More states are called, more expectations are met. Adding to the previous totals… The networks are calling Maine, Mass., Conn., NJ, Md., DC, Del., and Ill. for Kerry. Bush, meanwhile, has won in Ala., Tenn., W. Va., and, Okla. Several battlegrounds are too early in the process, but it’s interesting that a couple of southern […]
About four miliseconds after polls closed, everyone called Indiana, Kentucky, and Georgia for Bush, and Vermont for Kerry. This comes as a surprise to absolutely no one, so for goodness sakes, don’t be disappointed when you swing by one of the major news sites and see Bush ahead in the Electoral College vote count. As […]
The third batch of exit polls is available, according to Kos. All the usual caveats and warnings apply… Pennsylvania — Kerry 53, Bush 46 Florida — Kerry 51, Bush 49 North Carolina — Bush 52, Kerry 48 Ohio — Kerry 51, Bush 49 Missouri — Kerry 54, Bush 46 Arkansas — Bush 53, Kerry 47 […]
The second batch of exit polls is available, according to Slate’s Jack Shafer. Remember, read with heaping grains of salt… (Update: OK, I’m not sure what’s up with Slate right now. Shafer had updated data, added on to his first round, which, for some reason, is no longer there. I’ll stay on top of it, […]
Some of you experienced long lines today while waiting to vote; others will find lengthy waits later today. But before you decide that the wait isn’t worth it, consider the plight of Rick Valenzuela. Rick Valenzuela went the extra mile to cast his vote today — 1,200 extra miles, to be exact — riding an […]
The first batch of exit polls is available. Remember, this is like looking at the score of a football game at halftime, only slightly less reliable. Arizona — Bush 55, Kerry 45 Colorado — Bush 51, Kerry 48 Louisiana — Bush 57, Kerry 42 Pennsylvania — Kerry 60, Bush 40 Ohio — Kerry 52, Bush […]
The only problem with the brilliant news parodies at The Onion is that their remarkably talented writers don’t seem to understand that real life is just as bad, if not worse, than their exaggerated caricatures. As The American Prospect’s Nick Confessore noted this afternoon, The Onion probably didn’t know how right it was just days […]
The Republican National Committee is calling voters in key states today with automated warnings of a secret Democratic plan for a draft. The draft. The Democrats haven’t pledged a thing. What are the Democrats hiding? Is the draft really their secret plan? Only the Democrats have proposed the possibility of a draft in this campaign. […]
We’re just a little over half-way through the big day and the right is already finding scapegoats to explain a Kerry victory. They apparently have settled on an old stand-by. Henry Farrell, for example, noted that two very high–profile conservative bloggers are blaming — you guessed it — the mainstream media for Bush’s still-undetermined demise. […]
Newsday’s legendary (and cantankerous) columnist Jimmy Breslin, who announced his retirement today, goes out with a bang in his final column. As Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir noted, Breslin is unusually confident in a Kerry victory. When published reports showed a million new voter registrations in Florida and about 800,000 in Ohio, I made the election a […]