Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The California Bombshell

I've been sitting in the classroom here at Whitireia all afternoon looking at the election map on cnn.com and watching the US election unfold. When I first started looking, only 4% of precincts were reporting, and nothing particularly interesting was happening. All of the ten or so States declared won were the same as they had been at the last election. I have watched as 1, 2, 3 and then 4 States swung democrat, one of them being the Swing State Ohio.

Just now, I heard cheering coming from down the road, perhaps from one of the Irish pubs. I refreshed the page . . . and the West coast states were declared. Obama, 297 electoral votes and counting.

I don't know much about the American voting system, but I think that means the Americans have their new President.

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