Be sure to head to the polls on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, to vote in the State General Election. Polling places will be open from 7:00am - 8:00pm statewide.
Polls open at 6:30 here, but 41% of all registered voters have voted already. Optimisticly assuming 70% turnout, we're over half done. I wonder if that is going to speed up results reporting. With the click of a button, half the votes are counted.
Western Florida has polls open an hour later than eastern Florida. Remember the claims of voter suppression by calling Florida 8 minutes before the western polls closed?
I am guessing that by 9PM eastern, maybe even 8:30, we will have a good idea of who won Florida, Ohio and VA. If Obama wins 2 out of the 3 the races is over.
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JPB
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Mon 3 Nov, 2008 09:08 am
@ebrown p,
ebrown p wrote:
I was playing with the CNN map and I have a new possibility.
It is completely possible for Obama to get 400 electoral votes (assuming he wins Florida).
Let me be the first to say so.
not the first but you're not alone...
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Sun Nov 2, 11:40 pm ET
With his superior spending, better organization on the ground, and poll standing, in fact, Obama actually seems poised to win the majority of the remaining toss-up states. If there is a pro-Democratic/anti-Bush wave cresting, as some top strategists in both parties believe, Obama could take all of the still contested battlegrounds, giving him nearly 400 electoral votes, and a significant multi-regional mandate. The remaining toss-up states are all large ones - Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri - with a total of 84 electoral votes, and were all won by Bush in 2000 and 2004. And some additional western and southern states that are currently leaning towards McCain (such as North Dakota and Georgia) could end up in the Democratic column, lifting Obama over 400. yahoo
Well then, I think I am the first to say he will top 500
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jespah
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Mon 3 Nov, 2008 11:02 am
@sozobe,
Thanks. We will be there right around when they open.
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Merry Andrew
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Mon 3 Nov, 2008 01:14 pm
@sozobe,
Thanx, Soz.
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realjohnboy
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Mon 3 Nov, 2008 02:42 pm
Polls in Virginia are open from 6 am to 7 pm. Election officials are popping up all over the media suggesting to folks that the best time to vote to avoid long lines is from 9 am to 11 am and 1 pm to 4 pm.
My precinct is relatively small and there haven't been a lot of new residences added (apartments/subdivisions). Also an older crowd (35 and up) so probably not a lot of new voters like in some areas.
Virginia, by the way, added 468,000 new voters this year with 20% being 25 or younger.
Polls in Virginia are open from 6 am to 7 pm. Election officials are popping up all over the media suggesting to folks that the best time to vote to avoid long lines is from 9 am to 11 am and 1 pm to 4 pm.
My precinct is relatively small and there haven't been a lot of new residences added (apartments/subdivisions). Also an older crowd (35 and up) so probably not a lot of new voters like in some areas.
Virginia, by the way, added 468,000 new voters this year with 20% being 25 or younger.
I naively, I guess, assumed that the Electoral College map you posted at 4:36 pm on the thread: "So What Does Your Prediction Map Look Like..." was intended to be your, um, prediction of what the Electoral College map might look like. My apologies. I will remove your pick from the list. Please do your tally, if you are so inclined. Thanks. RJB.
