Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Night - Part 3 - 9:00 hour

- 9:00PM: Obama wins New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island. McCain gets Kansas, North Dakota, Georgia, and Wyoming. The tally is now 174 to 76 in Obama's favor. Less than 100 electoral votes to go...

- 9:13PM: Maine divides up it's Congressional votes based on who wins each precinct. Obama won all four.

- 9:14PM: Wow. Virginia is a battle. Only 30,000 votes are currently separating McCain and Obama with McCain currently leading. But there are a lot of important districts who have not reported yet that could swing things Obama's way. Stay tuned!...

- 9:18PM: Obama is still leading in Florida. That's a huge one. Lots of electoral votes to be won there.

- 9:24PM: Looking at things, ... if things keep going the way they look now and Obama wins California (almost a given), Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio ... that's 117 electoral votes. Say hello President Obama!

- 9:25PM: MSNBC just projected Obama to win Ohio. That's pretty much a given sign that he's going to win. I'm getting giddy!

- 9:26PM: It's now 195 to 76 in Obama's favor. This is turning into a runaway...

- 9:34PM: So let's look at things... right now Obama has 195 electoral votes. He's definitely going to win California, which is 55 votes, which would give him 250. That means he would only need 20 more to win the election. He's leading in Florida (28) and North Carolina (15). He's expected to do well in Oregon (7), Washington (11), Nevada (5), and Colorado (9). He has many different paths to victory... which seems almost certain now.

- 9:37PM: Obama is projected to win New Mexico, adding 10 more votes and taking him to 200, making it 200 to 90.

- 9:39PM: McCain just added a bunch of states: Texas and West Virginia. It's 200 to 124, Obama.

- 9:52PM: McCain gets Mississippi. That's 6 votes.

- 9:54PM: McCain also picked up Louisiana. 200 to 139...

- 9:59PM: Moving to the 10:00 hour...

No comments: