Bookmarks for October 14th through October 16th
October 16, 2008
These are my links for October 14th through October 16th:
- Vote 2008 – The Takeaway – Track the Electoral College vote predictions – Interesting visualization of electoral vote projections.
- The Rude Pundit – (As always with the Rude One, there is some naughty language in this post. But I love it anyway.)
"Obama's approach to the whole campaign has been incredibly straightforward: He is not running to be your buddy, Americans. He is running to be your president."
- Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily – Interesting theory:
"The consequence of this whole campaign could be far reaching. If Obama wins and the exit polls show independents voted overwhelmingly for him, the pundits are going to lay the blame at Palin's high heels and advise the GOP to forget the evangelicals and run candidates with financial expertise (like Mitt Romney) in the future. Needless to say, the evangelicals, who finally got one of their own on the ticket, won't take this well and the ensuing battle will tear the Republican Party to bits."
I like the quote from the Rude Pundit…the president SHOULDN’T be my buddy. I don’t know how we ended up voting for the guy we most want to have a beer with. Look, I love my beer drinking group of friends, but I don’t think any of them should be president (myself most definitely included!)
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ is a really fantastic electoral-vote tracking site. The author, Nate Silver used to do statistics tracking for Major League Baseball. You might have seen him on The Colbert Report in the last couple of weeks.