And now the end is near.

GuanYin

This forum will exist in it's current state for only a short time.

The politics mods will consult and hopefully this forum will be revised as a dedicated US politics forum.

Until then, let us reflect on a new era and wonder at this prophetic article from January 2001 : here

Danno

The end is near...??? Has McCain won???

mike65

End of Days :eek:

Yahoo Answers has the knowledge

Mike

Bottle_of_Smoke

GuanYin wrote: »

Until then, let us reflect on a new era and wonder at this prophetic article from January 2001 : here

wow

banquo

It's so good to be around any other fans of The Onion

brendansmith

How long till we know who won???

Biggins

brendansmith wrote: »

How long till we know who won???

Get a good idea around 1.30 onwards. Florida closes at 1am (GMT) so by 30 min after that along with other states, will be a very good indicator.

MagicMarker

brendansmith wrote: »

How long till we know who won???

years!!!

What channel is everyone watching???

Tonight has been so bleedin boring! Nothing on TV and nothing exciting is happening yet.

mike65

First exit poll due at midnight.

Mike

Biggins

MagicMarker wrote: »

years!!!

What channel is everyone watching???

Tonight has been so bleedin boring! Nothing on TV and nothing exciting is happening yet.

Got sky?

Sky news 501 and 505/506 USA channels
RTE 12.05 coverage starts.
11.50 BBC1 coverage starts.

Ludo

Flicking between Fox, CNN, CNBC and Sky here. Bored.

According to Drudge:

EXIT POLLS CLAIM 'OBAMA +15' IN PA... DEVELOPING...
TOO CLOSE TO CALL AT CLOSE: FL, IN, OH...
MCCAIN KEEPING AZ... DEVELOPING...

Biggins

Hope to god, Obama gets Florida.

MagicMarker

Biggins wrote: »

Hope to god, Obama gets Florida.

We should know at about 1am apparently.

Overheal

mike65 wrote: »

First exit poll due at midnight.

Mike

Voting disticts have already begun closing in parts of Indiana and Kentucky. The last Voting station will close at 1AM EST, in alaska.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/poll.closing/

Click on the Exit polls tab in the flash object to get that data. etc.

eVeNtInE

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Biggins

www.BBC.co.uk
or the abc news website: http://abcnews.go.com/

RTE live news service tonight on the net: http://www.rte.ie/live/

If true, disappointed at the ABC exit poll results: (BLACK VOTERS ACCOUNTED FOR 13 PERCENT OF ALL VOTERS; ONLY SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN IN 2004)

Bottle_of_Smoke

Biggins wrote: »

www.BBC.co.uk
or the abc news website: http://abcnews.go.com/

RTE live news service tonight on the net: http://www.rte.ie/live/

If true, disappointed at the ABC exit poll results: (BLACK VOTERS ACCOUNTED FOR 13 PERCENT OF ALL VOTERS; ONLY SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN IN 2004)

they make up less than 13% of the population.

MagicMarker

The BBC 1 coverage has only been on for about 3 minutes but i'm already liking it more than Sky News.

Biggins

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

they make up less than 13% of the population.

Fingers crossed then, that they have turned out more so at time has passed during the day.

Rowley Birkin QC

Ah The Onion, consistently good.

Where are all of you getting your election fix?

Manic Moran

Biggins wrote: »

Fingers crossed then, that they have turned out more so at time has passed during the day.

!?

What's wrong with having as many people show up as possible?

I think it's a good thing if there's a high turnout across all demographics.

NTM

bug

Between BCC & Sky News and online.

They are flooding, (running) into the park in Chicago already.

GhostInTheRuins

RTÉ have a decent map thingy - http://www.rte.ie/news/features/uselection2008/uselection_map.html#/president?view=race08

Biggins

bug wrote: »

They are flooding, (running) into the park in Chicago already.

Watching that. It won't take long for that park to fill up.
I noticed the glass (bullet proof?) protection screens around the stage.

bug

Biggins wrote: »

Watching that. It won't take long for that park to fill up.
I noticed the glass (bullet proof?) protection screens around the stage.

Yeah, reports of gangs causing trouble regardless of the outcome, I dont really blame them. If Obama does get though get ready to see the most highly protected president ever.

By the way this map is good, I generally dont really like sky news, but when it comes to timely reporting, they will update their site really quickly
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Interactive-Graphics/US-Election-Results

The state of play (current) and past elections, will give an idea of traditional republican/democrate states. Really good.

amacachi

400/1 for Biden to be next president. Plenty of people have been shot for less :P

I have to say though, in the slight chance Obama didn't win, I'm hoping someone records the news footage from Chicago:P

GhostInTheRuins

Charlie Bird said when Obama is giving his speach later he's going to be behind a wall of bulletproof glass lol. Not suprising really.

Biggins

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Charlie Bird said when Obama is giving his speach later he's going to be behind a wall of bulletproof glass lol. Not suprising really.

Aye the whole stage is covered by the glass.
They were showing it on sky news.

bug

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Charlie Bird said when Obama is giving his speach later he's going to be behind a wall of bulletproof glass lol. Not suprising really.

Haha Charlie Bird and his prophecies, not far off the mark though.
Just less than ten minutes to go before polls close in more than sixteen other main states. Keep an eye on that map, and have some tea in the interim

All predictable so far.

Trojan

bug wrote: »

Keep an eye on that map, and have some tea in the interim

Feck that, I'm on the vodka

Biggins

Trojan wrote: »

Feck that, I'm on the vodka

LOL

kerry4sam

Obama 333 - McCain 165

Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America

eVeNtInE

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CtrlSource

Going to really miss this forum. It's allowed me and many others to formulate our thoughts on a page and share opinions about a most fascinating topic.

Now that it has almost fulfilled its purpose, as we watch the victory speech of the newly elected President, i'd just like to thank the Mods of the US Election forum for their fairness and restraint and for allowing me and all of us here to live out our own little version of the American Dream

eVeNtInE

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Overheal

Its probably going to be a lot quieter around here though now that world order is going to be restored.

amacachi

Overheal wrote: »

Its probably going to be a lot quieter around here though now that world order is going to be restored.

With America at the top yeah?;)

Hobbes

GuanYin wrote: »

This forum will exist in it's current state for only a short time.

Just rename the forum "US Election 2012". We can guarantee that all candidates would be fully vetted before it started.

banquo

I will deeply miss this forum. my thanks to hobbes, trojan and the other mods who did a great job keeping stuff ON TOPIC (goddammit), and to all the genuine-fans-not-just-jumping-on-the-bandwagon-two-weeks-beforehand ... see you all in 2 years!

*Rob

Hobbes

I wasn't a forum mod! If anything I almost got banned.

Ah sure...

http://xkcd.com/500/
Love the hidden comment : Someday I'll be rich enough to hire Nate Silver to help make all my life decisions. 'Should I sleep with her?' 'Well, I'm showing a 35% chance it will end badly.'

is_that_so

Indeed it has been good and I'd like to add my thanks to everyone for the last year or so. It's always been interesting.

mackerel

Did anyone see his last press conference today? Still trying to defend Katrina-lol