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Kudos to waching Indecision 2008!

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UPDATE: This was the scene Tuesday night, in our friend Jill’s downstairs wood-paneled rumpus room watching Indecision 2008, Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s brilliant live coverage of the Election Night returns. This was actually taken early on, during the “Jimmy, juice it” competing title image sequence. Oh, the ludiocrity! It was choice.

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Title: Kudos to waching Indecision 2008!
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Originally uploaded: 4 Nov ’08, 9.04pm CST PST
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Tonight: The Race Is O’er

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Tonight we’re not heading to Grant Park with the throngs, we’re headed to Oak Park with thongs. Okay, it’s an unseasonably warm, clear day, and we’re taking O-themed, or Hawaiian themed, snacks to Jill’s house.

She’ll have Jon Stewart on downstairs and the radio on upstairs and we’ll feast on pot roast and nail trimmings until the results are in.

Dear God, I hope the results are in.

I’m taking my laptop and may checkin with my Second Life chums (who’ve been neglected of late), but I’ll also be watching races at the election tracker CNN.com has. You can set up 35 nationally significant races (plus selected stuff like Prop. 8) and watch the returns come in.

Yeah, downtown would be interesting. Also a big hassle. So off to Oak Park we go.

Dixville Notch has spoken: It’s Obama in a landslide – CNN.com

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Here we go: the first of many towns, villages, municipalities, and counties heard from.

Dixville Notch has spoken: It’s Obama in a landslide – CNN.com

DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. [The town] is the first in the nation to vote in the primaries and Election Day. People in the isolated village in New Hampshire’s northeast corner voted just after midnight Tuesday.

It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an election. Obama’s rival, Republican John McCain, won 6 votes.

A full 100 percent of registered voters in the village cast ballots. And the votes didn’t take long to tally. The town, home to around 75 residents, has opened its polls shortly after midnight each election day since 1960, drawing national media attention for being the first place in the country to make its presidential preferences known.