election thread, anyone?
ana maries first exit poll dance.
ThinkProgress has obtained CNN’s early Senate exit polls. Early exit polls are highly unreliable, but information needs to be free.
VIRGINIA
D: 52
R: 47
RHODE ISLAND
D: 53
R: 46
PENNSYLVANIA
D: 57
R: 42
OHIO
D: 57
R: 43
NEW JERSEY
D: 52
R: 45
MONTANA
D: 53
R: 46
MISSOURI
D: 50
R: 48
MARYLAND
D: 53
R: 46
TENNESSEE
D: 48
R: 51
ARIZONA
D: 46
R: 50
I had 2 robocalls from Joe Piscopo, a "Democrat calling to ask you to vote for Tom Kean." Lyin' sack of shit left off the "Junior" in hopes that voters would confuse Kean with his famous Dad.
1 robocall from Bill Clinton to vote Menendez.
after all the shit joe klein has given and taken in the blogosphere, i thought this was funny. i wonder if hes blogging in his underpants? November 7, 2006 7:06 PM
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ok. New to this. Didn't sign my last posting re early polls--Joe Klein
Fuckin' A! Awesome!
| Lieberman (CfL) | 148 | 30%
| | Lamont (D) | 290 | 59%
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Oh, wait, it's still a bit early.
Don't raise my hopes. But high CT turnout can't be good for Traitor Joe.
house map from CNN
Webb might squeek by. Late returns from Arlington and Alexandria could do the trick.
Just looking at those gerrymandered districts in Texas that stretch out like spaghetti. Ridiculous. Tom Delay belongs in the lake of fire now, not later.
"drain the swamp!"
both houses (fingers crossed) !
(conditional) whoo-hoo!
icing on the cake ... Texas-22 (Delay's seat) goes D!
hahahahahahahahahaha ... ha!
Voting was painful They switched my polling place from a church to an elementary school. As it turns out, very few elementary school kids drive themselves to school, so the parking lot is tiny. A small orchestra was practicing in an adjacent room. Nice touch, except that made the parking crunch much worse. I did a city guy parking job, and parked on a corner partially blocking a crosswalk. (No ticket.)
It took over an hour to get through the line. Of the six electronic voting machines, two were out of commission. One had a problem with the printer. Not sure about the other. Another still in use had a sticky printer that required the election official to help it do the line-feed thing. I'm happy to have the paper receipt. Now they just have to make it robust.
Once I got to a machine, I voted in about 5 minutes. Most people took over 15, thus the slow lines.
Along with changing the venue and the machines the workers have changed too. Instead of the nice old ladies, there's a new crew. One woman was not cut out for the job. She was constantly walking around, doing at least two things at the same time, talking on the cell phone, moving chairs around, offering snacks, etc., etc. At one point I felt like telling her, "No, I don't need a chair, but you do. Sit down and take a breath. You're making everyone edgy." The nice little old ladies had equanimity, big time.
Despite all the nervous energy, the process was pretty slack. What with musicians coming and going, someone could have easily bypassed the sign-in step and just gotten in line to vote. At the front of the voting line, they were handing out little smart cards to authorize use of the machine. The process for handing out the cards was so sloppy that I and many others in line could have easily taken two cards. I guess the new printing process could make it more obvious if someone tried to vote twice, but that could have been fudged. One still has an opportunity to change one's vote after the "print for review". (I assume the reprint is marked as such, and the whole record is on one big scroll of paper.) So someone could pretend to be flustered, returning to the ballot to correct errors, and do a double vote. It would be helpful if they had a coconspirator who would distract the official with a stupid question at another voting machine during the card swap. I'm just saying. Could be done without too much effort.
damn. i fell asleep just as the rest of the nation was waking up. just waiting on montana. take your time.... wow. very nearly took wyomings only representative.
lost in the shuffle is the end of pataki. i cant wait for his stirring presidential run.
and yes, gerrymandering has run amok.
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- dave 11-08-2006 2:38 am
ana maries first exit poll dance.
- dave 11-08-2006 2:39 am
ThinkProgress has obtained CNN’s early Senate exit polls. Early exit polls are highly unreliable, but information needs to be free.
