UPDATE – the servers are responding like molasses, but we’re currently just 80 votes back of Ace, with 75 minutes left to go…
now 35 votes behind with 35 minutes…
4:32 and now only 22 votes behind…17 minutes.left…
DON’T refresh your browsers to keep track of the votes – you’re eating up server resources and SDA voters are trying to get in to vote. If the page hangs, be patient – it will probably load eventually.
4:50pm Latest comments indicate we’ve taken the lead, but in the single digits.
And it’s over! “311 – 259, yehaaaw, looks like you may have made it Kate,,,,,”
Well done, one and all – the results aren’t official until the logs are reviewed for cheating, but one thing is certain: those who discount the Canadian conservative blogosphere’s ability to mobilize voters do so at their peril!
Final Update: Here’s what the traffic was like at the Weblog Awards site –
Kevin Aylward writes – “For the next 24 hours we will be finishing our assessments of all of the vote logs in all of the categories. To date there have been no votes subtracted, but that may well change before winners are certified. In the event vote totals are corrected for identified cheating we will leave a note on the poll page where the change is made. The certified list of winners will be published here on Thursday morning. “
Now, I’m going to have (another) drink and relax for a few hours. I suggest you all do the same!
And let slip the Richardson’s Ground Squirrels of War!
Voting ends at 5pm eastern – be patient if you’re trying to vote, the servers are getting slammed at the Weblog awards. To this end, please avoid refreshing your blogger to watch the vote totals. It only makes things worse.
To those who are concerned about claims of “cheating”, remember that the Weblog Awards team will be auditing the logs for signs of this, and so the totals are not final until they say so.
Thanks to everyone for your efforts. No matter the final outcome, SDA has managed to exceed our wildest expectations. This has been a blast!
Rodents never give up…even when they’re dead…I think Kate may just pull this one out.
sda 14,286 ace 14,255 time 3:54pm sask time.
I just voted and you’re 7 behind at 4:55pm est
On the road and only have the CrackBerry (no flash, can’t vote) so I got in touch with two others who wouldn’t have otherwise voted.
Phew.
My conscience is clear now.
Good luck!
Forward lemmings!
Just voted at 4:55
Kate was leading by 36
Just had two of my work collegues vote for you Kate (adjacent cubicles…)! Had to convince them u were a right on gal, rode a motor cycle, etc.
Ones a Russian – they wern’t sure what was going on but took my word on it !
Sorry, Kate, I last voted a couple of minutes past five yesterday, so I can’t come through here.
Well done, anyway.
SDA 14,312 : ACE 14,259
14,312 SDA -14,259 Ace
I think we can call this one…
Kate’s lead is widening – I have to keep refeshing as my last vote is at 4:55. 14314 to 14259
I think you did it kate, I managed to get 1 last vote in for you at 4:59:30 and you had a 55 vote lead!
Just got in under the wire, and SDA looks like a double digit winner!
SDA: 14315
AOS: 14259
Wow.
OMG, I think you ehhhhhced it!
Up by 66.
311 – 259, yehaaaw, looks like you may have made it Kate,,,,,
Big Congrats from Ratt
Unofficially…as of 5:05 PM EST…..KATE has it by 0.1%….now we just wait for the webawards to check it all out!
Does this mean that Brad Wall will be putting you back on his Christmas list?
up by 56 votes. 14315 to 14259 at 5:08 EST
way to go
Yes! We have a new Canadian Hero!
Ok, who’ going to call the CBC…
You did it Kate !!!!!!!
Congrats big time!!!
(Give Aretha a squeeze for me,,, lol ,,,she came through for ya again!!!)
Kate 14315
ace 14259
Now wheres the “in your face” sweater pic?
Take care and BZ
Congratulations. Nice race!
From the name on the YouTube video, it appears that it’s actually chipmunks that I’ve be shooting all these years.
You realize this means that there probably is a God so … lefties be afraid, be very afraid! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Hoo Rah! Excellent work people!
