Presidential Election Results

TheBluesMan

Moderator Emeritus
As of 10:22 p.m. EST this is how the electoral vote count stands.

Bush: 189
Kerry: 112

Source: C-Span.

Bush: 195
Kerry: 112

Source: Yahoo

Question: Why isn't anyone calling Pennsylvania for Kerry yet? More than half the precincts reporting and Kerry is ahead 60% to 40%... :confused:

Bush is going to walk away with this one. Ohio and Florida will put him over the top. He'll win Michigan and Wisconsin too. By the time Kerry gets California's 55 votes, it will be all over. :)
 
I do hope so.

Notice how Kerry was ahead in Ohio at the start, then I feel the southern half below Columbus started getting tallied up and the count tipped towards Bush and havn't looked back.
 
Finally!

Yahoo just called PA for Kerry at 10:50 p.m.

Gimme FL, OH, MI and WI and Kerry can have all the rest...
 
Question: Why isn't anyone calling Pennsylvania for Kerry yet? More than half the precincts reporting and Kerry is ahead 60% to 40%...
CNN just did (10:54PM).

I think the reason was that kerry was blowing Bush away early @ 70% plus, and the thought was that the results were all based on Philadelphia. Bush actually came back and gained ground on Kerry. It was too close to call early on.

I have a bad feeling about Ohio. The Dems are up to their old tricks again in the urban areas late-flooding the voting booths. I head that they are going to keep the polls open in Columbus until midnight. That's the same crap they pulled in Mo. IIRC.

Yahoo has a county by county result page. Right now, the counties with the big cities (Hamilton, Cuyahoga etc) are lagging behind the rural results. In Cuyahoga for eg. only 471 out of 1437 precincts have been tallied. That would mean enough votes in Cuyahoga county alone to negate the Bush lead.

DAMN THAT TAFT!!!! If Bush loses Ohio, I hope the Republican party takes a long look at how Taft screwed us over for nearly 8 years. Personally I blame "shaft" if Kerry takes Ohio.
 
According to Drudge, The White House has been informed that Ohio is sewn up along with Florida, virtually guaranteeing a Bush victory.

The question is whether we dare believe him. Drudge's accuracy isn't exactly unparalleled... :rolleyes:
 
Dave,
Could be. Yahoo seems to have gone lights out - probably because of too many hits.

They had a good link to the county by county running results like I mentioned above. It looks a lot like the whole election is going to boil down to either Cuyahoga or Hamilton County in Ohio.
 
Just reported California.

Drudge report now says:
Bush:210
Kerry:199

MSNBC calls
Bush:207
Kerry:199
(drudge report has called montana for bush)
 
Dave,
I can't figure out why Florida hasn't been called for Bush. He has a 325,671 vote lead over Kerry with 7025 out of 7241 Precincts reporting. He's got Fla sewed up. :confused:
 
It looks like our friend Rich managed to deliver Florida as a win for Bush - AGAIN!

Alaska is in the bag. If Bush can win Ohio and somehow pull out Wisconsin, we can get some sleep... :)

OTOH, it could come down to CO and NM, in which case, I'm going to bed now...
 
Side note -
I had something odd hapen today. I went to the polls this AM (~ 7:00) nad the parking lot was filled. I decided to vote after work instead. My wife called me late in the day and asked if I forgot to vote since she noticed I hadn't signed in the book. I explained that I was running late and would stop on the way home. I did stop and vote on the way home - in and out in under 15 min. When I got home a few min later, my wife said a Kerry volunteer had just called urging me to go out and vote, and even mentioned that if transportation was a problem that they would take me to the polls.

Hmmm, makes me wonder if someone was going through the books late in the afternoon?

Anyhow, I'm with you on the getting some sleep..
 
Colorado just got called for Bush. :) I'm confident that Ohio will go for Bush too.

Current electoral count stands at:

Bush - 246
Kerry - 207

I'm gonna turn in and dream about New Mexico. :D

-Dave

<EDIT>: FoxNews just called Ohio for Bush. Now I'm gonna start dreaming of New Mexico.
 
I never watch CBS News. However, I just switched to it just to see the expression on Dan Rather's face. He is finding it impossible to hide his disappointment. :)
 
I 'member the look of total disbelief on Dan Blabber's face when Bush beat Gore. Blabber was blabbering on about something when he got the mesage in his earpiece that Bush won. He just blurted out Bush won??!?! on the air @ about this same time. It was well worth staying up to see.

Too bad I don't get CBS on the dish,,then again,,maybe that's a good thing.
 
CNN (looking for the worst credible news) had Bush ahead in Ohio by about 300k votes, but were not about to call it. They said that the remaining ballots and the provisional ballots could make up the difference and cited a previous race that had done just that. They were quite cautious.

James Carville just about called it, and the race, for Bush. He was saying that highly placed Democratic contacts were pretty sure.

I'm glad there was a high voter turnout and that voting irregularities seem to have not been much of an issue.

< still cautiously optimistic >
 
Bush 269
Kerry something.


Bush needs to take Nevada, Wisconsin. . . . something. Kerry has to win absolutely everything that's still on the table, then pray that a bunch of House Republicans accidentally vote for him while swatting wildly at bees or something.

Bush is in . . . . if the Democrats' challenge fails in Ohio. They're claiming they can still win it.
 
Iowa and Nevada both way too close to call. Wisconsin looks like Kerry country to me.

Fox called Ohio too early, but it doesn't look as though they're wrong. I think it'll stay Bush-league.

Why were they so eager to call Ohio, and not equally eager to call NM? I'm looking at 93% reporting in, with a 52/47% split for Bush -- comfy enough. Is the big city the unreported precinct there?

pax
 
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