For one day, Barack Obama injected new life into the flailing newspaper industry.
The Huffington Post has a slide show of front pages of major newspapers worth checking out.
For one day, Barack Obama injected new life into the flailing newspaper industry.
The Huffington Post has a slide show of front pages of major newspapers worth checking out.
Campaign post mortem edition. First up, Carl Cameron at Fox News:
And there’s also this contradictory account of whether foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann (who would have likely been National Security Adviser in a McCain administration) was fired by the campaign for making disparaging comments to the media days before the election.
Newsweek is out with the first installments of their traditional election special project, which is an absolute must-read chronicle of the public and private drama in the Obama, Clinton and McCain campaigns.
The Huffington Post published my story about watching the Election returns with Democrats Abroad in Rome.
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”
– President-elect Barack Obama
The only Democratic Senators to lose their seats last night were Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Also, Joe Biden got to vote for himself twice yesterday on the Delaware ballot, as vice president and as senator. (Joe Lieberman did the same thing in 2000)
MSNBC is reporting that Rahm Emanuel has been offered the White House Chief of Staff job and is currently “agonizing” over the decision.
According to First Read, that’s how long it’s been since Iowa governor Tom Vilsack kicked off the 2008 campaign season when he filed paperwork to start his presidential bid on November 9, 2006, just days after the Democrats won control of Congress.
For those of you who are math junkies, that is the equivalent of five days shy of a full two years; 17,424 hours; 1,045,440 minutes; and 62,726,400 seconds.
According to the Associated Press, here are the times (EST) polls close tonight, and the number of electoral votes each state is worth.
7:00
Georgia (15)
Indiana (11)
Kentucky (8)
South Carolina (8)
Vermont (3)
Virginia (13)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 58
7:30
Ohio (20)
North Carolina (15)
West Virginia (5)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 40
8:00
Alabama (9)
Connecticut (7)
Delaware (3)
Florida (27)
Illinois (21)
Maine (4)
Maryland (10)
Massachusetts (12)
Mississippi (6)
Missouri (11)
New Hampshire (4)
New Jersey (15)
Oklahoma (7)
Pennsylvania (21)
Tennessee (11)
Washington DC (3)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 171
8:30
Arkansas (6)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 6
9:00
Arizona (10)
Colorado (9)
Kansas (6)
Louisiana (9)
Michigan (17)
Minnesota (10)
Nebraska (5)
New Mexico (5)
New York (31)
North Dakota (3)
Rhode Island (4)
South Dakota (3)
Texas (34)
Wisconsin (10)
Wyoming (3)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 159
10:00
Iowa (7)
Montana (3)
Nevada (5)
Utah (5)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 20
11:00
California (55)
Hawaii (4)
Idaho (4)
Oregon (7)
Washington (11)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 81
1:00
Alaska (3)
TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES: 3