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Jay Carney is getting schooled by Newt Gingrich. - Will Hunting Nov 4, 18:14
Marijuana legalization is going to pass by a huge margin in DC it appears. -- nm - MDH Nov 4, 18:13 1
- It's just medical or is it recreational? -- nm - Krusty Nov 4, 18:17
Considerably less of a sweat for Al Franken this time around. -- nm - Tim Nov 4, 18:13 2
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Nov 4, 18:17
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oof, traffic homeward looks near world-series-nights-level. -- nmbutwhimpering - b. Nov 4, 18:10 2
- b! - budice Nov 4, 18:11 1
  - :) - - b. Nov 4, 18:12
Huh. Today I Learned Gov. Brown didn't produce any campaign spots for his Gov. race, choosing instead to campaign for Props. 1 and 2 - con_carne Nov 4, 18:04 2
- I saw a poll header the other day that said something like 42% of people didn't even know he's up for re-election, because of that. -- nm - b. Nov 4, 18:11 1
  - here's a version. 42% of "likely voters" even. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 4, 18:13
Loosi/strongbad news: Number of redheads in Senate to double -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 18:03
*bbzzzzztttt* New York polls are officially closed -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 18:00
"Our fights are like, seriously epic. He's like....King Lear and I'm like.......Princess Lear" -- nm - prayformojo Nov 4, 17:53
I have no idea where this is in my town, but I need to find it. -- (link) - znufrii Nov 4, 17:43 10
- $399 -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 4, 18:03
- no you don't. now that you have a picture of it, you can get one made. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 17:53 2
  - right, because we've certainly got that in the reno budget. - znufrii Nov 4, 17:55 1
    - :( -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 17:59
- maybe conshohocken brewery? - b. Nov 4, 17:50 5
  - nope, I've been in their bathrooms. :) -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 17:51 4
    - Someone responded that it is Flanigan's Boathouse -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 17:55 3
      - must be new, then, cause I've never seen it there before. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 17:57 2
        
        quit using the ladies room sweetheart -- nm - What Dawson would say Nov 4, 17:57 1
        