Congratulations Kate, your readership should skyrocket, even more, now.
Please consider selling space to Google adsense. I’d love to see this place pay you $30-40k per month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzbIrSPCl4&feature=PlayList&p=87D62B0C58E813FF&index=9
Dedicated to the Ace…
Un-beh-effing-leave-a-bul !!!
Pulled it off – against overwhelming odds.
Synopsis: As the weblog-week progressed, more and more readers were made aware of sda. First timers and even Hof-Poers and AOSers saw sda and exclaimed; “waited all my adult life for news, opinions like this”.
sda O ‘click’
Man,,, that was almost as much fun as the Daytona 500.
Pretty awesome… in the last minutes, SDA suddenly digs deep down and roars right past the Yankee to win…
Congrats!
Congrats Kate, you deserve it! I think that post “Or, Maybe The Audience Is Simply Smarter Than You Are” put you right over the top, what an excellent piece of wordcraft! Keep up the excellent work. Your efforts are not in vain, there are many of us that appreciate the time and dedication that you give to this site.
I’ll let my producer from _The Hour_ know about this. Maybe they’ll pay for Kate to be in the show.
WOOHOO
Way to go Kate!
Them Yank’s are bound to learn something about Canada now.
Excellent Kate, just excellent.
BZ to the Rodent Army for responding to the mobilization call, downing tools and going to the Web to vote.
Ahem, Canadian Sentinel…this here Yank voted “Chicago Rules”-voting for our Kate every 24 hrs. With the final tally of 14,315 votes for SDA and 14,259 for Ace of Spades, let’s call this a bilateral Continental victory for SDA. 🙂
“Smalldeadanimals doesn’t speak for the people
of Saskatchewan” Former Sask Premier Lorne Calvert
Well Lorne I think that she speaks well for Saskatchewan and a whole lot more.
Congrats Kate and all the SDA clan.
Polly Pureheart defeats Snidely Whiplash, and we all live happily ever after (or for the next 51 weeks when we do this again).
Well done, Kate.
Agreed, Dave in Pa.
A preliminary jolly good show Kate.
Dave in PA = Perfect Summary.
Well said buddy. That’s a “I’ll buy the first round” kinda attitude.
Change we can believe it. Kate for president.
er … I mean … change we can believe IN …
If “Prairie Dogs of War” was intentionally avoided, it is doubly funny to use the correct taxonomy.
Of course when people start to realize that if it wasn’t for the Rockies, Kate could see Russia from her back yard, just like Sarah Palin…
Congrats to all. And like a good conservative type of competition, nobody was impeached.
CONGRAUTLATIONS TO KATE AND ALL HER SUPPORTERS, FROM AROUND THE WORLD!
May I humbly suggest that all of us who voted for Kate McMillan’s Small Dead Animals as the “Best Conservative Blog in North America” email Bill O’Reilly on Fox Cable news and demand he have a live interview with the Stubblejumper from Delisle Saskatchewan, and tell him to be prepared, because she will take a strip off him THAT EVEN Ann Coulter would appreciate!!
So you’re saying it’s not a chipmunk?
Wow – If we learned anything from Oh-bah-ma its that the one who mobilizes their base the best will win.
I just hope the recount does go Franken on us.
However it ends – SDA is on the map, and Kate is our new Canadian Hero. And as far as AoS goes, well they have a new follower – Another conservative opinon is allright by me, as I never knew they existed before.
Glad to see the left doesn’t own the internet. The right shall rise again using Algore’s greatest invention.
Congratulations Kate!
Time to renegotiate your advertising charges.
I put all my favorite sites, including yours, on my desktop.
As a help to your now famous brand, a desktop icon would be a nice celebratory idea.
Kate: Congratulations! You have earned everyone of these votes. Number#1, and will always be in my books.
Totallt awesome – all the SDA fans in Peru congratulate and salute you, Kate