Poll - all-evening election coverage

**rb336** · October-31-12, 07:07 PM

Do you plan on watching the election results all night on Nov. 6?

**gnome** · October-31-12, 09:18 PM

The on-air commentary is pretty pointless as their experts augur meaning from exit polls. With all the early voting, combined with absentees, I could see us waiting awhile for results.

I also see Mr. Obama losing out on the plurality but taking the electoral college due to the popular vote being depressed in Hurricane Sandy effected areas. Mr. Obama could still win Maryland, Delaware, NY, NJ, etc and take those electors, but lose the overall populace vote. If a million democrats in the effected states miss their turn at the ballot box, it would not alter the overall results. Mr. Obama would still take those states, and the required 270 would be his.

however, if Philly doesn't recover in time - and it should - that could throw PA into play and we could might be faced with the nightmare scenario of having a 269 tie thereby passing the decision into the House and Senate. That could result in a double weird situation where we could get a President Romney and Vice President Biden; or even weirder yet a President Biden who then would have to pick his VP.

True, it could happen. Your evening talking heads might even tell you all about it, but I'll be watching Roller Derby cuz this stuff doesn't interest me and I don't know nothing about it.

**rb336** · October-31-12, 09:38 PM

I agree with you completely on this, Gnome. All I care about is the end result, not listening to empty banter from overpaid talking heads. Where's the derby Tuesday?