Following the Election (National Edition)
BlueOregon — ...  Marc Ambinder (who is also printing citizen reports) has been doing nice work as an insider who's not too far inside to keep his wits about him.  ABC's Jake Tapper does pretty good for an MSM reporter, and he often breaks stories.  As does the WaPo's Chris Cillizza. Results Just about every news site will have immediately-updated results (MSNBC, CNN, NYT, TPM).  But my ...

An Election Night Guide
Hit & Run — ... on what will close when, and what tea leaves to read, as well as a list of notable ballot measures. To my mind CNN has the best and most quickly-updated information, but expect lots of news sites to freeze up, and to move on to others. ...

The 7 p.m. Poll Closings: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia
Hit & Run — ... which are being broadcast on the cable channels (Fox News in the Varsity), look ridiculously good for Obama. Not the state-by-states, which are bunk, but the fact that more voters would be "scared" of a McCain win than an Obama win, that only 10 percent more of the electorate thinks McCain has more relevant experience than Obama, and so on. Sometimes that data falls apart. If it's at all right, the electorate is basically where Obama wanted it. I'll start checking it here at 7. UPDATE: I'm at Barr HQ, and the exits are coming in. The borig guys first: The ...

The 7 p.m. Poll Closings: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia
Hit & Run — ... which are being broadcast on the cable channels (Fox News in the Varsity), look ridiculously good for Obama. Not the state-by-states, which are bunk, but the fact that more voters would be "scared" of a McCain win than an Obama win, that only 10 percent more of the electorate thinks McCain has more relevant experience than Obama, and so on. Sometimes that data falls apart. If it's at all right, the electorate is basically where Obama wanted it. I'll start checking it here at 7. ...

NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE TOTALS
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... OBAMA: 25,372,208 (50%) MCCAIN: 24,467,183 (49%) Get latest totals here.       ...

Franken-Coleman Watch Thread
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NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE TOTALS
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... OBAMA: 54,931,090 (52%) MCCAIN: 50,275,129 (47%) Get latest totals here.       ...

Mop-up thread
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... A few linky treats for our night owls and those too wired from having witnessed a bloodbath to wind down just yet. With 99 percent reporting, Obama’s clinging to leads of a few thousand votes in both Indiana and North Carolina . If he wins both, he’ll top out at 364 EVs (with the possibility for more depending upon what happens in Missouri and Montana). That would mean he’d have overperformed even the rosy projections at ...

Greatest Turnout Ever?
QandO — ... But the popular vote totals don’t seem to add up to anything like 130 Million. Instead, from the numbers I’ve ...

Your Morning Fact
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor Barack Obama has received more votes than any presidential candidate in U.S. history.

Historic Turnout?
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] How many times did you hear that voters believed this was the most important presidential election of their lifetime, and therefore that turnout would be through the roof? Voters waiting in line for hours. Huge numbers of early and absentee ballots. Unprecedented get-out-the-vote operations. Well, as I add the totals on CNN's election website now, it looks like about 117.6 million votes have been counted so far which is less, I believe, than in 2004. There are still votes left to be tallied, but I think it's safe to say that there wasn't a historic leap in turnout ...

Hey, Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina....
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I Will Be Waiting For You
Hotline On Call Part Deux — The morning after ... Three states remain too close to call: IN, MO and NC. Barack Obama has a 50% to 49% edge in IN and NC, while John McCain is leading in bellweather-no-more MO, 50% to 49%.

Get Out The Vote?
small dead animals — ... 121,069,054 Bush 62,040,610 Kerry 59,028,444 2008 Popular Vote: 118,225,016 Obama 62,682,389 McCain 55,543,527 Those figures may be preliminary, but considering the population growth in the past four years and the hype surrounding Obama, it's interesting what the clear light of November 5th has to say. (For one thing, it's seems he's scarcely more popular toda than Bush was two years into the Iraq war.) Posted by Kate at November 5, 2008 10:29 AM

Pretty Amazing
Eschaton — Pretty Amazing Obama takes Indiana , probably takes North Carolina. The Mac probably will hold on to Missouri.

