Archive for October 22nd, 2008
apropos of nothing #3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork It's Oh So Quiet, It's Oh So Cute cats of YouTube video on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
nate silver’s tracking poll primer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, 538, Diageo, fivethirtyeight.com, Gallup, Nate Silver, Nate Silver tracking poll primer, national polls, pollsters, Rasmussen, state polls, Zogby on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally! Get to know your pollsters. Go learn yourself the difference between Zogby and Diageo (although Nate still didn’t tell me how to pronounce the latter) and the rest of the pack. Impress friends and perfect strangers alike with your knowledge of polling sample sizes, track record, house lean, when published, features, and quirks. And if it’s still all [...]
feeling history in your bones
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged African American Obama vote, black vote, early voting Evansville, emotional voting Obama, Evansville Indiana, voting for Obama on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over grandmother), got their turn to vote. When the old woman left the voting booth she made it about halfway to the [...]
countdown: nate silver maps the road to 270
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 538, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, electoral votes, fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver, national polls, the road to 270 on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
more about “countdown: nate silver maps the road …“, posted with vodpod
(please don’t) block the vote
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, ballot spoilage, Block the Vote, GOP voter fraud, Greg Palast, Jack Abramoff, Katherine Harris, provisional ballots, purging voter rolls, Republican voter fraud, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Rolling Stone, Steal Back Your Vote, The Rachel Maddow Show, voter suppression on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear God. This is the best–and scariest–explanation I’ve seen thus far of the GOP voter suppression tactics that have spread across the nation. The ghost of Katherine Harris still haunts the land. What a joke, the firestorm about ACORN. Are you kidding me? On the one hand you’ve got some extra names on voter rolls, [...]
