heebie: what we need to understand is that what you did was right. It has to have been. And I accept that.
So you're saying there is no spoon?
3: I guess I'll have to meet you at Standpipe's other blog to answer that question.
Those freigners are an optimistic lot, then. With a short memory. With regards to the US.
Wait, that seems wrong somehow.
I was nervous, because of the experience of the 1992 election in Britain, when Labour snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a quite heroic fashion. But Nate Silver helped. Thanks, Nate.
Also, Obama would certainly have been fucked by Bradley in Britain. I will say so loud and clear.
I would have said the same about the US -- a year ago I was looking at Obama thinking that while he looked like a good guy, he'd never get past the residual racism in the electorate. The primaries convinced me otherwise, I haven't been worried on that front since July (there's still racism, but not enough to keep him from getting elected), but you couldn't have convinced me last year.
Now that it is over: I kept reading Bradley and thinking of the basketball player. What does being a former NY Knick have to do with it? Then I'd remember Tom. I did this repeatedly. I am an East Coaster.
I was nervous. I was fairly sure Obama could win by a big enough margin to overcome the election-rigging techniques used in 2000 and 2004, but I wasn't sure that the Republicans might not have stepped up their election-rigging methods in the face of Obama's huge margins.
Nice photo.
Yeah, the photo suggests focus, tension, and uncertainty; but don't you think President-Elect Mr. Cool would have looked exactly that way no matter how huge the point spread? I don't picture the guy doing a Michael Phelps, is what I mean.
I really love the "No Drama Obama" nickname.
He could get a lot of success on Craigslist.
Also, Obama would certainly have been fucked by Bradley in Britain. I will say so loud and clear.
Which is why Obama would have done well on Craigslist.
Here's a nice line from the old right wing crank with a column in our local free weekly tabloid: "My hope is that the polls of prospective voters are wrong. All of the people who have skin that is not black have been pushed in such a defense role that we no longer can say what we believe."
I guess the Bradley effect really let him down this year...
from FM's link in the other thread i went to Esogarden and there was this
I guess I disagree with the anecdote. When I went to France this summer, I got the definite impression that French media thought it was a toss-up or thought McCain was more likely to win. I do know that a former host family was surprised to learn that I was optimistic for Obama, but that's just one family, even more anecdotal than my opinion of news coverage... and of course I was there in July rather than more recently, so maybe they became optimistic as polling firmed up in the past few weeks.
My sense, from looking at the pictures, is less uncertainty about the outcome than anxiety about what the outcome means.
"Oh, so this is what the weight of the world really feels like."