obama's 4% or so ahead in florida...

obama's up 171 to 58 on the bbc site

less than 100 to go. is it a shewing? could he still lose or are the hard states in now?

FOX PREDICTS OBAMA TO WIN!

bet that hurt

It's done on things more complicated than number-counting

@ unaesthetic - that is scary.

Dimbleby wins the night by saying "fox news is not good enough".

On that note, I have to sign off here for the evening - need sleep, will have tv on and hope to subconsciously hear anything too upsetting.

Night all and cross fingers for a Democratic President of the USA tomorrow.

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John Bolton being obnoxious and repulsive. Who knew?

John Bolton. What a prick.

If you wanted to see how John McCain lost, its because he had to carry the flag of a party that choose that unsanctimonious wanker as the chief diplomat.

Ohio goes to Barry O. Its all over.

Whoever ran the McCain campaign should now be hounded out of politics.

But then again, I doubt you could find that anyone was running it.

Palin, bad idea. And if John Boltoin says its a good idea, you know how bad that idea is.

Flipping from maverick, then Bush fan, then security, then economic ignorance, then terrorism... There was no coherent noise coming from McCain who's message was beaten by "Change", "Hope" and "Yes We Can".

Imagine that: having your campaign beaten by a quick game of scrabble.

Well, that was a lot less painful than the last two U.S. elections. Time for bed.

How dare he come on the BBC and demand a reporter gets fired for serious follow up questions.

I;m writing to complain

Bloody hell, it was busy on here last night - do you people not sleep?
@Wisteria53, my mum can vote in local elections and mayoral elections, are you sure you can't? maybe it's an EU thing.

I double-checked with Haringey a few years ago when someone else thought I should be able to vote and they confirmed that "foreign nationals" are not eligible to vote in the UK. However, EU citizens CAN vote in local elections.

I have only paid US income tax once in the 20+ years I've lived here but have had to file tax returns there since they "caught" me out when I registered two of my children for US passports ("we notice madam that you haven't filed a tax return in the past 7 years").

or
"whats going to happen in America now?"