Obama is not near to being a socialist, in europe he would be considerd a conservative. Also it would not be bad if he was one. The cold war is over you can drop you fear of socialism and communism now! (like right now)

Edit: Also, to be fair Mcain is not a Bush 2.0

I'm going to go vote, but I really do not care who wins the Presidency. Blah to both of them! The congressional voting is where the real changes are made anyway. By the way, we really need to do something about getting rid of a 2-party system. All we end up with is a choice between 2 people who most of us would really rather not have in charge. It ends up being a pick between the lesser of two evils.

In Britain we sort of have a three party system but one hasn't been elected for about a century.  There's nothing saying that we have to have two or three parties or whatever but it seems to have settled into a two and a half party system

No, but his campaign staff sure the frak are 2004 redux. Idiots. If I were a McCain supporter that "idiots" would be prefaced with a long string of profanity.

I'm Floridian, politics is my sports, but I've never been a betting man. That said, I have a hunch that Florida is more likely to go for McCain than Virginia is. The wallet-vote factor in Virginia includes proximity to DC, and hence employment and contracting opportunities from the coming fiscal stimulus packages. Still, Florida is already very different than it was in 2004--the Hispanic vote is no longer solidly dominated by Cuban right-wingers and a big share of our retirees have seen big personal economic losses and serious threats to employment for their kids & grandkids. It's a dicey call, so I suppose betting makes sense if you like throwing down money that might be for nothing.

That has been pretty much the story for me since my first election in 1984. At least this time my party's nominee was not at or near the bottom of my list from the primaries (I supported Bill Richardson early on). What I really want to see from folks like Leo is a nation-wide effort to get a constitutional amendment that changes the House from single-member, winner-take-all districts to a party-based system. We might end up looking a lot like the 2.5-party system Astrath describes, but at least it would be a result of voter behavior and not a crude structrual accident.

Edit: quoting still seems broken if you try to mix selectins with attributed blocks.

I'd bet on two-it may be three, but I wouldn't count on it.

Do you have to choose specific states, though?  Because that makes it more challenging, obviously.

I'm just glad its almost over.  I can finally start watching the news again...... I can't stand either one of the canidates.

Congress on the other hand does seem to be something to look at.

We know Obama will win it is only a question of by how much. If it is a narrow victory the "death card" will be played for sure. Personally I expect him to exceed 320 EVs and I think he has a good chance of getting 350+ to put him in the super majority area.

The NYT has a great dashboard for the results, You can get it here.

I just hope the country stops going bannas after the election is over.

Then maybe the candidate that wins can focus less on flinging sh*t and more on the issues gripping our country and the world at large.

Wow it looks like it might be a sweep in the Congress for blue as well - cool beans. It also appears Obama will in fact go into super majority area and beyond. Woohoo!!! He is owning in the key States, minus Montana - but by a hair. He should be able to pull it off however. Sadly, you just knew the South was going to spoil the party.

Well, I was hoping Tina Fey would have a great SNL character for the next four years.  She was really good at acting out Sarah Palin.

More OMFG stupid than 2004 redux.  Bush ran an outstanding campaign.  McStupid ran a "how can I best lose this election by shitting on my party at the last minute" campaign.  Pork filled bailout bill?  Check.  Drop hints of using tax dollars to buy mortgages and give shit away to people that can't afford it?  Check.  Fucking tard...

May he not run in 2012 and stick to being the war hero senator half of us want to kill half the time but don't because he's the only fucking senator that doesn't add earmarks into bills.

The way you put it is not the way I would have said it but this is essentially the issue that put me on the fence as someone who would otherwise be a solid McCain supporter. McCain has traditionally been a good supporter of free trade so I had assumed he understood why. The idea of using government money to keep an asset bubble inflated was totally absurd. Even more damaging in my opinion that the protectionist ideas Obama flirted with his primary. 

While McCain gave a great acceptance speech, his airings on economic matters during the debates was rather worrying to say the least. 

Not that I had a vote but that alone would have been extremely close to losing it for me. 

It looks like America is dead, Obama won.  I'm still keeping my guns, no matter what he says though.(I wish I was a few years older)

KingBingo

I'm with ya and ready to take back the colonies, mate!

You might want to reconsider that.  With our deficit as it is, you wouldn't be getting a very good deal.