So, What are the Exit Polls Saying? Updated!

UPDATE 3: Obama at 207 Electoral Votes, McCain at 89. Indiana, Ohio and New Mexico all went for Obama. As of 9:09 PM Central. Alas, it’s late in my household, the children need to be put to bed, and then I suspect I will just softly sigh myself to sleep. Sigh. Looks to be a clear Obama electoral win, although his margins in the popular vote will be razor thin. At least almost half of us have some sense, even if we’re on the losing end of this big, fat shizzle sandwich. Nighty-night. More updates if I can’t sleep.

UPDATE 2: Here are the Election Returns as of now, according to CNN.

Obama has 81 electoral votes to McCain’s 34 (as of 7:30 PM Central Time). Very land-slidey for Obama. But check the current totals of actual votes. 7,160,459 for Obama, 7,119,763. That gives Obama a total of 40696 more votes than McCain. I’m wondering how much that number is going to change. Will Obama have a mandate? I hope not. Not that that will stop him. He’s bringing us change we can believe in. Whether we want it or not. Checked the totals again . . .

7,703,018 for Obama, 7,752,985 for McCain as of 7:43 PM Central time. That gives McCain a net victory in popular votes of 49,967. Admittedly, that with, what? 15% of the country called? But I’m wondering if we’re going to see a variation on 2000 here. Obama wins the electoral map. McCain wins the popular vote.

Obama has 102 electoral votes right now. John McCain has 34. But McCain has an almost 80,000 vote advantage as of  7:46 PM Central.

Hmmm.

Back to the original post. Mostly.

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You can check CNN for Exit Polls. As of me writing this, there are now exit polls available from CNN. I just changed that sentence from “no exit polls” to “now exit polls”. Cuz there weren’t any when I first wrote it, but now there are. Blogging is a very fluid medium. Get over it.

And the CNN Exit Polls are calling it for Obama. Probably cuz he won. Sigh. But, his margin of victory is less than Kerry’s was.

UPDATE: Surprise, Surprise! Exit Polls breaking for Obama. CNN comments on exit polls in blog, but I still see nothing on the site. UPDATED LATER: Now they are there. Follow the links above.

Exercise your Franchise. Even if you want to flush the country down the toilet.

Also, check out how to read exit polls. And, more imporant, how does CNN claim to make election projections?

Some folks are asking: can you trust the exit polls? The answer? Probably not. Or, more accurately, the answer is: it depends. If exit polls have the Democrat leading, then they are accurate, and it is, in fact, the election itself that is incorrect.

I love the hubris of that. Just love it. If the exit polls call it for Obama and Obama wins, what are they going to say? Nothing. They’ll forget they ever complained about it. That’s how it works. This dude says because they’ll call it for the Democrat that of course they are flawed. While I’m more likely to agree with him, the design of his blog makes it almost impossible to read. I’m just saying.

I think most polling is crap. But, that’s just my opinion.

Extra: For you folks voting for Obama, or who have already voted for him, I just want to remind you. To Serve Man? It’s a cookbook.

 

Searching The Google for Ballot Propositions and Heidi Klum

Prop 4. Prop 8. Prop whatever. Don’t you people out there know what you’re voting for before the day of the election?

Anyway, it’s all here at Ballotpedia. Please find out what you’re actually voting for out in California. For a change.

Heidi Kum--I mean, Klum. Damn, she has an awkward last name.

In other news, Heidi Klum is in a new commercial for Guitar Hero, in her underwear. Because supermodels in their underwear are just what you naturally associate with geeks who sit around in their parent’s basements playing video games all day.

All right. More Heidi. Might as well have something easy on the eyes as our country votes away our freedoms.

Heidi Kulm is Easy on the Eyes. I guess that is why they call her a supermodel.

 

More Heidi Klum. Ah, yes.

Obama Already President of Dixville Notch

I’m pretty confident that today is going to be a depressing day for rock-ribbed conservatives like me. Alas, the Force is Strong with this one.

 

Darth Obama Will Know If You Didn't Vote For Him. And You Will Be Audited.

Tiny Dixville Notch, which hasn’t gone for the Democrat since 1968, went big for His Supreme Glorious Obama-ness last night. Dixville Notch with that tiny town that holds it’s election all at once, at midnight, and so the 75 people of their tiny town get attention once every four years.

Oliver Willis–who, by his own admission, is kryptonically stupid–is the blog I link to about how Dixville Notch hasn’t gone for the Democrat since 1968. The thing he neglects to mention who Dixville Notch went for in 1968. Who was that?

Hubert Humphrey. Who ended up losing a very competitive contest to Richard Nixon by 500,000 votes. Though Nixon walked away with 301 electoral votes, he only got 43.32% of the vote. The Democrats got 42.72% of the vote. A photo-finish win for the Republicans. After Dixville Notch fell to the Democrats. And they didn’t make that mistake again for 40 years.

Just kidding about that. Nixon was president RINO. He was a Command Economy Liberal. Much like Obama could be. Probably worse. Hubert Humphrey would have been a better president from a conservatistic point of view, almost certainly.

Barack Obama, not so much. Thanks, Dixville Notch, for starting my day with a big cup of Future Fascism from The One. When Dixville Notch can so easily abandon the American Ideal for the Soviet Gulag, can’t the rest of the country?

 

Barack Obamas New Campaign to Secure the Undecideds, Non-Believers and Other Heretics.

According to Real Clear Politics, we can’t wait to remake America in our Supreme Glorious Leader Obama’s image. Yay.

Well, whatever. Elect a Mega-Socialist, you Hope-and-Change-Deranged people. I’m not moving to Canada. I’m not moving to France. I’m staying right here. In the Greatest Country in the World™. And you can’t make me leave. Yet.

Dale Bozzio Is Charged With Cat Cruelty

 

Dale Bozzio and Missing Persons. Charged with Animal Cruelty. Who would have thought it? And they always seemed so normal. Just regular folk.

Seriously. The former lead singer of Missing Person’s charged with animal cruelty. What are words for, when nobody listens anymore? 

I used to have the poster of Dale Bozzio in the fishbowls. It was an awesome poser. So hot. So quintessentially 80s.

Of course, I owned Spring Session M. 

Spring Session M. And Album of Awesome 80sness.

I love their remake of The Doors “Hello, I Love You”. It’s on The Best of Missing Persons. Dale Bozzio was also featured on Frank Zappa’s very weird Thing Fish.

Frank Zappa's Thing Fish. Which featured Dale Bozzio. And, of course, the Great Ike Willis. I had the Vinyl, Many Moons ago.

Dale Bozzio at the US Festival (I am pretty sure, I had to find a new picture). Which was Woodstock for early Silicone Valley Geeks. But that's a whole other story.