jerseyhoya wrote:

Bakestar wrote:I didn't observe too closely, but I hear Franken ran a (predictably) amateurish campaign.


Also, looks like Obama has a good shot at picking up the electoral vote from NE-02.

I kind of like the way that NE and ME allocate their electoral votes (somewhat proportional, but with a "sweetener" of two guaranteed votes to reward winning the state), but as a Democrat, I think it'd unfairly reward the Republican candidate, who would win all of the EVs in proportionally more of the 3 and 4 EV states, while eating away at the margins in the bigger Democratic states (NY, CA, PA, etc.) At least I think so.

It'd be interesting if someone ran a simulation of the 2008 election based on the assumption that every state allocated its EVs the way NE and ME do. Maybe Nate Silver would do this. Wouldn't really answer too much, though, because a change in the way the EVs are allocated would change the way candidates campaign, etc.

I think we're collecting all the McCain-Obama results by CD next week. I'll let you know what we come up with, if nothing else shows up first.

BuddyGroom wrote:BTW, now that the election is over, shame on any Democrat or liberal columnist or whatever that made fun of John McCain for his age. Look at the nation's demographics - early 70s just isn't that old anymore. McCain is roughly the same age as my mother, who, relatively speaking, is one of the most active, youthful, progressive and interesting people I know.

I think the calling McCain old stuff was never much of a factor, but it was beneath the people who used that approach - or should have been beneath them.

I mean, I have to tell you if I heard once, I heard 1,000 times from people, and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don't say these things, but I heard a million times from people, "I'm going to vote for John McCain and, you know, I mean, he's old. Maybe we get Sarah Palin in the first term." You know what I mean?

phdave wrote:

BuddyGroom wrote:BTW, now that the election is over, shame on any Democrat or liberal columnist or whatever that made fun of John McCain for his age. Look at the nation's demographics - early 70s just isn't that old anymore. McCain is roughly the same age as my mother, who, relatively speaking, is one of the most active, youthful, progressive and interesting people I know.

I think the calling McCain old stuff was never much of a factor, but it was beneath the people who used that approach - or should have been beneath them.

Considering a possible McCain death in office...Not a bug but a feature?

I mean, I have to tell you if I heard once, I heard 1,000 times from people, and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don't say these things, but I heard a million times from people, "I'm going to vote for John McCain and, you know, I mean, he's old. Maybe we get Sarah Palin in the first term." You know what I mean?

dajafi wrote:Exit polls of 2004 vs. 2008, from 538:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/ ... ually.html

Very interesting. Of course it's impossible to break out how much of that was having more money/organization, being a more personally appealing candidate, and actual partisan/ideological shifts. Or how much of it will sustain for future Democratic candidates, for that matter. But it's more data supporting the idea that they have a chance to build something sustainable here.

TheDude24 wrote:Fun fact: Barack Obama is only 1 year, 3 months, and 14 days older than Jamie Moyer.

Woody wrote:It's not as if those have been your typical 72 years, though, either. They've been pretty hard ones--including a plane crash, 5 years in torturous captivity, and at least two bouts with melanoma (not your garden variety "oh it's just skin cancer" cancer)

Woody wrote:Team Obama, Pull Marketing Ninjas

http://www.change.gov

jerseyhoya wrote:You can stay on my couch while you look for an apartment to rent after Obama appoints you to his senior staff. We can make fun of my roommate for his LJ Smith jersey.

jerseyhoya wrote:Unemployment up to 6.5%. Yikes.

Say it with me now, the Reid-Pelosi-Obama recession. I'm just practicing for 2010.