Off-Topic

In. I will be drinking heavily tonight. Obviously.

News and notes:

Exit polls are out in various states, but they are literally quarantined until 5:30, so anything that claims to be from exit polls are bunk if it's before 5:30.

Rent is definitely too damn high.

And The Onion wins the morning... http://onion.com/bjQmRH

Probably not a good idea this late in the game.

Carl Paladino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York, cut short a television interview with CNN affiliate WCAX after the reporter repeatedly asked whether recent remarks he made about New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are "sexist."

Paul, tell me who to vote for.

We disagree on basically everything. So, if I tell you, will you just vote the opposite??? lol

Many people use "TARP" and "the bailouts" as a shorthand for all the financial interventions.

Is anybody aware of a place where pretty much ALL races that are expected to be close (Governors, House, Senate, even Ballot Questions) are listed in one place? The Senate ones are pretty easy to keep track of, but once you start adding in the other ones it gets pretty unmanageable...

2 more polls out for WA-Sen.

Fox - Murray +2
PPP - Rossi +2

Sooo....yeah....

So wait...right wing fox news has the Dem up 2.......while the left wing PPP has the Pub up 2 points. Who would have thought???

Washington will be the biggest cluster F is its that close....they do their ballots by MAIL. Could take more than two week to know who won Washington. Imagine if it somehow controls the balance of the Senate. What a !@#$@# show that would be.

Wait until they try counting ballots in Alaska, and whether they spelled "Murkowski" right, or they intended to spell it right, or the ink smeared, or [head exploding]

WSJ blog:

Coons Camp Expresses Turnout Worries

Most polls have predicted that the closely watched Delaware Senate race between Democrat Chris Coons and Republican tea-party favorite Christine O’Donnell was going to be anything but close. One poll last week had Mr. Coons up by 10 points, while all the others gave him a far more comfortable margin.

But Democrats in Delaware remain skittish.

In a noon email alert to supporters, Coons campaign manager Christy Gleason said close monitoring of voter turnout in the state’s 41 representative districts showed “lower turnout in New Castle and Kent counties than we’re comfortable with.”

To win, Mr. Coons will have to get heavy support from Democrats and independents in New Castle, the state’s most populous county. In the primary, Ms. O’Donnell drew heavy support from the state’s other two counties, Kent and Sussex, which skew more to the right.

Here's my tentative list of drinking game rules so far, tailored to watching on CNN:

Drink:
-"too close to call"
-a race is called
-that crazy interactive map
-sour grapes from a democrat
-"tea party"
-anderson cooper
-"1994"

chug:
-a tweet is read/a serious journalist uses the word "tweet"
-"tidal wave"
-sour grapes from a democrat who mentions Citizens United or the word "shadowy"
-totally useless and over the top technology, like that cnn hologram interviewer
-A republican uses "change we can believe in" or another Obama slogan in an attempt to be clever

finish a beer:
-Obama resigns
-Christine O'Donnell wins
-GOP wins the Senate

Neal, I'd make sure you've got a good life insurance policy in place before attempting this game. Your only hope is that CNN just leaves the interactive map up the entire time so it only counts as one drinking incident.