The northlondonhippy

Archive for November, 2008

It might be closer than the pre-polling sug­gests, but I am already get­ting the feel­ing that its going to be a good night for Obama and his party.

I’ve been flip­ping between:

- FoxNews
– CNN
– MS-NBC
– SKY
– BBC

They all have giant sets and really whizzy graph­ics, espe­cially the Amer­i­can net­works. They’re all being cau­tious in their pro­jec­tions, which is sen­si­ble, but not very exciting.

CNN win on the tech­nol­ogy front, Wolf Blitzer is talk­ing to actual, life-like holo­grams of peo­ple in other parts of the coun­try. Spooky!

The key states at this hour remain too close to call, but that in itself could be telling us some­thing, as the key states in pre­vi­ous elec­tions were firmly in the Repub­li­can column.

The inter­net may be my per­sonal medium of choice for doing my own thing, but at heart I am a tele­vi­sion viewer. I’m split­ting my time between my desk­top com­puter and my tv, though as this thing heats up, I’ll prob­a­bly switch to surf­ing on my iPhone while I remain on the sofa. Like you needed to know that.

- the northlon­don­hippy
– 00:25gmt — 5th Novem­ber 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

I’ve got a bad case of elec­tion fever.

It’s a com­mon afflic­tion, but I feed my addic­tion with a steady diet of 24-hour news channels.

Don’t worry, I should be cured by Wednes­day. We all will be cured then.

I hope, try­ing not to think of 2000 and poor ol’ Al Gore, who had it snatched from his grasp dur­ing a lengthy post-election wank­fest cour­tesy of a con­spir­acy of scum.

As long as there’s a clear out­come by Wednes­day morn­ing, I’ll def­i­nitely be cured.

This has been one of the most fas­ci­nat­ing, cap­ti­vat­ing, elec­tri­fy­ing cam­paigns I’ve ever seen. It really feels like we’re watch­ing his­tory unfold.

I hope we are, but I’m still not con­vinced. I have so many sce­nar­ios run­ning through my head where Obama doesn’t win. The polls all show him with a clear lead.

Polls can some­times be wrong and as we saw in 2004, even when the pre-election polling tells the truth, the offi­cial vote can lie.

Come Wednes­day, it’s either going to be “Oba­ma­ma­nia” or “the death of all hope.”

Please, let it be the for­mer, because the lat­ter sounds like a real bum­mer, man.

(scroll down for my unsur­pris­ing endorse­ment of Barack Obama)