My prediction can wait no longer. Kerry 51 Bush 47.5 (various irrelavents) 1.5 Kerry: 304 (Gore 2000 +Florida, Ohio, NH, -Iowa) Bush: 234 Turnout: 59% (Local predictions) Monorail recall fails 52-48 Weird Gambling/property tax initiative fails 63-37 Education/Sales Tax initiative passes 53-47 Charter Schools fail...
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This Slate article is so appalling it's hard to know what possibly could have been going through the minds of the editors who allowed it to be published. Even for.
Since a commenter bringing it up gives me the excuse... I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem.
Kos is spot-on about this. Sure, we all know that if Bush wins a squeaker it probably won't change the way he governs. It potentially matters in the other direction, though. Goal one of this election is removing GWB and co. from power, but an important...
Shorter David Brooks: As opposed to someone like John Kerry, who will shamefully try to politicize George Bush's inability to capture Osama bin Laden, I will only use bin Laden to.
Call me an authoritarian if you wish, but I'm not all that opposed to the idea. I'd certainly make the penalty minimal (but not inconsequential) and I'd formalize the non-participant.
Ok, if you haven't read the NYT Op-ed page yet today, explain how this election could lead to a President Edwards being sworn in on Jan 20, 2005, with no assassinations. No peeking. Answer here. Update: No deaths are required.
You can't blame Saint Ralph for envying the stench of desperation coming from his Republican allies; at least it would be a sign of life. But I think this is overdoing.
Mike Leigh is, without serious question, a major filmmaker. His method of improvising from complex characters to develop a then-fixed shooting script makes his movies feel like nobody else's, he.
Henry at Crooked Timber notices some GOP 527 ads in strange places: One of my colleagues complained to me this morning that her AOL Instant Messenger software had been hijacked by political spam. As I’ve seen for myself, every time she moves her cursor over the...
Update: I didn't mean to post this as a blank post. Here's what I meant to include: Part 1: From MyDD, we learn of an interesting new segment of the Bush.
I'm statistically literate enough to know that Matt Yglesias is certainly right about this. So why do I stop what I'm doing to check Rasmussen every morning at 9:00 AM?