Election Eve Info "Dump"

post from Talking Points Memo on 03 November 2008 11:50:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

It's fitting that the McCain-Palin campaign ends with a couple of politically motivated pretend nods to transparency. First Sarah Palin's own personnel board released a report earlier this evening clearing her in the Trooper-Gate investigation. Nice[...]

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Should the Networks Call the Election Before the
Polls Close

post from TalkLeft on 03 November 2008 11:43:00 PM. © TalkLeft

The New York Times reports that CBS and Slate may call the election before the polls close around the country. I hope they do.

I think it will be an early night and the outcome will be known as soon as Ohio, PA, Florida, Indiana and Virginia are projected. CBS says:

"We can’t be in this position of hiding our heads in the sand when the story is obvious.”

Similarly, the editor of the Web site Slate, David Plotz, said in an e-mail message that “if Obama is winning heavily,” he could see calling the race “sometime between 8 and 9.”

“Our readers are not stupid, and we shouldn’t engage in a weird Kabuki drama that pretends McCain could win California and thus the presidency,” Mr. Plotz wrote. “We will call it when a sensible person — not a TV news anchor who has to engage in a silly pretense about West Coast voters — would call it.”

Why drag it out? Let's begin the celebration early.

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HAPPY ELECTION DAY!

post from DemConWatch on 03 November 2008 11:42:00 PM. © DemConWatch

GREAT IMAGE ONE: Yesterday, and my cell phone rang. It was an 82 year old woman. She was doing a GREAT job of the Obama GOTV script.

As she was talking, I walked to the room where she was sitting, and I said "Mrs F, that's ME you're calling." We laughed, and she said:

You've been here longer than me, but I voted absentee in NY. You ARE going to find time to vote tomorrow, right?

My campaign kid's grandmother in action, who through some fluke, got the list for my precinct.

GREAT IMAGE TWO: A woman called that she had a door hangar with the wrong polling address on it. Since I'd been at the phone bank non-stop for 8 hours, and she was about a mile away, I decided to drive over and pick it up. (She knew her correct polling place). While I was there, I asked if she'd like to phone bank and she said no.

About an hour later, she was at the phone bank. She said whatever she needed to do could wait. Reclaiming our country was more important.

AND NOW...off to pick up some coffee, ground some signs, and be awaiting voters when they start lining up at the polls. The next time I come up for air, we'll have a new president.

I can't talk for anything besides my little piece of the world, but if there are people like the people at our local phone bank (72 separate people yesterday) and our local canvass, just as dedicated (Mrs. F, for example, called 9 straight hours), just as committed, and if everyone else's response stats are like ours, this day is going to go well.

Remember to vote.

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November 4th 2008, the end of the world as we
know it

post from conversations with an unapologetic black liberal on 03 November 2008 11:38:53 PM. © conversations with an unapologetic black liberal

Open letter to all of my friends..Dear Friends..In a few hours you and I will have the opportunity to make a difference. We will have the chance to raise our voices in unison in a call for change-a call for a new direction. If we succeed it will be the end of the world as we’ve known it and [...]

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TPMtv: Monday Sum-Up from Grant Park

post from Talking Points Memo on 03 November 2008 11:33:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

Also, see our earlier TPMtv reports from Monday.TPMtv Interviews Obama National Press Secretary Bill Burton. TPMtv Interviews Obama National Field Director Jon Carson.TPMtv Stops By the Phone Bank at Obama Chicago HQ. [...]

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 03 November 2008 11:30:48 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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h/t Brilliant at Breakfast. Happy Election Eve. Open thread below...

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 03 November 2008 11:30:05 PM. © Daily Kos

Diary Rescue is brought to you today by Louisiana 1976, vcmvo2, Got a Grip, shayera, and dadanation, with shayera editing.

xaxner details, in this exhaustive diary, how to deal with Election Day and any possible problems in T minus 1 and Counting... (vcmvo2)

dyttocs shares an example of how a good father handles a delicate conversation with a seven year old on a complex and confusing subject in Prop. 8 Irony hits the Opinion Page. (Got a Grip)

Junkyard Dem gives a sad personal account of canvassing for Obama and finding that a lot of phone numbers have been disconnected in Despair and Hope in Florida. (Louisiana 1976)

Seneca Doane takes the time to have an interesting chat with an interesting fellow and then shares the experience in I spent 90 minutes yesterday talking to one Nevada voter. (Got a Grip)

In Our greatest fear, A Siegel uses videos and music to explain why voting for McCain is an unacceptable risk. (vcmvo2)

Avenging Angel gives McCain one last jab in the solar plexus in New Keating Revelations Dog McCain. (Got a Grip)

David Brin muses about what liberals should do first to reclaim the country in Suppose we succeed... or fail ... (vcmvo2)

Using charts, graphs, diagrams, images and linky goodness, JohnnyRook shows us the cold, hard, ugly, most inconvenient of truths in NOAA's 2008 Arctic Report Card: Less Ice, More Shrubs. (Got a Grip)

Deep Harm says that McCain and Obama show true colors in whistleblower cases. (shayera)

Britkid wants us to remember that the rest of the world is watching anxiously and counting on all of us to do the right thing, and asks us to Do it for me, because I cannot. (Got a Grip)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: November 2, 2008.

emeraldmaiden has Top Comments 11-3-08 - One More Day.

Use this open thread to promote your own work or your favorites of the day.

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Monday Stuff

It's very nearly that time again, my fellow prisoners (h/t The Daily Kos)...

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...hopefully, after tomorrow, we won't have to listen to any more weirdass noises from like these from McBush ("HAAAHH?")...

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...and I thought this was a neat tribute from Amy Goodman of Democracy Now on the occasion of the death of Studs Terkel (kind of a long, rambling monologue, but full of insight for those who have ears to hear, as the saying goes)...

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...and hey, if we can't have a laugh after a campaign like this one, is there any hope left (Ben Affleck is a jerk, but his "full-on K.O." was funny, as well as Tina Fey as Palin of course, though it's pretty uproarious that the "Alaska Disasta" got punk'd by two Canadians, dontcha know)...

...and for no particular reason, here are The Wombats ("Backfire At The Disco")...

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...and here's "Stand Up" by Trapt for probably the last time in this election cycle - we all know what we must do tomorrow, particularly here in PA.

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