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Obama Wins North Carolina
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyObviously, this changes nothing in terms of who won the presidency. But it does mean that Barack Obama's candidacy helped redraw the electoral map even more than anyone thought.The Associated Press is now giving Obama North Carolina, concluding that there aren't enough uncounted ballots left for John McCain to overcome his lead. That win gives Obama 364 Electoral College votes, with Missouri the only state that's too close to call.North Carolina has traditionally been a solid red state, along with Virginia and Indiana, which Obama also won.No Democratic presidential hopeful has won North ...
Presidential Results Live Thread
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyBarack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States. At 11 p.m. on the dot, as West Coast polls closed, the major news networks called the election for the Democratic senator. Obama won California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, giving him 324 electoral votes to John McCain's 120.12:25 a.m., Obama had 338 electoral votes to McCain's 156. Signing off for the night...America will wake up to a new day...12 midnight: Obama takes the stage in Grant Park, saying for anyone out there who ever doubted change like this could happen in the United States, or ever doubted what someone in ...
85,000 in Manassas for Obama's Finale
By David Knowles - Politics DailyLast night, Barack Obama had his final campaign rally in Manassas, Virginia. A huge crowd awaited him. Breaking from his traditional stump speech, he described an experience from the early days of the race. Enjoy: ...
And the Lawsuits Begin...
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyJohn McCain's campaign has filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Board of Elections, asking that the absentee ballots of overseas military personnel be counted - even if they don't arrive here in the U.S. until after the Nov. 4 deadline.CNN is reporting this evening the McCain campaign wants Virginia - a state that the Republican candidate has to win - to accept absentee ballots up until Nov. 14. State election rules say these ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day.I called the Virginia Elections Board at 6 p.m. ET tonight, and they said they haven't actually been served with the ...
Obama Battles McCain, Plumber in Flohio?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyBarack Obama, while campaigning today in Jacksonville, Florida, lost his bearings for a second, or perhaps had an out-of-body experience: (From Miami Herald) Obama had a small gaffe of his own in his 30-minute Jacksonville speech, when he departed from his script to bash McCain for bashing him on negative TV ads ''here in Ohio.'' The crowd quickly let him know he was in the wrong battleground state. ''Florida,'' Obama said, recovering. ''I've been traveling too much.'' I'm running a pool on how long it takes the McCain campaign to build a web ad around the gaffe, to be played for free by every ...
Predictions From Caleb
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyObama Reaches Voters Verily, while in repose there came upon mine eyes a darkness. And in its grip my mind was given to see upon the day of choosing, and lo I was able to tell what that day would bring upon us. It came to pass in the year two thousand and eight, there dwelt upon the land of America a great strife. The peoples of the earth mingled freely in this land, but were sore afraid. They wandered in fear of a recurrence of the great soup times of many years gone. They believed the oceans themselves awaited their fate on the day of choosing, when the tide would know whether to rise or ...
Small Crowd for McCain in Tampa
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThis isn't a good sign if you're rooting for John McCain. Via Ben Smith:In one of Florida's largest and perhaps most politically important areas, only about 1,000 people stood outside the Bucaneers stadium to greet the GOP nominee. As Adam Smith noted, it was 1/15th of the crowd President Bush had four years ago in the same city. On his last swing through Tampa on October 20, Obama drew a crowd of 8,000. Since then, interest in the race has become more heightened. As I mentioned last night, Obama rallied 200,000 people yesterday in Ohio. Today he's here in Jacksonville, Florida, where the ...
McCain Pollster: Biggest Comeback in History
By Dave - Politics DailyWell, that's what he's saying, and of course it's what you would expect him to say. And he's backing it up with some remarkable specific claims. Davis says we're witnessing one of the greatest comebacks in political history, or at least since McCain won the primaries. Crowds are huge, and energy is high. Sarah Palin is electrifying crowds and bringing people back into the game. They feel they have the momentum, increasing polling in every battleground state over the past week, and have gotten past the effect of the financial collapse. Team McCain says they have Iowa as a dead heat, and ...
State of the Race
By Dave - Politics DailyAdam Nagourney:Sen. John McCain woke Thursday morning to what has become a fairly common greeting in these tough last weeks of his campaign. A raft of polls showing him behind. Early post-mortems on his candidacy. Even Republicans speaking of him in the past tense.But is it really over?As McCain enters into this closing stretch, his aides -- as well as some outside Republicans and even a few Democrats -- argue that he still has a viable path to victory. "The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of ...
A Closer Look at the State Polling
By Dave - Politics DailyAlternate Title #1: Why the Democrats are still very nervous.Alternate title #2: Why John McCain is touring PA today.RCP is THE must-have resource for any election and this one is no different. While I've been keeping a sharp eye on the state polling, it's just about time to take a very close look at the state polling over and above the national numbers. And they yield some very interesting data about the state of the race.These are all states that John McCain must win, there are about seven. These were all Bush states in 2004 and it's already looking like a sure bet he's going to lose smaller ...
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