Brad’s been anchoring along with Peter B. Collins earlier, and then sorta with Mike Malloy, and shortly he will finish it out, bradcasting live from Los Angeles for the rest of the night from 9p-Midnight PT (Midnight-3am ET).
In other words, all night long, covering reported results and concerns about election issues around the country. If your local affiliate is not carrying it, listen live online right here.
The show thread started here earlier today, but everyone’s page will load and reload faster if we split this up. Part two of the open thread is here.
I think you will be able to hear Brad on both Peter B’s feed and NovaM’s after 9pm, Pacific Time.
***DON’T FORGET TO CHECK BELOW FROM TIME TO TIME BECAUSE THERE ARE GOING TO BE ELECTION NEWS UPDATES COMING ALL NIGHT.***
love, 99
lls us!
Here I iz. I’m just giddy with delight!
President Obama – I will work for you. 🙂
Brad just said on the last thread, in case you missed it:
I saw the Franken/Coleman race is 42-42…who’s going to “win” that one?
They need to be arrested and sent away – screw the spider holes!
Obama is coming out and speaking!
Obama is coming on now
I’m listening ,,,
Hey! Is Bush still alive? Just wonderin’… Where’s Cheney & Rice?
I don’t know about other networks, but CBS the sound isn’t synched with the video.
We’re all busting up over it.
Hey! Is Bush still alive? Just wonderin’… Where’s Cheney & Rice?
They are in a spider hole!
Brad, {{{{HUGS & KISSES}}} you are my hero! 🙂
At least we have a president who could speak…
Crap! I had so much shit going on here I tanked my browser and had to reboot. Sheesh.
I’m having to open it all back up again, but… ahem… woohoo!
Where’s Cheney & Rice? They are in a spider hole!
Hahahaha!!
Yay, our new President has a brain!!! And a good one, too.
If McCain won, he’d lead off with something like: “My fellow prisoners…”
huddled around a radio in Oak Grove, Mo., i am beyond belief happy! after working the polls here all day, i’m exhausted & yet so giddy! love you, Brad- we must keep up the good fight, though & exile these EVMs to the junk pile where they belong.
Wow!
Hey, Brad! Knock our socks off, dude!
If McCain won, he’d lead off with something like: “My fellow prisoners…”
“I’d like to thank Sarah and Joe the bomber – er – plumber!”
Finally, some Humans
“My fellow bombers…”
The angry 99?
Brad just said, “…aging 99 is manning the comments at Brad Blog…” Hey! You better get him for that, 99!!!
OOPS! I think he said “AGENT” 99…sorry about that, Chief!!!
I thought he said angry?
Where IS 99???
The Feeney thing is what brought me here in the first place days after the 2004 elections.
I heard that, Brad! 😛
I’m not angry. I’m all weepy… thinking of Martin.
Are we all as decrepit as it sounds like we are? I’m tellin’ ya, the last 8 years have taken a huge toll.
She crashed her browser.
Rounded that corner round 90 miles an hour when the wheel on her browser broke.
CONTROL had just issued it without testing it first. Something about an unprotected infrared port.
I’m right here, Danny. I just had to reboot and get my act back together… so it can fall apart again.
The Ray Lemme case and the blackbox voting issue brought me here the end of ’04 … I think that’s right. CRS disease y’know.
I see Coleman took the latest lead over Franken. It’s hard to believe Franken doesn’t win that, since Obama won by such a large margin in Minnesota, and everyone up there loved Wellstone. That’s a weird one.
I got out my duct tape and the wheel is back now! 😛
She got those high top red stilettos!
You guys are so funny!! Triple LOL!
ffft!… he talked about the centenarian voting on a touch screen…
Yeah – I have a problem with GA calling it close for Senate [Jim Martin Dem. vs Saxby Chambliss Rep.]
There are, last I heard, 1M votes still not counted. I think it’s 2 of the most Pro-Obama counties, too.
That would give us 60 seats, no?
Anyway, that 60 thing is a retarded obstructionist move by doofus Mitch McConnell. Doesn’t have to be 60.
I cringed at that too, Zap! Argh.
Isn’t rightwing radio going to bother you a little less for the next 4 years?
Way to go everybody, esp Brad and 99, we’ve overwhelmed the caging lists and purging. Now can we please go back to paper ballots.
My son said he just got out of a rock concert up in Boston, and everyone found out that Obama won as they were walking out, and they all started screaming. Screaming in happiness, I mean…
Want a big laugh?
AJC.com
Um – has he been soaking in a bubble bath for the last month???? Jeebus, these lying dirt bags.
I think this landslide may have made our paper ballot thing a lot harder….
But I’ll worry about that tomorrow.
99 #46
No-No-No-No-No. We MUST get rid of the despicable, horrid machines. The poll tax of standing for half a day or longer in line & etc., et al.
Now we have to petition, quickly while the repubs are livid.
I worry now that a complacency will creep in regarding the voting machines and other disenfranchisement tactics since this election wasn’t stolen.
This system must be reformed, the machines ground to dust and reclaimed for their precious metals, and voting made easy and convenient for everybody.
We can not stop, the Dems must get on board.
