Steven Hill and Rob Richie in today’s San Jose Mercury News: Instant runoff would end spoiler effect in elections. One of Election 2004’s quieter stories may ultimately have far-reaching consequences. In a time of polarized national politics, San Francisco successfully implemented an important innovation in how we vote: electing majority winners in one election with […]
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Zogby: Kerry 311, Bush 213
Fascinating. Zogby is calling the election for Kerry: Kerry 311 electoral votes to Bush’s 213, with Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan all going blue. They project a popular vote of 49.4% for Bush, 49.1% for Kerry, which would be bad news — the second straight election in which the popular vote winner loses the […]
Google News: biased Kerry coverage?
On Google News, click on the link John Kerry (under In The News) and, mainstream newspapers and magazines aside, here are the results you get on the first page: • Useless-Knowledge.com (right-wing site): John Kerry Said “Bring It On”, Now Whines To Bush To Stop The Ads • Enter Stage Right (right-wing ejournal): The imploding […]
At my first Dean meetup
So tonight I went with my wife and 4-year-old son to our first Howard Dean meetup. It was also the first meetup ever held in our SF East Bay town. Everything about the 90-minute affair impressed us: a knowledgeable speaker, the endless stream of position papers available on the DeanforAmerica website, the bottom-up nature of […]