long that early in the morning. AWESOME.
Clark school had a long line at 6:00am too, but it had gone down considerably by the time I left.
@15 same is true for rec center – line is out the door and down to the E Market/Avon stoplight
I voted this morning at University Hall in the County. The booths were broken up by first letter of your last name. One (T-Z) was perpetually empty. The first two, which were A-K together, had a few people. The one I and most others were in was M-S, which was backed up to the end of the room and wrapped back almost into another line. The poll workers said they couldn’t change the lines to avoid bunching, and I called the county registrar who agreed that it was unlikely, but would consider changing it in the future. Is this the same across the County or just U Hall?
Downtown rec center line moves really, really fast. I got in line on the sidewalk around the corner near the pavillion, but was done voting inside of 40 minutes. If you choose to use the paper ballot/optical scanner method, the line is much shorter (or was when I voted). I also like the idea of a paper trail for my vote, in case of recount. So don’t be afraid to use paper, people!
@19… well you know what will happen….they will tell the M-S folks that they can use the T-Z booth and then a coach will turn up full of Zhiffletts and one of Vorris’ and all hell will break loose.
@19 This was the first time that the downtown rec center didn’t divide by last name. It MASSIVELY sped up the process. But up until this election, we had the same division by last name.
@9 – awwwwww…. is your candidate going to lose?
Awwww… so sorry.
And believe me, this is VERY toned down from what I wanted to say.
Wizard…are you crazy? I’d rather put a pitbull’s balls in a blender than mess with Taliesin. Back away r-e-a-l-l-y slowly and when you get to the door run like fuck.If you don’t make it, it was really nice knowing you.
Voting was fun! The Downtown Mall Annex location had a live jazz trio!
@19 – Once you got inside, Cale had five lines. P-S was the longest, T-Z almost no line. L-O had as many people through it as P-S when we voted around 6:45 but no line for the 15 minutes we were inside, so I think it was the slower poll workers manning P-S. I heard the city was using UPS technology from the back of driver’s licenses to speed the process and not discriminate on the basis of last names. I’d be interested in seeing if the electoral board in the county looks at the numbers per line and shakes them up for the next election cycle.
What order were the candidates in on the ballot in your location? For all races at Cale, they were D, R, and then the rest of the little parties. I thought they were supposed to be randomized, or at least that was the preferred method to avoid ballot order bias.
@26 – I believe they were D, R, etc also.
The city appears to be on the ball with this one.
@26 They were D, R and then the rest at the downtown rec center on paper ballots.
If you vote for Virgil Goode remember that every time you open up your fridge for the next four years AND when you take a shower for the next four years a magic boom box will appear from the sky and will start playing Virgil sings Kenny Rogers’ classics at level 10.
Where are the election night rallies?
I hadn’t planned on voting, but a quick check online determined that I was still registered, though at an old address. I went to my designated poling place and stepped up to “sign in” or whatever. All I had to do was remember the address I lived at 11 years ago. I didn’t. “You don’t know where you live?” as I stumbled to piece together the numbers and letters. fffuuucccckkkkkk… “I don’t actually live at that address anymore…, is that a deal breaker?” knowing that it was, and that I was probably subject to arrest for a mis-demeanor at that point. “Oh no, just go fill out a change of address form at that table *points to table*” I did, though the form I filled out said expressly, and in large letters “to change address, this form must be completed at least 29 days prior to the election in which you intend to vote” ?!? To top it off, I lied about my new address, choosing I house nearby that I own but don’t live in because I didn’t want to have to drive to another precinct. Though I’d just been caught red-handed at voter fraud, nobody checked. I didn’t even know the right zip code(maybe?) because I don’t get mail there…! Oh well, only in America. Eat your heart out Florida! Suck it Falls Church!
yeah, voter fraud!
what a country,
Oh, hey did I mention I only waited like 5 minutes to vote? Haha.