MO, my state is still to close to call with 91% counted: 48% BO and 51% JM. Early polling showed Obama winning. Kinda’ smelly considering all the voting problems we’ve been having in MO. We do have a lot of racists and Republicans in MO. though.
BRAD, thank you, God bless you, and an American salute for all you and your contemporaries hard work.
I know Americans appreciate you.
You should be proud.
Though it may appear underated, our efforts were successful and this is a victory for you as well.
I wish I had the words to express my gratitude.
I think this landslide may have made our paper ballot thing a lot harder….
I didn’t see that until after I posted my #48.
Great minds….
LOL
Pelosi
Ugh!
Run away Run away!
Yes. Maybe they won’t filibuster it now that their asses have been handed to them, even with their fucking filthy machines.
I smell a rat in Minnesota though. I don’t believe those numbers. Do they vote 100% on DREs?
I have to get up at 5:00 so I’ll see you all later.
It’s been fun.
Nite Nite.
🙂
I haven’t forgot last year, though.
Whoops, I also said “Gigantic sigh of relief” but it got eaten up because I put it in “” things
I started deleting all my McCain pictures on my computer I used to post on my blog…
What happens to Biden’s Senate seat, which he won tonight?
sheesh, all “more than,” and “less than” symbols get eaten, even in quotes. Sorry, OT
Nighty-night Bluebear2. See ya later, birthday bear.
Maybe Biden can be the first Vice President Senator who gets to give policy to the Senate… fulfill PigLips’ dream of the ideal vice presidency. 😉
Or probably the Governor appoints someone to serve until the next election. I think that’s how it’s usually done.
Veiled endorsement of touchscreens in the acceptance speech. Not accidental.
Hmm.
Sweet dreams, BB2 and Happy Birthday!
I caught that, too, Bev. Disconcerting.
What did you hear, Bev?
Although, there was an AP photo of the 106 year old black woman voting on a machine, and so Obama may just have been alluding to the visuals. She really DID touch the screen to vote, and that was one monster hairy deal that she got to vote for him before she dies.
Ok. That’s it. The pumps are going on and the gloves are comin’ off.
Mr. O must be edumacated.
🙂 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Kira, Obama, during his victory speech, was talking about the 106 year old black woman who voted for him today, and mentioned explicitly that she touched the screen….
Bluebear2 has nodded off at his keyboard again.
I say we don’t let him pick a cabinet until he’s signed in blood to get rid of the EVMs.
Yea. That’s great, but I’ll bet she could have marked a ballot, too.
We must push hard now. There are a lot more reasons to trash the machines than there are to keep them. Hmmm … I don’t see anything listed on my why to keep them column.
#71 – can we do that?
At around 10pm last night, my wife and I were driving home from a Chinese buffet in Scranton, and we both heard Republican local NEPA WILK talk show host Sue Henry carrying on a conversation over their election coverage. We distinctly heard her say, “Jesus Christ! I just found out a personal conversation between me and Cathy Donnelly was broadcast over the airwaves. Can’t we get some friggin’ engineers around here that know what they’re doing???” That is paraphrased, but just about exactly what she said. We missed the first part of the conversation, but I bet it was great! Thank you, Republicans, for a great all around night! We laughed our asses off to the point where we almost lost control of our vehicle!!!
Danneeeee, Chinese buffet two nights in a row! And then Saturday too. Yer turning Chinese on us…
Kira, I think we could do that…. 😉
All EVMs are toxic garbage and should be delt with as such.
It’s been a better day than I expected, however.
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/...turn-down.html
This may be a stupid question, but are they going to count all the votes in Georgia???
If anyone has a link to news about GA down ticket election news, please post it here … I keep looking but can’t find anything.
Boooo.
Georgia
Agent 99 said on 11/4/2008 @ 10:32 pm PT…
“Kira, Obama, during his victory speech, was talking about the 106 year old black woman who voted for him today, and mentioned explicitly that she touched the screen…. ”
I heard that too and I didn’t take it that way. I thought it was a symbolic of making progress in ones lifetime. He introduced her as having been born before autos etc. She went from the (barely)industrial age, through the mechanical and now into the electronic age to facilitate her journey from one generation removed from slavery to a African American President (post-racial politics). I thought it was a reinforcment of his message of transition and progress. And quite inspiring at a deeply historical level.
Maybe I’m just tired though.
I still want real old-fashioned paper ballots though, I think MO’s elections might be different if we had them. it’s now 49% to 50% for mCCain. And less election fraud and vote supression would have given Obama MO for sure.
Dan #77
Joseph Cannon’s wheels came off a long time ago & he must not have the mechanical aptitude 99 has and maybe no duct tape. Definitely no class. 🙁
Thank you, Lottakatz. We must trash those machines … Yes we Can!
Thanks for the link 99 – I’ll go look there now.
I’m just positive the O did better here than they’re showing.
We have EVMs 100% across the state.
I’m bumming because my county went McCain by over 10%… teach me to listen to that Democratic propaganda from the local party.
Shit. I would love to like where I live, and a so seriously don’t. 🙁
Me too, 99. Too many McStoopid signs around my neighborhood.
