Nov 7, 2008 8:45pm
Loose Ends III — More on Obamaha
Remember Obamaha?
Well, turns out the electoral contest wasn’t all that close after all.
But regardless, the Omaha World Herald is calling Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district for Senator…er, President-elect Barack Obama.
"The electoral count now stands: Obama, 365, McCain, 162," the paper says. "Only Missouri’s 11 electoral votes remain up in the air."
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Posted by: Nancy | November 7, 2008, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
Hahaha . .. right wingers criticizing Democrats for using slimy robo-calls.
That’s like the unflushed toilet bowl calling the sink smelly.
Posted by: pefros | November 7, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
Bwahaha. He pulled California because of sneaky tricks? Seriously? California???? Get a grip and get over it.
Posted by: TRBoston | November 7, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm
California – the rightest of right wing states.
Posted by: Obama Takes OH! | November 7, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Missouri will fall in the Obama/Biden column, the final electoral vote will be 365+11=376, a landslide victory as predicted by Bill Clinton and Karl Rove.
Posted by: BKMC | November 7, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm
The LANDSLIDE just gets bigger and bigger.
WELCOME TO REAL AMERICA.
Posted by: Ed from MA | November 7, 2008, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm
As many promises Obama made during the campaign, he better forget inauguration day and get started right now. He could be finished delivering on them by 2020 if he stays on top of them.
Posted by: noobzilla | November 7, 2008, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm
Unfortunately…landslide in electoral only. Popular vote gave Obama something like only 53 – 54%? Did I miss something or did 46% vote against? Sorry folks, but still no mandate.
Posted by: lee | November 7, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
This is why I love America. Good common-sense (Obama) always rises above stubbornness and greed ( McCain). McCain tried to derail Obama’s very fine run with lies, bullying and just plain stupidity. He got what he deserved. Go, my man, Obama!!!
Posted by: democratic | November 7, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
Lee – an 8% margin is both a LANDSLIDE and a MANDATE.
CHANGE IS HERE.
Posted by: Ed from MA | November 7, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm
Wasn’t Bush gloating over his so called mandate in 2004, and didn’t he have a narrower margin?
Posted by: Shockolit | November 7, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm
Seems to me that Plain and the RNC spent a lot of time and money in northern Maine trying to pull off the same thing.
Posted by: Skeptic | November 8, 2008, 12:12 am 12:12 am
Dear “concerned in OH”, I live in Omaha and I would have to say that Obama won due to John McCain’s high number of extremely NEGATIVE campaign ads placed in the Omaha market. It seemed like every other commercial was a negative one from McCain. I also have to tell you that I found John McCain’s concession speech to be excellent and all you Repubs should keep that in mind when it comes time for the next campaign, STAY POSITIVE!
(And no we didn’t have any ROBOCALLS)
Posted by: janomaha | November 8, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am
McCain couldn’t complete his role as a ‘maverick’, he wanted Leiberman as a VP, but sold out for Palin who he knew virtually nothing about. Even moderate Republicans took a deep breath once they got to know more about Palin, and, they couldn’t believe McCain picked her as a backup to the president.
You can see all the faux outrage by Republicans still seething. They will take every opportunity to stall Obama’s policies.
Republicans have now narrowed their ‘base’ so far that it is now far removed from the center.
Think back to the republican debates.
3 or 4 of the candidates said they didn’t believe in evolution…. Palin is part of that crowd…. Palin scared the majority of voters.
Republicans continue to supplicate themselves to the mythological Reagan ‘shining city on a hill’ rhetoric. this will always be a good thing for Dems, the country is moving ahead and the Republicans are mired in old mirages.
The country no longer buys into ‘trickle down’ economics. Ignorance and invective might be an acceptable political platform for Republicans, but American have rejected it.
Amazing how a skinny community organizer beat the Republican Party.
Posted by: Blue | November 8, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am
The popular vote went for Obama, the electoral vote went for Obama. He Won. The electoral vote is outdated and should be done away with. The people have spoken, so get over it and support democracy that we live in. Neither side will ever win because our system is set up to get rid of the elected who we do not agree with. And the shape this country is in now, Al Capone could have beat McCain. We have a new President, to be, and hopefully he can help motivate this nation because if he does not we are doomed by greed.
Posted by: Mike in Ky | November 8, 2008, 1:11 am 1:11 am
Somehow it’s more inspiring with McCain’s and Palin’s loss than with Obama’s lopsided and heavily bought win.
Posted by: young_voter | November 8, 2008, 2:15 am 2:15 am
without an EC all the rural areas of this country would be without any stake in the national offices of our gov.
Posted by: No EC are you kidding?? | November 8, 2008, 2:24 am 2:24 am
The democrats (Obama) bought the presidency, so much for getting money out of Politics. I have the feeling we will be paying for this for along time. We already have more government than we can afford. A fiscal crises thanks to the democrats, forcing a trillion plus in Bail Out that so far has done nothing. This President Elect and Congress will be a rolling DISASTER mostly because they won’t be able to control themselves or their spending. The Iraq War will be cheap in comparison and all that just to buy votes.
Posted by: Philip V. | November 8, 2008, 4:02 am 4:02 am
The only that concerns me about the elections results is that there were so many idiots who voted for the repackaged John McCain (or maybe I never understood what the “old” McCain wanted). Face it he had poor choices for a VP and he picked an idiot who’s one virtue is that she chose not to abort a pregnancy.
