As a salute to the departing political frenzy, this fabulous red-blue-purple map of election results by county, created by Mark Newman at the University of Michigan ( Read more... )

As you can probably guess, during this election, I immersed myself deeply enough in politics to encounter all kinds of trivial weirdness -- literally the weirdness of trivia.  Last night I was thinking to myself "Gee, now that we have a president who was born in the sixties, we'll probably never have one who was born in the fifties."  So this ( Read more... )

From my October 29 entry:
a good foundation for a close race...assumes that McCain takes Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida... all of which are "pessimistic-realistically" in play.
... and all of which, as of today, Obama captured. The magnitude of his achievement becomes clearer, slowly.

I didn't feel as though I had any ownership in this country. Correctly! The fool spoke of "the ownership society" and meant: The society in which you are owned. The fool called us free, because he knew that he did not own us. He did not know -- can he have? -- that he was as owned as we were.

and we were all sitting back and watching in horror ( Read more... )

I have been trying for hours, and I cannot do better than what soshesays wrote, as a place to start:Gradually I descended into a deep cynicism. I still voted in every election, but I also watched our nation go into a tailspin, and I knew that we had done it to ourselves. We had relinquished our control. We had passed the reins to an incompetent fool ( Read more... )

Voters with cell phones in Florida, Virginia, Missouri, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Maryland and Arkansas are being sent text messages that say, literally or approximately ( Read more... )

Just before I go cook dinner, everybody catch this:

http://tinyurl.com/5ptrqj

Now, as to why this is more interesting than the 400 other maps out there:

One) This is Karl Rove's map -- the one he sells -- which has to make it one of the most pessimistic from Obama's standpoint ( Read more... )

just as a quick followup:

http://tinyurl.com/66evvb

tomorrow!!

for your evening's entertainment:


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I hope nobody I know is still waiting on their absentee ballot, but if you are, this may do you some good:

http://tinyurl.com/6fssks

I was saying it weeks ago, and I'll say it again -- if you want your vote, you'll have to fight for it.

Three days.