As long as Standoff and House are on, I couldn't care less what they are doing.
Once I vote, that's that. So whatever. It can wait til morning.
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 04:59 pm
nimh wrote:
georgeob1 wrote:
I'm amusing myself on my PC during a boring presentation in a Board meeting, checking my watch to see if I can make the train in time to get drunk with Blatham.
<grins>
And that should be fun tonight, no matter who wins... I'd be a rookie between you, but I'd have liked to be there!
The tavern's my base for tonight - 'least till around midnight local time, anyhow. Should be able to "keep in touch" via handheld & WiFi; range is pretty extreme, but even if on-and-off, there's usually connectivity of a sort to my network (as long as there's no heavy precipitation), though the evening's primary focus is gonna be cold draughts and intense dart play.
Tomorrow's real information on what today hath wrought will be more on-point than the Damn Blather speculation that will make up tonight's fare.
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sozobe
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 05:00 pm
nimh wrote:
However (eh, Soz) - for me, your first poll closing times come at midnight. For the presidential elections I stayed up till 6 in the morning, but I do have to go to work tomorrow..
What?? Where are your priorities, man?!
OK OK I'll try to make do. ;-)
I'm getting more and more antsy -- not long before we start getting some info! Oooh!!
It is annoying to be in the EST time zone though -- by this time of day a heckuva lot more was known when I lived in L.A....
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nimh
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 05:01 pm
For what its worth, MSNBC (streamed online) is promising "numbers, numbers, numbers"..
The Hardball just now was OK as well, apart from a weirdly fawning portrait of Ted Kennedy - and the usual two-from-either-side each hyping their own talking points thing. (If one-third of the voters are neither Dem nor Rep, why dont they have more Independents as commentators on TV as well?)
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Cycloptichorn
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 05:05 pm
Because they are boring for the most part.
Partisans are far more interesting...
Cycloptichorn
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sozobe
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 05:05 pm
I have Macneil/ Lehrer on -- about the only one I can stand to watch (OK it's just Lehrer). No numbers yet though so won't watch for long. Just curious what's at the top of the hour.
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fbaezer
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 07:16 pm
You don't seem to get it, nimh.
It's commercial TV.
It's not supposed to produce programs, but ratings for the sponsors.
Entertainment gathers ratings, information does not.
And yes, I know it's freaking horrible.
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nimh
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Tue 7 Nov, 2006 07:26 pm
Actually, I gotta say - I've kept MSNBC on after they announced they'd have "numbers, numbers, numbers" - and - well, they havent been all that bad.
Much, much, incomparably much better than trying to follow the British elections on CNN.
Mind you, for some legal reason I'm sure, the commercials are omitted - whenever they get commercials or the like you just get music - and that does help to make it much more bearable..
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FreeDuck
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:04 am
CNN was pretty good about numbers last night. But I confess that I flipped between them and Comedy Central. Still hanging on to a hope for Montana and Virginia and the Senate.
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Cycloptichorn
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:06 am
Okay, I didn't mind at all the way that exit voting was held back until the closing of the polls, did you?
Cycloptichorn
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ebrown p
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:09 am
Look at the numbers... the Democrats have won the Montana, Virginia and the Senate.
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nimh
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:13 am
Cycloptichorn wrote:
Okay, I didn't mind at all the way that exit voting was held back until the closing of the polls, did you?
No, not at all!
Just wait till the actual results start coming in, and take it from there - sounds good to me. Seemed to work fine yesterday!
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Cycloptichorn
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:15 am
Yes - gives the ability to call races early enough to make it interesting, without faking people out who are still in the process of voting.
Overall I was somewhat impressed with the TV coverage for the simple reason that it wasn't terrible. Updates were pretty swift and the tickers on the bottom kept my appetite for numbers sated.
Did any of you watch Fox News? Talk about depressing, man, those guys were downright glum
Cycloptichorn
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FreeDuck
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:16 am
ebrown_p wrote:
Look at the numbers... the Democrats have won the Montana, Virginia and the Senate.
I believe you, but I'll wait until they're called. Both races are within a half percent so I don't feel comfortable celebrating. But I hope it's true.
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FreeDuck
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:17 am
Cycloptichorn wrote:
Did any of you watch Fox News? Talk about depressing, man, those guys were downright glum
That is interesting. What I find the most interesting is how Webb got the two ends of the spectrum on both income and education. He got the most votes votes from the lowest and highest income brackets, and from the least and most educated.
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 11:58 am
Cycloptichorn wrote:
Yes - gives the ability to call races early enough to make it interesting, without faking people out who are still in the process of voting.
Overall I was somewhat impressed with the TV coverage for the simple reason that it wasn't terrible. Updates were pretty swift and the tickers on the bottom kept my appetite for numbers sated.
Did any of you watch Fox News? Talk about depressing, man, those guys were downright glum
Cycloptichorn
Of course I watched Fox! What fun. Kristol's smile, a starched and thin thing at the best of times, was intermittently fractured by a butterfly in the next room.
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Setanta
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 12:02 pm
Best comment ever on the media and elections:
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old europe
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Wed 8 Nov, 2006 12:08 pm
FreeDuck wrote:
CNN was pretty good about numbers last night. But I confess that I flipped between them and Comedy Central. Still hanging on to a hope for Montana and Virginia and the Senate.
I'll admit that I was watching CNN with the sound muted while simultanously following the elections on the internet, but as far as the numbers go CNN was indeed quite good...
