The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

of course, if you were, you wouldn't be around to respond, so oh well.

hell with that. it's bar time! after i get down calling last minute people, i'ma go drink beer and yell at the TV for 3 hours with the rest of the folks i've been volunteering with.

I have also heard this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Virginia voters receiving robo-calls from "The Elections Commission" stating that they'll be arrested if they show up to vote tomorrow.

I seriously think that they should track down the people doing this and execute them for treason.

In New York, where polls suggest that Democrats are about to sweep the statewide offices, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton reported that her daughter, Chelsea, had run into trouble trying to cast her vote in Manhattan.

Greeting early morning commuters at the train station in Chappaqua, N.Y., Mrs. Clinton said that when her daughter went to a polling site at 20th Street on the West Side, workers told her that her name was not listed in a book of registered voters.

Investigation found that book containing her name had been sent to the wrong district, so she could not enter the polling booth. But election officials offered her an affidavit vote, similar to the provisional votes used in other states, according to John Ravitz, executive director of the Board of Elections.

“Her vote will count,” he said.

yup, Dan Rather is listed as being on.

how much is Keith O going to broadcast tonight?

MoveOn.org is offering at $250K reward.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75874

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Man sets himself on fire on Kennedy
Drivers watched as he dies near 'Flame' sculpture

November 4, 2006
BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter
As horrified Friday-morning commuters watched, a man apparently doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire along the Kennedy Expy. near a 25-foot-tall Loop sculpture titled "Flame of the Millennium."
A homemade sign was found near his charred body that read, "Thou Shalt Not Kill," said State Police Lt. Lincoln Hampton. Police are reviewing a videotape that also was found near the body.

The death of the man, whose identity has not been released, was being treated as a suicide, authorities said.

Witnesses told police they saw the man ignite himself just before 7 a.m. near the southbound Kennedy's Ohio Street exit, Hampton said.

The Chicago Fire Department was called to the scene to help extinguish the fire, which was set at the base of the seven-ton sculpture along the Kennedy.

An Illinois Department of Transportation worker was among those to witness the incident, according to a preliminary report.

A can of clear liquid smelling like gasoline also was recovered, the report said.

i'm hearing it's malachi ritscher, who ran savage sound. this is really sad and fucked up.

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KY polls are officially closed, and I'm outta here, first to drink, then, later, to watch Apocalypse Now for the first time.

-- reporting by Daniel Patrick Sheehan and Wendy Solomon, The Morning Call

ha i like this guy

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Britney Spears performs during the second show of her "Onyx Hotel Tour' in this March 3, 2004 file photo taken at Glendale Arena in Glendale, Ariz. A Los Angeles court spokeswoman says Spears has filed for divorce Tuersday, Nov.7, 2006, from rapper-dancer Kevin Federline, citing irreconcilable differences. See full image

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Britney Spears filed for divorced Tuesday from Kevin Federline, officials said.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court filing cites "irreconcilable differences," said court spokeswoman Kathy Roberts.

Spears, 24, married rapper Kevin Federline, 28, in 2004. They have a 1-year-old son, Sean Preston, and an infant son who was born Sept. 12. The couple have not confirmed the infant's name, which is reportedly Jayden James.

xpost: allentown & environs are HARDCORE redneck, exactly the type of place where santorum would do at least OK -- so maybe he ISN'T so paranoid after all.

-- deej.. (clublonel...) (webmail), November 7th, 2006. (deej..)

out of all the races, if Democrats lose one, I'd most like it to be TN-Sen. face it, Ford is an asshole. he's better than Corker, that's for damn sure, but I won't be shedding any tears for his loss.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp11-7-06u.jpg

This afternoon, RNC chairman Ken Mehlman's office released a transcript of Mehlman's appearance on The Rush Limbaugh Show this morning, where he suggested that the Democrats might be stealing the election. "One thing I can tell you is this is part of the Democratic playbook," Mehlman said. "And in fact, if you look Rush, at the whole country, we're seeing more problems on behalf of Democrats than any of the alleged problems on behalf of Republicans."

This early foreshadowing underlines my most lousy thought: That in the light of a dem win, the GOp will declare the election invalid.

Project much?

If they're that desperate to shoot themselves in the foot...

Should the GOP hold (I still don't rule it out), then I will avoid political blogs for the most part for a few days. (Did that after 2004, helped my sanity.) Should they lose, another matter entirely.

VA no winner can be projected