The Beeb are reporting ABC and Reuters projections, based on exit polls and early results.
In 2004 the projections predicted Kerry to win.
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The Beeb are reporting ABC and Reuters projections, based on exit polls and early results.
In 2004 the projections predicted Kerry to win.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
All the data is ultimately from AP.
BlueSquareThing
With chips
http://news.aol.com/elections/2008/president
Click on the state and it'll give you a county breakdown.
yeah, I have the Fox equivalent up
so do any of you think obama would be where he's at if both his parent had been black?
free spirit
more tea vicar?
ah, just heard them say 'projections'.
think I'll be keeping an eye on that google site as well then...
another google site that looks like it'll be worth having a look at is their 'my fair election' site, which allows people to rate and comment on their voting experience. Obviously not a perfect way of monitoring how fair the election is, but as it's broken down by district, should be interesting to compare the comments and ratings of people in different districts.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Yes, though I suppose it would depend on whether that changed his public persona from what it is now.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Its better than watching the awful BBC coverage, who seem to think that projection = has won, indeed before I switched it off they were virtually calling the whole thing.
being half black and half white would have a great effect on how one views both races, wouldn't it?
Bush has been distancing himself from McCain because of Bush's dismal ratings. People resent him to no end for the War AND the Economy.
Detroit: People in the US are anal retentive about race although had he had both black parents and still been light skinned he most certainly be where he is today all things considered equal. It is physical appearance unfortunately and not biology (although both things are meaningless). Even American Blacks have a general thing about darker skinned blacks.
Detroit: People in the US are anal retentive about race although had he had both black parents and still been light skinned he most certainly be where he is today all things considered equal. It is physical appearance unfortunately and not biology (although both things are meaningless). Even American Blacks have a general thing about darker skinned blacks.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Clinton isnt that much of an embarrassment.
Lets face it, for all the criticism of McCain's age and temperament, Palin's various (real and madeup) problems, and the GOP campaign (too nasty / not nasty enough), the person most responsible for the GOP being defeated at this election (if as seems likely) is Bush.
I disagree....I think a lot of white americans feel safer with Obama because his mum was white and he was raised by white people.
All coloured people look down upon their members who have very dark skin. Its extremely prevalent in the indian subcontinent, for example.r18 said:
Treacle Toes
Time
Treacle Toes
Time
In india connected to the caste system?
Elsewhere connected to colonialism amongst other things....
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
China too, although that's more tan based afaik
Destroit: Well, perhaps you are right on white Americans after all my particpation in American Culture was only very marginal although I do know lots of Americans.
As for India, et al. Absolutely. Here in the Philippines, just as in most of Sub-Sahara Africa the biggest selling cosmetics are Skin Whitening cremes and such. Absolutely disgusting the desire to be soemthing you are not. Had to cure my wife of that self-hatred. i chalk it up to colonialism and such combined with America's export of culture but in the end who can really say.
As for India, et al. Absolutely. Here in the Philippines, just as in most of Sub-Sahara Africa the biggest selling cosmetics are Skin Whitening cremes and such. Absolutely disgusting the desire to be soemthing you are not. Had to cure my wife of that self-hatred. i chalk it up to colonialism and such combined with America's export of culture but in the end who can really say.
Johnny Canuck3
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I'm starting to feel cautiously optimistic.
Johnny Canuck3
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Interesting if you look at the CNN exit polls. Even in republican states like Kentucky, the majority of young voters, 18 - 29, voted for Obama.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
I would just follow it on the Guardian website, tbh. The BBC coverage is appalling, as I said above - which is especially bad given that they have flew hundreds of staff out there and are demonstrating that they know fuck all about US politics in the process.
there are so many intricacies about every nation that it would be impossible for a foreign news source to know all that stuff. the american medias knowledge of the political processes in other nations is dismal also.
indeed, it looks like a landslide
inflatable jesus
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
He's yet to take a real red state though. Ohio and Florida are always swing states.
It's looking pretty tight in Virginia.
Does that qualify as a pun?
It's looking pretty tight in Virginia.
Does that qualify as a pun?
Threshers_Flail
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