US ELECTION RESULTS THREAD...

Nitefly · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:29

McCain bad.

tsinc80697 · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:41

McCain looks like hes ready to pop it any day

Longbow · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:50

Obama is currently winning in Florida, which has 27 electoral votes.

Dinomania · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:51

And North Carolina, which is pretty important, apparently!

flat-6 · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:51

He sounded like he was beaten already in that piece to the press on the plane.

Greenlizard0 · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:53

sara said:
And North Carolina, which is pretty important, apparently!

Yeap 15, and he's well ahead.

Jono8 · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:54

Let me get this straight. If obama gets florida and north carolina which it looks like it will hes pretty much done it hasnt he.

sanaxe1 · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:56

sorry , i'm confused with how the system works... it says :

McCain 16
Obama - 3

Is this important? or is it just the beginning with states which where likely to vote for McCain or do we have a upset on our hands?

Greenlizard0 · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:56

Not really - long way to go yet I mean that's 42 seats for him - but it looks like McCain could get Georgia with 15 seats.

Ok - using the BBC website you can hover over each state, which will tell you how many seats are present in each one. Then by clicking on them - you can tell who's nearer to winning them (actual figures of votes).

Illnois, Texas and California are the biggies to get (106 in total).

Longbow · 5 Nov 2008 at 00:59

sanaxe1 said:
sorry , i'm confused with how the system works... it says :

McCain 16
Obama - 3

Is this important? or is it just the beginning with states which where likely to vote for McCain or do we have a upset on our hands?

Yeah it's just the first few states, which were expected to go for McCain. More polls close in 1 minute.

West · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:01

Obama just got Pensilvania..

Greenlizard0 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:02

And very importantly Illnois (21). He's shot into the lead :cool:

Greenlizard0 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:03

Um, so which thread is this being discussed in? This one or the other thread with the poll?

Jono8 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:03

So what do the popular votes count towards then?

West · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:03

It's looking good

Longbow · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:06

Greenlizard0 said:
Um, so which thread is this being discussed in? This one or the other thread with the poll?

Well, I would have thought this one, considering the other thread is a forum vote, and this is about the real results.

Dinomania · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:08

It's like Eurovision! Without Terry! BRING OUT THE WOGAN!

Greenlizard0 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:09

Longbow said:
Well, I would have thought this one, considering the other thread is a forum vote, and this is about the real results.

More people discussing it in the other thread though lol

just Scott · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:10

Obama 77/270
McCain 39/270

As of right now according to my American friend watching the news.

Antx777 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:11

Looks likely to be a landslide (probably a "mini-one" but it's OBAMA As next president 100% Can't REMOTLEY see m'cain winning this - at all. Sure is a far cry from the Bush/Gore fiasco that went on for goodness knows how many months

OBAMA 103
Mac 34

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7697829.stm

~Ant