Obama Wins Pennsylvania, Networks Say
MSNBC and ABC call McCain's "last stand" state for Obama.
That's a very early call, suggesting a big, big win.
More soon.
Late Update: The exit polls suggest that Obama won solid victories among key groups: He won among voters with only a high-school education, among Catholics, decisively among independents, among men, white women, among whites making under $50,000, and among voters of all age groups, including 65 or over.
Late Late Update: Fox calls the state for Obama, too.
Late Late Late Update: MSNBC exits show that Dems who wanted Hillary to win the primary went for Obama overwhelmingly, 81%-19%.
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I know it's early but I believe.,
It's a tsunami.
November 4, 2008 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES! YES! YES! And NH too. It's happening! What an historic night in progress!
November 4, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES! YES! YES! And NH too. It's happening! What an historic night in progress!
November 4, 2008 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
IS
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
TOTALLY
November 4, 2008 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
EXCELLENT
November 4, 2008 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS...
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
FOR...
November 4, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE SOVIET UNION!!!
November 4, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
hot damn!
HOt Damn!!!
HOT DAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!!!!!
WE WOOONNNNNN!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
FOR
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
WHERE MCAIN WANTS HIM!
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
IS . . .
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
THE MOST AMAZING THING THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER DONE!
November 4, 2008 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Most amazing thing in this boy's lifetime.
John Updike once wrote that "America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."
I can believe it tonight!
November 4, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
FOR A HUKILAU
November 4, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
A HUKIHUKIHUKIHUKILAU
November 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yahoooooooooooo!!
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Yes, Yes....I know Rachel looks still concerned but this is it...Obama wins the election...it's all about the margins now.
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rachel, for all her beauty and intelligence and wit, is so concern troll she's becoming Debbie Downer.
November 4, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh shyte!!! Yes We Can!
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
As the night goes on, notice the thoughts of the Bradly Affect get silent and more silent. That was McCain's only hope.
November 4, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod
November 4, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I so want IN to flip. I grew up there before moving to WA. It would make me SO happy!
November 4, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm praying that this isn't some cosmic joke...if so, I'm going back to snorting dad's ashes.
November 4, 2008 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe it... I wanna cry. America is back...
November 4, 2008 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
And Joe wins Delaware :)
November 4, 2008 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think I'm gonna throw up.
ohgodohgodohgod
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tweety is flipping out. And how about that Joe whathisname? I never watch the guy, but he gave it up an hour ago. YES!!
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is our next President.
My new motto I can now unleash:
We are not going from hell to heaven, considering the state of the economy and the state of the world. But we are going from hell to purgatory.
That will do. Americans do well in purgatory.
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fox just called the Kentucky Senate race for McConnell. So far, it looks like they're the only ones.
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
DRINKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of you.
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, 5pm, time to open that bottle of Oban!
Heh. Obana?
November 4, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hussein Whiskey!
November 4, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess this is where doing your homework pays off. I'll wait for the hard numbers, though. Never underestimate the pennsylwacky..
November 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I loves me some Howard Dean!
The beginning of the healing of America.
o sheeeeeeeeit = the dam broke -
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are SO right, Tena.
Howard is the power behind the throne. Or one of them. We owe him big.
He never got to be the bride, but what a bridesmaid!
November 4, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll always be proud of being an actual, donating, Deaniac in 2004.
November 4, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're calling NC for Hagen! :)
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I've been diminished, but I'm still here!! I hope VA goes for Obama. Starting to scare me.
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hurray for PA!!! From "a highly educated Montgomery County, PA girl!!
I'm watching MSNBC, you can sure tell Chris Matthews is gunning for a Senate seat in PA in 2010. I guess he thinks Arlen Spector will be too sick to run then? Will he run as a Republican or a Democrat?
Can't wait to see what the voter turnout rate was for the metro Philly area and the African-American and youth vote! My eighteen year old son voted for the first time this election . . . for Obama!
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Matthews better start boning up on the coal industry then--and from the (under)ground level on up. It's a lot of people's livelihood, including trucking.
Here in Central PA (soft coal country) the big Republican scare is that there will no longer be a market for coal--regulated out of business with all the 'clean coal' talk. I tell them to stop worrying, Arlen Specter always did well by miners. So much that Dems will split their ticket to vote for him.
November 4, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh Jesus wept. I can't believe this is really happening.
November 4, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Warner in VA. Yaay!!! Not that moron Gilmore.
November 4, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
What the hell? I'm submitting comments and...they're going through. No complaints about unprecedented traffic. No error messages about nodes.
I mean. The site is working. Like. The way it's supposed to.
What's going on here? I can't deal with the comment section actually working properly!
November 4, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh shnapp! Howard Dean just called Obama "articulate".
