the french are like CHICKENS

How dare you insult chickens by lumping them in with the French?!

Why should the french care about elections? That's not how sophistocated democracies get things done, anyhow. Now, if there were a civil service union going on strike, that would be news.

And the news would be how evil the government was for keeping the poor, overworked slaves from full benefits AND a 28-hour work week...

It isn't on the front page of CNN atm either.

Ice storms coverage is more important

Chicken is hot.

Were there elections in Iraq today? Huh. Big snow storm here in Michigan, so that's all we've heard about. What's a new democracy compared to 7 inches of snow?

Pablo's got it right. I won't point a finger at the French while the Communist News Network acts like nothing happened today in Iraq except to pull up an 11 moth old story.

Why is snow in the winter even a news story?

Speaking of voting & stuff, everyone's voted for Dave at Garfield Ridge right?

Dave trails by 8 votes. It's a sad day when Canadian tranvestites beat a guy from Garfield Ridge, wherever that is.

Garfiled by one. Bout an hour to go. Gonna come down to the wire.

Dave is now leading by 7 votes. Get off your lazy asses and vote to salvage at least some of these picks.

Just fired up a couple more computers and voted - Dave's now 18 ahead.

this whole "vote for dave" thing is old

Hey you!
Have you Voted for Garfield Ridge yet?

P.S. I'll deal with Feisty later.

He's only 15 ahead now. (11:40 EST)

I find this Del Gines to be a breath of freah air. Just saying.

I haven't felt like this since Nov. 2, 2004.
All night long I was refreshing the Yahoo election results to make sure GWB kept his lead in Ohio.

No sleep that night because none of the networks would declare Ohio for Bush nor did Kerry make a concession speech until the next afternoon. Of course you know all this.

The best part was watching the Kerry supporters being stood up by Kerry and Edwards at the Boston Common. They stood there in the cold and rain until 1am when John Edwards came out for a very brief speech.
Good times.

A lead of 19 with 10 minutes to go.

16 at the 5 minute mark.

15 with a minute left.

Okay people. Youve had your issues with Dave in the past. But now is the time to come to the aid of your "it's old" tards like never before. Lend a hand.

Wizbang said the voting will stop at 11:59p, give or take a few minutes as each poll has to be closed individually.

If they go in order, Dave's category will be among the last to close.

Hmmm. Polls are supposed to close at 11:59 EST, but they're apparently still logging votes. To be on the safe side, anybody who hasn't voted yet should get to it.

That's funny, Ray, posting at 12:01.

At 12:08 the votes are still recording, and Dave's lead has slipped to 13.

I believe they are using Eastern time. I just posted in their comments section to see and their time is 5 minutes ahead of mine. So I don't know what's going.

They might be pulling the same crap they pulled in Cleveland by keeping the polls open for more dead people votes.

10:15 and they're still logging votes - Dave's at +12, now.

By the way, Ace won handily.
Congratulations, Ace.

Hey, the final results are coming in.

When does that shit close. About 11 votes and closing.

Hey folks - they're probably not going to close the polls for Dave's race for at least another 15 minutes. His lead has slipped to 10. Keep at it, please.

12:25 am - they've closed the first 6 categories. At this rate they'll get to Dave nearly 2 hours from now. Keep pounding!

Just cast my vote for Dave. Looks like he's up by 12.

Whoever Dave is.... I hear he's old or something...

Congratulations to Ace, by the way. That's a pretty clear, Dick-Cheney sized mandate you got there.

I have Dave at 1496, Ellen at 1480.

Please don't tell me that...

...it's old.

Mine took it to 1497 - 1483.

Keep voting!

1500 to 1487.

It may be time for the special King County ballot boxes.

That's a pretty clear, Dick-Cheney sized mandate you got there.

yeah, great ....

please don't encourage him. A megalomaniacal Ace is something I would sooner do without.

About 8 categories to go before 3501 - 5000 category closes. Dave's got a 16-vote lead, with about 30 votes logged after the 'deadline.' Wouldn't hurt to vote if you haven't.

...and at 1:29 am it looks like they've closed Dave's race, with the final tally:

Dave at Garfield Ridge: 1508
The Reign of Ellen: 1491

Congrats, Dave (and Ellen for a close second).

And congrats as well to Ace for his walk-away win in the Conservative Blogs category.

I want to know if the '60 cars a night set ablaze' means that _France_ now has more cars on fire than Iraq.

Good. It's finally over.
Congratualtions, Dave.

Ellen is, overall, a better person than you, but we can't have one of our peeps lose a race. It reflects badly on the rest of us.

Amazing what a moronblog can do. Maybe now Ace can get some of that crazyblogmoney. Can I get a cut of that, ace?

Ellen is, overall, a better person than you, but we can't have one of our peeps lose a race. It reflects badly on the rest of us.

Agreed. Dave is, obviously, a high functioning retard. But he's our high funtioning retard. Wouldn't do to see him lose.

I do beleive the french symbol is a chicken