        right... - znufrii Nov 4, 17:58
For the first time every, there will 100 women in congress -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 17:42 3
- I like those odds! -- nm - con_carne Nov 4, 17:46
- They had better add some additional Ladies bathrooms. -#justsayin' -- nm - JenBro Nov 4, 17:45 1
  - I can make that happen -- nm - Gil John Biggs Nov 4, 17:49
it came from the merc - tom cruise may be dating miranda kerr? and u2 to do a residency with fallon the week of 11/17. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 4, 17:42 2
- I wonder what he got caught doing that forced a new batch of "look what a ladies man he is" tidbits. -- nm - David Nov 4, 17:54
- In related news, Itunes users to rage uncontrollably the week of 11/7. -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 17:52
Suck it, Scott Brown! -- nm - nubby Nov 4, 17:42 5
- Is that the guy with the hot daughters? -- nm - Bacon Nov 4, 17:58
- heh -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 17:49 3
  - Funniest person on Twitter. -- nm - Tim Nov 4, 18:06 1
    - Pretty asshole-y, though. -- nm - nubby Nov 4, 18:08
  - LOL -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 18:05
seanhorcoffsucks.com -- nm - budice Nov 4, 17:42
Honey Boo Boo's mom reported raided daughter Anna's trust fund to buy her boyfriend, the child molester who molested Anna, a car. -- (link) - Mop Nov 4, 17:37 2
- can the daughter sue momma into giving up the trust and booboo too? -- nm - Lou SeguZi, wheel alignment inspector Nov 4, 17:53 1
  - I believe the wheels are already in motion to take away Momma's two younger children. - Mop Nov 4, 18:03
RC, you're gonna love this story. 2 weeks ago I won a small casino prize. the staff member behind the desk asked for ID. I handed over my DL, and she - Peglegpete Nov 4, 17:34 2
- That's fantastic! This is also the first time I've heard of such an ID -- nm - Krusty Nov 4, 18:03
- hah! That's awesome .... :-) -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:42
That's 2 pickups. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:30 8
- Oh my....he's a Nascar driver come to the Senate. - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:37 6
  - Tom Cotton: Terrorists collaborating with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate Arkansas -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 17:49 1
    - Are they continuing on up through the country to Canada? - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:55
  - Way to represent. -- nm - budice Nov 4, 17:46
  - oh, f*ck. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 17:40
  - ha ha your country is screwed. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 17:39 1
    - Too late. -- nm - Krusty Nov 4, 18:04
- I'm not sure these people realize that "net pickup" takes into account a lot of the qualifiers they are adding to it. -- nm - The Danodook Nov 4, 17:32
Wow. Elephants can be trained to paint simple outlines, moving the brush in response to tugging on an ear. -- (link) - mara Nov 4, 17:25 4
- Not if Prop 15 passes, they can't -- nm - prayformojo Nov 4, 17:34
- Anyone can do that. nm - Dignan Nov 4, 17:27
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  - not to mention their trunks!!! -- nm - JenBro Nov 4, 17:53
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I voted. No sticker! I'm never going back again! - Krusty Nov 4, 17:19 12
- You'll just have to resort to taking a duckface selfie in front of the polling place -- nm - con_carne Nov 4, 17:33
- Also I voted No on 1, Yes on 2, No on 3 -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 17:31 3
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    - 1 is supposed reform that's not. It won't change anything and just adds smoke and mirrors. Give me real reform to vote for. - ty97 Nov 4, 17:40 1
      - It'll also go to upgrading and other areas, not just computers. I voted yes on all three. - Krusty Nov 4, 18:07
- no sticker?! They're making a mockery of our electoral process. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 17:29
- I usually turn-down a sticker. I can accept tonight and send it to you, if you want one. ;) - -- nm - b. Nov 4, 17:28
- All of my judges were uncontested. - ty97 Nov 4, 17:20 4
  - They seem to always be uncontested. I won't ever vote for judges. -- nm - Krusty Nov 4, 17:22 3
    - all of those on today's ballot for me are uncontested, except one; and it's a doozy. superior court, and one candidate, the incumbent, was tagged as - b. Nov 4, 17:37 1
      - If there was someone so egregiously bad they had to go then I'd likely vote. It seems very rare here that there's a contested race for a judge. -- nm - Krusty Nov 4, 18:16
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19 Maps That Will Help You Put The United States In Perspective -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 4, 17:14 1
- wow. Chile is big -- nm - mud Nov 4, 17:34
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you may or may not care, but yet again I'm spending election night at my county elections office. - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:12 6
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  - hush! - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:18 4
    - I thought of you when I saw this headline today: Man's Crippling Spider Fears Cured Following Brain Surgery -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 17:19 3
      - I would take electroshock to get rid of my fear of spiders. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:24 2
        
