Election Night Open Thread
Speak your mind. Predictions? Winners? Losers? Another stolen election? A new day dawning for America? A new day dawning for the Green Party? What’s up?
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I must say that, in all honesty, with all the stumbles, missteps, lack of funds and confusion, this is still the most exciting political day I have seen since 1999, and I am so happy to be a Green today!
I must agree since I started identifying myself as a Green in 2003 this is by far the most exciting election cycle I’ve seen.
Well so far, at 7:10pm MST, Electoral votes are 175-64, for Obama.
I share the sentiment about being Green, although I wish my state were more “green” in its politics. I am so excited about this day and have had folks, even here in Utah, tell me of the satisfaction they felt when they voted for McKinney/Clemente – including my son!
My daughter is supporting Obama, but she is 6 years old. They had a mock election at school today and she voted for Obama, who won 160-60. Her little friend told me after school that he wanted to “write in Cynthia” but decided it was too much work so he voted for Obama.
Yup – mock election at the elementary school had only two candidates. I told her teacher (my neighbor) that I’m betting there will be more choices in 2012, that is, I’m going to demand it from the School District, not the school.
My school held a mock election too (grades 7-12), only we had all the candidates on the ballot. Obama got 85%, McCain 5%. And Nader got 6%! (sadly, Mckinney didn’t get any – teachers weren’t allowed to vote, just students).
Despite my plea for paper ballots, it was all done electronically, and wouldn’t you know it – the website went down for days before we knew the results….
Les Evenchick from Lousiana, NC Delegate, has posted these early results to the NC list:
From a Louisiana Delegate – early results
9 candidates for President:
McCain 52,000+
Obama 31,000+
Ron Paul 444
Raplh Nader 340
McKinney 262
Baldwin 188
Harris 51
Amonson 27
La Riva 21
Matthew Britton over on Green Change has reported this from Massachussetts:
There are several interesting propositions on the ballot in MA tonight. First of all, a proposition to remove the state income tax was defeated. More importantly though, ballot question 2 would decriminalize possession of less than an ounce of marijuana (it would still be subject to a $100 fine) and ballot question 3 would prohibit the inhumane practice of greyhound racing in the state. Both of these look like they are going to pass by large margins, check out the latest stats for these questions and all other ballot initiatives at news.aol.com/elections/2008/ballot. There’s also a lot of interesting, but somewhat less hopeful news on gay marriage questions around the country.
848 pm Louisiana early results
McCain 148,000+
Obama 99,ooo+
Ron Paul 1,237
Nader 956
McKinney 909 Green party
Baldwin 483 Constitution party
Harris 129 Socialist Workers Party
Amndson 56 Prohibition Party
La Riva 43 Party of Socialism and …
Thank you Les!
Were you the one that pointed to the C-SPAN site over at Green Change? Great source for the Prez race.
The first thing that had to be done was to expunge the GOP from the Executive Branch. That has apparently happened.
The next job, IMHO, is to encourage the further splintering of the Republican and Democratic Parties into their respective constituencies, and the restructuring of the electoral system into a true multiparty democracy, with a level playing field where the Greens can participate in a truly meaningful way.
I would also suggest that we consider the 2012 contest as having begun. Our candidates should keep up their efforts to spread awareness of the Green difference.
Posted to the NC list from Brent McMillan:
With 3 of 14 precincts reporting, Cara Jennings (FL) is winning her
re-election bid to Lake Worth Commissioner District 2 resoundingly.
She currently has 2,185 votes or 58.05%. She has two challengers.
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/FL/Palm_Beach/9054/12857/en/summary.html#
Posted to the NC list from Bill Holloway of Texas:
McKinney/Clemente: 206 votes so far, 200 from early voting — all counties.
Includes support from Brazoria County south of Houston, Garza County
in west TX, Gillespie County in west central TX, Hayes County (s. of
Austin), McClennan County (Crawford), also Pecos, Nacadoches, Lubbock,
as well as our organized counties of course. Interesting results.
Utah’s early results:
http://electionresults.utah.gov/xmlData/30001.html
(refreshes every 90 seconds)
McKinney/Clemente
Total (as of 8:40pm MST) – 0.09% 173
Nader/Gonzalez – 0.79% 1,608
The California preliminary results should be posted here: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/.
Maybe the AP results will be quicker.
With 78% of the precincts in, McKinney is fourth in Louisiana, just behind the ghost campaign of Ron Paul, but ahead of Nader:
John McCain Rep. 870,087 61.8%
Barack Obama Dem. 516,415 36.7
Ron Paul LTP 6,765 0.5
Cynthia McKinney Grn 6,492 0.5
Ralph Nader Ind. 5,271 0.4
Chuck Baldwin CST 1,860 0.1
James Harris SWP 562 0.0
Gloria La Riva PSL 268 0.0
Gene Amondson Pro 209 0.0
Ronald Hardy // Nov 4, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Ron Hardy wrote:
Were you the one that pointed to the C-SPAN site over at Green Change? Great source for the Prez race.
Nope, It wasn’t me. thought it was Dee.
You guys rock!
I agree Skip, 2012 is already here for me; we need to start applying what we’ve learned this cycle asap