@30 less of a rally and more a “get together and get drunk and watch the results“. thing at boylan heights (aka BRGR) tonight.
also five minutes to vote at Elk’s Lodge (spoooooooky!! Cult!!!!!) on Rt 20 North.
@30 Dems at Gravity Lounge, Repubs at Rivals.
any word yet on how it’s going?
Obama won in Dixville Notch, NH… their 21 eligible voters finished voting just after midnight last night
I had a couple of first time voters behind me at Clark Elem this morning. I said ‘Yay….welcome to the party!!!’
@40: Were there musicians and bagels when we voted? I missed that.
So has anyone had any truly long waits yet? Or maybe we’ll hear more this late afternoon/evening? Five minutes, in and out (like my last boyfriend, ha!) at Cale.
/anyone else feel like they were walking through a pack of hyenas (i.e. the party people) before going in to vote?
/Not these kind of party people…
@42: Yeah, I completely missed all of that. I didn’t even get a sticker.
@post:
Is this offensive, yes or no? A person sent this out at work and some people are really getting their panties in a twist over it:
Dear Red States,
If you manage to steal this election too we’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty.
You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft.
You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard.
You get Ole’ Miss.
We get 85% of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs.
You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue.
You get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families.
You get a bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our resources in Bush’s Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.
Finally, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that crummy stuff they grow in Mexico.
Peace out,
Blue States
@44: A bit long, but a reply:
Dear Blue States:
Well, imagine our relief that you’ve decided to secede and form some sort of bathing-optional commune headquartered in California. The money we’ll save in aspirin, now that we won’t have headaches from listening to your interminable whining, will be worth it to us alone.
We’ll finally be rid of you lazy, moping, latte-sucking Streisand fans now that you’re actually going to follow through–for once–on your promise to finally get off your butts and leave, as so many of you claimed you would every election cycle and then chickened out of actually doing. (Yeah, we’re looking at you, Alec Baldwin.)
But not so fast. You don’t get to take all the Blue States with you–just the Blue parts.
We hate to break it to you, but your Blue States aren’t actually “blue.” Mostly, they’re states full of Red counties with pockets of Blue urban blight in them, who vote Democratic in such numbers that if the same results came out of a Third World country—which, come to think of it, many of the “Blue” counties pretty much are—we’d think it was fraud and send some election observers from the UN.
Even California is pretty much a Red State: Bush won 35 out of 58 counties, while Kerry won LA and San Francisco. You want ‘em? we certainly won’t fight you for them but you’re going to have to found New California without 35 of your most beautiful counties and your second-largest city. Sorry about that.
Nationally, Bush won over 2.5 million square miles of U.S. counties (and an extra three and a half million votes, but we won’t rub that in.) Kerry won less than 600,000 square miles–meaning that in most states he was popular downtown and pretty much nowhere else. In other words, your guy won the places that people like him would get shot if he walked through them at night. Our guy won every place else.
So, the bottom line is that you don’t get the Blue States. Those states have lots of towns and counties that would rather blow their dams and flood themselves out of existence rather than go with you. No, instead, you get the Blue Cities.
But wait…we really feel we owe you full disclosure on this exchange. This might come as an unpleasant surprise, but you don’t actually get the lower divorce and single-motherhood rates and all that other good stuff you think you’re going to snag. Those are the conditions that are actually found out in the Red counties—not in the Blue cities, and you can’t have them.
Instead you get the urban single moms, not the soccer moms; the drug addicts, not the doctors; the waiters, not the chefs. You get the fine service you’ve come to expect from the brutal and corrupt inner-city police departments. You get the abysmal literacy rates and schools that are more dangerous than most prisons. All in all, you get to take with you a public sector in most cities so unmanageable they make Mogadishu seem like a tidily run little municipality by comparison.
You get the labor union shakedown artists, “teachers” who can’t pass tests in their own subject, and city government leaders for whom graft, racial spoils systems, and outright theft are a way of life. They’re all very enthusiastic Blue voters, as you know, and we’re sure they’ll stampede their way to New California to start draining your wallets, wrecking your schools, and in general making a mess of your lives.
