Any Chicagoistas who can't bear to watch the results come in and need a break tonight can get half-off tickets for Jersey Boys, Wicked, or Dirty Dancing tonight. And you'll be downtown afterwards for the festivities at Grant Park!
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Nov 04, 2008 1:17:03 pm PST #8635 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
juliana - Nov 04, 2008 1:27:40 pm PST #8636 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Thanks, megan. I plan to be Percoset-ed up tonight, which should make watching the returns interesting.
megan walker - Nov 04, 2008 1:29:41 pm PST #8637 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh g*d, Dave Ramsey is taking calls from people about whom they voted for. Unsurprisingly, most of them voted for McCain, but the really upsetting thing is that many of them cited Obama's "socialism" as the reason.
Connie Neil - Nov 04, 2008 1:34:26 pm PST #8638 of 10001
brillig
It's the vote and post.
amych - Nov 04, 2008 1:36:27 pm PST #8639 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's the vote and post.
I've had a vote and post going on all over the internet today. I wish I could take all the "I voted" posts from here, and twitter, and FB, and LJ, and all the blogs, and COMM them in one place. Because it's been AWESOME.
billytea - Nov 04, 2008 1:37:48 pm PST #8640 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I've got fivethirtyeight, election.princeton.edu, CBS News (McCain's leading in Kentucky. Who knew?), realclearpolitics for the articles, cqpolitics because I like their map colour scheme best, Daily Kos, and CNN.
billytea - Nov 04, 2008 1:40:12 pm PST #8641 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
See, billy-- we waited for you!
And don't think I don't appreciate it!
DavidS - Nov 04, 2008 1:41:03 pm PST #8642 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Latest 538 shows that even if McCain gets all the Tossup votes it won't be enough. This presumes that the Lean, Likely, Safe electoral votes hold as projected.
Strega - Nov 04, 2008 1:44:16 pm PST #8643 of 10001
Heh. Someone posted this in today's Gene Weingarten chat:
I was pretty confused about who to vote for until last night. I don't really buy the idea that either major candidate knows what to do about the economy, and that's the biggest issue for me. Neither of their health care packages appeal to me either.
But I read something last night that made my mind up for me. We already knew that the Obamas were getting their girls a dog after the election, regardless of whether they won or lost. Last night I read that Jill Biden had promised her husband a dog as well, but his dog was contingent upon winning. So if the Obama/Biden ticket lost, Joe Biden would not get a dog. Not only would he be a loser, he'd be a dogless loser. That is the worst kind of loser.
Therefore, in the interest of making sure that guy gets a dog, I'm voting for the Democrats this afternoon. I am no longer undecided.
Cashmere - Nov 04, 2008 1:45:35 pm PST #8644 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I would laugh and laugh if he ended up being Secretary of State to the new administration after being squeezed out of Bush's. And I'd honestly be hard pressed to think of anyone more qualified for the job.
Dick Lugar, possibly.