{"id":371,"date":"2008-11-04T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=371"},"modified":"2010-08-12T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:59:16","slug":"2008-election-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"2008 Election Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my final post tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 In my local & state elections, Democratic incumbent Jeffrey Schoenberg has beaten his Republican challenger Brendan Appel handily, 79 to 21% for our State Senate position, and CLTV (AKA Tribune Company) has “called” that race.\u00c2\u00a0 In my State House district, Republican incumbent Elizabeth Coulson has once again held back yet another “Elect me, I’m a Democrat!” challenger, Daniel Biss – currently 61 to 39%.\u00c2\u00a0 CLTV has not called that race, but I’m going to go to bed assuming she’ll win.\u00c2\u00a0 Both good news, as far as I’m concerned.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Two state referendums are going the way I voted: The call for an expensive and unneccessary constitutional convention is failing, 67 to 33 percent; and the proposed constitutional amendment (without a convention) allowing the recall of Illinois governors (*cough* Blagojevich *cough*) is winning, 63 to 37 percent.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, none of these called by CLTV, but I’m going with them.<\/p>\n

Plucky Republican Tony Peraica, having nearly beaten Todd Stroger for the nepotism-filled Cook County Board President a few years ago, tried this time to grab the States Attorney’s title, and has apparently lost.<\/p>\n

As of now, Barack Obama is solidly ahead of John McCain, the only debatable point being by how much.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll leave the MSNBC election results post below, rather than calling that race – but I think we have a new party in the White House by the time I wake up.<\/p>\n

[UPDATE 1: Yeah, I know I said I’m going to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 But before I could log out, NBC officially called Barack Obama the winner of the US Presidential race, with 284 electoral votes.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

[UPDATE 2: CNN just called it for Obama too.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s over.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah, about that Chicago cab driver – John Joseph Polachek, running for President, but only in Cook County.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems the guy has pulled together <\/span><\/span><\/span>829 votes, including himself.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, don’t get me wrong – I didn’t vote for the guy, I read his Board of Elections filing, and he seems like a kook.\u00c2\u00a0 But, kook or not, he did something that not many others would try – he didn’t like the way things are going in America, so he ran for president.\u00c2\u00a0 And he got 828 votes more than you and I will ever get.\u00c2\u00a0 If nothing else, he’ll have a great story to tell his grandkids <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my final post tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 In my local & state elections, Democratic incumbent Jeffrey Schoenberg has beaten his Republican challenger Brendan Appel handily, 79 to 21% for our State Senate position, and CLTV (AKA Tribune Company) has “called” that race.\u00c2\u00a0 In my State House district, Republican incumbent Elizabeth Coulson has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t