Weird - the Google News election coverage has Romney with 33 electoral votes and Obama with 3, but the interactive map doesn’t reflect this. Is anyone else seeing the same thing?
As of this moment, that’s exactly what Politico’s real-time map reflects.
So Politico has the same mismatch between the electoral-vote total and the interactive map? Hmm…
Edit: I checked back at Google News and the results had just changed dramatically - Obama now with 64 electoral votes and Romney with 40. Still a huge mismatch with the interactive map. I might as well that tab.
Its gonna be even weirder when and if romney wins
@Auto: Al-jazeera also beamed out those numbers (3/33, BO/MR) about 30 minutes back… they’ve since revised to 65/83 (BO/MR). Little bit of gang-sign flashing? 
Clayton -
I think Obama will probably win Ohio.
“hey everyone, look who controls the numbers”
Clayton: I gave up. It’s not like it really makes a difference who wins anyways.
Which might explain why Obama refused to meet with other heads of state, but had plenty of time for Jay-Z.
It’s pretty clear all these map things are connected to the same feed. Probably run by AP or w/e.
So Clayton, I remember you continually talked about the “November farce” over the past few months. Were you just talking about the election? I thought you were insinuating that this place would be filled with spam on, well, today.
It could all come down to Wiconsin and Colorado…
Ooo, Florida looking pretty strongly Obama. Could be the big cities reporting earlier tho, last time the more right-leaning counties reported last too. If Obama wins Florida it’s over for Romney basically.
@Neo: Oh, no, I meant just the election… however, I seemed to notice an uptick in trolling during 2012 and also back in 2010 during that election runoff. Based on my experience in other forums, I believe that the political parties as well as other, more shadowy organizations (private and public) deploy people on the Internet at certain times to generate “traffic” or inject noise, or just to generally pamphleteer under the guise of giving their heartfelt opinion. Then there are the ubiquitous DHS snitches - remember, DHS classifies constitutionalists and Ron Paul supporters as high risk individuals for domestic terror activities.
All of that is a farce too, but “November farce” was referring to the voting nonsense.
Clayton -
florida also has 2 time zones and later time zone is much more republican. so mitt should start picking up later on.
Ah, I see.
Well, lookin like Romney right now… Huzzah.
I told you guys, the power elites want willard.
If Obama wins, only four more years of a Kenyesian. If Romney wins, eight more years of a Kenyesian (Democrats are not going to nominate anyone who isn’t a Keynesian, unless of course they nominate a Marxist :P)
If Obama’s in office when the market tanks, Republicans (again, more likely to embrace non-Keynesians) can sweep into office in 2016. If Romney’s in office (provided the Dems don’t embrace their Van Buren/19th Century laissez-faire roots), expect a replay of 1932: Elizabeth Warren 2016? God help us.
Aslo with Romney (as Tom Woods points out), “Secretary of State John Bolton”. Sheesh. Maybe Obama will appoint someone decent like Wesley Clarke for SecState.
I voted for Johnson, but I’m [Wayne Allen Root]ing for Obama. I hope Republicans get beat bad. The shock of losing two cycles in a row will encourage them to think about bringing in some new ideas.
We’ll find out who the Power Elites wanted before the night is out. There is no such thing as TPTB “rooting” for their guy. They own both candidates and select one on whatever basis. My rule of thumb is they don’t fire the incumbent unless he’s not following orders or screwed up badly in some other way.
Just to keep the pointlessness of this Presidential election in perspective:
We’ve been doomed for nearly a century. The Fed and cosmic expansion of Federal spending has seen to that.
Clayton -