Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Go vote

You must vote. If you don't vote, you insult democracy, you insult the dead generations of Americans who believed in their country and built the world you see around you, you insult our troops who risk their lives daily so that you can sit on your butt, read this blog, and not vote.

Go to Start -> Shut Down -> Shut Down in Windows or Apple -> Shut Down -> Shut Down, get up, go outside and go vote. Don't know where? Go to Google. They will tell you where.

That being said - here's my call:



I've been to Virginia too many times in the past five years - Northern Virginia is more liberal than Western Pennsylvania these days. (Side note - PA is not the nail-biter McCain is trying to make it. Rural PA will always surprise you on how red a blue state can be, but it's less red than it was in 2004.) Ohio is either too conservative for McCain, or too freaked out by Palin, depending on who you ask. That sends Ohio our way. Florida got screwed by the mortgage crisis (or screwed themselves...). Either way, there are enough upset people with extra time on their hands to just barely tip Florida to Obama. That goes ditto for Nevada. Colorado is still buzzing from the convention and has gone towards the center politically, meeting the democrats on their way there in the past four years. Welcome back to sanity, Colorado! New Mexico barely tipped to Bush last year, so is totally vulnerable to even the slightest headwind for Obama, and he has that for sure, they go Obama. Finally, Iowa loves Obama - something I can not explain at all, but hey, there it is. See you all tomorrow in a much brighter world.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jason said...

Indiana and North Carolina surprised me. Missouri I knew would be close. But Indy... Looking at the turnout, it's clear that there was a whole pool of Democrat leaners that just didn't vote because they thought their state was a "red state". Welcome to the fold, Indiana! Jury is still out on North Carolina... I knew that would be close, but I was thinking McCain by three or four, not a virtual tie.

Otherwise, I feel pretty good about my picks and the rationale.

9:18 AM

 

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