Exit polls, results, coverage and all things election night.

Coriolanus

68Murph68 wrote: »

Ha RTE have Trinity's Professor of Drama on.

Hes not very dramatic.

They have a politics department surely, what on earth is the dramatist on for? In the States so can't turn RTE on. :P

Capt'n Midnight

rte 64:82 - where they getting numbers from ?

cnn/bbc on 64:40

Syferus

Professor of drama? Did RTE just ring up all the Universities within an hour's drive of Donnybrook and ask them to send all their american staff members up? It seems like the only qualification they need to tell us about the election is a vaguely American accent.

Coriolanus

msnbc has 64 82 as well.

ZeitgeistGlee

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

rte 64:82 - where they getting numbers from ?

cnn/bbc on 64:40

Was wondering that myself.

Oh Hell Oui!

K-9 wrote: »

Early indications so far are very encouraging for Obama, Florida, Virginia and Ohio. If they hold up, it's all over.

CNN predicting 59 % Obama 40% Romney for Ohio, Florida much closer

VinLieger

RCP now have 79 56

Manic Moran

CNN just put Romney ahead in Florida, 51-49. I don't believe there have been any surprises yet, nor have there been any significant swing states declared.

buyer95

Romney now leads in Florida, 54% of votes counted, about 150,000 votes in it at the moment, this will be a close one guys

brimal

Manic Moran wrote: »

CNN just put Romney ahead in Florida, 51-49. I don't believe there have been any surprises yet, nor have there been any significant swing states declared.

I'm not sure the full schedule of the counties, but I read that the Democrat-leaning counties will be the last to be counted. I think the strong Democrat counties were counted first.

Manic Moran

Oh, I just caught Indiana being projected as going from Blue to Red. How'd I miss that? Not that it's a massive EC vote or anything.

Corkfeen

Florida is going to end up really close whichever way it goes.....

68Murph68

Coriolanus wrote: »

They have a politics department surely, what on earth is the dramatist on for? In the States so can't turn RTE on. :P

Syferus wrote: »

Professor of drama? Did RTE just ring up all the Universities within an hour's drive of Donnybrook and ask them to send all their american staff members up? It seems like the only qualification they need to tell us about the election is a vaguely American accent.

He was a Mitchell scholar and was talking sense to be fair as regard red states/blue states versus individual counties but was very undramatic.

I was sure that it was a moral obligation for a guy with the title of Professor of Drama in Trinity to have at least one of a cape/monocle/walking stick, if not all three.

Manic Moran

brimal wrote: »

I'm not sure the full schedule of the counties, but I read that the Democrat-leaning counties will be the last to be counted. I think the strong Democrat counties were counted first.

I think you mis-typed that, but I agree that the D-leaning precincts tend to come in at the end, due to their generally being bigger.

Then it starts to go back the other way with the absentee ballots chipping in, with their heavy mlitary contingent. Then the provisional ballots, if any....

Syferus

Oh Hell Oui! wrote: »

CNN predicting 59 % Obama 40% Romney for Ohio, Florida much closer

Sounds like you read the tallies in so far, not CNN predicting the win. No way there's a 60-40 split in Ohio. Everyone is still saying it's too close to call.

Capt'n Midnight

Manic Moran wrote: »

Oh, I just caught Indiana being projected as going from Blue to Red. How'd I miss that? Not that it's a massive EC vote or anything.

been pink here for a while
http://edition.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president

Suryavarman

Manic Moran wrote: »

Oh, I just caught Indiana being projected as going from Blue to Red. How'd I miss that? Not that it's a massive EC vote or anything.

Wasn't it one of the first projected? More importantly Vigo county has gone blue with all of the vote counted.

Capt'n Midnight

BBC showing virginia map

any update on Penn

buyer95

Pay no head to 60-40 in Ohio in favour of Obama atm. All exit polls so far have them running kneck and kneck, with a winner impossible to predict, presumably blue counties have been opened first

Suryavarman

Virginia has suspended counting for an hour until the voting lines die down.

cristoir

Obama sneaking back into the lead in Florida with 53 percent counted.

K-9

Oh Hell Oui! wrote: »

CNN predicting 59 % Obama 40% Romney for Ohio, Florida much closer

And Virginia just swung back to Romney. It's 18% vote counted. RTE/BBC coverage is probably as good as any atm, US Networks are just counting boxes.

buyer95

Comedy gold from our after hours counterparts " Sky news showing African American vote counters in Ohio...and an old white guy in a star spangled shirt watching over them like a hawk. I'm guessing he's not an Obama fan. " - phoenix999

Duck Soup

Romney getting absolutely mullahed on the Latino vote nationally, by as much as 75/25.

Brian?

8000 votes between them in Florida. It has 2000 written all over it.

Jesus this is close.

Oh Hell Oui!

Syferus wrote: »

Sounds like you read the tallies in so far, not CNN predicting the win. No way there's a 60-40 split in Ohio. Everyone is still saying it's too close to call.

