Wonkette
- Not one but TWO comically named New Hampshire towns have completed voting for Obama: Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location. [BBC News]
- One voter went to the polls in her Brooklyn precinct today “shortly before 6 a.m.” and found a line “already down the block and around the corner.” [AP]
- You know what would unify America? Nuking all these battleground states that give us so much hassle every year. [ABC News]
- Barack Obama has a slight lead in Florida, according to one Republican-leaning polling outfit. [Pensacola News Journal]
- One of Madelyn Dunham’s former employees at the Bank of Hawaii fondly remembers his hardassed old boss: “She was very strict. We were totally scared of her.” [KHON News]
- Text messages and YouTube made the 2008 campaign a transformational race. Also, the fact that Obama bothered to court voters in traditionally red states. [New York Times]
brb, gonna go vote
I did my part even though I am shy about a quart of coffee:
http://pollingplaces.nytimes.com/content.cfm?page=photo_detail&voterID=6305989&photoID=22670869&fromSearch=1
Diebold or no Diebold, I’m thinking the 50 State Strategy’s worked.
Even if the Demrats don’t win states like AZ they did something to the Repubs they haven’t done since I ever followed US American politics, force them to play Defense
Note to the DLC shitheads out there: “Yeeeeeaaaarrrgh!”
Isn’t there another NH town with a retarded name that does this as well? I think it’s called Clummetts Crotch.
Let’s see if running a strategically brilliant, positive campaign in the face of the ugliest, most hateful, most hypocritical, fear-mongering, assiest-hatted demagoguery we’ve ever seen… actually works.
Take that, Governor Lingle, who claims most folks in Hawaii never heard of him or his Toot before he became “The One.”
Can we have an hour-long montage of all the beautiful moments of this election? I want to relive all the gaffes, all the fuckups, all the moments that made us laugh and cringe. I want a compilation of the new hits like the Palin prank call, and the old classics - arugula, the Youtube debate, Mike Huckabee, flag pins, Hillary pantsuits, everything that made the past 2 years of shameless pandering a charmingly cute election to remember.
How’s Lower Shaker Village?
Oh, and for the record, I had no idea was serious about Ron Paul until I accidentally met one of his campaign organizers. In New Hampshire. Her tears were sweet.
Giant Robot: Do what now? You musta not been around in ‘88. This was beanbag compared to that.
Line around the block at 7:15 a.m. at the precinct across from DC’s Eastern Market metro station. Not that it matters; Hopey’s gonna get 90 percent of DC regardless. But I guess it’ll help his overall popular-vote majority.
Giant Robot: Don’t forget the brilliance of the electorate! NOT!
Hey, Hart, wanna name a town after ya? We’ve already got a Hart town, a Hartford, Hart Bay, Hart River, Hart Place, Hart House…. Y’know what, fuckkit, how ’bout just “Hart’s Location”.
I accidentally got to the polling place at 6am because I’m a ninny who doesn’t remember to reset the alarm clock after Daylight Savings Time changes. A slew of people there already in front of me in line and by the time I came out from voting, the line was around the block. Lots of people in a generally good humor.
I predict a landslide for Hopey AND that Caribou Barbie will see that as a reflection on her running mate and not herself. She’ll immediately start planning her run at the top of the ticket for the next election.
People of Alaska, let’s make a deal. The rest of the country will send Caribou Barbie back to you. You, in turn, make her a one term governor, ‘kay? Let’s have her sitting unemployed in her rumpus room in Wasilla before she knows what hit her.
mattbolt: Ahhh..cankles, Joe the Plumber, Wasilla, “faculty lounge”…there are so many to play with!
Cape Clod: Dammit! Stop making fun of New Hampshire for having towns with funny names! Make fun of us for having politicians with funny names, like congressman Dick Swett… that’s a way funnier name than Dick Armey or Newt Gingrich or Barack Hussein Obama…
Terry: You’re right. And this explains why:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/18/MN73840.DTL
She just don know no better.
Nicole Wallace just went all douchebag on Morning Joe.
I went to my polling place (in Baltimore, MD) this morning at 6:40am, hoping to beat the lines; no such luck and I waited for an hour and a half. There were more people waiting to vote then to get on the Superman Returns rollercoaster at Six Flags. In conclusion: Barry > a vomit comet.
Giant Robot: Come to think of it, Dick Armey is not really a funny name if you happen to belong to an actual army of dicks…
“Look, I know I’m still the underdog, I understand that,” the Arizona senator said. “You can’t imagine, you can’t imagine the excitement of an individual to be this close to the most important position in the world, and I’ll enjoy it, enjoy it. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.”
Come on John, That not that long anymore.
mattbolt: Keith Olbermann already did something like this. Suddenly recalling the days when we hated Hillary was like eating Proust’s Madeline–an aroma that took me back years.
Congratulations, Palin, you’ve joined the illustrious ranks of “Loser running-mate picks!” Come on and pick up your award, it’s engraved with the faces of Joe Lieberman and Dan Quayle
It’s been a transformative race, yes. I could weep for joy for the hopes of renewed democracy in these United States. At the same time, I’m frickin’ exhausted. I’d smoke a cig if I smoked.
mattbolt: freakishlystrong: Larry Sinclair gets arrested; Ted Kennedy nearly dies; Hillary and the Bosnian spipers . . .
I can only assume that this second New Hampshire town was named due to frequent inquiries along the line of “Where is Hart?”, and probably many people who, when searching for Hart, mistakenly traveled to nearby towns. Eventually the townspeople just got fed up with it all and did something about it.
I don’t know about other states, but here in AZ the presidential candidates are listed by their Last name only and the list of their electors. No mention of the Veep. It made me wonder if there are people who go vote, only to be flustered because they can’t find Palin on the ballot anywhere??
All right, I’m heading down to the polls here in Fuckety Fucknutz, NH. I hope I don’t see any irregularities because everyone from Huffpo to NH publik radio wants me to call it in if I do. Catch you fuckety fuckers on the flippety flop…
TheHappyPundit: I waited an hour out in the f’ing County, where normally you go in and it’s you, one old lady and a retarded kid and that’s it. This election is off the f’ing hook.
Super Duper Tubersday…God DAMN Amerikkka…Jed Huckabee and his Model A truck full of fat kids…
mattbolt: How’s this work for you?
http://thisfuckingelection.com/
Biff1: I think I had a siezure…
Truck Nutz!
in re: NH - presumably the voters of Salem’s Lot are solidly for McSame?
Giant Robot: i dunno - it’d be mighty hard to beat Idaho’s gov., Butch Otter…
ManchuCandidate: That’s soooooo 2004.
“HHEENGHHHH?” is the new “Yeeeeeaaaarrrgh!”
Giant Robot: And I’m heading out to vote in my little Cape Cod village with the evocative Wampanaog Indian name, Blinkanumissette.
mattbolt: The loser running mate plaque also is engraved with the goofily smiling face of John Edwards.
ForTheTurnstiles: Hmmm, the English grammar, you betcha.
mattbolt: Right on about Lieberman as a loser veep choice: aside from being an obnoxious twit even in 2000, he probably cost the Dems a lot of votes because of antisemitism. Let’s see if we can find a way to blame Joe for it. Not going to be easy.