Well, my night was ruined when my lark-y and immediately repudiated prediction that Obama would carry North Dakota went down in flames.  A very sad night.  What is wrong with North Dakota that they couldn’t bring Obama to victory?  I repudiate you, North Dakota.

Um.  Other than that… Kentucky went for McConnell.  And so my other immediately repudiated prediction goes down in flames.
I’m 0 for 2 and in the hole in predictions made that I didn’t really believe.  As for predictions made in more earnestness — we’re waiting for the returns in Georgia, Alaska (Are they about to send back a convicted felon?  Really?), and Minnesota.

California’s Proposition 8 went down — congratulations to the Mormon Church, I guess?  See, I can be gracious in defeat.  Michelle Bachman won, damneditall, and let the Republicans do with her what they must — embrace her?  Jack Murtha won, damnedit and such is the way those things go.  On the bright side, Bill Sali looks as though he has been defeated.

Right now, Yahoo has this ad-buy up:

I’m thinking no.  Beyond which, voting on a newsmax.com poll wouldn’t have done anything either way to affect an answer to that question.

Sometime last night, I turned around my am radio dial, aiming for 970 AM — Rick Emerson broadcasting from a bowling alley, and would up at 910.  Where I heard the host start with, “Right now, Norm Coleman’s lead has dwindled to just a thousand.  And word from Minnesota is that Coleman is getting really, really nervous.  This is against Al Franken, folks.”  The contempt dripping when he said the name “Al Franken” was palpatable.  I myself could not care much about the fates of Norm Coleman and Al Franken themselves, except that a Franken victory would make Bill O’Reilly’s head explode, and that would provide some good entertainment.

Continuing on, “America is going to regret what it did tonight and woo the day.  We have just elected the most Radical Left-wing Government in our nation’s history.  This nation faces problems of all sorts, and now it is compounded by the morst Radical Left-Wing Socialist Government in American History.  While we’re on the cusp of victory in Iraq, Barack Obama talks nothing except Surrender.  While our economy is in the toilet, Obama promises to raises taxes.”  This was one hell of a monolouge!
“We are forgetting our history.  We are forgetting the Disaster lead to by the Carter Administration.  Going back further, we have forgotten how the Johnson Administration too indeed in disaster.”

Our Historical Amnesia has created a situation where we only remember the current disasterous president, and think more along the lines of “Bush” than “Carter and Johnson” when filling out a ballot.  Or do you recall the disasterous end of the Millard Fillmore Administration?  I will say one thing about Carter and Johnson (or, given the implications here, Johnson — McNamara?) — they’re no George Bush.

Overheard cumedgeon talking: “I’m an Independent, so I hate them all.”  I don’t think it follows, the two parts of the sentence.  Everyone else downtown was honking their horns, though I’m not sure I understand the impetus of a car driving around with someone hanging out the window waving a sign saying “President OBAMA!!!”  But those are omnipresent.  All in all, a Republican Celebration Party would have been a good place last night, just to get a few hours of sleep.

Also, he’s the 43rd president.  There were no two President Clevelands, just two non-consecutive terms.  This is a pet peeve of mine.

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