This is going to be the most tech-savvy, transparent administration we have ever had and they will use new communication technologies to allow people to feel a connection to their government. This is going to be a political communication revolution. If this isn’t already proof I don’t know what is:
So the deadline has passed and we have 7 entrants into the 1st Quadrennial Electoral Map Contest sponsored in part Taco Bell. Do forget to vote bell.
Here are the rough numbers. Electoral vote total for Obama (Home state winner or the did I do my part test):
Chris – 393 (Ohio – O)
Glenn – 379 (MD – O)
Me – 367 (OH – O)
Adam – 364 (IN – O)
Kevin – 316 (OH – M)
Shelby* – 314 (IN – M)
Jeff* – 314 (OH – O)
Mean for the Group – 349.57 (SD = 33.96)
*Same map
Because the campaign ends, the “Artists for Obama” prints are on sale.
So I bought this one. Possible by Johnathan Hoeffler.
I honestly really wanted the Progress one, which was like one of the first prints. I guess this one will have to do. But seriously I do really like it and I really think, like Sen. Obama, my story is only possible because of this great country.
I am glad I am not a Republican. I think I would be very embarrassed to be part of a party that actively discourages the electorate from coming out to vote. In Ohio, they are doing this by not extending the hours at the Franklin County early vote location even though there has consistently been an hour or two long line. The Dems moved to have it open from 8 A.M. to 7 P.M., but the Republican majority of the Franklin County Board of Elections decided to only keep it open from 1 P.M. to 5 P.M.
The Republicans are trying to win this election by not having the better ideas accepted by the majority of Americans, but trying to silence the voices of opposition. This is not how a democracy or a republic is supposed to work. With that being said, Ohio should still have record turnout. And if the last Dispatch poll is right should go blue by a safe margin.
Over 2.6 million people have already voted in North Carolina. This represents 74.9% of the total number of people who voted in the 2004 election. So far the party breakdown is: Dem 50.8%, Rep 30.6%, and none 18.5%. Although we shouldn’t get to excited yet. North Carolina should have massive turnout based on the fact that this is the first time it has been a contested state in a long time. I would guess that turnout is going to be in the 115-120% range as compared to 2004, so there is still a lot of vote out.
For more data go here.
No one should be declaring any winners before election day. Right now if we lose I am blaming it all on Garry Tradeau. With that said, this is a funny story. My favorite part is the McCain camp’s zinger of a comeback in graph 4.
Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” is predicting a victory for Barack Obama, and some newspaper editors are debating how to handle the comic without knowing the results of Tuesday’s election.
Wednesday’s strip is set in Iraq and features military characters huddled around a television that proclaims: “And it’s official — Barack Obama has won. …”
In an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times, Trudeau said newspaper editors should run the strip because “polling data gives McCain a 3.7 percent chance of victory. There’s a greater risk that their presses will break down on election day. “I’m wrong, it’ll be my face that’ll be covered with egg, not theirs,” he said. “One reporter has already suggested I just carry on with an alternative universe in which Obama wins. It’s not a crazy idea. …”
From the John McCain camp, spokesman Tucker Bounds said: “We hope the strip proves to be as predictive as it is consistently lame.”
Lame. Seriously, that is what you came up with. What a wordsmith.
