Last Day Update
November 5th, 2012 - 12:20 pm
I keep trying to write something, but it’s very difficult to type when you can’t seem to get your fingernails out from between your teeth.
Everybody’s polls are tightening to the center — at least the headline numbers. The internals are still all out of whack with the headlines, too. So I’ll share with you a few items I’ve found on Twitter and let you come to your own conclusions.
For what it’s worth, I’m feeling cautiously optimistic as I work on the final 2012 edition of Wargaming the Electoral College. It will go up early tomorrow morning, giving me all night to continue puzzling over just one last state.
Can you guess which state that is?
Could it be Ohio?
Mmmmmmmmmnope.
Wisconsin.
Nuh-uh. Only 48 guesses left if you don’t count DC!
Oregon. Gotta be Orygun. Won’t make a difference with their 7 (I think) votes, but will the sane people in the rest outweigh the nuts in Portland, Salem, and Eugene?
Michigan?
I am also cautiously optimistic but prepared to be severely disappointed. I think Romney could have blow-out numbers and I hope it carrys down ticket to the Senate.
The Pennsylvanian white whale?
Ding ding ding ding ding.
From what I can see from down here in the Democratic People’s Republic of Maryland, Pennsylvania will go for Romney and we will know it fairly soon after the polls close.
If the kind of talk that I hear around the office coffee pot and in the checkout lines at WalMart is a true indication of voter sentiment, I expect that the election will be settled before the poles close on the left coast. My guess is the state that puts Romney over the top won’t be very far west of the Mississippi River.
You may all tease me on Wednesday if I’m wrong.
%*<&@ing autocorrect. … before the polls close …
%^#@&ing autocorrect … before the polls close …
Pennsylvania actually means c@ck-tease in some long forgotten Native American dialect. Never outside the margin of fraud, it’ll turn red over the dead bodies of the New Black Panthers, the Philadelphia Democratic Machine, and felons from Pittsburgh to the Poconos. I do think we get Iowa, CO, OH and WI though. Please God let us win by a margin where they can’t cheat.
My money (figuratively speaking) is on Nevada.
You may be right, but I just have this sick feeling that Nevada has been completely Californicated.
I TOLD YOU! Do not let us Californians into your states. We’ve fed on the dessicated husk of CA and are now moving out to do the same to other states.
Well, It’s got to be one of the extra seven that hasn’t been polled recently. Perhaps you should give Teh Won a call and find out which of those he’s least comfortable with.
It would be so cool if Obama ended up w 47%
Good luck with your picks, Stephen. Here’s to hoping you again beat Silver black and blue.