OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS THREAD

[Joseph_Botwinick]

91.8% reporting in Florida, and Bush is maintaining his 51.7% to 47.5% lead.

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

Bush wins Montana.

 

[bb_baptist]

Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
91.8% reporting in Florida, and Bush is maintaining his 51.7% to 47.5% lead.

FLORIDA

Bush 3,349,732 51.7%
Kerry 3,081,324 47.5%

91.8% Reporting

 

[JGrubbs]

Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
91.8% reporting in Florida, and Bush is maintaining his 51.7% to 47.5% lead.

Only five counties left to report in Florida.

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_DET_PRE.html

 

[ScottEmerson]

I mapped out my projections - with Bush winning FL and OH and giving Kerry everything else that's close, Bush gets a 284-254 win. It's going to be chaotic here with all of the absentee ballots, but I heard on MSNBC that people think Bush will have an edge there.

Any reason to think Ohio will shift within the next 39% of precincts? (It's Bush 52%-48% with 61% of the precincts reporting.)

 

[JGrubbs]

Will they wait till last to call Florida, just because of what happend in 2000? Or, are they waiting for the absentee and early voting ballots to be counted before calling Florida?

 

[bb_baptist]

OHIO

Bush 1,747,933 52%
Kerry 1,618,317 48%

61% Reporting

 

[bb_baptist]

Still no surprises, and Kerry needs some surprises to win the election.

 

[JGrubbs]

Florida race for President

6864 of 7241 precincts - 95 percent

George W. Bush (i) Rep 3,481,754 - 52 percent
John F. Kerry Dem 3,178,350 - 47 percent
Ralph Nader RP 29,650 - 0 percent
Michael Badnarik Lib 10,526 - 0 percent
Michael Peroutka CST 6,074 - 0 percent
David Cobb Grn 3,976 - 0 percent
Walter Brown Soc 3,349 - 0 percent
James Harris SWP 2,608 - 0 percent

 

[KenH]

Originally posted by JGrubbs:
Or, are they waiting for the absentee and early voting ballots to be counted before calling Florida?

Aren't the early votes already counted? Weren't there about 2,000,000 of them? Surely they are in the numbers already.

 

[JGrubbs]

They said on the news, that none of the absentee ballots or eary votes have been counted yet. They are treating all Florida early votes as absentee ballots, they will all be counted together.

 

[bb_baptist]

Popular Vote

Bush
(Incumbent)
38,266,493 51%
Democratic Kerry
36,246,231 48%

60% precincts reporting - Updated 11:37 p.m. ET

 

[KenH]

There were about 6,000,000 votes in Florida in 2000. Florida is already well past that number.

Also, listening to the TV it sounds like the Kerry folks have pretty much conceded Florida.

 

[JGrubbs]

California race for President

1006 of 24039 precincts - 4 percent

John F. Kerry Dem 571,495 - 55 percent
George W. Bush (i) Rep 463,813 - 44 percent
Michael Badnarik Lib 4,305 - 0 percent
David Cobb Grn 3,303 - 0 percent
Leonard Peltier PFP 2,450 - 0 percent
Michael Peroutka AIP 2,390 - 0 percent

 

[bb_baptist]

It's clear that OHIO IS EVERYTHING!

 

[KenH]

Yep. Whoever wins Ohio, wins it all, it appears to me.

 

[here now]

Well I hope Susan Estrich is wrong.

 

[KenH]

Considering how poorly her candidate, Michael Dukakis, did when she ran his campaign in 1988, I wouldn't be surprised if she is wrong about a lot of political stuff.

 

[here now]

Susan says that the Kerry people say that it is Cleveland,OH that is still out and it is mostly Democrats. She's on Fox.

 

[bb_baptist]

In case Kerry wins Ohio, Bush can still win

WISCONSIN

Kerry 610,539 51%
Bush 579,503 48%
41% precincts reporting - Updated 11:43 p.m. ET

NEW MEXICO

Bush 176,066 51%
Kerry 164,153 48%
62% precincts reporting - Updated 11:46 p.m. ET