[Lucretia Borgia]

I am obsessively watching CNN on TV (apart from the excellent coverage i have a little shame crush on Anderson Cooper) and am on Twitter on my ipad.....

hey, baby's asleep and DS 1 is at school.....what else is there to do?

Im hoping Obama gets back in......

(oh, and FTR - yes I am an Australian living in Australia so, no, the US election results have no DIRECT impact on me, but I do think that the result will have world wide ramifications ...hence my interest....)

[la di dah]

Obama's going to get it.

At least half the people I know aren't speaking to me. The other half have garbaged up my Facebook as they have for weeks.

[jupiter123]

I am keeping an eye on it but not really paying a huge amount of attention.

DH on the other hand will have the big screen on at work watching it like a hawk, hanging on every word/comment that is made.

He is an Australian, living in Australia but completely obsessed with the US Election (he recorded every debate and sat down and watched them from beginning to end).

I am hoping that Obama gets his second term, as I like him but also because Romney and some of the stuff his party has said scares me.

This post has been edited by jupiter123: 07/11/2012, 10:36 AM

[Lucretia Borgia]

I like your optimism la di dah!

We have friends living in Ohio...Cincinnati ....(she's American he's an Aussie...)... She posted a picture of her two girls in a Romney campaign bus...wtf? Have always suspected her of being a closet republican.....

Anyway CNN's early predictions for Ohio look good for Obama....

[Percoriel]

I hope la di dah is right though the indications I'm seeing from CNN is that Romney is going to win.

[follies]

I think the American election does affect Australia, look at the Iraq war. Romney is terrible when it comes to foreign policy and is kind of scary.

Also Anderson Cooper is very sexy, I think it is the fact that he is completely unattainable if you know what I mean.

[A Tiny Hedgehog]

Nate Silver's a statistician with the best record for election and ballot predictions based on polls, and he's got Obama at a 91% chance to win.

The current electoral count is in Romney's favour because the counted states are Kentucky, Georgia, Indiana and South Carolina, all deep red, compared to Vermont for Obama. The big states and swing states haven't been counted yet.

It'd be like calling the election for the Liberals because we counted Western Sydney and Northern Western Australia. Give it time.

[dadathome]

Avidly. Allthough at work, I have the "live' feed from EB's owners open.....

To many, it must still appear incomprensible that the outcome is so close, given that Romney is even far more slippery than Tony Abbott, but the system polarises voters and Obama is punished for not resp0onding well enough to the recession the previous GOP president created, even though the GOP blocked many of Obama's prposes responses measures.....

Anyway, the US is progressively disappearing up its own backside in terms of its global position, and increasingly doesn't care about its residents.

[A Tiny Hedgehog]

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ is Silver's blog if anyone's interested.

[DarylDixonismyhe...]

Going by our US relatives and friends opinion, Obama is not a shoe in.

I thought he was well liked, maybe he is, just not by the people i talk too