Sudokuaholics Anonymous 6

Are we racing?

Hi Ruby.

Heidi, you snuck in again.

I'm off. They should be finished voting in California by now Then to the puzzles.

How do you like my dumb luck!

Obama has taken a major lead in the electoral college!!! And the west coast hasn't even closed the polls yet!!!

Heidi, I am with you 100%. Maybe I should send my older brother to live with your IH. They should get along just fine.

Hi Mitchell and Dylan!

Brenda and Tami, I used to drive the 405 freeway past LAX to get to work. I was stopped more than I moved!

Mamacita.... You did good work. Pennsylvania went to Obama.!!!!!

Hi again - keep posting topsiders - can't get enough info here. Glad it's looking good for Obama!
Heidi - sorry about your rabbit - glad he had a long enjoyable life though!
Hi to Mitchell and Dylan.

Geez Cyn, you must get different TV stations to me! I've got a couple of stations full time on the US Elections!

Try http://edition.cnn.com/ or http://abcnews.go.com/.

Heidi think you should have found a way to vote more than once!

The president is elected by the electoral college. Whoever gets to 270 wins (that is 1 more than half) The count currently stands:
Obama 175 and McCain 76.

My rabbit Todd was a girl. Two little boys I know named her.

I think Todd is a nice name for a girl. My mom once told me if I was a boy that would have been my name. I could have been "Todd the Troublemaker"

Suzy - not watching TV - suppose I should put it on but it's in another room from pooter and I know which I'd rather be in front of. Am now listening live on-line to a good radio station.
OOOH - Tami - looking good for Obama!

With half of Florida's votes counted, Obama has 51% and McCain has 48%. It is going to be close here.

Here is a website for those of you that might want to check on the results.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Hello, SA6! Good maEn! This is just a hello post as I read about 50 pages I missed. It's good to be back. I hope EVERYONE is feeling better and had good test results and is recovering from assorted ills! Happy Belated Birthday to anyone I missed and Happy Anniversary if I missed one!

Thanks Tami for the website - watching it now!

Hi Julie - welcome back!

Hi Julie, welcome back. You have been missed.

CynB, glad you like the site. I checked it out and thought it was easy to navigate. It is also the tv news I usually watch.

Yes, Tami, even for someone not familiar with your system - this page is easy to follow.

Thank you, CynB and Tami, for the welcome! It's SOOO good to be back! So far I haven't turned on the TV. This election has divided our family. (Son-in-law has corrupted daughter.) It will be "wait-and-see" for the results of the voting - and for the changes to come from whoever will be our new president. And now, back to reading the posts I missed.

Julie, I hope it doesn't tear your family apart. I was watching Rudy Guliani earlier who said that tomorrow we all go back to being Americans and need to support our president. I hope that works for your family.

All Obama needs to win now is Florida and California, and he is our next President. He has the lead in quite a few other states as well.

CynB, if you are interested, when you go to the website, if you click on Florida it will break it down by county. I live in Broward county. It is on the southeast side, just above Miami. I have been having fun scrolling over the different states to see what is happening.

Heidi, he is leading in Florida, but barely. It is currently 51% Obama, and 48% McCain.

Does he have a good chance of winning them Heidi?

He is expected to win California, and most of the west coast. My fingers are crossed for Florida. It has become pivotal. IF He wins it, he should win enough electoral votes to win, without having to worry about any states but CA.

Looking even better. Now all he needs to win is California and either Florida, Virginia OR North Carolina. He has the lead in all of them.

One thing I've always found fascinating is the way the news stations project who will win what state when only a few % of the votes have been counted. They get it wrong sometimes, but more often they get it right!

The one person one vote count is a lot closer than the electoral college... but didn't Bush win with fewer votes?

G'Day SA6ers.
Hope all of you in America vote in the right person, sometimes I think who you vote in has more effect on Oz then who we vote in

IH has just conceded the victory to Obama! I think I'm gonna faint.

everyone.

Suzy, a candidate can win the popular vote, but still lose in the electoral college and vice-versa. The electors do not have to vote the way the populace did, tho for the most part they do.

OMG I've never seen this before! Will.I.Am (who I have never heard of, but that's beside the point) just appeared on CNN as a hologram!!! Wow!

Popular vote! I knew there was a sensible name for it!

vdV, that must be true based on the coverage we're getting!

The Electoral College is a state- winner-takes-all vote. The majority of voters in Kentucky voted for McCain, so he got all 8 of Kentucky's electoral votes. Obama just won the popular vote in Virginia, so he gets all of Virginias (15?) electoral votes. It's a silly way to run an election. I would prefer that ALL votes get counted equally.

Just popped over to catch up on the vote. I still refuse to turn on the TV. (My comment earlier about son-in-law corrupting daughter's thought patterns does NOT indicate any other negatives about him. But he has convinced her that they will lose their house because taxes will spiral upward if Obama wins. Oh - to prove him wrong!)