2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign Discussion Thread 12: T=zero

[Diemen]

Maybe some loud music would help me.

I highly recommend it.











Alcohol doesn't hurt, either.

 

[corianderstem]

I have some Chicago friends going to the Grant Park rally tonight. They did some campaign work and got tickets.

 

[Daddysgonnapay]

I haven't been able to get on the site all day...so this may have already been discussed...but that little clip of Obama casting his ballot with his wife and girls this morning made me teary eyed....and I can honestly say I have never felt teary eyed about ANY politician before EVER! GO OBAMA!!

 

[U2DMfan]

CNN is like televised cancer.

 

[corianderstem]

CNN is using, um ... holograms.

wtf.

 

[Varitek]

CNN's whyboard looks brilliant compared to this creepy jerky virtual reality beamy thing. gimick for the FAIL

 

[Varitek]

I haven't been able to get on the site all day...so this may have already been discussed...but that little clip of Obama casting his ballot with his wife and girls this morning made me teary eyed....and I can honestly say I have never felt teary eyed about ANY politician before EVER! GO OBAMA!!

Michelle took FOREVER! But it was very sweet.

 

[corianderstem]

That lady is glowing. She looks radioactive.

She looks like the ghost of Obi-Wan in Return of the Jedi.

 

[Varitek]

"and you're a hologram now"

ahahhahahahahahahahahah nervous laughter.

 

[VintagePunk]

What the hell is the point??

 

[Zoots]

VA

 

[Varitek]

it does NOT look like an intimate conversation, wolf. it is fucking creepy.

 

[namkcuR]

There's a pattern here...for the states for which everyone and their mother has known the outcome from day one(i.e. all of New England, New York, California, etc for Obama and Texas, most of the southeast, etc for McCain), they are projected as soon as the polls close. For the states that are tightly contested, networks won't call them for a good while. The lesson of the Florida debacle of 2000(referring to the networks calling it for Gore and then having to retract it) still has influence. It's going to be a while before they call Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, etc.

 

[Varitek]

her face looks funny and squished. and she's like 2 feet shorter than him.

 

[corianderstem]

ABC's coverage is hard to look at - they have a row for one state, president, and then another row beneath for a senate race, usually from another state.

It's not a good method for people doing drive-by viewing, like me.

 

[phillyfan26]

Help me, Wolf Blitzer. You're my only hope.

 

[BoMac]

I'm not feeling confident.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

call The Genius (Edge) and borrow his Time machine.....

*pulls out cell and rings up edge*

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

I'm not feeling confident.

get out of here u naysayer...


i am already on the verge of slitting my wrists u know.

 

[U2DMfan]

Haha, I said it was like cancer, 30 seconds later, "help me Obi Wan, you're my only hope"

God damn they are brutal.

 

[namkcuR]

ABC's coverage is hard to look at - they have a row for one state, president, and then another row beneath for a senate race, usually from another state.

It's not a good method for people doing drive-by viewing, like me.

Yeah, networks usually want you to watch them and only them all night...they don't bend over backwards to make their presentation more palatable for people that are going to change the channel in ten seconds anyway

 

[Lila64]

What's the recommended viewing channel so far? I'm taking a work break for the evening

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

but she has no bagels on her head... so it doesn't count..

 

[corianderstem]

What's the recommended viewing channel so far? I'm taking a work break for the evening

Honestly? They're all equally irritating.

 

[financeguy]

Help me, Wolf Blitzer. You're my only hope.

Save me, Mr Bernanke, you're my only hope.

Er, no sorry, wrong thread.

 

[U2DMfan]

I watch MSNBC.

It's pretty good actually, IMO.

I'd rather watch FOX than CNN.
PBS isn't covering yet.

edit* I actually watch anything thru commercials or sheer boredom.

 

[phillyfan26]

Internet > Television

 

[Varitek]

I don't get MSNBC but I might switch to BBC or SKY cause CNN really is miserable, and I can get their info on the website anyway.

 

[dazzledbylight]

david Bender of Air Ameirca (they're in Grant PArk covering it.... )

said they just opened the gate for everyone to get in

 

[namkcuR]

What's the recommended viewing channel so far? I'm taking a work break for the evening

Honestly? They're all equally irritating.

False. MSNBC for the win. For a bunch of Obama lovers like us, there's no better.

Chris Matthews + Chuck Todd + David Gregory + Rachel Maddow + Keith Olbermann + Andrea Mitchell + Eugene Robinson + Howard Feinman + Harold Ford Jr. + etc etc =