Were the polls right?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Pretty much, yeah. CNN has the popular vote at 52/46 as I write this but the numbers are still moving; when I run the math from the actual vote totals, it’s 53.0/46.9, for a margin of 6.1 percent. The final ...

Was This Really The Biggest Election Turnout Ever?
Say Anything — ... than 130 million people turned out to vote Tuesday, the most ever to vote in a presidential election. With ballots still being counted in some precincts into Wednesday morning, an estimated 64 percent of the electorate turned out, making 2008 the highest percentage turnout in generations. In 2004, 122.3 million voted in what was then the highest recorded turnout in the contest between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). But according to other sources I’m seeing more like 119,000,000 votes. ...

Generations
Eschaton — I think a lot of the talk about the difference in voting behavior by age cohorts (scroll down) has implicitly suggested that this was largely an age-race interaction. That is, older people are more likely to be, uh, discomfitted by an African-American president. I'd imagine that there was some of that, but I'd guess that the bigger effect was simply the age one. Obama actually didn't do too badly with seniors, and his attraction to young people, aside from the fact that they hate Republicans, was in part due to the fact that he seems like he has at least has one foot in the ...

There (Probably) Was No Great Increase in Voter Turnout this Year:
The Volokh Conspiracy — Many analysts predicted that there would be a massive increase in turnout in this year's election. In actual fact, that doesn't seem to have occurred. With 97% of precincts reporting, CNN indicates that there were just under 120 million votes cast in the presidential election (63.4 million for Obama, and just over 56 million for McCain). That is pretty similar to the ...

State of apathy
Stubborn Facts — Cap'n Ed notices something odd about the numbers. He's right: for all the noise about how this is a massive election, about how Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as before and so on ad nauseum, turnout dropped. Four years ago, Bush and Kerry netted a total of 121,069,054 votes; this year, McCain and Obama netted a total of 119,957,571.

Novak: 3 Million Vote Margin = Mandate For Bush; 7 Million For Obama = No Mandate
Think Progress — ... As of now, Obama’s popular vote margin stands at 7,401,289 — more than twice Bush’s 2004 vote margin — and Obama has netted 63 more electoral votes than Bush in 2004. In his column, Novak dismissed the Democratic Senate gains this year, even though they have ...

Special Ed: Nation Apathetic about Obama, Counting Innumerately
Whiskey Fire — ... At the moment CNN, Mr. C. Morrissey's source for the 2004 numbers, has the 2008 total for Obama at 63,878,236, which, you will observe, is more than "400,000" greater than 62,040,606, ...

Indiana, Missouri, and North Carolina (and my fairly accurate predictions)
The Reaction — ... As for the national popular vote, I predicted (in an e-mail to friends -- you'll have to trust me on this) Obama by seven points, 53-46. ...

No boosted turnout in this election
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... tried to argue that a 20-million vote deficit between the predictions and the total counted to that point would get erased by the West Coast, even though most of those votes had already been counted.  Five days after the election , we still have yet to surpass 123 million votes, and nationwide 99% of all precincts have been counted.  Only Washington and Oregon have any significant number of precincts still out (8% and 3%).  At worst, that might represent 400,000 uncounted ballots at this stage. Let’s add the 400,000 to the current vote totals.  That would make the vote total ...

Another numbers crunch for Barack Obama and John McCain
Top of the Ticket — ... CNN, on its Website, conscientiously keeps updating the popular vote total and, last time we checked, it showed ...

Twenty-Five Million
Classical Values — ... in the United States includes this explanation why surveys likely underreport drug use: "These estimates may be low. Users are likely to under report socially disapproved behaviors, even when those behaviors are legal. They would seem to have even more incentive to under report illegal behaviors. Given under reporting rates for tobacco and alcohol use, it might be reasonable to inflate marijuana estimates by about one-third."(10) So let me see what that means for politics. The vote totals for this last Presidential election are 66,316,572 for Obama and 58,013,719 for McCain. ...

Who Voted For Obama Anyway?
Snapped Shot — ... We had over 124 million people casting a vote for president. Obama received 53% of the overall popular vote. So, thus, he attained the majority of personal votes. But, thankfully, we have never held a presidential election based on popular vote. ...

