2004

The first exit poll leak has broken at the Daily Kos, and it looks good (showing a net gain of around 30 electoral college votes on the last prediction). AZ CO LA PA OH FL MI NM MN WI IA NH Kerry 45 48 42 60 52 51 51 50 58 52 49 57 Bush…

Though some people said this would be the Blog Election, it’s turning out to be more of a 404 File Not Found election as sites buckle under the weight of traffic. At the moment, for example, not much in the way of US blogs are moving at all – no TPM, no Kos, no Guerrilla,…

Note – I’m going to tag everything election-related as a MARGIN OF ERROR post in the next few days. The figures, anyway. Fox News (eh?) give Kerry 49%, Bush 44% in Florida. If I’m not very much mistaken that’s actually outside the Margin. Yes, MOE=+-3.7%. (Link) Fox’s final national has Kerry +2 and +5 among…

E-vote at Risk – Computerworld As I’m sure you’re all aware, electronic voting systems present us with complicated and desperately important technological and political challenges. But frankly, what’s the point of arguing about verification, paper trails, electronic audit trails, public key encryption and the like when “”Maryland refuses to put a firewall on servers that…

These are the last “likely voter” trackers…. Bush Kerry Zogby 48 47 Monday TIPP 47 42 Sunday Rasmussen 48.1 47.1 Sunday WaPo 48 48 Sunday Fox 46 47 Sunday And these are the last national polls with previous figures in (brackets): Bush Kerry Pew 48(47) 45(47) NBC/WSJ 48(48) 47(48) CBS/NY Times 49(47) 46(45) Gallup 49(51)…

If you are reading this and you can vote in the US election, and you have yet to make up your mind, please read this. George W. Bush must go. I will avoid taking a position on the culture war issues, and simply concentrate on performance. Both as a domestic politician and as Commander in…

When the book of this election is written it’ll be called Margin of Error. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the world’s most pointless headline: “Bush, Kerry in Reach of Electoral Win” (Washington Post)

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Depending on who you listen to, the withdrawal of the European Commission candidates in the face of the Parliament’s refusal to support them was either a shameful left-wing assault on religion (the Times went so far as to use the phrase “witch burning” yesterday) or “the birth of parliamentary democracy” in the EU. There are…

Video evidence shows that explosives were indeed under IAEA seal at al-Qaa Qaa when the US 101st Airborne Division passed through. Watch the video, prepared by a local TV station from Minneapolis, here. From the text: “Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS determined our crew embedded with…