All Blog Posts (Page 33)

Nov 20, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Lizard People for Franken

The Minnesota Senatorial battle continues with a statewide recount. Nate Silver thinks Franken will win. Maybe. Or not. Who knows. Meanwhile, MPR has posted a collection of photos of challenged ballots, including my personal favorite, Lizard Peopl...

Nov 19, 2008
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The Nader Effect in 2008

So, it looks like Nader might have cost Obama the state of Missouri. Check it out: McCain: 1,445,812 Obama: 1,442,810 Nader: 17,813 Barr: 11,386 If you assume that 3rd party voters would have voted for their more closely aligned major party ...

Nov 12, 2008
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A Poor Choice of Words

"You know," [Chuck Heath, Sarah Palin's father] said, "the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for." (from Maureen Dowd) You know, I bet Bristol just has the worst time remembering where she left her underwear. When is her wedd...

Nov 06, 2008
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Newsweek's Campaign '08 Retrospective

Newsweek had a number of reporters embedded in the McCain, Obama and Clinton campaigns for the past year, working on a multi-part inside story on what happened over the past year. Part 4 of 7 was posted this morning, and it’s well worth the time t...

Nov 04, 2008
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Election Beer Bets

I bet my friend Neil a pint of beer that Obama would win Georgia. He accepted. I bet my friend Dominic with 2:1 odds that Obama will lose Arizona. He accepted. It would be worth two pints of beer to me to see McCain so thoroughly defeated, especi...

Nov 03, 2008
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Toot's vote

This made me tear up. I just read this over at DKos that Barack Obama’s grandmother’s vote will be counted under Hawaii state law. Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ...

Nov 03, 2008
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My Guess for Tomorrow

Obama 364 to McCain 174. Same as Karl Rove is predicting, perversely, except that I genuinely think that Georgia is going to flip, given the African-American turnout I’ve been reading about. Obama wins all of the Kerry states, plus CO, NM, FL, OH,...