US Election Watch - we'll be here for a while!

[taliac]

After the success of the all day / night London Election party we had earlier in the year, who fancies one for the US election?

Lots of nothing news so far from the US - some polling stations have long queues, but others don't! John McCain says tomorrow he "will be the President of the United States!" Sarah Palin is "very optimistic!" Hilary Clinton is predicting a big Obama win! Obama has been playing basketball!

Its going to be a good one..

no no....florida polls are closed...so are indiana i believe...

Florida definitely looking good.

Or is that just wishful thinking since we can only see a few counties.

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SallyS - Hiawatha's favourite tipple was his own urine.

i am so tired....but i can't bring myself to go to bed until i know...

thank goodness Hitchens has gone

I'm watching it on the bbc website now as my toddler watches In the night garden on the tv in the same room. Bad mummy.

The way the BBC are reporting it oddly reminds me of eurovision.

I'm running between pc and BBC news. C'mon Obama!

At 6:15 this evening, all the streets within 5 blocks of Obama's house were blocked off. As DS and I left our friend's house (about 6 blocks from BO's house (I hadn;t realised what his initials were...) this afternoon a series of black SUVs with blacked out windows passed us and people were yelling, 'Obama' but I suspect it was just the secret service people and not the man himself. All police days off were cancelled today and there is obviously a very visible police presence. Everyone seems to have left work early and the streets are pretty much deserted other than some people who were lining on of the main streets in the neighbourhood, hoping for a glimpse of our next President.

From my window, I can see all the lights of downtown. I really want to go and be there tonight but I am not convinced that it is a good place for a single mum and her sleepy 3 year old. I couldn't take the pushchair and I don't think we'd be able to get home, so I think I am resigned to watching it on TV. I think the city could have put a big screen up here so that Obama's neighbours could have watched celebrated here.

What shall I do?

Go

pmsl...loving david dimbleby's nearly saying mccain the best of a, err. best of a....DIFFICULT bunch

How cool is that SB!

Ah, why can't you take the pushchair?

I know, sooooo excited.

And I MET him. Woohoo.

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Superbunny, why don't you get together with neighbours to watch/celebrate together

according to CNN he's relaxing at home and will go downtown later........

Because they are expecting over a million people and pushchairs and crowds are bad here. I once went to the 4th of July fireworks and tried to leave with a million people and it was scary - stampedes and people getting crushed. I feel like it would be a bit irresponsible to subject DS to that. But eeeeeek. I can almost see it from my apartment!

Go if it is safe, how cool to say to your ds or dd that they were part of such an important moment in history.

AmIWhat... I thought that too re eurovision!

Have broken out the popcorn, surely not too fattening?

Swedes I'd guess for the same reason no Londoner would take a pushchair to notting hill carnival or mayors parade etc. Crowds and pushchairs are a bad bad idea.

At the moment Obama is winning Texas 54% with 2 million votes in! If he gets that its curtains for McCain!

Also, they were talking about not having a resukt til Thursday...