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Electoral-Vote.com Returns for 2006 Elections
Klaus writes "In the 2004 Presidential race, the website electoral-vote.com tracked individual state polls, providing a map of the changing political scene. The map, updated daily, was a phenomenal success. The site is back for the 2006 Congressional elections. It is providing descriptions of the top 40 House races, and all 33 Senate races, as well as valuable information for prospective voters." Remember, your vote counts. Make it out there on November 7th.
Why does it have Connecticut as "Strong Dem" if it shows Lieberman leading as an Independent, 49-41?
It was impossible to predict the disaster that was Katherine Harris in Florida.
Yes, she's just a terrible person, forcing people to vote the way they did, not for Kerry. Or are you confusing 2004 with 2000, when she also didn't force anybody to vote in any particular way? I see.
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Be yourself no matter what they say
They reported the exit polls that showed Kerry would win.
If you Google("exit polls" ukraine) you will see that there was a similar disparity between the exit polls and the official results in a Ukrainian election held around that same time.
There was almost universal agreement in the West that in the Ukrainian election the exit polls were correct and the official results were rigged. AFAIK, the last two national elections that Bush purportedly won (and now the recent election in Mexico) are the only ones where the exit poll results differed from the official results by statistically significant amounts and yet the official result was still accepted by our media almost without question.
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
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Just more some interesting (and sometimes scary) information. Not actually that site, but found it on a link from that site is interesting site about senators approval ratings. One of those scary things is the infamous Ted "bridge to nowhere" "internet is series of tubes" Stevens has the 28th highest approval rating of the 100 senators :-(
"reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Steven Colbert
He has an interesting page at: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2006/Info/senator -ratings.html
discussing that there really aren't any senators in the middle anymore.
From my analysis of his table "mean" column...
What I found interesting from the table is that the 55 Republicans are more beholden to their side (on avg, 10.47 away from 100% on all issues) than the 44 Democrats are to their side (on avg, 13.56 away from 100% on all issues).
Since that data is taken from all the same bills/amendments/etc, it is a meaningful difference.
Of course, as a registered Green, I knew this already: the Democratic party became "Republicans lite" and left me a long time ago...
You'd might, but with the slim margins your presidents have won with in recent years, you may end up with a minority government. You may also end up with decromats and republicans sitting together and discussing things, and having to come to an agreement before decisions are made, instead of only one side sitting around discussing their own interests.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Washington State originally excluded idiots from voting. The exact language was
"All idiots, insane persons, and persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their civil rights are excluded from the elective franchise."
This was amended in 1988 to refer to people declared legally incompetent instead of "idiots and insane persons".
Some people opposed the amendment because they like having a constitution that said idiots weren't allowed to vote.