OFFICIAL OHIO THREAD HERE: Let's keep it in ONE PLACE

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

[Tatiana]

1. Good idea.

I hope those people standing in those 3-9 hour lines were able to vote and have their votes counted.

[Dangerman]

2. Got it.

[metisnation]

5. great idea

if you look at the county map you will see that the only areas left to report are heavy I mean heavy Democratic there is some large number of votes that they are counting remember its a paper ballot there NOT DIEBOLD.

[Princess Turandot]

43. According to USA Today, a poll at Kenyon College expects to be open..

until at least 2 AM, because one of their 2 machines conked out.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/OH.htm

[Dangerman]

3. OH GOD!

82% precincts reported and Kerry STILL trails Bush 48-51%!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Per Joe Lackhart most of Cleveland not counted yet

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH/P/00/index.html

[pimpbot]

15. it wont add up

Sorry... if you check county by county, even with the large leads we have in several, and with more to be reported, there are a bunch of bush leading counties with votes left to count. I dont think theres a way to pick up 140000 votes.... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[OnceAndFutureTruth]

27. What about provisional votes? They haven't been counted, have they?

How many are there?

[mike_c]

4. jesus christ this is so 2000....

I am going to need pharmacuetical assistance to sleep tonight....

[dave502d]

10. How many seen the long lines and went home.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. send me some

I went anti chemical 10 years ago but screw it!

[cynatnite]

Are there people still waiting to vote in Ohio? n/t

[JPJones]

6. It's Ohio or nothing.

Winning all other states is only 269.

[Tatiana]

7. 83% precincts reporting.

Bush(Incumbent) 2,359,046 51%
Kerry 2,221,578 48%
Badnarik 12,357 1%

[Blue-Jay]

8. Faux just called it for *

shiiiiit

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. Of course they would but no one else has

CBS is holding back...Per a reporter on CBS, won't be ready to announce until 3 0r 4 central time.

[faithnotgreed]

11. ot: im glad to see a "familiar face"....

just had to say that because i dont recognize very many people here. i believe we are going to win but its a little unsettling, i admit, to see all the scurry

[wellstone_democrat]

22. yes, most of the place tonight seems "new"

nice to see you. Thanks for keeping some hope alive NSMA.

[tjdee]

12. Magic, how FOX ALWAYS KNOWS which way it's going to go, isn't it?

How nice for Bush to have a brother who governs Florida and a cousin who works for a "news" network!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. According to CBS REPORTER, Ohio won't be ready until 3 or 4 FUCK FOX

don't know if that report was from the Cleveland registrar or from the state.

[Tatiana]

16. We have less than 20% precincts left to report.

And we need over 130,000 votes.

[Sara Beverley]

17. I thought there were over 800,000 votes still out in OH

and 1.5 million absentee votes in FL.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

18. CNN just said "Less than 130.000 votes separate the 2 candidates"

Kerry picking up substantial votes in Ohio. 9:50 Pacific time...

[pimpbot]

19. its less than 93,000 now

[okieinpain]

20. they just said that kerry can get it in cleveland. oh lordy.

what happens then.

[Tatiana]

28. Watch Franklin county.

It was pink, but has turned purple. This is where one of the lawsuits was filed and where voters were waiting up to 9 hours to vote. Judge issued a stay, but I wonder if those ballots have been counted as regular election ballots or provisional ones.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/docs/ohio/110204appeal.pdf

[Peachhead22]

21. Chris Jansing of MSNBC just said:

per Ohio state sources, Kerry took Cleveland by...wait for it...190,000 votes!

<that's 190K over shrub*>

[Blasphemer]

23. How many of those already counted? nt

[endnote]

24. Are the absentee votes already included in the count??

[Dangerman]

25. Ohio, Please listen to me!

If you guys vote for Bush... You will be responsible for THIS:



The death of America as we know it.

VOTE KERRY!!!

[Catfight]

26. Am I the only one who saw that Ohio is mostly red, just a few little

blue areas. The fact is, our country has decided that the Bush agenda to bring more coffins into our borders is a good idea. I'm writing off my repug family, I don't want to talk to any of them anymore, they can spend there fucking holidays without me. I can't stand repugs right now, they voted for what? hate and intolerance? War? what exactly did they vote for?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

30. FYI recounts in Ohio required when within .25% margin. eom

[Truth_To_Power]

31. While we are waiting for more info on Ohio...

Would someone please walk on over to NH and f'ing pick up Kerry's 4 EV-- Geez still only at 88% What are they doing a recount?

[LiberalAndProud]

32. OHIO is ours.

Who has a capture of the OHIO results page last pm? Bushies have to take Ohio by greater margin than were reflected on the "test" page. This is going to LITIGATION in Dems don't take OH EV. Got it folks?!

[shelley806]

33. Motorcade and rove: preparing victory "march" b/c Rove thinks OH won

[chieftain]

34. I just checked the Cuyahoga County web page and it showed

a 214,000 margin for Kerry . MSNBC reported that the Republicans told her that they would worry if Kerry came out of Cleveland with a margin of above 200,000 . I think we are still in this .

[cynatnite]

35. Link Please n/t

[chieftain]

40. It's at

http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/currentresults1.htm

[cheshire]

36. Gap closed 2,478 to 2,361, absentees not counted. we are closing in.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

37. CBS refusing to call on basis of provisional ballots and

heavy Dem areas not counted

[Truth_To_Power]

39. CNN says won't call Ohio for * because

Kerry camp say once all votes counted by 3-4am this morning margin will narrow to less than 50,000 votes and there are approx. 200,000
provisional ballots. Jeff Tobin says in 2000 election over 90% of Ohio's provisonal ballots were counted giving Kerry the state. This may be another election when folks go to bed thinking oe guy's the president when another actaully is...

[OnceAndFutureTruth]

38. CNN refuses to call OH for Bush!!! Says there are 200,000 provisional

AND that 90% of provisional went Democrat last time!!!!!!!

[faithnotgreed]

42. WHO KNEW that cnn would be the only sane channel tonight? even wolf

and judy have been fair all night. and judy was the one who spoke with jeffrey toobin - he reported that there are 200k provisional ballots in ohio. and judy spoke up in support of that and said "this is important" and basically said there must be reason that campaign is saying this, and pointed out this is why they arent ready to call ohio

go cnn. thank you

[OnceAndFutureTruth]

44. Yep...good for her. Always have liked her.

The Kerry people better get all their attorneys on planes to OH as fast as they can. The provisional ballots don't get counted until 11 days after the election. So it will be a LOONNGGG time.

And while they are at it. Get some of those nasty trial lawyers down to FL too. Any state where there is a large discrepancy between the exit polls and the final tally.

I just refuse to give up hope!

Wolf Blitzer just asked Ken Blackwell, the the Governor of OH, about what Kerry should do. He said he couldn't advise the Kerry campaign, but if the number of provisional ballots are more than the spread between the candidates, then everyone should just take a deep breath, because we are gonna have to wait a while. (11 days to be exact.) The governnor, although a republican, seems an honest man, and interested in a fair outcome.

Go Ohio!

[hunter]

41. This election is broken.

Worse than last time.

Pay attention, stay in the fight.