Hey, Did You Guys Hear About This?

Thanks to the night writers who stayed up for…nothing. Three states up in the air still and Ohio law appears to say, from what I heard at 2 am from the Secretary of State from there, that there are ten days to count the provisional votes. Power vacuum. If this was 1807, Canada would attack right now. Given that we would be crushed, crushed, crushed, now all we can do is send them the pamphlets we have collected from tours of legislative assemblies suggesting it is time to reconsider the Queen.

Moments Later, Still Before Coffee: So one strategy for 2008? How about relocating one million New Yorkers to five New New Yorks, model towns scattered amongst the swing states.

10:29 pm

I am under a denial of interest attack. Why can’t people in Ohio all vote before noon? Is it too much to ask?

On the upside the Daily Show is doing an hour long special.

Update: Gmail lives again.

Update: Why isn’t Alaska’s Peter Tosh memorial ballot measure being reported during this two hour break in anything interesting? Here is what it is about:

Would legalize the cultivation, use and sale of marijuana for persons 21 and older; the state and local government would regulate marijuana like alcohol and tobacco; doctors would be able to prescribe drugs to all patients, including children; public use laws could be enacted by the government as well as laws in the interest of public safety.

Interesting to see that Utah’s same sex marriage proposition (as it were) passed without the popular wording “that marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman…or some women…related or otherwise”

Good Night: 198 Bush to 188 Kerry not counting another 18 for Kerry in Oregon and Washington. Which really makes it 198 Bush to 206 Kerry.

Miles to go. Larry King, who does not need sleep because he is an ALIEN, will be still talking at breakfast and Ohio will still be uncertain. Certainly it would be easier to be a Bush supporter at this moment than a Kerry one but it could all come down to the split allocation of electoral votes in Maine. What the hell did the neighbours do, portland? On the upside, the sofa is there for you and yours, our token political refugees.

Congratulations to Ian and Tessa who singlehandledly out-Ezekiel-ed the Mennonites of Lancaster County with tales from both the Book of Mormon and sin-centrals NY/Cali, swinging to the Democrats those confused but mightily good folk who run lovely train museums.

See you in the recounts.

Election Eve

Just 24 hours until I am stuck in front of the TV, ignoring the kids, eating junk food, forgetting I need to sleep, acting like a sports fan all for an election. I love an election.

And apparently the US election loves this the internets and especially this small bit which has misled people needing the real goods on Kerry’s policies or wanting to find a reliable US election pool. To those lost and finding themselves here…I have nothing for you but the comfort of letting you know that you are not alone, that the internet is a wasteland.

I can’t recall if I followed the 1996 US election on-line. I think I did and it slowed. I do recall the whole web-thang slowed down a whole lot the next time four years ago. Will the infrastruture be robust enough for all the new streaming audio bandwidth, the video and the incessant click-click-click of millions of nerds updating their RSS feeds every 23 seconds. I bet I’ll be listening to radio by 9:43 pm. Radio, the king of media.

US Election Pool IV

UPDATE: two more players Monday morning…names linkified…

OK. I’ve talked it up here, here and here. Two days to go and it is still on and you can still join. Prizes. Real prizes of little or no value. Stuff from around my house. Maybe.

Anyway, here are the picks so far:

Electoral Vote Prez Key States Senate Wild Card
Alan 285K/253B Kerry K: Fla, Pa, Mo, Oh;
B: Me, Co		 48-D, 50-R, 1-I Valesky, NYS, 49th
Hans 270K/268B Kerry K: Fla, Pa, Me, Oh;
B: Mo, Co		 50-D, 50-R, 0-I Delfino, Co Clerk, Roch., NY
Wayne 277B/261K Bush B: Fla, Pa, Mo, Oh;
K: Me, Co		 45-D, 55-R, 0-I Wash St. Aud
Wm Baker (R)
Nicholas 290B/240K/ 4N/1Bad Bush B: Fla, Mo, Co;
K: Me, Pa, Me		 53-R, 46-D, 1-I Smith. Somewhere someone called Smith beats the incumbent.
Ben 305B/233K Bush B: Me, Co, Pa, Mo, Oh;
K: Fla		 52-R, 47-D, 1-I Robert J. Smith, (D), NJ Rep, 4th loses
Ben #2 309B/239K Bush B: 1/3 of Me, Co, Pa, Mo, Oh;
K: 2/3 of Me., Fla		 52-R, 47-D, 1-I Robert J. Smith, (D), NJ Rep, 4th loses
Lisa 274B/264K Bush B: Fla, Co, Mo;
K: Me, Pa, Oh		 50-R, 49-D, 1-I Jim Jeffords. Somewhere he beats the incumbent.
Kateland 300B/238K Bush B: Fla, Co, Mo, Oh;
K: Me, Pa		 51-R, 48-D, 1-I Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, loses
Kim 273K/265B Kerry B: Fla, Mo
K: Me, Pa, Oh, Co		 52-D, 47-R, 1-I Mark Shurtleff, Utah A.-G. will win.
Rob 274K/264B Kerry B: Co, Mo;
K: Fla, Oh, Me, Pa		 50-R, 49-D, 1-I Mo Wiltshire, Ga, W. Dist. wins
David 227K/311B Bush B: Fla
K: Co, Mo, Oh, Me, Pa		 53-R, 46-D, 1-I Dave picks Wayne’s pick.

DIG THAT TABLE!!! First I ever created with my own blood, sweat and tears.

Once again, here are the rules:

  • Electoral College overall: 50 points for being spot on, one point lost for every electoral college vote off +/- for the winner. No points for being 50 or
    over off score.
  • President: 30 points for naming the winner.
  • Key States: 10 points for picking the winner in the following states correctly – Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Missouri, Colorado.
  • Senate: 20 points for for being spot on, four points lost for every senate seat off +/- for the final count of the majority.
  • Wild card: Pick your own non-Federal race at any level down to local district attorney for an incumbant to lose. 20 points if you picked right.

Join in the fun. Play today. We give prizes.