(And don’t come complaining back to us when socialist central planning does for New California what it did for garden spots like East Berlin and Pyongyang. We’re putting a strict visa system into place once you all go.)
We, on the other hand, get those Red city suburbs and rural districts. You know, the ones with the good schools, the high property values, the quiet streets and the sheriffs and cops who don’t need to walk around armored up like they’re about to storm the Sunni Triangle.
Oh and don’t concern yourself with our agricultural capacity after all, they don’t call it “the breadbasket” for nothin’. We’ll keep right on producing the vast majority of wheat, corn, oats, rye, potatoes, soybeans, beef, chicken and pork.
We’ve always preferred a nice, unpretentious, frosty mug of brew anyway and hey, maybe you can make a salad with those pineapples, stem cells, and lettuce.
And don’t even think about keeping the National Parks, the wide open spaces, all those water resources, and all the rest of America’s natural splendor, since those are all pretty much located in Red counties.
Hell, we even get most of Oregon and Washington …ain’t it ironic? You get the urban liberals in Portland and Seattle and their friends in important social organizations (like, say, drug-running street gangs) and we get the rest of the Northwest.
Ok by us; we’d be fools not to take you up on it.
Here’s how it will work; all of you Blue whiners, please feel free to look at a map of the electoral results county by county in each state, and take the people with you who’ve made it clear they’d like to go.
That means you get places like downtown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and we get to keep the rest of beautiful Pennsylvania, thanks.
You get to administer bloated public services to the violent, drug-addled, gunslinging populations of delightful inner-city sinkholes of poverty and corruption such as Miami, St. Louis,Atlanta and the ever-popular District of Columbia–which has been governed by liberals (and the occasional crackhead) for so long and so incompetently that any semblance of order has broken down (beyond the carefully guarded borders of your Georgetown bistros, natch) to the point where even the mayor once asked the President to have the city patrolled by National Guardsmen.
Lucky you, it’s all yours–enjoy it in good health, and don’t forget to wear your Kevlar…Blue “voters” up there in Northeast DC tend to be jumpy on the ol’ trigger finger.
In fact, all around our great nation, you get to keep all the Blue voters who’ve made urban war zones like downtown Detroit–a Blue bastion, of course–the proud showplaces they are today.
We get the rest of Blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin and Illinois and…well, frankly, just about every state in the Union with the exception of Hawaii and New England–and even there, we’ll just hang on to a couple of chunks of New Hampshire and Connecticut.
You’re especially more than welcome to Rhode Island, which will immediately set up some sort of money-laundering scheme and bilk the rest of you once it has been incorporated into whatever sort of muddle-headed utopia you’re trying to create.
The former mayor of Providence should be out of Federal prison in time to join your Politburo and help you get things set up–for a small consulting fee, of course
If you would please, take another look at the list of best beaches and notice what color states they are in. We’ll miss the Hawaiian beaches, but since long stretches of coastline from New Jersey down to Florida and yes, even in Southern California (including San Diego, thanks) are actually in Red counties, we’ll be fine.
Sure, we get the rednecks and holy rollers. But since you’re apparently willing to trade them for the gangs and psychopaths terrorizing your Blue cities, what can we say? You want the Crips and the Bloods in low riders raking your streets with automatic gunfire, and you’re offering us Bubba heading off to church in his pickup?
Hey, a deal’s a deal. Done.
True, you also get Manhattan, but darn the luck, you have to take the rest of the city, including the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn too, as well as Long Island, which is enough to almost make us feel sorry for you all out there in New California. (Almost.)
For our part, we’ll take most of the rest of gorgeous New York State, although you get the scam artists who infest the legislature in Albany.
And since for some unfathomable reason you actually want Elliot Spitzer, we’ll buy his plane ticket as a gesture of goodwill.
