CNN says: With polls now closed all over the eastern seaboard, Obama is up early in North Carolina and Florida.
And: ABC has called Pennsylvania for Obama. If that holds, it may be game over for McCain. If it holds.
Meanwhile, watching at waiting at the Showbox, which is filling up fast:
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PA called for Obama on MSNBC
@1 and ABC
Dude…this is gonna be over before my dad’s election party tonight, if NC and Florida really did go for Obama…
nyt calling va for mccain
It’s not over yet, but it’s looking good…
AAAAAUGH! *runs around in circles* I’m too young for this shit! I wish I smoked or something. Damn.
@6 Yeah, I really wish I was drinking right now (working for 45 more minutes).
Put on your news channel of choice. One drink indicates a healthy slug of beer/bong hit/whatever you’re sipping, one shot indicates a standard shot-glass dose, and ’finish the bottle’ means exactly what it says on the tin.
A&A Board
Grimes whines=Drink
Someone bitches that “voting doesn’t matter”=Drink
Someone bitches that “both parties are exactly alike”=Shot
It turns out that FGL is Barack Obamas pick for cabinet=Finish the bottle.
TV News Talking head says:
“Tentatively calling the state of X for Y”=Drink
“Exit polls may have been misleading…”=Drink
Repeats the networks obnoxious catchphrase (i.e, CNN=Politics, “Fair and Balanced”)=Drink
Over-the-top animation repeated ad-nauseum=Drink.
Fancy new technology to display election results fails to display election results=Drink
Live Interview with a hick in battleground state=Shot.
Results:
Barack Obama wins your state=Shot.
John McCain wins your state=Drink
John McCain concedes a state=Drink
John McCain concedes the election=Shot
…while crying=Finish the bottle.
Obama loses=Finish the bottle. Riot.
Prop 8 fails=Strawberry Daquiri
Prop 8 succeeds=O’Douls.
That’s all I could come up with in the ~10 minutes I have before class. Fucking expand this shit so I have an excuse to get shitfaced this evening.
@4: Bullshit.
not seeing the nytimes VA call….yet
Sorry, poor choice of words. “showing McCain with a lead”
Prolly has PA, looking good in FL, not losing in OH. . . I think everything is gonna be ok. :/
Dems picked up 3 Senate seats already! Woohoo!
HEY! How do we get a rotation indoors seeing as you guys are already at capacity?
What channel/s are you watching? CNN? I want to find out if anyone on CH has Fox News on so I can see a different angle without having to hang out with a bunch of jackasses at (insert republican bar here).
My friends can’t get into the Showbox and at least one of ’em is pissed that I won’t leave. :grumble:
But, yay Obama! 😀