Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Now I *KNOW* the sky is falling
Qantas Air, long famous for its utterly unblemished safety record - even remarked upon by Dustin Hoffman's savant in Rainman - has had four incidents in the last 90 days including one this morning. El Al has an equally amazing record but the assumption is that Israeli security explains much of their success. Qantas was simply far and away the cream of the crop with unassailably top-notch with materials and maintenance. What can one do but conclude that up is now down and red is now green and day is now night?

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Monday, September 15, 2008
Weekend polls
Zogby's September 13th electoral college projection has Obama at 234 and McCain at 226 with 78 uncertain. (Of course technically they're all uncertain since the election is 49+ days away.) The projection last week had Obama at 278 (270 is needed to win). And Gallup's September 14th poll shows McCain 47% to Obama's 45%, obviously well within margin of error.

Hey, perhaps individuals' votes will matter on November 4th!

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Friday, February 22, 2008
Dees Dems and Does
Some Dem totals have changed. American Samoa and "Americans living abroad" have been added, and the AP seems to have moved superdelegates around some more.















Clinton Obama Edwards Others
Votes 10,424,298 10,979,930 850,156 356,732
Delegates, according to: MSNBC 1031 1183 26 0
CNN 1250 1319 26 0
NYT 1112 1117 12 0
AP Projection 1262 1351 26 0
USA Today 1264 1358 26 0
Simple arithmetic 1002 1160 64 28

I still can't explain the differences but there it is for today.

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