So that’s the deal. You get the cities, with all the crime, crack mommies, and corruption you can stand.
And sure, you get many of the elite colleges too, with the professors who think that terrorists in Fallujah are freedom fighters and that the people who worked in the Twin Towers on 9/11 were no better than Nazis—forgive us for not lamenting over this loss.
We get the suburbs, the countryside, and all the other beautiful places that remain unspoiled by liberal hypocrisy and addle-brained social experimentation.
And we’d like a favor, too: please keep your sky-high tax and crime rates, since we’re happy to have the corporations and jobs that continue to flee your Blue cities into our Red counties. It’s much appreciated, since our unemployment rates, to say nothing of our crime, single-parenting, and illiteracy rates, are far lower than yours.
Oh, and one last thing. We get the U.S. military, too. Did we mention that part? (You may have forgotten that they’re volunteers, and most are happy Red state voters.)
Not to worry, though, since we’re sure that Islamic fundamentalist terrorists will be more than happy to reach an accommodation with a society that embraces radical feminism, gay marriage, gun control, hostility to organized religion of any kind, and Salman Rushdie. Good luck with that.
But one day when some misogynist Saudi freak–who no doubt will sneak into your country by strolling over the northern border after a few years sucking on the Canadian welfare system you all admire so much–blows up a couple kilos of plutonium on Sunset Boulevard, go send Sean Penn to ask the French for help. We’ll be busy that day.
Sincerely,
The Red States
PS: You can keep the marijuana. You’re going to need it, since selling it is one of the last stable industries left in Blue counties.
OH SNAP
@me in 45:
http://images.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/elections2004/_images/2004countymap-final2.gif
Yipes.
@45 Is that an email being passed around, or was it authored by Lulu? If it was the latter, it was more than enough to make me McQuit for a long time. I felt nauseous even reading it.
I dunno, but it’s nasty.
@48: No, no, no.
Mine would have gone something like:
Dear Blue States,
Good. We have the energy. We have the guns. We will take from you forcibly what we want and then leave you to your own defenses. Enjoy your coming demise.
Sincerely, Red States.
And that’s why I just decided to swipe someone else’s off the internets. I’m lazy, remember?
McCain is staying in the Barry Goldwater suite tonight at the Arizona Biltmore. Um, didn’t Goldwater lose the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, the last time Virginia went Democrat.
Yeah, way to go advance staff!
ok, good. you had me a little worried, what with that response coming like 15 minutes after the first letter.
I also heard that whenever the Redskins play before the election and lose, the new party wins the election.
I’ll just leave this here.
@52: The city is just gangs and bad people dontcha know! The country is where all the good people live, votin red and shooting mooses, you betcha!
@54: %%%%%%%%% keyboard vomit
@57: It’s funny you say that.
I got an email from someone saying that Celine Dion is supposed to perform in Chicago tonight and she better cancel b/c there’s probably gonna be riots after the election and Chicago is so dangerous that concertgoers might get hurt so she better cancel her performance. Except she already did due to a sore throat. Maybe she was gving free BJs for me? Maybe I’m Celine Dion?
Oh crap, I just remembered Chicago is in Illinois. Fail.
@58, I had this problem recently. Why is Ohio so easy to confuse?
Apparently, we have both killed off a certain part of our brain through years of drinking.
@60: You has only part of brain, you only vote half McCain?
Maybe that’s the part of my brain I needed when going to my polling location today. Talking to the lady who couldn’t find my name, I explained I was totally registered at Jouett, my card even said it, seee?
She blinked and said, “This is Agnor-Hurt”.
@61: Hahaha
@62: Yep, that’s it! LMAO.
For anyone interested I went to downtown rec at around 2 and had absolutely no wait- walked right in, voted, and was out in only a few minutes. Shazam.
Doubt it’s like that now- at 4. I’m sure there will be some after work lines, but I doubt they’ll be that long and by all accounts they’re moving them through fast when they do queue up. If you haven’t voted yet please make sure you do…unless of course you’re voting for the wrong person…in which case I’d prefer you to stay at home.
where’s the election party?
