A Night To Remember

from Daily Kos

Letterman election night recap

Katie Couric said "Neil Sedaka". All it needed was this guy. And Tits McGee.

America is a bluish center-left nation

Let's stop this center-right horseshit. Did you see the election results? 7.7 million mote votes. 68% of the electoral vote. 6 new Senate seats.

Then there's this map

According to Gallup, on the issues, Americans...
...are pro-choice (67 percent)
...support the Geneva Conventions with regards to torture (57 percent)
...don't want the government snooping in their bank and internet records (67 percent)
...want the USA Patriot Act changed or eliminated entirely (81 percent)
...support protecting the environment at the expense of economic growth (55 percent)
...believe that global warming is happening (86 percent)
...believe that it's the government's responsibility to provide health care (69 percent)
...support the decriminalization of marijuana (55 percent) and support the legalization of medical marijuana (78 percent)
...are opposed to attacking Iran (68 percent, according to a CNN Poll)
...support labor unions (60 percent)
...want government funding of embryonic stem cell research (56 percent)
...believe that free trade hurts American workers (65 percent)
...believe rich people and corporations aren't paying enough taxes (66 and 71 percent respectively)
Overall party affiliation? 54 percent of Americans are Democrats (with leaners) and 39 percent are Republicans (with leaners).

The schizophrenia continues, with extreme right-wingers insisting that America is a center-right nation, despite all of their positions being repudiated.

But the band played on. Matt Yglesias, who's been a two-day strong clearinghouse of push-back on the center-right myth, compiles this video of people insisting on the conventional wishful thinking.

Watch here:


Of course, none of this explains how the Obama got to be the candidate who, in Karl Rove's words, "smartly and wisely ran a campaign" that emphasized how center-right everyone was, TWO DAYS after being branded far and wide as a socialist radical.

Here's the Electoral Vote map from mydd.com showing the EV with the map distorted to show population. Not much red there.

"The Moment" on MSNBC

Awesome that they let Keith make the call.

11PM is around 1:30 into the video.

Ralph Nader makes Fox look sane

Good for Shepherd Smith. But how far has Nader fallen into the crazy? Uncle Tom? He uses the phrase Uncle Tom in reference to Obama on the night he's elected the nation's first black president? Time for Ralph to toddle off to the home.

Jon Stewart gloats to Chris Wallace; Wallace digs at Fox

On the nose!

Not to pat myself on the back, but I will direct you to my post of November 4th where I called the election for Obama with 364 electoral votes. And as you'll note below in the NBC graphic, he got exactly that. Now, I had IN for McCain and MO for Obama, so I was only 48/50, but still on the nose electorally.

Blue America

The New York Times has some great interactive maps showing voting trends in this election, and allowing them to be compared to previous elections.

This map shows voting shifts from 2004. Areas in blue shifted towards Democrats, while areas in red shifted towards Republicans. The darker the color, the more pronounced the shift.

Change can happen

Yes, We Can.

I was too wiped out to post much, and you know what yesterday meant.

The circular firing squad

First up: the dish on how totally unqualified Sarah Palin really is. She couldn't name all of the nations in North America, thought Africa was a country and not a continent, and... well, read on.

Before you go all "Nasty Democrat, piling on", this comes from FOX NEWS. That's right, The O'Reilly Factor.

Watch:






Next up is Brit Hume going all Jeff Gillooly on Karl Rove, calling Ohio for Barack Obama while Karl Rove was in the middle of an electoral map analysis that said John McCain will have a nearly impossible road to victory without Ohio.

"If he loses Ohio," Rove said of McCain, "he goes from 286, which the Republicans carried in 2004, down to 266, and that puts him below the 270 threshold needed to win the White House. So he'd not only need to sweep the rest of these states which were won by the Republicns in 2004, he'd also need to pick up something as well."

"Guess what Karl," Brit Hume broke in, "I've just received word that the state of Ohio has gone for Barack Obama."







Lastly, for now, Joe the Plumber gets his plunger pulled by CNN's Rick Sanchez during an interview on Election Day.

Sample:
Joe the Plumber: Why are you vetting me out and you haven't done this for Obama? You are asking me all these insane questions I asked a question of an elected public official and you are going to ask me these questions? That's kind of ridiculous man.

Sanchez: You have gone on the air and endorsed John McCain, you are no longer just joe private person, you have thrust yourself into this campaign by holding news conferences talking to reporters and endorsing a candidate. You have to be asked the tough questions my friend. That's the way it works in this country

Election stuff for the geekily excited

What to watch for - hour by hour. From Nate Silver at 538.com
Poll closing times