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LIVE BLOG: Results

| @jpodhoretz 11.02.2010 - 9:16 PM

We should all understand that it’s unlikely we will have every result tonight. Alaska doesn’t close its polls until midnight, and there will be tens of thousands of write-ins; Washington state is all write-in; and California has 2 million absentee ballots to count. And there might be very close Senate races in Nevada and Illinois.

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  1. viewin Nashua says:
    October 22, 2008 at 11:26 am

    McCain has so many Red states to protect it makes no sense he’s coming up to New England. In fact it’s odd, something a gambler would do. McCain will make history again by losing New Hampshire despite twice winning the primaries here. Sarah Palin together with the market crisis have determined that McCain will lose New Hampshire. Social conservatives like Palin are in direct opposition to New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die ethos, which is real and powerful. The $700 billion to Wall Street and then still it didn’t work plan, which McCain took credit for, killed it completely. NH voters know John McCain very well, this is a small state where politics is a seasonal sport and it’s clear from here that McCain is pandering to the same forces he used to denounce. NH voters are savvy and know that electing McCain is in effect reelecting all the Bush appointees and most of his policies.

    McCain is barely advertising here, Sununu never mentions McCain and is actually running ads claiming that the Democrats are more pro-Bush than Sununu ever was. Obama is on the air all the time and his ground operation seems to consist of every college student in Massachusetts.

    I’m personally for Obama, but from a strategic point of view I don’t understand why McCain is wasting time in the Northeast, which is totally lost for the ticket, like NH and Penn. Both states went for Kerry so you think in this environment they’ll be voting Republican?

  2. On the Right says:
    October 22, 2008 at 11:53 am

    “New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die ethos, which is real and powerful.”

    ………

    Anyone who adheres to the Live Free or Die ethos would never vote for Carol Shea Porter, nor for John Kerry, nor for Bill Clinton, nor for Barack Obama. Yet the first 3 all carried NH (or 1/2 of it in CSP’s case), and the fourth apparently will. Live Free or Die may describe New Hampshire’s pre-1990 past, but it certainly has no bearing on its political present or future.

  3. On the Right says:
    October 22, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    Upon further review, I would rephrase “no bearing” as “little bearing”.

  4. RJ says:
    October 23, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Obama’s economic plans are ludicrous. They are only going to plunge our nation into a deeper recession destroy our American lifestyle. He states all of these massive idealistic plans, but there isn’t a single way he plans on paying for it realistically. Obama’s supporters, even the liberal illuminati are going to realize this, let’s hope it isn’t too late.

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