mm, politics.

[arethinn]

O hai, internets! Are you exploding? I'm here to find out!
Awesome phrase I heard on the news tonight: "Bush fatigue". (cue enotsola snickering like a 12-year-old.)

I came home in the middle of McCain's concession speech, and it took me a while to figure out that's what it was and not him just going "hey, don't give up yet". I'm pleased, actually; very gracious. And also pleased that he was like "hey, that's not on" when people in the audience started booing Obama.

Also, I'm thrilled that we didn't have a recounting soap-opera, and that Florida was apparently a pretty smooth win. When I was looking at the earliest results at work, I was worried that we were going to have another 2004, where the electoral vote winner (Obama) was not the same as the popular vote winner (McCain). I was going to be in an ethical quandary, because if I don't like it when it makes my candidate lose, then I also shouldn't like it when it makes my candidate win, yanno? But fortunately that doesn't seem to have happened.

Prop 4: Come on, pull away further than 51% No!
Prop 8: *facepalm*

This from the news, so I may be behind. I can't load any of the vote.sos.ca.gov pages. I'm sure their servers are getting hammered.

Oh, and the Castro is, um, exploding way more than the internets... they've got the crowd control out already (may have sooner, I dunno).

Comments

[fenm.livejournal.com]

I'm exploding! YAYZ!

"Bush fatigue"... wow. I have a joke for that, but I really don't want to say it online...

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the popular vote wasn't all that big of a win for Obama, but he won the electoral college by a fair amount. I'm glad McCain conceded gracefully. Unlike other certain candidates.

[arethinn]

Where "fair amount" = like double or something, isn't it?

And also pleased that he was like "hey, that's not on" when people in the audience started booing Ob

[elven-ranger.livejournal.com]

I didnt hear about that, but thats excellent :)

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

Exact counts located here. Once a candidate gets a certain amount of electoral votes from particular states (because of the number each state gets), the other candidate cannot win.

[arethinn]

I know, but the last count I saw was like 338 to 157 or something, which is more than double.

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

Electoral votes are deceiving due to the fact that all the votes of a state have to go to one candidate. It's an interesting system. That's my opinion, anyway.

[arethinn]

I know, but my point is that it wasn't a much more even split.

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

I hadn't checked the votes this morning, so you're right.