The northlondonhippy

Archive for November 4th, 2008

Its around 11pm here in north Lon­don, and the elec­tion TV spe­cials are about to kick off on just about every chan­nel I receive, except for Play­boy and QVC. I’ll be up all night, mon­i­tor­ing the cov­er­age, because I am sad.

I’m also obsessed with this elec­tion and I want to remain awake until Obama deliv­ers what I hope will be his vic­tory speech.

I’m aim­ing to blog through­out the night, with occa­sional updates so I can share my obser­va­tions with you.

At this point, its look­ing good for Obama, but I am still being very cau­tious. The scum­bags on the right will do what­ever they can to try to steal this one and I can’t let go of that feel­ing. After 2000 & 2004, its a rea­son­able fear.

To me, the real story already will be the mas­sive voter turn-out. I am guess­ing it will be a record for a pres­i­den­tial election.

And if there really is a land­slide, blow-out for Barack, the story to watch will be the direc­tion con­gress takes. Please let it be be broadly Democratic!

All I can say for sure is that its going to be a long and inter­est­ing night.

- the northlon­don­hippy
23:00gmt — Tues­day 4th Novem­ber 2008