10:55 - NY Post calls it for Obama (Fox Newscorp's consolation prize)
3 minutes till California polls close and this could really be it... Jon Stewart is giving his victory speech.
10:10 - Iowa is taking credit for Barack Obama. Obama is letting them - giving them front row seats to his victory speech. (Obama won Iowa btw)
10:00 - Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on!
Colbert has a bird on his shoulder. "Why give people guns and religion if they can't cling to them" - Colbert quote
9:40 - Fox has Obama at 200 electoral votes (McCain has 90)
Fox is roundtabling it about life with President Obama.
Checking in with the networks - ABC has some of Obama's infomercial stars on now. Lame. There were no breakout plumbers from that special. All i remember is the woman with the stick figures of her family etched into her jeep.
Arizona and New Mexico heart Obama - McCain can't even catch a break from his own state. Ouch.
Networks are painfully slow compared to cable news channels. Sorry Katie and Diane.
Ooh! NBC's Rockefeller plaza has US map with colored states on ice skating rink. Points for the peacock. Bonus points if ice sculptures of the candidate are revealed.
9:35 - CNN calls Ohio
Reminder: No Republican has ever won without Ohio. Let's go back and see who else Fox has called.
9:20 - Fox says OhiO-bama
Electoral votes
Obama - 183
McCain - 81
McCain losing Ohio means even if he held every other red state, he'd be at 266. So there's pretty much no way he can win?!? Hmmm...
Electoral votes per CNN
Obama - 174
McCain - 69
They just called West Virginia. Fox called that 100 years ago. I'm predicting Fox calls the election first. A consolation prize of sorts...
Wolf blitzer is wetting himself over the big projection they may have coming up -- who is going to tell him we already know Obama got Ohio?
9:00 - LIVE FROM NEW YORK... It's a win for Obama!
My home state of New York and my college home away from home state, Michigan both GO BLUE!!!
8:50 - Fox doesn't blink! (At least when it comes to McCain)
They've got McCain at almost 70 electoral votes vs CNN's 34. Yes, they were the last to give Obama Pennsylvania but (Palin voice) whaddya expect - it's fox!
8:30 - Obama's picking up steam!
Electoral Votes
Obama - 103
McCain - 45
Fox News caves and calls Pennsylvania for Obama!
8:20pm - ABC says O gets PA!
Scrappy Scranton came through for PA-born Democrat Joe Biden!
In other Biden news, Joe the Senator was re-elected Senator of Delaware...
Congratulations JBide!
8:15pm - I'm dizzy
Obama takes New Hampshire on Fox
Obama takes Pennsylvania on MSNBC!!!!!!!! This better not be Olbermann running amok again!!!
8:00pm - Polls closed in 15 states
According to Fox News...
Obama takes Maine, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Illinois,DC, Maryland
McCain takes South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia
Electoral college standings:
McCain = 39
Obama = 77
News channels love their new touch screen gadgets!
7:45pm - No new states called
He looks the way I feel right about now...
Pundits are waxing poetic and spouting statistics about every subculture in the country's voting habits.
41% of white evangelicals in Indiana showed up to vote versus 36% in 2004.
Shift in electoral map is possible
If you want a drinking game -- take a drink everytime you hear:
Battleground states
Electoral map
Too close to call
Exit polls
7pm - Kentucky is called for McCain; Vermont goes to Obama --
Electoral college standings:
McCain = 8
Obama = 3
*Karl Rove's prediction for the race: Obama to score 339 electoral votes, McCain 200
There are so many numbers constantly moving on every channel it is making me dizzy... and it's only 7pm!
Let the exit polling begin --- the race is ON! Here's hoping for happy returns...
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