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Wednesday, September 6, 2006
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Say hello to ElectoralVote.com:2006 Andrew Tannenbaum has re-launched the website he ran during the presidential election. They write, "Welcome (back) to electoral-vote.com. As many of you know, during the 2004 election, this site tracked the 50 state polls + D.C. on a daily basis, reporting on the electoral vote count continuously. The site was the most popular election site in the country, drawing almost 700,000 visitors a day. It was in the top 1000 Websites in the world and the top 10 blogs in the world. The 2004 data and maps are still online. Just click on '2004 Election' above to travel backward in time.
"Due to popular demand, we are back in operation again, now tracking the Senate 2006 races and to a lesser extent, the House. There is a wealth of new data, links, and other information, some of which may surprise you. For example, which party controls the governor's mansion in the six bluest states? (Hint) The links in the menu below the map lead you to a large collection of Web pages about politics in general and the upcoming congressional election in particular. It is suggested that everyone read the Welcome page and General FAQ in any case."
Here's the RSS feed.
Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
Here's the Coyote Gulch post the day that the good Dr. revealed that he was behind ElectoralVote.com .
9:15:20 PM 
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Captains Quarters: "George Bush gave a long-overdue speech on the American efforts to use intelligence and captured terrorists to keep the US homeland safe from attack. He announced the transition of detained high-value terrorists from secret holding facilities to Guantanamo Bay in preparation for military tribunals, once Congress approves the legal framework for such a process, and related the myriad links discovered through their interrogation."
Josh Marshall: "Maybe I'm missing something. But President Bush's announcement today of the transfer fourteen accused terrorists from secret prisons abroad to Guantanamo Bay seems pretty elementary in terms of political strategy, no?
"As we speculated last night, President Bush wants to gin up a hail mary pre-election political fight over the constitution (no pun intended) of military tribunals for accused terrorists. This election-timed stunt is intended to put fourteen faces on the president's fight over the rules for his kangaroo courts."
The White House has published The President's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism.
"2008 pres"
8:56:48 PM
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Colorado Confidential: "What started as a group of vigilantes roaming along the U.S. Southern border - with reported ties to neo-Nazis - has officially established clubs in Denver and Colorado Springs. In a news story in the Colorado Springs Independent this week, Minutemen chapter president Jeff Henry likens his group to a sort of neighborhood watch program - 'albeit one that seeks to ferret undocumented immigrants out of the city and back over the southern U.S. border.' The Minutemen now have more than 200 chapters in 38 states."
"2008 pres"
8:49:41 PM
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This is cool. From email from the Aaron Harbor show: "The broadcast of ... which features an exclusive one-on-one interview with United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer is scheduled for Friday, September 8th, at 9:00 pm and Sunday, September 10th, at 2:00 pm on PBS Station KBDI-TV Channel 12, Colorado Public Television. The program also now is available for viewing 24/7 at www.HarberTV.com."
"2008 pres"
8:36:33 PM
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Colorado Confidential: "Following up on its piece on how the 'security moms'-moms concerned about terrorism-who helped push the GOP victories in 2002 and 2004 may be leaning Democratic now, the Washington Post today reports on the political label of the moment: 'mortgage mom.' What's a mortgage mom? That would be 'voters whose sense of well-being is freighted with anxiety about their families' financial squeeze.' Even as the GOP makes plans to make security issues its major focus in the remaining weeks that Congress is in session, Democrats are betting that economic fears will trump those relating to terrorism. Among the statistics brandished: that the inflation-adjusted median hourly wage of most workers fell by two percent since 2003 according to the Department of Labor, that the annual inflation rate has exceeded four percent for three consecutive months, and that household debt is rising. In particular, the ratio of financial obligations, mostly mortgage and consumer debt, to disposable personal income rose to 18.7 percent earlier this year, the highest level in modern times, notes the Post."
"denver 2006"
7:12:57 AM
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