Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The US election


At this point the results are clear in almost every state. As I implied in an earlier post, Obama's victory didn't come as a surprise to me. But I did not see the margin he is winning with: It seems that Obama gets more then double the electoral college votes. It did not see that coming, and I'm really impressed. Congrats are in order here.

On a side note: It's weird following the votes, since in the US, the Democrats are "blue" and the Republicans are "red". In the rest(?) of the world, it's normal to call the political left side "red" and the right side "blue". Og well...


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8 comments:

Wilhelm said...

...LOL..nifty stammp of approval you've got goin' on there, Chief

Wilhelm said...

...the votes aren't counted in good ol' NC? What gives?

Anders said...

...LOL..nifty stammp of approval you've got goin' on there, Chief

You think? :-D
It's suitable in these "I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message"-times.

...the votes aren't counted in good ol' NC? What gives?

I think no state have counted all the votes. It only means that in NC it's too close to call a winner yet. (at least it was yesterday)

Wilhelm said...

...which is all good and well in inerior states, but not in NC, dammit >:-(

Anders said...

Still counting in NC, but it looks like brotha prez Obama wins it. McCain wins Missouri.

Wilhelm said...

....imagine that....GOP raking in the votes in Missouri, where the state symbol is a double-wide trailer

Wilhelm said...

...the Missouri state bird is "Free Bird"

Anders said...

...the Missouri state bird is "Free Bird"

LOL
Well, the suprising bit is that McCain seems to win Missouri by only 0.2 points.