But … hopefully things will begin to get better once the new, sane management goes into action.
If Obama has the same affect on the country he’s had on people in his campaign we will all be calming down and focusing. And losing the mean-spiritedness of the bush administration.
Agent 99, help! My head is ‘sploding:
Missouri, 98% precincts reporting:
Candidate Party Votes Pct.
John McCain Rep. 1,409,284 49.7% -3.6%
Barack Obama Dem. 1,391,573 49.0 +2.9
Ralph Nader Ind. 17,355 0.6 N.A.
Bob Barr Lib 11,135 0.4 N.A.
Chuck Baldwin CST 8,037 0.3 N.A.
Man, this needs some close looking into.
@ Lottakatz
I agree with your interpretation. I also saw it as a symbolic reference much like the ape-like pre-human touching the monolith, followed by the modern man (in a space suit on the moon’s surface in Tycho crater) touching the monolith from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. It was an excellent speech.
I’ll admit that I cringed when I heard him say ‘she touched the screen’ since I despise all EVMs and touch screen DREs in particular. But I got over it quickly once I realized the symbolism of the statement.
I do agree with Kira and 99 that we must make sure that Obama understands the danger to democracy that EVMs present. Close elections will always be stolen if we continue to use opaque (non-transparent) voting processes.
Let’s all try not to let our heads explode until at least tomorrow. This election “season” has been the most despicable of my entire long life, and I’m concentrating on being glad this day has finally come.
I discovered NovaM about a year ago. Until then I had despaired that America had been taken over by the regligous right (Which are actually neither…). I’m an American ex-pat living in Canada, haven’t been back to the US since 9-11. I’m very proud of the country of my birth tonight. I’m also glad that I’ve lived to see this day. Now that those awful people are going to be gone (after 8 years of evil), I may even be able to come back to visit, without fearing I’d be arrested at the border for suspicion of conspiracy to look suspicious, in nothing else…My compliments and congratulations to my fellow Americans for rising above the narrow-mindedness of the past, and stepping proudly into the 21st. Century. May your God bless you all, by whatever name you call it.
Whoa! dead even at 99%- the absentee and provisional ballots will decide htis one!!!
I am totaly freaking out. This is incredible! 49.4% each.
Thanks for the link to
http://elections.nytimes.com/20.../missouri.html Agent 99
Yer welcome, Lotta.
THANK YOU ALL!!!!
MUST GET OUT OF STUDIO!!!
I love you all. For reals. And thank you 99!!!
I lived!!!!!!! 😛
God Bless Talos Moondancer … yes, maybe we can now start treating other countries with respect – especially our good friend Canada.
Would love to go back to drivers license instead of passport for travel to the Great White North.
Let’s shred the no-fly list.
I guess I’m getting ahead of myself … I’m with 99 … ready to enjoy & celebrate the goodness of tonight. Clearin’ out gwb’s brush is going to take a big crew and a long time.
Thank you Brad … OUR HERO!
And same to you 99! You managed to keep us rowdies in line & entertained to boot!
Much Love All,
xoxoxo
Night, night, Kira.
I’m going to run around and try to work some of the kinks out now. I don’t know about you, but the QUIET is making me giddy!
I may be here all alone now, but I just found this posted at fivethirtyeight.com [posted at 2:11a.m. I assume Eastern time.]
See ya later. Nighty-night – I’m going out to look at the sky!
Sweet, truly an Obama-Nation!
R.I.P. G.O.P.
Although it feels like part of a war is over, I am much more worried about the seats and other shills, appointees, security clearances and corruption crap left over from the last eight years.
With six million votes disappeared, plenty of rocks are stuck in the cogs of the United States government.
Let’s not forget the state of the Constitution. Fisa, Torture, Our Kids as Fodder in War, Protecting Funding Of Our Government Itself., not bankers like Bernake and Paulson want, the fascist media.
The Bush administration isn’t gone yet. The skies are grey not blue. Obama is going to need a DIFFERENT plan than he currently has for the economy, or it will get very bad.
I’m pinching myself and it is still real!
Yahoo!
8 years in Xibalba are over!
Spike Lee was on Morning Joe…A happy camper
Wow! I woke up at about 1:00 this afternoon and had to check to see if last night was just a dream or what? It actually all happened! What a fine feeling. Thank you all for keeping me entertained all night (I think I finally faded out at about 5:00 in the morning, and slept aso deeply and peacefully, oh my!), and special thanks to Brad and Agent 99 for providing us with such a fine gathering spot. Lots and lots of hard work lies ahead of us, but at least, at long last, we can start on it. Still, I wonder how many house and senate seats got stolen, and I’m certain that Obama’s actual margin of victory was much larger than reported. Even the Czechs use hand-marked paper ballots – that looks like our greatest task
Brad I hope you will continue to investigate and get to the bottom of the electronic voting machine malfunctions and election fraud.
Regardless of who won this is a very serious issue and should not be swept under the rug just like all the crimes committed by the neocons the past 8 years need to be investigated and officials prosecuted.
CZ
You left about 15 minutes too soon.
They called it for Obama just after you left!
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