The 2008 Election Day LIVE Thread

[DaemonSeid]

yeah...what is Joe 6 pack and Joe the Plumber gon' do?

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

yeah...what is Joe 6 pack and Joe the Plumber gon' do?

They Joes will look at their paychecks and realize their $250,000 salary is missing a zero, and will then get a refund based on the Obama plan that McCain's tax plan would have reserved for the rich.

[Tinia2]

I heard a story, while on the way home, that surprised me to the point I had to "fact check" it. Which in turn lead to a few other surprises.

Today's entire production run of The New York Times SOLD OUT. And The Times, in what maybe a first, ran an afternoon production run of 50,000 more papers.

Their web site hit a new record for hits.
This is the web sites front page for todays paper:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html

Today's Times Sells Out! Printing Extra 50,000 Copies for Afternoon Rush; NYTimes.com Breaks Another Record

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/t...com-breaks-ano

While looking this up, found that this not only happened to the rest of the papers in NYC (NYC has about 4-5 different papers), it also happened around the rest of the county!!!
http://cbs4.com/local/obama.presiden....2.857277.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2...spapers-today/


And I found this site which has the front page of papers around the world.
NOTE: Running very slow due to very high volume. Wonder why???
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by Tinia2

Today's Times Sells Out! Printing Extra 50,000 Copies for Afternoon Rush; NYTimes.com Breaks Another Record

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/t...com-breaks-ano

At lunchtime, I tried several times to log on to the NYT website. Too much traffic.

One of my friends tried several news stands before 8:00 am and all were sold out. I guess this really outlines how historical this event is.