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        Excellent! Next time I'm in your fair state - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:28
This is The Mentalist's last season. Premieres Nov 30th, 13 episodes -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 17:10 1
- spoiler . . . - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 4, 17:28
Archer...Season 6 Preview - amoxy Nov 4, 17:09 2
- ... shit. I just got the joke about the song. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:10 1
  - Hmm? -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 18:08
Dear CNN...Tom Wolf beating Tom Corbett in PA isn't an upset. It's been the #1 likely to flip Governorship for the last year. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:04 1
- right. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 17:29
My ABC shows: Castle, Agents of SHIELD, Modern Family (sometimes), and soon Agent Carter. Maybe American Crime, too. Not sure. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:01 10
- :) - -- nm - b. Nov 4, 17:13
- My Fox shows: Bones, Gotham, MasterChef, Simpsons -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:08 1
  - Sidenote: I tried going to fox.com and it gave me a blue screen of Not Available In Your Country. For the whole site. *slow clap* -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:10
- My CBS shows: CSI (maybe), Elementary, Person of Interest, Survivor -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:06 2
  - Coming in Spring 2015... CSI: Maybe. -- nm - nubby Nov 4, 17:08 1
    - It will be slightly more interesting than "CSI: The Butler Did It", but less interesting than "CSI: Cybering" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:09
- My NBC shows: -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:02 3
  - me too -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 17:15 2
    - If they had a show called Tumbleweeds, I might hate-watch it just so I could have that be the entire list. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 17:21 1
      - i'm waiting to see if State of Affairs becomes the first show I watch on NBC regularily this season - Peglegpete Nov 4, 17:27
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- It was only 1.9 points above average (on a 200 point scale) plus that seems like a strange comparison. Japanese students... yet English section. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Nov 4, 17:16 4
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    - You cannot stress this enough -- nm - prayformojo Nov 4, 17:25 1
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- (phew. thank goodness it wasn't on u.s. entrance tests.) -- nm - b. Nov 4, 17:14 2
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    - I even said "please," ML! hmph. -- nm - b. Nov 4, 17:16
The Upshot at NYT is taking the votes in so far and using modeling to project the final vote based on that, state by state - ty97 Nov 4, 17:00 21
- Thanks much for this link. -- nm - mara Nov 4, 17:14
- If Mark Warner loses, the Dems are in deep shit. - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:02 6
  - I know I'm dopey, but until right now, it has not occurred to me he might lose. - loosi at home Nov 4, 17:05 5
    - Most polls had him up high single digits. - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:06 4
      - how much are rents in your area? -- nm - loosi at home Nov 4, 17:08 1
        
        We might elect a guy who's basically said if no one sues, it's not illegal. - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:10
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        I've always wondered if leads like that (decent, but not landslide) in polls make supporters less likely to bother voting. - ty97 Nov 4, 17:10
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  - Virginia hte last few cycles has been a case of the GOP starts hot (rest of the state) and then fades as the DC suburbs come in. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:03 1
    - the rest of the state is a scary, scary place. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 4, 17:05
  - The red numbers are actual returns (currently). The blue numbers are their projection of the final difference.... - ty97 Nov 4, 17:03 8
    - Ack, ignore the color reference. Make that - ty97 Nov 4, 17:05 4
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        I appreciate that Upshot is graphing both the actuals and their projections so we can see how accurate they are in the end. - ty97 Nov 4, 17:11 1
        
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        Did all these pollsters talk to Eric Cantor's team? Jeebus. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:09
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      - Gillepsie is ahead in actuals right now, yes. Brown is not. -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 17:06
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- And in the time I typed/posted that - ty97 Nov 4, 17:01
I just checked the cast for Celeb Apprentice. Nope, nope, nope. Skipping that. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 16:58
muffins. Muffins. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 4, 16:58 3
- I envy your muffin. - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:09 2
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    - Dude ... - ReluctantCynic Nov 4, 17:30
And on this election night, one last call for votes for in the date survey for Chicagostravaganza 2015. Voting ends tonight. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 16:57
Inkmaster spoils - JenBro Nov 4, 16:47
It's so peaceful here without Wolf Blitzer shouting nonsense at me. - ty97 Nov 4, 16:46 1
- YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE COVER FROM THE EBOLANADO! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 16:58
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I just realized that may have read confusingly. I am literally going to the zoo tomorrow. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 16:44 2
- Same difference. But you get only get in trouble for caging inmates in one of them. ;) -- nm - tobor.2 Nov 4, 16:49
- do you have an elephant key? -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 4, 16:48
CNN is now showing us the elevator they take the ballot boxes up in. -- nm - The Danodook Nov 4, 16:44 2
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  - I'm not into it enough for that. -- nm - The Danodook Nov 4, 16:50
Hey Will. Not sure if you are talking about the old 70s 80s arcade games on that site but if you are they do work with a PC gaming pad. - Bacon mobile Nov 4, 16:43
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- Which probably means the former MD GOP head is her replacement in the House. - Will Hunting Nov 4, 17:05
reminder. Albertsons has a 10% senior discount the first wed. [tomorrow] of each month -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 16:41

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