Comments on: Winning Tuesday: An urgent plea to Obama supporters

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:33:04 +0000

"It's too late now, America. You're DEAD right off the map of history, and FORGOTTEN. That prick evil bastard of all evil bastards fooled you and now you are a dead nigger country to the rest of us."

Is this the caliber of people who vote Republican? America, you made the right choice. Good for you!

By: Valerie Dunbar Jones

Valerie Dunbar Jones — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:56:49 +0000

LOL!

Professor, of all things, THIS is not the one that will mark you as "weird." ;0
Thank you, God bless you, God bless Barack Obama, and God bless America.

Valerie Dunbar Jones
UChiLaw '98

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:35:51 +0000

Lessig,

if you ever get to this message--thanks for expressing your fears. we have been complacent and hesitant to speak too loudly about candidates in the past, because of the ability to see both sides, and we've lost. this election, yesterday, and last night, people put their passions out there, and we won.

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:50:21 +0000

The United States and, indeed, the entire world is unbelievably fortunate that your fears here were unfounded. Thank you for everything you've done to make tonight possible.

You've had some role in the Obama Campaign. Can you tell us whether or not or to what degree you will be involved in the Obama Administration?

The Obama Administration. That has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

By: A. Michael Bussek

A. Michael Bussek — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:40:51 +0000

Democracy won - and so did Elected President Barack Obama.

This have been some exciting weeks indeed, for everybody. Record numbers of voters have beaten the Republican friends, and we shall hope that everything stays peaceful.

By: Planet Earth

Planet Earth — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:56:07 +0000

It’s too late now, america. You’re DEAD right off the map of history, and FORGOTTEN. That prick evil bastard of all evil bastards fooled you and now you are a dead nigger country to the rest of us. Say good bye, dead fuckerssssssssssss……………. !

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:02:36 +0000

Thanks, Larry. Thank you America for selecting a black candidate for the US presidency.

I'm still amazed. I grew up in the Civil Rights era; I watched Martin's 'dream' speech live. As a white kid, I deeply felt the pain that ALL non-white minorities in this country suffered in those Cold War days ... bigotry and darkness everywhere.

We have seen the light. We are becoming the light, if we choose to be. I'm celebrating already today. Whatever follows, we've taken a big step in gaining back some credibility in the rest of the world.

If you're under 30 and voted: thank you. Thank you, thank you for grabbing the torch. You'll remember today with pride. We shall overcome.

By: Sneeje

Sneeje — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:24:13 +0000

Wow, I could have sworn this was written by a religious zealot. Maybe a bit harsh, but you had me until "We Democrats". Larry, I respect your point of view, but mainly because it generally does not succumb to group think. The "change" I want, however, is a change away from policies driven by a particular ideology to policies right for people and for prosperity. The labels "democrat" and "republican" very quickly get in the way of that. That is why in 2008 we still have cars that get 20 mpg and the car companies think that's a huge achievement. That's why we keep sticking our heads in the sand about the looming social security/medicare crisis.

FWIW, I checked the Obama box today...but not because he is a Democrat.

By: Steve Baba

Steve Baba — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:25:53 +0000

fivethirtyeight.com (the polling data analysis site) has Obama at a win probability of 98.1%+

The statistical methodology this is 98% estimate is based on ASSUMES that the past polling randomness WILL be true this time.

This same methodology predicted that since housing prices have never declined nationwide (since the great depression), housing prices will not decline.

The problem is that in this election, there is a slight chance (more than 2% in my opinion) that because of the heated debate, McCain supports may decline to be polled OR the last minute attacks on untested Obama may stick OR a few percent of Obama supporters reading the 98% estimate may not bother to vote if it’s a done deal.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:16:21 +0000

fivethirtyeight.com (the polling data analysis site) has Obama at a win probability of 98.1%+ with projected 346.5 electoral votes.

Anyway, doing my bit, I wrote a blog post where I endorse Barack Obama