Obama countdown !!!!!!!

[Kukurukakakara]

Poor John McCain... Arizona is now a toss-up state and red neck georgia, then all white north dakota and mt. " no blacks" voting there..so what's up ?? mccain really screwed up when he picked sarah palin, it's killing his a.ss all over the map.

Check it out here: realclearpolitics - electoral map

[acq]

[QUOTE=Kukurukakakara;741942][color="green"]Poor John McCain...

Thats the way ifeel for the guy too.The Obama campaign has ran rings on the guy and he's ended looking like a grumpy old man.He exudes confidence on the campaign trail but i know deep inside his camp they are whining.Maybe holding pity parties.The campaign is already calling Palin a Diva,whack job and rogue as a way to safeguard their reputation and blame her incase of a loss.

When Obama defined Mccain as Bush third term in St Paul,MN he never seemed to find his footing on who he wanted be.'maverick','disenfranchised republican','Bush third term' or 'Mccain of 2000'.The more he jumps around throwing stuff the more erratic he looked.

The attacks never worked,the more he attacked Obama the more he/she seems desperate.He never seems to nail Obama on anything.The Rev Wright tape is out and can't wait to see the reaction of the independents.I believe they will use it against it.Case studies will be done but whether Obama wins or losses, he has ran a brilliant campaign.

If numbers of people attending a rally is an indicator of election win then Obama is way ahead.

Springfield MO- Sarah Palin last week 10,000
-Obama 40,000 today

St louis MO -Obama -100,000
-Mccain 2,000

Albuquerque NM -Mcain morning rally-1,000
-Obama night rally -35,000

This are states that Bush carried in 2004.Obama is on the offence while Mccain is on the defence.They are now after Arizona, his home state.

'The fact that Indiana is in play tells u a lot about the race.It has never voted Democratic since 1964.' Chuck Todd.

'There is an Obama firestorm spreading all over the nation.Hope it doesn't consume me.'Mark Sounder a Gop congressman running for re-election in Indiana.

If Obama wins Indiana, North Carolina,Virginia and Florida whose polls close early it should be over by 1100 pm.

[Dem Gal]

Originally Posted by Type R

The Race is Tied. What If It Stays That Way? | Heretical Ideas Magazine

Jokes aside, the House of Representatives votes to break an election tie, one vote per state. Democrats have an advantage, barring defections.

One day to go and we are in the verge of making history! I can't wait.
At a time like this, the one person I really, really miss is Tim Russert (RIP). He had an uncanny way predicting and almost always nailing the election outcome. I think in one of his last Meet the Press broadcasts, he predicted (or suggested) an election tie (269 votes each). I am waiting to see if tomorrow his predictions will come true. But regardless, this race has been anything but boring!

20 more hours and counting.......

[Dem Gal]

Sadly, Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died after a battle with cancer, his campaign office says.

[msema ukweli Kabisa]

Originally Posted by Dem Gal

Sadly, Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died after a battle with cancer, his campaign office says.

I just saw that and I think that really sucks, Dang less than 24 hours of one of his biggest nights of his life. there better be a heaven where she is gonna have a front sit with his mum and dad

[nyira]

Originally Posted by Dem Gal

Sadly, Sen. Barack Obamas grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died after a battle with cancer, his campaign office says.

Very sad indeed,may she rest in peace.

[2dinyane]

Originally Posted by Dem Gal

One day to go and we are in the verge of making history! I can't wait.
20 more hours and counting.......

me 2, hapa pali 2ko though si karibu na stato 2ta watch CNN usiku nzima tues nite 2kiwa juu ya pombe,veve na e.T.c .....na, na ,na Obama aki win woi woi woi wakenya ujeru mpo

Washington — once or twice a week for the past month or so, ruth worthy, 91, has been going door-to-door in her washington neighborhood campaigning for sen. Barack obama.

She made the trek in her wheelchair or resting on the arm of her nurse.

“dear, are you registered?” she would ask.

Worthy belongs to a generation of african-americans who have journeyed from some of the rawest and brutal eras of racism to the present, when they find themselves relishing the idea of a black man possibly becoming president.

