Aaah! I can’t take the tension of this election *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jan 19 2010 at 6:50 pm | Filed under: Open Threads
I keep compulsively flipping between Drudge, which is updating about every ten minutes with numbers, and Hot Air, which is giving trends. The numbers are great, the trends are disturbing. The tension between the two is killing me. I can’t even imagine how Brown feels (and I don’t care how Coakley feels). I would characterize myself right now as cautiously optimistic and highly neurotic.
No matter what the outcome, though, I think a new political star is in the process of being born. Brown has handled with aplomb the fact that he was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. He’s gone to the right places, said the right things (often memorably or wittily), looks good, and seems to keep his focus. I don’t know where he’ll go from here, but if he wants to stay in politics, he’ll definitely go somewhere.
Anyway, consider this an open thread. I’m going to my book club tonight, which is a collection of six lively conservatives, so I’m sure we’ll keep our eyes on the numbers. This will be more exciting than sitting at home with my husband the liberal, who hasn’t said a word about this entire election cycle. Indeed, to my surprise, he never says a thing at all about what’s going on in Washington. During the Bush era, he constantly erupted with “Bush is stupid,” “Republicans are idiots,” etc. This past year, he’s either been silent because he’s being gracious in victory or silent because he has nothing good to say about his own party. I haven’t asked. It’s more fun to speculate.
UPDATE: Okay, Hot Air is now reporting positive trends. I’m breathing better now. Tension is still killing me though. It’s tough not having a sanguine personality.
UPDATE II: By the way, if Brown wins, as he appears to be doing as I write this, I will have accurately predicted that Obama’s appearance in Mass to beg for Coakley votes was a kiss of death for Coakley. He’s now gone begging both at home and abroad, and been rebuffed every time. The Obama magic isn’t just gone, it’s dead and rotting in the sun.
UPDATE III: My traffic is down, and I know why. Everyone is going to Drudge and Hot Air, both of which are periodically unavailable. The New York Times has good data coming in, though, as does The Corner.
UPDATE IV: The place to go: News Fifty, which has current data and is loading quickly. You can go to the home page, or to the dedicated Massachusetts page. The former has the numbers, the latter has some news analysis.
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It’s like waiting for the results of a mammogram, after being pushed, squeezed into a vice – you want relief with a great outcome.
Brown 53% – the other one 46% as of 9 p.m. east coast
Gatewaypundit’s been updating regularly. ( http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/ ) The numbers have been really steady and with 63% of the vote in and a 7 percent spread I’m willing to call it.
It will be interesting to see how aggressive the Dems get on the stalling tactics.
AP CALLS IT FOR BROWN!!!!!!
I just went to Drudge at 6:25 p.m. PST and the headline read that Coakley has just telephoned her concession to Brown.
Fan-ucking-tastic.
I have an incredible urge to watch MSNBC and their version of doing the St. Vitus Day Dance.
When you don’t grow up in America and are raised by loonies and continue your lunatic view of the world through the eyes (insert list here) DON’T TREAD ON ME has no meaning.
I can’t believe just how nervous and unproductive I was all day, checking for news — YEA BROWN! Let’s keep building on it.
P.S. I can’t tell you how much malicious pleasure I got from watching Chris Matthews take the news.
I don’t know what brought me more joy, Brown’s victory or the Rachel & Tingles Show. Understood one is positive joy and the other is shared right up there with you gpc31
I picked my happy tune to celebrate, it has another meaning tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPH0-g25Vl8
Thank you for this blog and thank you Andrew Breitbart — think how impossible winning this seat would have been prior to the internet.
Coachly won’t even do the endless recount fest? She must not love power as much as her party members do.
Wednesday’s Question:
Who get’s thrown under the bus?
[...] seems likeable enough; Bookworm calls him a rising star. He’s plugged into how to work the Internet, he can make the skies rain money, and he’s [...]
Wednesday’s Answer:
Erroll Southers – TSA nominee has withdrawn his name.