Posted by: Mr. Coffee | November 8, 2008, 5:35 am 5:35 am
I love hearing all these GOP sour grapes. Boo hoo, wingnuts. You can whine about ACORN and liberals all you want for the next 4 years. But I’ve looked at your bullpen for 2012 and I’m not losing a minutes’ worth of sleep at night.
Posted by: rbyanes | November 8, 2008, 5:56 am 5:56 am
will the Almighty Obama do the right thing and make sure his aunt that he did not know about gets thrown out of the country with a bag lunch.
Posted by: Ron | November 8, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am
POTUS-ELECT OBAMA will let the proper agencies deal with his aunt, right down to packing her a lunch
Posted by: one planet, one people, please | November 8, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am
What a joke, Obama does not belong in the White House.
Posted by: ml | November 8, 2008, 8:09 am 8:09 am
It do not care. He won; that is it.
What I am looking for now is a signal that the far left and right can both jump ship, so he can go about the business of leading from the Center Right and left. Compromise is what has been missing from politics.; enough of the crap that was ushered in with Nixon.
Ideologues look at the Middle East I have had enough of you people attacking my government, and political system. Both camps frighten me.
Posted by: Thinking | November 8, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am
Hard to beleive that 56 million idiots wanted to keep things the way they’ve been for the last eight years. Sarah was the perfect know-nothing candidate for the moron “value” voters.
Posted by: Bob | November 8, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am
We won. It feels so odd to say something I have avoided for sooo long.
We won and by doing so my country is the winner even those who have been made afraid by the GOP.
Posted by: Grissom | November 8, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am
It’s going to be so nice to watch the GOP losers whining for the next eight years. Payback time losers, enjoy it…
Posted by: Peter Jackson | November 8, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am
The GOP may whine, because I guess they think that is their job.
but after the train wreck of a gift they gave us the last eight years.
president obama, with the help of the rest of the country, who realized how wrong things were. and we want to make them right. we will help president obama do a good job. and put this country back on the correct path again.
the Gop may complain because they think that is the role they should play.
but they will benefit also.
Posted by: one planet, one people, please | November 8, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am
It’s like the final nail in the Coffin…
Obamaha??? Who’d a thunk????
As for Obama’s Dad’s 1/2 Brother’s wife??? I’m sad for them both. Any decent person in this Country would do everything they could for family. Yes laws need to be followed. What decent person among US has not been taught that family comes first??? Obama now finds himself in a no win situation. If it were me I’d try to find a back door to help without letting anyone know what I did…
Posted by: Chapman | November 8, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am
Funny how Republicans were calling Bush’s 2 barely won elections “mandates”. He barely won the electoral college AND the popular vote both times.
Obama blows McCain out by 192 EVs, 7.7 million popular votes, flips 9 red states blue (even one EV in Nebraska) and some of you STILL can’t call this a mandate??? LOL!!! So when the black guy wins the standards get changed again, huh? It’s only a mandate win a white Republican wins by the skin of his teeth?
Posted by: Rob | November 8, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
The media, Obama supporters and anti-Americans are to blame for allowing Obama to buy this election with money from terrorists, and handing him in a silver platter our great nation. Obama is the first Arab-American President, NOT Black or African-American President. Let’s see where the first attack comes from? I’m pretty sure the Obama supporters will continue to celebrate and gloat.
Obama’s “money” could not buy enough NO votes on proposition 8 in California. The ban on same-sex marriage was defeated in California, Arizona, and Florida! All is not lost. I rather lose an election than lose my soul!
Posted by: Annonymous | November 8, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Obama is probably the most corrupt person to be elected president. Why did he refuse to release the names of his donors? McCain had no trouble doing so. I’m not a Republican, I’m an American who is troubled by the election of an anti-America corrupt bigot with his clone wife, a liar who is a product of the Chicago political machine, well known for its lack of ethics. Now if anyone says anything negative about him it will be because they’re a racist. That’s the game the Demos have played forever. obama has already appointed some of Bill Clinton’s corrupt cronies to key posts. A chill ran down my spine when he was elected. I’m an independent (ex-democrat) by the way. I didn’t like Bush nor McCain but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Obama is still under investigation by Judicial Watch. His past associations are an indication of his character…crooks, commies, and con-men (and a terrorist) to name a few. Good luck America.
Posted by: Ron Powell | November 9, 2008, 6:41 am 6:41 am
Ron Powell – You need to get out of the house more often, change your channel from Fox News once in a while, move the dial on your radio around from Rush, Hannity, & Mark Levin, and stop focusing on the lies they tell on FreeRepublic. Start looking at facts instead of lies and innuendo.
You say Judicial Watch is investigating President-elect Obama. So What??!!! While JW has been an irritant to the last two presidents, they certainly do not have any executive, legislative, or judicial power whatsoever. Their right-wing hackery and conspiracy theories scare no one.
And, if you want to talk about the most corrupt President ever to be elected to office, I suggest you look at the corrupt thug who was reelected to office in 2004! Watch the preemptive pardons and immunity start spilling out of Bush’s office around the end of Decemeber in an effort to keep most members of his administration out of jail!
Oh, and get a life!
Posted by: ddc2008 | November 9, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am