usnews.com - 11/4/2008
—
Here is my hour-by-hour analysis of how election night might go.
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 11/4/2008
—
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com —
Breaking: FOX News is reporting that the McCain
Campaign is VERY OPTIMISTIC with the latest developments. IBD-TIPP...
still shows that nearly 10% of voters are undecided. Most undecided are siding with McCain. Rasmussen reported that McCain-Palin ...
(more)
Breaking: FOX News Reports McCain Camp Is VERY Optimistic!
sports.espn.go.com - 10/30/2008
—
sports.espn.go.com —
On the eve of the presidential election, with
"Monday Night Football" from Washington as the backdrop, candidates...
Barack Obama and John McCain are planning to participate in one-on-one interviews on ESPN via satellite. ESPN's Chris Berman will do the ...
(more)
Barack Obama, John McCain to be interviewed for Monday ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
Cards on the Table Time
Slublog —
Image made using the WSJ electoral college calculator.
Okay, I'm no Michael Barone, but this is what I think will happen tomorrow night, based on recent movement toward McCain in some of the swing states. If you'd asked me what the map might have looked like a week ago, I would have said this:
Game over, Comrade!
What's changed is the independent vote, which I believe will break in McCain's favor tomorrow. If these folks haven't been sold on hopenchange yet, ...
Remainders: The night before
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
Dewey-defeats-Truman signs spotted in McLean.
John McCain delivers his closing argument in the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page.
The Palin pranksters talk to Harry Smith.
Barone plays an equal-oppourtunity optimist.
Edsall provides a guide to watching the results.
Pollster.com's Steve Lombardo projects Obama.
Sidoti lays out a nightmare scenario for Democrats where Obama loses the electoral college while winning the popular vote.
Iowa Independent finds that students in ...
Optimistic Election Night Scenarios for Barack Obama and John McCain
The New Editor —
Interesting stuff on how the election might go, from Michael Barone.
Election Day 2008
Sister Toldjah —
... Michael Barone has provided a list of possible hour by hour scenarios that would be favorable to McCain and Obama respectively. ...
What to look for tonight
Betsy's Page —
Michael Barone takes a look at what we might hear tonight half hour by half hour. He looks at the scenario if things are going Obama's way and then switches and supposes that things are going McCain's way. Even the optimistic scenario posits that it would be too close to call in four states: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Mexico. Barone argues that McCain would either have to win PA and one of the other states or, if he loses PA, he'd have to win the three other states, that even optimistically he imagines being too close to call. It sounds like a pretty long shot, ...
Popular vote
Yourish.com —
... Michael Barone wrote out the optimistic scenarios for each candidate. With Pennsylvania apparently gone (even though they only claim 1% of precincts reporting), here’s what to look forward to at 9. ...
Related Content
I'm A Bit Less Optimistic
eschatonblog.com 11/15/2008 — Krugman: The economic news, in case you haven’t noticed, keeps getting worse. Bad as it is, however, I don’t expect another Great Depression. In fact, we probably won’t see the unemployment rate match its post-Depression peak of 10.7 percent, ...
No Doubt About It: All But Fox News Tipping Obama’s Way
newsbusters.org 11/1/2008 — Yes, the media are rooting for Barack Obama. Two studies out in the past couple of days show that it’s not just conservatives who see a strong tilt by journalists in favor of the Democrats: A nonpartisan media monitoring group and a liberal-leaning ...
More Good News
balloon-juice.com 10/21/2008 — For John McCain :
As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as ...
Obama's Night
corner.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — On FOX, they're giddy about the Barack Obama election. On MSNBC, they're crying. This country faces serious challenges with an Obama election and such a large Democrat majority. I can't get caught up in Obamamania -- I couldn't before and I can't ...
Election Night
michaeltotten.com 11/4/2008 — I voted, as always, and if you're an American, I hope you did, too. I'm going to an election party tonight with a politically mixed crowd of my closest friends. We are not going to yell at each other about politics, not even tonight. That's just not ...
McCain's aides are optimistic but also starting to assign blame.
slate.com 11/4/2008 — If there is any pessimism in the McCain camp, it's not coming from the candidate. On the stump in a hangar near Pittsburgh, he had more energy than any septuagenarian should have on three hours of sleep. So he was a little loopy here and there—"If ...
Election 2008: Colorado Presidential Election
rasmussenreports.com 10/20/2008 — Barack Obama is ahead by five points in the key state of Colorado – 51% to 46% – two weeks before Election Day, according to a new Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. Three percent (3%) are undecided. McCain was down by seven points last ...
The Associated Press: McCain might skip his own election-night party
ap.google.com 10/23/2008 — 2 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) John McCain's election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans ...
First town weighs in at midnight —
CNN Political Ticker 11/3/2008
Dixville Notch residents are the first to weigh in.
(CNN) — The first wave of election returns won't flow in until 7 p.m. ET Tuesday night, but the results in one precinct will be known much sooner.
Dixville Notch, an isolated village located ...
Obama, McCain fire final shots of campaign —
Reuters: Politics 11/4/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain took their final shots at each other and swept across battleground states on Monday to wrap up a U.S. presidential campaign in which Obama was leading but McCain hoped to pull off ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
