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[Itnetlolor]

I'm going to miss all the political ads that took up 75% of the commercial slots.

...Screw that. Good riddance. Furthermore, it'll be nice to see people eventually regain their minds and rationality again; or at least enough of it that remains, for what that's worth.

[mikefictiti0us]

So on TV, I've been seeing ads for Macy's "Election Day Sale".

For shame, turning the political process into an excuse for a sale. What's next? 9/11 Sales?

"We're blowing up high prices! They're crashing to the ground! It's plane and simple! Never forget... to check out the Macy's 9/11 sale!"

A few corporate entities actually did make 9/11 anniversary advertisements, under the guise of paying homage to the victims. Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser) was one of them. What beer has to do with 9/11 is beyond my understanding, but I came out of the ad with "9/11 was a tragic event in which thousands of innocent people lost their lives. Now go drink up some Bud to remember them, bitches!"

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Florida 51-48 Obama with 41% reporting in.

It looks like NC is going to be close. 15% counted and Obama is winning, 53-47.

Wut.

But VA is 8% in and Romney is winning there by 20 percentage points...

Eh. It's only worth worrying if the reported number gets to 20-30% with those kind of results.

[FearfulJesuit]

I may take an Obama avatar if he wins anyway, just to.

I am contemplating using the following, just for lulz:

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Give him Masonic earrings.

[SealyStar]

Florida 51-48 Obama with 41% reporting in.

It looks like NC is going to be close. 15% counted and Obama is winning, 53-47.

Wut.

But VA is 8% in and Romney is winning there by 20 percentage points...

Eh. It's only worth worrying if the reported number gets to 20-30% with those kind of results.

If Obama wins Florida, he's basically the de facto winner already. Hopefully that holds up.

A lot of really-close races here in the initial count. Be interesting to see how many stay that close, regardless of who actually wins there.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

If Obama wins Florida, he's basically the de facto winner already. Hopefully that holds up.

We'll see. Virginia and Ohio are the real bell-weathers for if Obama is going to perform or outperform his polling results from before. Florida is always a damn tossup, but if Romney wins Ohio/Virginia it's a different story completely.

[SealyStar]

If Obama wins Florida, he's basically the de facto winner already. Hopefully that holds up.

We'll see. Virginia and Ohio are the real bell-weathers for if Obama is going to perform or outperform his polling results from before. Florida is always a damn tossup, but if Romney wins Ohio/Virginia it's a different story completely.

If Obama gets Florida, he can win any one other tossup and still win the EC vote. Of course it's important!

Now, I'd be all for Obama getting a really significant win... but what I'm saying is that Florida is crucial here. If Romney wins, the competition shifts to OH, PA, NH, IA, CO, and the like. But if Obama wins he basically has the race tied up.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Virginia and Ohio are the real bell-weathers for if Obama is going to perform or outperform his polling results from before.

And: No republican has ever gotten into office without Ohio, so it's a bit more of an indicator of how everything else is going to be.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

NC's margin has shrunk from 45,000 to 15,000, Romney currently ahead, 26% counted. Holy fuck. This is going to be razor close.

[GlyphGryph]

Troll, I'll do the presidential AND that senate race - if I lose both, I'll put the avatars on rotation.

And remember folks, we're supposed to be letting the /winner/ pick the photo!

(Those doing it for kicks or betting against themselves, obviously, get to pick for themselves)

[SealyStar]

AAAND Romney's way ahead again in Florida... okay, two percent lead.

Incumbent's still leading in NC at 31%... big lead in crucial OH but this is with 9% counted, so it's bound to change.

[mainiac]

Guys, the polls come in from different parts of the state at different times.  You don't look at the results until it gets to the last few percent.  It's number like turnout that you can interpret as they go along, or looking at the individual counties compared to expectations or previous years.  Saying X is ahead with so much of the vote cast is meaningless.

[tryrar]

and since the panhandle just closed, florida results will likely get all kinds of screwy until the end(don't you hate a state in 2 different time zones?

[Shadowlord]

Yeah. A few minutes ago the BBC declared that South Carolina had been called for Romney. Their vote tracker showed 75% of the votes reported for that state by that point were for Obama. Probably just because they've only gotten a small amount of the actual returns in so far, and are showing them as they come in, but that isn't what they're using to project the winner of each state.