VIRGINIA
D: 52
R: 47
RHODE ISLAND
D: 53
R: 46
PENNSYLVANIA
D: 57
R: 42
OHIO
D: 57
R: 43
NEW JERSEY
D: 52
R: 45
MONTANA
D: 53
R: 46
MISSOURI
D: 50
R: 48
MARYLAND
D: 53
R: 46
TENNESSEE
D: 48
R: 51
ARIZONA
D: 46
R: 50
- dave 11-08-2006 2:46 am
I had 2 robocalls from Joe Piscopo, a "Democrat calling to ask you to vote for Tom Kean." Lyin' sack of shit left off the "Junior" in hopes that voters would confuse Kean with his famous Dad.
1 robocall from Bill Clinton to vote Menendez.
- tom moody 11-08-2006 3:05 am
after all the shit joe klein has given and taken in the blogosphere, i thought this was funny. i wonder if hes blogging in his underpants?
- dave 11-08-2006 3:38 am
Fuckin' A! Awesome!
Oh, wait, it's still a bit early.
- mark 11-08-2006 4:41 am
Don't raise my hopes. But high CT turnout can't be good for Traitor Joe.
- tom moody 11-08-2006 4:51 am
house map from CNN
- mark 11-08-2006 6:17 am
Webb might squeek by. Late returns from Arlington and Alexandria could do the trick.
- mark 11-08-2006 6:19 am
Just looking at those gerrymandered districts in Texas that stretch out like spaghetti. Ridiculous. Tom Delay belongs in the lake of fire now, not later.
- tom moody 11-08-2006 6:43 am
"drain the swamp!"
- bill 11-08-2006 7:54 am
both houses (fingers crossed) !
(conditional) whoo-hoo!
icing on the cake ... Texas-22 (Delay's seat) goes D!
hahahahahahahahahaha ... ha!
- mark 11-08-2006 9:35 am
Voting was painful They switched my polling place from a church to an elementary school. As it turns out, very few elementary school kids drive themselves to school, so the parking lot is tiny. A small orchestra was practicing in an adjacent room. Nice touch, except that made the parking crunch much worse. I did a city guy parking job, and parked on a corner partially blocking a crosswalk. (No ticket.)
It took over an hour to get through the line. Of the six electronic voting machines, two were out of commission. One had a problem with the printer. Not sure about the other. Another still in use had a sticky printer that required the election official to help it do the line-feed thing. I'm happy to have the paper receipt. Now they just have to make it robust.
Once I got to a machine, I voted in about 5 minutes. Most people took over 15, thus the slow lines.
Along with changing the venue and the machines the workers have changed too. Instead of the nice old ladies, there's a new crew. One woman was not cut out for the job. She was constantly walking around, doing at least two things at the same time, talking on the cell phone, moving chairs around, offering snacks, etc., etc. At one point I felt like telling her, "No, I don't need a chair, but you do. Sit down and take a breath. You're making everyone edgy." The nice little old ladies had equanimity, big time.
Despite all the nervous energy, the process was pretty slack. What with musicians coming and going, someone could have easily bypassed the sign-in step and just gotten in line to vote. At the front of the voting line, they were handing out little smart cards to authorize use of the machine. The process for handing out the cards was so sloppy that I and many others in line could have easily taken two cards. I guess the new printing process could make it more obvious if someone tried to vote twice, but that could have been fudged. One still has an opportunity to change one's vote after the "print for review". (I assume the reprint is marked as such, and the whole record is on one big scroll of paper.) So someone could pretend to be flustered, returning to the ballot to correct errors, and do a double vote. It would be helpful if they had a coconspirator who would distract the official with a stupid question at another voting machine during the card swap. I'm just saying. Could be done without too much effort.
- mark 11-08-2006 10:36 am
damn. i fell asleep just as the rest of the nation was waking up. just waiting on montana. take your time.... wow. very nearly took wyomings only representative.
lost in the shuffle is the end of pataki. i cant wait for his stirring presidential run.
and yes, gerrymandering has run amok.
- dave 11-08-2006 2:16 pm