Card Check is More Democratic than NLRB Elections
TPMCafe — ... Think of it this way, according to numbers at CNN.com, Obama won a solid victory with 66,495,305 votes across the country. But that was out of ...

Bill Scher: Karl Rove's Bad Advice
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... And 3) Obama got 8.5 million more votes than McCain in beating him 53% to 46%. Squeezing 4.1 million more votes out of your base doesn't solve your problem. ...

Video: The forbidden Wright attack ad
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... and that it was “never considered for air,” but surely someone outside the inner circle was considering it: This looks like it was ready to run, pending only a change of heart by the candidate himself. Would it have made a difference if it had? The only close wins Obama had on election night were Ohio by four points, Florida by two points, and North Carolina by one thin percent; flip all three into McCain’s column and … The One still conquers with more than 300 electoral votes . Speaking of the good reverend, in case you missed it in Headlines, he returned to the pulpit at ...

Time To Update Those Presidential Vote Totals
Daily Kos — ... 69,058,185 59,700,776 9,357,409 AP (dKos data source) 67,066,915 58,421,377 8,645,538 CNN 66,882,230 58,343,671 8,538,559 CBS 66,882,230 ...

Permanent minority
The Reaction — ... that's confined to the South and a few plains and western states. Not exactly the foundation for a new majority. I think this is right -- and I think it was right before the auto bailout came up. The Republican Party has become not the permanent governing majority Karl Rove envisioned but essentially a national minority party with regional strength in the more conservative parts of the country. Take a look at the presidential, Senate, and House election maps at CNN. ...

What Total BS!... Politico Cites Crap Undergrad Poll to Bash Palin
Gateway Pundit — ... And, considering at least 66% of undergrads voted for Obama, this poll was going to be distorted from the start. That means maybe 40 of the kids were McCain supporters from the get-go. ...

RNC Ad Compares Pelosi to Pussy Galore — Time For Women to Exit the GOP?
Firedoglake — ... I'm not a statistics expert by any means but in the last election, women cast 53% of the Presidential vote.  Obama got 56% of the female vote, while McCain drew 49%. ...

A nostalgic look at alternate losing strategies
Classical Values — ... McCain's defeat one of the biggest defeats in Republican history. But what about disappointed Obama supporters? Would they have voted for Hillary? While 85% of Obama voters said they would have voted for Clinton had she been the Democratic candidate, 13% would not have supported her including 6% who said they would have backed McCain and 7% who said they would not have voted. So, Hillary would have gained for the Democrats 16% of the McCain voters (that's 9,334,987 out of McCain's 58,343,671 ), and she would have lost 13% of the Obama voters (that's 8,694,690 of Obama's ...

The Splashdown of the Obama Presidency
The American Spectator — ... . They hoped and changed for a different style . The Nation -- 53 percent of them -- wanted some slick repackaging. Obama had it; McCain did not. The Obama mystique convinced just enough voters that Obama's style would clothe his rhetoric with materiality. As long as his style was impeccable, his message -- whatever it purported to be -- would resonate. But when style fades, persona follows. Michael Dukakis jumped his shark in the 1988 presidential election. He staged a perfectly painful ...

Crazy Nancy Pelosi: “We Won Last Night”
Gateway Pundit — They lost the Virginia gubanatorial race by 18 points in a state Barack Obama won by 6 points last year. They lost the New Jersey gubanatorial race by 4 points in a state Barack Obama won by 15 points last year. But, facts don’t matter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi She rejoiced today saying, “We won last night.” “From our perspective, we won last night,” the California Democrat told reporters during a Wednesday photo op. “We had one race ...

Video: Nancy Pelosi Giddy Over Election Night Results
Nice Deb — ... Gateway Pundit reports that Nancy Pelosi rejoiced today saying, “We won last night.”  He notes: They lost the Virginia gubanatorial race by 18 points in a state Barack Obama won by 6 points last year. They lost the New Jersey gubanatorial race by 4 points in a state Barack Obama won by 15 points last year. And she’s claiming a victory for Dems? I had to find the video and hear it for myself: “From our perspective, ...