Joe Biden's gunna be pissed. :)
November 4, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
OH, fuck it.
Obama is marvelously, miraculously, divinely, democratically
ARTICULATE.
So sue me and Howard.
November 4, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol
November 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
O word!! LOL!
November 4, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chris Matthews: John McCain's negative campaign stratedy has "crashed in Pennsylvania."
O, this is a won'drous thing to behold, is it not
November 4, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh it is, it is Tom! A wonderous thing indeed! I AM GOING TO CRY! OR THROW UP. OR HAVE A STROKE.
November 4, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to say, the PA call marks the first time my brain let a little bit of celebration in since Obama won the primary. I'm going to the fridge . . .
(Hagan's looking good, too!)
November 4, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hagen in the fridge? Doncha mean Haagen in the freezer?
November 4, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whats up with those VA numbers? Im a little worried.
November 4, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too.
November 4, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
About what?
There's nothing to worry about - he doesn't have to have it.
He's going to win there, but even so -
November 4, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes I believe he will win VA but those Ohio numbers are looking pretty good so far.
November 4, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait. The votes from the DC area haven't started coming in yet.
November 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Northern counties - Prince Charles, etc. - aren't reporting yet.
November 4, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Prince William, not Charles
November 4, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or Richmond.
November 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033/
November 4, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
'night John.
Hello President Elect Barack Obama!
November 4, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, please let Franken win, please let Franken win, please let Franken win, please let Franken win, please let Franken win, please let Franken win, please let Franken win, please let Franken win!
November 4, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just talked to someone from the campaign. He's up by 12 in their exits.
November 4, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where?
November 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
D'oh - you meant Franken. I'm dazed -
November 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nate over at 538.com is now projecting McCain to win IN by 1.1%
November 4, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
i hope he is wrong on this.
November 4, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm an intrade addict, and the news is looking alright there. Intrade has Obama- 67, McCain- 33.
November 4, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not quite. He said that was his final projection from polling. That as his projection this morning. But ground game he says can overcome that.
November 4, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tears on the keyboard.
November 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
just got home from a grueling 14 hour shift lawyering for barack at a northern virginia precinct. we were a houdini district, meaning HEAVILY dem. we had around 82% turnout, including absentees. the norm is just under 70% for a presidential election.
we had a couple of good battles with the mccain lawyers, and we put them down on the pavement each time.
WIN THIS BITCH NOW, AMERICA!!!!!
(p.s. i haven't eaten anything but a snack-sized snickers today, but had about 17 cups of coffee)
November 4, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are the shit. Seriously.
November 4, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You should get the Medal of Freedom instead of all those Bush-loving assholes who did!
November 4, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
no, WE are the shit!!!!! WE made this happen!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks nova voter, for all your hard work.
WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS!
November 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are our hero. Thanks.
November 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're da bomb - like tick, tick!
November 4, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I bow in your general direction. The Republic is in your debt.
November 4, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bless you, nova voter!
November 4, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
GREAT! I assume you are talking about Franken?
November 4, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to say rachel's argument that Obama may have spent too many resources in too many states is stupid.
November 4, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seriously. What's her deal tonite?
November 4, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
With this news about PA we can breathe a little easier now for the rest of the evening.
November 4, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
OH WERE GOING FOR A HUKILAU!
November 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
MAU MAU AT THE HUKILAU
November 4, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I drink your milkshake
Obama has crushed your dream
Go away old man.
Perhaps a bit harsh, but it pretty much conveys my feels over the past 3 1/2 months.
November 4, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
What?
November 4, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Never mind. I misread HUKILAU as HAIKU. I wanted to flex my creative muscles. :)
November 4, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I need to see a red state turn blue soon!
November 4, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
FOX NEWS JUST CALLED PA!
November 4, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Virginia results:
https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/
November 4, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
FOX NEWS JUST CALLED PA!
November 4, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's rejoicing in heaven.
And Grandma is leading the dance!
November 4, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
We can't haz open thread?
November 4, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
As a believing Catholic, I want to be among the first to say:
Thank God that the "godless" candidate won the Senate in North Carolina.
November 4, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fox News now calling PA for O.
WTF is up w/CNN?
(Alphabet soup post.)
November 4, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
(Someone had to say it.)
November 4, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
msnbc just called the NC senate race for Hagan.
November 4, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK--now I believe PA--Fox has called it for the Big O
November 4, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Finally CNN calls Pennsylvania!
We turn off the dark tonight!!
November 4, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN finally calls PA for the big O
November 4, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
AZ -- Too close to call!!!
November 4, 2008 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Minnesota goes to Obama, according to CNN. You all realize this is already over, right? Fun to watch, but it's over.
November 4, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink