2008 Election Results

7:04am, First Baptist Church, Monte Sereno, California On the most important election day our lives, the polls were a bit underwhelming. I think everyone was expecting chaos. Background: I live in a very white neighborhood of the Silicon Valley. The residents are a mixture of old money, venture capitalists, hedge fund millionaires. And me. My polling station is/was in a church, which strikes me as weird because aren’t we supposed to keep church and state separate? Yet on the most important day of the year, we’re in a church voting? It sends a mixed message, that’s all I’m saying. I showed up at 7:04am, ... Read Full Story

Polling Station: Emery High School, 1100 47th Street Emeryville, CA 94608 Time: 7:45 AM I voted a week ago.  I drew the lines, signed my name, placed two stamps in the envelope’s corner. I dropped it in a mailbox across the street from my apartment and wondered why it felt, already, that the world had changed. I'm ashamed to admit this was my first vote in a Presidential election.  I'd been registered in Texas four years ago, which allowed me an apathetic certainty that my vote wouldn't make much difference.  Now I'm registered in Alameda County, California, and one vote means everything. This morning ... Read Full Story

(Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images North America) Like the rest of America, team Zimbio headed to the polls today to vote in the most-hyped election ever. We've compiled the accounts of our voting experiences to create a window into what's happening on the ground. Obviously there is some selection bias since we're a Silicon Valley-based company, but our accounts represent several parts of the greater Bay Area. Jake Swearingen Associate Editor, Zimbio.com Polling Station: 1045 Capp St., San Francisco, CA 94110 Time: 7:55 a.m. For me, voting was the exact opposite of pimping – it was easy. (However, like pimping, it is necessary .) ... Read Full Story

5:52 pm, Antioch Baptist Church, San Jose, CA Other than the confusion of showing up at the wrong polling place, my voting experience was pretty uneventful. In my defense, my correct polling location was actually across the street from the location I had mistaken as my own, an easy mistake to make when there are "VOTE!" signs everywhere and no address in sight. Luckily there was no one in line. Actually, calling what I waited in a line would be too kind, since there were only three people ahead of me and one of them was a baby. An older woman at the first ... Read Full Story

Polling Station: 1446 Francisco Street, San Francisco, CA 94123 Time: 8:00 am Portable toilet for voting queue. For a highly anticipated day of a landmark election, the line that I joined this morning seemed filled with bored professionals. It was 8 a.m., and there were pinstriped business suits, yoga clothes, and a lone Obama T-shirt queued for the length of half a block outside a filthy garage. People drank coffee out of thermoses, flipped through their 'California General Election' handbooks (so did I), browsed their Blackberrys, used a conveniently located portable toilet and simply waited in silence, occasionally glancing at their watches. A young ... Read Full Story

8:17am, Ventura School, Palo Alto, California My 9 month-old daughter likes to vote.  She enjoys flipping through the voter information book, staring at the volunteers, sucking on the paper ballot, and then playing with the little "I voted" sticker. We voted with an absentee ballot, but dropped it off in person at the voting station.  My hope was to avoid long lines.  Turns out, there were no lines. My daughter is a proud Obama supporter.  She voted for Obama on Super Tuesday back in February when she was only 3 days old.  She's a lot bigger now so we didn't get as many incredulous ... Read Full Story

Polling Station: St. Francis of Assissi; 145 Guerrerro St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Time: 7:45 a.m. Voting is the ultimate anticlimax. After a full year of the most intense political campaigning most of us have ever seen, completing the arrows on three sheets of paper does not embody the energy and emotion poured into this election. It doesn't help that everything went so smoothly. I didn't feel intimidated. I didn't see any signs of voter fraud. I didn't even have to wait in line. It would have helped to have waited in line. Making voting feel like an inconvenience would have at least made ... Read Full Story

Polling Station: 1045 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Time: 7:55 am For me, voting was the exact opposite of pimping – it was easy. (However, like pimping, it is necessary .) At my polling station in the Mission in San Francisco, there was a quick-moving line of professionals scrolling through emails on iPhones and Blackberrys, Latino mothers with kids, and young hipsters wiping the hangover out of their eyes. Incidents were few. A woman behind me had just moved to the neighborhood and wasn’t registered for that particular polling station. She got a provisional ballot. Problem solved. The ballot machine started to jam ... Read Full Story

Senate Elections (projected winners) South Carolina: Republican Lindsay Graham Virginia: Democrat Mark Warner West Virginia: Democrat Jay Rockefeller Tennessee: Republican Lamar Alexander New Jersey: Democrat Frank Lautenberg Massachusetts: Democrat John Kerry Maine: Republican Susan Collins Illinois: Democrat Dick Durbin Alabama: Republican Jeff Sessions Arkansas: Democrat Mark Pryor Kansas: Republican Pat Roberts Kentucky: Mitch McConnell Michigan: Democrat Carl Levin Mississippi: Republican Thad Cochran Mississippi: Republican Roger Wicker New Hampshire: Democrat Jeanne Shaheen New Mexico: Democrat Tom Udall North Carolina: Democrat Kay Hagan Oklahoma: Republican Jim Inhofe Rhode Island: Democrat John Reed South Dakota: Democrat Timothy Johnson Wyoming: Democrat Michael Enzi Wyoming: Republican John Barrasso Iowa: ... Read Full Story

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