If it wasn't so darn cold, I'd probably enjoy living in Minnesota. Jesse Ventura one year, now it looks like Al Franken is going to win. They have fun with their politics.

fivethirtyeight.com just posted:

Obama to Become Next President

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This blast from the past was just posted on fivethirtyeight.com
It is from Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 05:11:01 PM PST and it is about Sen. Obama winning his Senate seat. Check out the comments:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/1.../6703?detail=f

fivethirtyeight is getting so much traffic they can't get their posts posted!

Who will play Al on SNL???

Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert are live on Comedy Central for the next hour.

NBC called Iowa for Obama!

By the way Benzgirl, I credit you with getting Ohio ;)

I voted yes on 2. I lost my aunt to cancer. If there is a way to find a cure, as long as it's humane, I'm for it. Those embryos are just going to be thrown out. If they can be used for good, then they should be.

I'm just loving how much more blue is creeping into the middle of the map.

Thank you! I've been passing around the Obama Birthday Card all weekend.:D

So what is with Indiana in the middle of the blue???

Obama - 207
McCain - 89

i am wetting my PANTS over here lol!!!!

Arizona is too close to call??? Montana, too close to call???? I think I'll watch the rest of this from bed. I think it's basically over :)

It *is* where the KKK was founded...

I'm not sleepin' 'til I see the president elect's speech.

They're already calling him "President Obama" on CNN. But that's CNN.

ETA: Yay for bickering on CNN.

My mother's big fear is that some crazy person is going to kill Obama, and we'll have President Biden.