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Blogging during the election

23:15 – John McCain has conceded.

23:05 – MSNBC/CNN have called the election for Obama.  Virginia has gone to Obama!!  Florida is still out.  I’m not sure why.  I’m looking at counties and only the very democratic counties in Florida are still out.  AP is reporting that John McCain has called Barack Obama and conceded.

22:00 – Obama leads in Florida, Virgina and North Carolina but still too close to call.

21:53 – Maybe I can’t add but MSNBC has Obama at 200 after Ohio (that’s right F’ing Ohio) is called for Barack Obama.  Now you add Cali, Oregon, Washington State and Hawai’i and Obama is over the magic 270 number.  Obama wins!  Yep, I know.  I’ll settle down and watch the tube.  We still haven’t heard from Virginia or Florida.

20:55 – Some great news – Elizabeth Dole (R) has done nothing and the North Carolina voters have given her the boot.  Congratulations to Kay Hagen (D).

From New Hampshire – John Sununu (R) has been shown the door.  Jeanne Shaheen (D) is welcomed to the Senate.

Still waiting on Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Ohio.

The MSNBC Widget is working very well!!

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Up-to-the-minute election results

I’m not the DailyKos. I don’t have that kind of cash to throw around. So I’m placing this NBC widget on my blog. It should be updated throughout the night.

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X-box

Going to play X-box for the next hour or so.  I have done all that I can do. I have given money. I have been on the radio.  I have fed folks at the Obama headquarters and those phonebanking in South Asheville. I have supported local candidates with money and time on my radio show. Now, I’m going to play X-Box.

BTW, the polls have closed in Virginia. Virginia is a very critical early state. Polls have also closed in Florida. I have nothing to add about Florida. We all know about Florida.

It is X-Box time.

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Wassup – Change

I never really liked the old Bud commercials with
“Wassup?” I thought they were stupid but memorable. Using some of the same guys, though, they have put a twist on the old “Wassup?”

Wassup [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Election Updates

Some election updates –

California is expected to have over 80% of their electorate turn out and vote.  This is amazing, considering that most Americansin the past, haven’t voted.  Hopefully, we are seeing a trend towards more citizen participation in our government.

Birmingham, Alabama is hopeful.

Fairfax, Virginia is having some problems with their voting machines. There is some sort of memory card problem. It has been reported that new memory cards have been sent out to these machines. One would figure that the machines would have been tested days before the election so that they are ready to go on the day of the election. Interestingly, people began to line up at 4:30 am to vote (polls didn’t open till 6 am).

Chesapeake, Virginia is also having some voter machine problems. It is raining and the scanner is having trouble reading wet ballots.

CNN

Dixville Notch, New Hampshire has voted. Barack Obama has secured 15 of the 21 total votes cast. The last Democrat that this small enclave chose for president was Hubert Humphrey.

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Let Freedom Ring!

Here is what Martin Luther King said regarding mountains in his I Have A Dream  speech in 1963–

“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. ”

And here is what King said about mountains in his final speech delivered the night before he died in 1968 —

“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” 

If we elect Barack Obama today, we won’t quite have reached the peak Martin spoke of in 1963. But we will have climbed past a point I never thought I would see reached in my lifetime. We are seeing the mountaintop. 

Far more than color, it’s about, after all these years, an affirmation, as visible as possible, that every American is a full American no matter what.

I’ll leave you with a picture of swing state Rocky Mountain peaks in Colorado. Let’s hope that tomorrow freedom is indeed ringing from those high peaks and from all peaks in our great nation.

 

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