Mall should be frazzing from Obama HQ down to Gravity Lounge, where the Democratic Party holds parties (used to do it inside the ice rink).
Bartenders went on shift at Gravity at 4pm today.
i need to point something out here, i can’t stand it anymore.
“long lines at the poll today!” is what she said.
curious, question for you ladies out there:
if you are at an election party tonight and run into another villain that supports mccain…what are the odds of you hooking up with them?
will the mccain camp be un lucky tonight?
I gotta go but um, party at The Box at 8 and yes, you get no ass if you voted McCain. And you get smacked if you didn’t vote at all.
‘Pends on how the night is going, I would imagine/More to men than political preference, y’know.
@67 i would never hook up with someone who voted for mccain. appreciating this election season, so i can tell the a-holes by their nobama shirts & don’t have to suffer through talking to them to learn they’re a-holes.
i might know someone who deserves two slaps
from my brother in CO:
@72 to be precise:
VaTech students having to vote 6.5 miles off campus on a dirt road at a little church with six parking spaces
and the wrath of god if they vote the wrong way!
Sadly, everyone I’ve talked to in Ohio is voting McCain. Literally everyone. Sorry everyone. The coupons aren’t working.
well, if there’s one positive thing that comes from this election, it’s that the Obama people will stop harassing ten times a day asking me to register to vote/telling me to vote for Obama. Both candidates suck, for your information. On one hand, we have the Christian fanatic Sarah Palin, and on the other, we have a guy that wants to skullfuck America by taxing coal into oblivion and doesn’t actually support nuclear power.
i voted at elks lodge at 11:30 this morning, done in 3 minutes. only line was L-O. two chatty elderly ladies (thanks for your time, girls) talking everyone up seemed to be the problem. Somebody snark about that… I double-dog dare ya.
@24 – I HAVE put a pitbulls balls in a blender, Flooz
Wizard…are you crazy? I’d rather put a pitbull’s balls in a blender than mess with Taliesin. Back away r-e-a-l-l-y slowly and when you get to the door run like fuck.If you don’t make it, it was really nice knowing you.
Nothing against Taliesin, but there were explicit directions not to politically snipe and Taliesin comes in with some snotty, nasty, partisan snipe.
I ain’t worried.
Voter Turnout:
Falls Church 6,745 of 8,237 active voters (81.88%)
Charlottesville: 18,942 of 27,570 active voters (68.70%)
Floozy, when you bringing up the trophy?
um, @72 – have you ever been snockered? i.e. urban mythed? and could you ever be a more sore loser? your candidate flat lost and Obama won. End of debate.
Good morning America, thanks for finally coming to your fucking senses.
P.S. Cute boys hang out at the Box and total dickheads hang out at SS and tell you you’re a Nazi if you voted for Obama.
@80 my reading comprehension begs to know what the fuck you thought @72 was saying.
I was hoping you’d see that one parlie… LMAO
I was hoping she was talking to @76.
I think she stole the Lynchburg bypass years ago and put it around her brain.
@80 you’re talking to my guy all wrong. You’ve got the wrong tone.
hmm, long-distance internet. what an amazing time to be alive.
As opposed to the short distance internet that we used to have. I actually kept mine in its original box and am going to sell it on Ebay in 10 years for a fucking fortune.
@81 there are cute boys in c’ville?
@89: I saw some last night.
@89, 90
on behalf of all the…
Cute boys hang out at the Box
Hey, I vote for best restaurant name EVER. Cause there’s no end to the ways it amuses me. Refer to above example.
@ 80 – wtf??? I have no idea what I was talking about – at that hour what was left of my brain was so addled by multiple streams of election results moving across my tv screen trying to hold out for final results of perriello v goode race. my humblest apologies to all for imaginary offense taken. sorry – seiously stubbed mental toe on that one…