Robert Hall

I've just very happy right now..very optimistic for the future of our country. The recent history has been pretty painful.

I won't be a jerk...

YES WE CAN !! YES WE CAN !!! YES WE CAN!!! VICTORY IS OURS!!! 297 EVs for Obama @11pm EST. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY

I can't wait to talk to my Mom and brother in Ohio tommorow..they are going to be sulking. Talked w/ my sister a couple hours ago--she was at the airport bar in Charlotte (flying from San Antonio to Dayton via Charlotte), watching Fox news , optimistic for Obama.

Kind of freaky, isn't it? I keep thinking of Princess Leia. I'm wondering how my old home state of Florida is going to go...

I'd love to be there also..I know that park quite well... I live about 2 miles from where McCain's party is tonite--the Biltmore. Should I put my Obama shirt on and go crash the party???

I got 20 teriyaki wings from Long Wong's on the way home, ate those and have had about 5 Fat Tires... I'm jumping around between CNN, Fox, BBC America, and WGN. Reading updates on CNN's website, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, and Arizona Republic websites..this is a fun evening.

Yes...I'm using the CNN Electoral Map Calculator and seeing it that way.

Very happy to see Ohio and Pa go to Obama...it blew my mind to see Tuscarawas County, Ohio projected for Obama (it's the county I'm originally from).

Well, the gas mileage is part of the equation. The greenness (i.e. emissions) is the big selling point, I think.

Since this is election day, I was watching traffic for offbeat political bumper stickers--the best one I saw today said 'Vader/Cheney 08'....on the back of a black 4th gen Trans Am (haven't seen one of those in ages!).

Wolf Blitzer, CNN

Good question... I've never used my Phoenix home phone publicly, it's not in my name, yet I came home today with two Democratic robocalls--Barack and Michelle's messages, with the local polling place at my Colorado address)--- and two Republican 'vote for McCain or the country is doomed' messages!!! WTF??

How about a road usage tax, based on miles driven, like that is being proposed in the UK? This would impact everyone that uses roads--farmers, truckers, ordinary drivers. It seems like it could be the fairest way to pay for the infrastructure...

I voted by mail a couple weekends ago...very easy and relaxed way to do it..it was a long ballot, lots of propositions and judges for re-election, it gave me time to research everyone online and figure out which incumbents, etc to vote against.. I went into work early today, before 7, going to head home around 3 ish, plan to be glued to the TV from 4-10 or so...probably watch CNN and flip to BBC America and MSNBC occasionally...while watching a bunch of blogs and my Twitter and Facebook feeds... and play w/ the terriers some.

Wow... still over $2.60 in the PHX..

<sarcasm> Yeah, but GM has 3 ton Hybrid SUVs that might get 20 mpg... </sarcasm>

The thing that still amazes me, though, is how the automakers regressed from the '80s....in the '80s, the Big 3 all had cars that got over 35 mpg in the US...some that even got over 50 like my Escort diesel. They could and did build fuel efficient cars here, but threw it all away in the short-sighted pursuit of trucks and SUVs in the '90s...

I wonder if the Nov #s will be worse..

Yeah, Pa has a lot of beautiful areas..I'm pretty familiar w/ W. Pa---Washington County, Westmoreland County, Beaver County, Allegheny County.. E. Ohio has a lot in common w/ PA as far as the geography, not as flat and 'Midwestern' as the western part of Ohio..

I've been over there once years ago...also in NW Ohio to Kenton (where my sister was born) and N. Baltimore (near Findlay) (my folks used to live there, before I was born). It's pretty cool, the high schools in those towns have dedication plaques to my father, who was the superintendent when the schools were built back in the late '50s-early '60s. I like the downtown square and old courthouses usually found in small Ohio towns. I love the rolling hills of eastern Ohio..the Amish country (Holmes County, Tuscarawas County) where I'm originally from, the winding, twisty back roads, the wooded valleys with the fields along the Tuscarawas River, the deep, lush green old-growth forests, the fall colors, the foggy mornings in September... Sometimes I get really homesick for there and also for Steubenville over along the Ohio River where I also lived as a kid...I used to go downtown w/ my Dad and perch on one of the bridges and watch the barges move along the river, moving coal and steel (the mills are mostly gone now). I remember most all the cars were big and American. The '70s were quite a different time and place.

Yeah, I don't think we have seen the worst yet. Whomever wins the White House is going to have a big mess to deal with for quite a while, I'm afraid.

I wonder what kind of numbers the Germans and Koreans will post...

Cause and effect...

Honda down 25.2% also. Saw Ford at 30.2% and Nissan at 33.5% (freep)