The Ghost of Election Day Past

I’ve been doing searches on where we were 4 years ago, just a few days before the election. I remembered polls showed the election was close. What I didn’t remember was that Bush had 47%, Gore had just 43%, and Nader had 5% (link). Despite those numbers, the election was too close to call, and [...]

Posted by Deana in Politics on October 30th, 2004 | Comments Off

nail-biting supplies

If you’re going to be a nervous election-news junkie like me next Tuesday, “USA Election Atlas”:http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/ElectionNight2004/pe2004elecnighttime.php might be a useful page to bookmark. They have a map of when polls close in each state, and it looks like they’ll be filling in vote counts as they come in over time. Or, like Ben, you could [...]

Posted by Chris in Politics on October 28th, 2004 | Comments Off

cul-de-sac

From Yahoo News, via Deana: “In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have “uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_sc/dwarf_cavewoman marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.” I love it when we discover puzzling new evidence. Whatever the explanation turns out to [...]

Posted by Chris in Science on October 27th, 2004 | Comments Off

Revolutionary Look

I just discovered this Northern California author. He has a new book coming out called Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past that sounds really interesting, even if you aren’t a history geek. You can also test your knowledge with a revolutionary quiz. Think you know who wrote “Give me liberty, or give me [...]

Posted by Deb in History on October 25th, 2004 | Comments Off

on polls and poles

I’m wary of posting links to anything pollish. Not that I have anything against polls, but they do tend to… what’s the word?… lie. However, I’ve become mesmerized by the “Race 2004″:http://www.race2004.net/ poll summary site, mostly because it has pretty colors. Er, I mean it has a state-by-state breakdown of polling, with predictions of the [...]

Posted by Chris in Politics on October 22nd, 2004 | Comments Off

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