For many blacks ages 90 and older, tuesday will be one of the most historic events of their long lives. They lived through jim crow, the depression, world wars, the horrors of emmett till and the promise of the civil rights movement. Now, they’re watching obama, d-ill., lead in the national presidential polls.

Be they women of relative privilege, such as worthy, or those of working-class roots, many share the same awe at how far the world can come in a lifetime.

“i would speak to them in the courtyard or on the steps, wherever i would see them,” worthy said of those she met during her door-knocking. A hint of a boston accent still lingers in her voice, though she’s lived in the district of columbia for nearly 70 years.

I was a little defiant"

worthy grew up in a middle-class boston home, born to a black doctor and his wife, the first african-american to work at the u.s. Post office in beantown.

When she finished her undergraduate degree at bridgewater college in massachusetts, worthy took a train to marion, ala., in the late 1930s to teach u.s. History for $80 a month at the lincoln normal school, in one of the congregational schools for negro children in the south. That first year, she taught those fortunate enough to attend school, including a quiet eighth-grader and b-average student, the future coretta scott king.

Like other black people in alabama, worthy was supposed to ride in the back of the bus. Because of her fair complexion, white passengers didn’t seem to notice when she took a seat next to them in the front of the bus. Some of the other black passengers did notice, she recalled, and would only smile, offer her a wink or, later, earnestly whisper to her to be careful.

“yes, dear, i guess i was a little defiant,” she said with a chuckle.

"never thought it would happen in my lifetime"

arthur greene, 91, uses a wheelchair and rarely leaves his arlington, va., home except for church on sundays and doctor’s appointments. But he wasn’t going to miss this chance to vote.

About a month ago, when meals on wheels brought greene his meal, they also dropped off an absentee ballot. Greene remembers growing up in jim crow virginia, looking for restaurants that didn’t display “white only” signs or being forced to ride in the back of the trolleys between arlington and washington.

“i never thought it would happen in my lifetime,” he said of obama’s campaign. “i think if i can see this and if it happens, i’ll thank my lucky stars and my god for letting me live so long to be able to see the advancements of my people.”

minnie small, 92, remembers choosing her fights carefully, too.

She lives in silver spring, md., with her daughter and granddaughter, having moved four years ago from the bronx, n.y.

At 20, she had traveled there from charlotte, n.c., in hopes of escaping the ugliness of southern racism. New york wasn’t charlotte, but it wasn’t the promised land either.

During the 1950s, small was a housewife and mother whose husband, oliver, worked as an insurance salesman for united mutual life in new york. Small and her family moved from manhattan to the bronx, with hopes of enrolling their four small children in better catholic schools.

Raised methodist, she converted to catholicism. But she still had to struggle with the priests and nuns at our lady of grace schools to enroll her children. “they didn’t want blacks there,” she said.

Barely 5 feet, she prides herself on being a tough new yorker but when small talks about voting tuesday, tears fall down her face.

Her parents, husband and four brothers and sisters didn’t live long enough to see this possibility, and small is so grateful that she did.

“every day i pray for him and his family,” she said of obama. “i am so thankful i’m still here to see this.”

when she and one of her youngest great-grandchildren, kailah, watch obama on television, a refrain that has become common among black parents comes to mind. “i always told my children they could grow up to be whatever they want,” small said. “that’s what you do as a parent. But now, that seems to be really true.”

an overwhelming pride

Ruth worthy has lived her life believing in the value of those struggles. She kept in touch with her former student and her husband, the rev. Martin luther king jr., and the three became friends. She moved to washington in 1941 and taught at several schools, associating with such black historic figures as carter g. Woodson, james weldon johnson and john hope franklin. No matter the election outcome, she said, she’s proud of obama’s journey. “he’s been able to reach where he is in part due to what many of us have fought for, to what so many have died hoping to see. So i feel some pride in him. Yes, i think i do,” she said.

obama's candidacy living history for older black americans | delawareonline | the news journal

[Jamela]

9 more hours till we start hearing results. Damn it, this day isn't moving fast enough.

[grip_daddy]

Obama has already trashed McCain in the towns that always vote first and vote Republican.