I apologise wrong choice of words CNN speculating would probably be better!

Aykina

Fantastic "path to whitehouse" graphic in NYTimes:
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenarios?hp

Brian?

Brian? wrote: »

8000 votes between them in Florida. It has 2000 written all over it.

Jesus this is close.

Widening out again to Romney. Old people sure love Romney

Capt'n Midnight

It's interesting to see where the figures come from

rte78:82
cnn 64:56 (web)
bbc 63:40
france 24 on 64:51
sky 79:82

buyer95

Of those polled so far in Florida 70% of 18-29 year olds are in the blue corner, no surprises there I guess, but still thats huge

Manic Moran

Aykina wrote: »

Fantastic "path to whitehouse" graphic in NYTimes:
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenarios?hp

Very nice... but they need a Florida result before it's any use!

trishasaffron

How come the republicans do so well in the deep south? I'd have thought it would be a democrat territory given the history.

Duck Soup

Chris Murphy projected to beat Linda "WWE" McMahon in the Senate race in Connecticut.

Manic Moran

trishasaffron wrote: »

How come the republicans do so well in the deep south? I'd have thought it would be a democrat territory given the history.

It's pretty conservative territory. Insofar as there actually are any "gun-totin', commie-hatin', God-fearin, truck-drivin' rednecks", you'll find them in the South.

Brian?

trishasaffron wrote: »

How come the republicans do so well in the deep south? I'd have thought it would be a democrat territory given the history.

God, guns and Gays.

Capt'n Midnight

buyer95 wrote: »

Of those polled so far in Florida 70% of 18-29 year olds are in the blue corner, no surprises there I guess, but still thats huge

but rural votes will be in later more red.

US networks talking %'s

still haven't seen numbers on CNBC

AL Jazeera 64 / (missed it)

Syferus

buyer95 wrote: »

Of those polled so far in Florida 70% of 18-29 year olds are in the blue corner, no surprises there I guess, but still thats huge

Not really when they're 18-19 year olds, let alone in Florida of all places :pac:

It's been pretty obvious from a long time there would be a drop off in the young vote simply because this election doesn't have the rockstar factor it had in 2008. I wonder what levels of young voter drop-off the Obama campaign are projecting internally.

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BBC have it Obama 77 Romney 76.

Capt'n Midnight

Also the whole bible belt thing too in the south

cunnifferous

trishasaffron wrote: »

How come the republicans do so well in the deep south? I'd have thought it would be a democrat territory given the history.

What I think is confusing is the states with lowest unemployment, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma are solid votes for Romney, while the states with highest unemployment Nevada, Rhode Island, California and New Jersey are all likely solid Obama votes. Which considering the economy is the main issue for most voters is kind of bizarre.

I'm just watching CNN and don't get how they can say it's really close. Obama is matching what he got in Florida in 2008 so looks good to me.

Syferus

I have never been to a friendlier place than the Southern USA. It's a genuinely fun place to be. I always cringe at the 'cutting' caricatures people over here make about the people in that region.

It really is the same as someone there thinking of us as drunk, ginger leprechauns, there's a tinge of truth to it, but to distill it to that even as a joke is about as insulting as you can get.

Brian?

Syferus wrote: »

I have never been to a friendlier place than the Southern USA. It's a genuinely fun place to be. I always cringe at the 'cutting' caricatures people over here make about the people in that region.

It really is the same as someone there thinking of us as drunk, ginger leprechauns, there's a tinge of truth to it, but to distill it to that even as a joke is about as insulting as you can get.

Lovely people in the south, no doubt about it. But at the end of the day they vote on God, guns and gays. It's that simple.

68Murph68

Syferus wrote: »

Not really when they're 18-19 year olds, let alone in Florida of all places :pac:

It's been pretty obvious from a long time there would be a drop off in the young vote simply because this election doesn't have the rockstar factor it had in 2008. I wonder what levels of young voter drop-off the Obama campaign are projecting internally.

Life must be a bit odd for some of those 18-19 year olds in Florida given the vast numbers of old people in certain areas.

Imagine being a youngster in one of the regions in the heart of the retirement community towns.

Suryavarman

cunnifferous wrote: »

What I think is confusing is the states with lowest unemployment, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma are solid votes for Romney, while the states with highest unemployment Nevada, Rhode Island, California and New Jersey are all likely solid Obama votes. Which considering the economy is the main issue for most voters is kind of bizarre.

Well both Dakotas are very oil rich states so would have quite a bit to gain under a pro fossil fuel candidate. Oklahoma is also one of, if not the most Republican states in the country. Nebraska would be pretty red as well.

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buyer95

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Duck Soup

Colorado polls closing in 8 minutes.

southsiderosie

I don't think there will be a call for Florida until the wee hours of the morning. Reports on CNN say the lines are so long at the polls, some will not close before midnight.

ProudDUB

Obamas lead in Florida is down from two percentage points to one & the raw numbers lead has dropped from over 200,000 to a 100,000. Squeaky bum time !