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This Is It: Live-Blogging Election Night

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This entry was posted on 11/4/2008 7:27 PM and is filed under 2008 Election, All Posts.


11:10pm
I've just experienced one of the single greatest moments of my life.  Barack Obama officially is projected the next President Of The United States.  There is nothing else to add...right now.

10:14pm
The Democrats have pulled off a Congressional shutout: the last Republican House Representative from New England—Chris Shays—has been taken out.

9:24pm
Never mind that, because NBC just called OHIO FOR OBAMA!!!!!

9:20pm
Mitch McConnell keeps his Senate seat in my home state of Kentucky, CNN projects.  That just sucks.  Democrats' chances of getting to 60 just became almost impossible.  And Kentucky is stuck with Mitch McConnell.

9:19pm
Obama is closing hard in Virginia, now only 2 points behind: 51-49%.

8:41pm
Ace reporter
Marc Ambinder has Obama up by 3% in Indiana:

With 30% of the vote in, Obama's up three.

The Obama folks are watching Posey County... which is the last big population center that's not reporting results yet. (Evansville...)

Other Indiana counties: Howard went to Bush by 11,000 in 2004... Obama's losing by just three thousand votes now (and turnout is twice what it is.)


8:38pm
Georgia gets called for McCain.  Hopefully, it tightens up enough to get a shot at knocking off Sen. Chambliss.

8:32pm
Bye-bye, Liddy Dole...

8:23pm
ABC is also calling Pennsylvania for Obama.

8:16pm
Democrat Jeanne Shaheen wins her U.S. Senate seat race in New Hampshire!

8:13pm
Same with New Hampshire.

8:01pm
PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!  MSNBC calls it for Obama.  But CNN and FOX are holding off.

7:48pm

Nate Silver offers us these stats as to how Obama is outperforming the counties we have in already from Indiana:

Steuben: Kerry 34%, Obama 42%
DeKalb: Kerry 31%, Obama 38%
Knox: Kerry 36%, Obama 54%
Marshall: Kerry 31%, Obama 50%

7:38pm
Josh Marshall at
Talking Points Memo points out that Obama is dominating the greatest bellwether county in the nation:

Democrats are cheered by early numbers showing that Obama holds a healthy lead in Vigo County, a place that one Dem described to us as "the most reliable bellwether county in the country."
"Vigo has only been wrong on president twice since 1892," this Dem enthuses.
A story in the Indy Star concurs, adding that of the most reliable bellwhether counties in the country, Vego "has voted closest to the national margin."
Right now, in Vigo County, Obama is up 57%-42%, with 80% reporting.

7:28pm

With 3% reporting in Virginia, McCain leads Obama 55-44%.  But ace reporter
Marc Ambinder says "Obama is ahead" there.  What does he know that the networks don't, or aren't reporting?  Is he comparing exit poll data—which show Obama outperforming Kerry and Gore among whites, and blowing them away among African-Americans?

 

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