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Election Day Wild Card — 11.3.09

Posted by DFO

Nov. 3, 2009 5:20 p.m. • 17 comments

Someone wondered yesterday what I’ll do on Huckleberries Online, once the election is over. No question, the election campaign has been a blast here, per usual. I’ll spend tonight tracking results and Wednesday tying up loose ends and reports that don’t make it onto the front page today. On Thursday and Friday, I’ll throttle down before turning HBO Central over to Cindy for a week while I vacation. Then, I’ll go back to looking for news and fun things that makes this place hop year round. I suspect that the election interest has brought this site dozens and mebbe hundreds of new blurkers and a coupla no commenters. In other words, Huckleberries will be fine. With that happy thought, I’ll post today’s Wild Card …

17 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Digger on November 03 at 10:08 a.m.
VOTE JOHN WEBER
Mayor of Moscow!!!!!!
Sisyphus on November 03 at 10:13 a.m.
Oh goody. I love to mess with the Cindy.
nic on November 03 at 10:23 a.m.
“the election interest has brought this site dozens and mebbe hundreds of new blurkers and a coupla no commenters”

Actually, it only brought one no commenter that I can think of.
bpoole on November 03 at 10:32 a.m.
Dave i know that 1080 am is going to start to broadcast results at 8 pm, this may be a stupid question, will you give minute by minute relays of results, so that those who are not around a radio can track the results.
JeanC on November 03 at 10:47 a.m.
No county issues, so I get to sit this one out.
JohnA on November 03 at 11:01 a.m.
JeanC: No county issues, so I get to sit this one out.

Actually. you have the jail bond vote so please go for it. :)
DFO on November 03 at 11:13 a.m.
@ JohnA; JeanC lives in Latah County.
trishgannon on November 03 at 11:35 a.m.
is ‘per usual’ correct, or is ‘as per usual’ the correct form? Too lazy to look it up but too distracted to focus on work, obviously, and am getting sidetracked by nonsense.
JeanieSpokane on November 03 at 12:37 p.m.
I love nonsense! :)
Sisyphus on November 03 at 3:59 p.m.
For those who think racism is dead. This oughta serve as a healthy deterrent to pinheads who wanna act out on their bigotry.

http://www.ktvb.com/news/3-men-get-prison-time-for-Nampa-Wal-Mart-hate-crime-beating-68965337.html

I’m very glad gays were added to the hate crimes list. Some bigots weren’t prosecuted cause the local DA didn’t have the money, didn’t think they could convict, or shared the bigoted views. Now that its a federal crime, those concerns are resolved.
spokelooneh on November 03 at 4:44 p.m.
Here’s some nonsense for ya:

“The 9/12ers are willing to stand in line and take our shoes off before the plane actually hits the tower.”
-Glen Beck

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911030017
hmoffsuite on November 03 at 5:42 p.m.
First chance our fine citizens have had to voice their opinions, in the form of tonights elections, since Obama was elected. Some argue folks are voting, in a fashion, as a referendum on how Obama is doing. So far, the democrat’s taking control of the Country is not going over too well.
Phaedrus on November 03 at 5:56 p.m.
Some argue folks are voting, in a fashion, as a referendum on how Obama is doing

yeah, uh-huh. Those “some” are on the right and they need it to be a referendum on Obama, but claiming so in 2 governor’s races is a big stretch. I’ll wait until 2010 for some reality based feedback.
hmoffsuite on November 03 at 6:09 p.m.
Just watch how it plays out, Phaedrus. Not good for Obama or the democrats.
Phaedrus on November 03 at 6:16 p.m.
not good nor bad, suite, irrelevant to the big picture.
Bent on November 03 at 6:28 p.m.
There is a real danger in either side interpeting the results of this off season election as some sort of partisan mandate…

While the Dems would be wise to take note, I still think the GOP should be cautious… winning a couple of congressional districts and a couple of Governor seats is nothing to get excited about…

Spinning these election results the wrong way could be damaging come Nov. 2010.
GuyFawkes on November 03 at 7:10 p.m.
All politics are local.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.