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The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum
A reader writes: " www.electoral-vote.com, a site of daily updated maps of the US electoral college based on a number of polls is probably a site that the policially inclined check daily. Well, it has been revealed that the person behind the site, AKA the votemaster, is none other than Andrew Tanenbaum, noted author of numerous CS books." He's also known for a little discussion with someone named Linus Torvalds.
The Republican Kool-Aid, that is.
Obviously the world believes that Kerry will result in a weaker America and will benefit them.
The world votes Kerry to ensure that mr. Bush doesn't do more irrepairable damage to the world than he has already done. What do you think will happen to the respect that other nations have for the US, when Bush is re-elected.
How do you think groups like Al Qaeda will react when Bush is re-elected. Do you realize what happened on 9/11, and why it happened?
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Make sure to check out his predicted map using an average of the last few polls in each state:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/fin/nov01z.html
(mirrors:)
http://www.electoral-vote2.com/fin/nov01z.html
http://www.electoral-vote3.com/fin/nov01z.html
http://www.electoral-vote4.com/fin/nov01z.html
Makes a slight difference, going from Kerry 298 to Bush 287, eh?
He used to link to the predicted map, and explain it... he even used to default to the average rather than last poll. Now all plugs are off, the Kool-Aid needs to be doled out in huge portions. Does that smell like desperation?
I know that your reaction is typical of most Europeans but the answer is yes, it is our responsibility. It should be your countries reponsibility as well to spread freedom and democracy throughout the world. It is only via this mechanism that we can ensure a long lasting peace.
It is unfortunate the the EU and Europeans in general have forgotten this. You would think that the historical lessons that should have been learned from the various European fascist governments(Italy, Spain, Germany) have not been learned at all.
Laissez faire policies ARE IMMORAL. You must support freedom and democracy. If you do not, you support destruction, because it is non-democratic non-free societies that eventually wreak havoc. It is unfortunate that this "live and let live" sickness is spreading to the U.S.
And shame on France and the EU for allowing Arafat to enter France for medical care. The man is a known terrorist.
Here is the tally of the fascination.
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The Chinese government has stated that it wants Kerry to win.
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The Australian government has stated that it wants Bush to win.
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The Russian government has stated that it was Bush to win.
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Osama Bin Laden has stated that it (yes, "it") wants Kerry to win.
Based solely on the assessment of foreigners, for whom would you now vote?Maybe, the time has come for a real change in power. Write the following on the November ballot.
president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce
O'Reilly obviously cannot win even if he gets more than 50% of the vote because the rules of most states requires write-in candidates to register their candidacy. Nonetheless, if O'Reilly garners enough of the popular vote, he would have the "Perot Effect". Whoever is president would be forced to listen to O'Reilly and his supporters, altering the direction of the country for the better.
> Still, Tanenbaum doesn't really make reference to that on his site; he
> acts as if the mere act of running electoral-vote.com somehow helps the
> Democratic candidate. That's the part I don't understand.
It is all about making a Kerry victory expected but not so certain as to cause the faithful to lose the motivation to get out and vote. This does several things that helps Kerry.
1. It gets the faithful to the polls. If the numbers favor Bush very much the faithful lose hope and stay home.
2. A lot of polls showing a Kerry win are needed for their stated strategy of declaring victory as soon as the polls close, under their new theory that "If every voter is allowed to vote and every vote is counted, we win. Therefore a loss means election fraud and we unleash the lawyers to correct the injustice."
3. Polls showing a Kerry win will depress the Bush vote.
Sounds like Mr Tanenbaum, like most academics of today, is all too ready to sell out his professional ethics for political gain. Go hit realclearpolitics.com if you want maps derived from actual polling data.
His electoral map is so different from any other map I have yet seen it must be discarded as a statistical outlier. Besides eliminating most of the leaning Bush states, this asshat has CA as only 'leaning Kerry' (Obviously to ensure the Pro Kerry forces in CA get frightened to the polls.) Does ANYONE who follows politics believe for a nanosecond Bush could carry the People's Republic of California? Only in a 40plus state blowout scenario, and I don't see that happening this year.
Democrat delenda est
Yes, absolutely, it is, if we have the power to do so we should do so.
We hold these rights to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by the creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There is such a thing as right and wrong, and it's not all relative, and it's not cultural. If you force your people to pray to one god and the women to wear masks around all over the place, you are wrong. Period. People should be given the choice to do that if they wish, but should not be forced. It's not culture, it's *tyranny*, the enemy of culture.
The only mistake I think we made in Iraq was to go in without a plan, and underprepared. The abstract idea of ridding the world of a ruthless dictator and establishing a democracy was a good one. It's almost funny to hear you call us a bully, for ridding the world of a bully. To say that we were interfering with Iraq's culture I frankly find very insulting, to us and to them. Unless by their culture (or "way of life", same thing), you mean was agreeing with everything Saddam said or watching their family get killed.
That's not a way of life, that's a way of death. Funny how subtleties like that seem to be lost on people like you.
WWJD? JWRTFA!
If he wanted to get some juicy footage, he should have been around while people vandalized a lawn in Wisconsin, shot up the Republican campaign HQ in Knoxville TN, and smashed the front window of a campaign office in Missouri. The Seattle campaign office was also burglarized, but that could have been a simple theft.
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If I were Euro-trash, I'd hate Kerry just because he's some chump American who *thinks* he's cool enough to be Euro-trash, running around with celebrities who have transcended their own nationality like Jerry Lewis, David Hasselhoff, and Bon Jovi.