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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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Josh Marshall: "The White House insists: the Senate must confirm torture memo author as Deputy Attorney General."
"2008 pres"
9:24:31 PM 
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Andrew Sullivan: "While actual voters in 22 states split their votes 50-50 between Clinton and Obama, Gallup's daily tracking now shows Clinton leaping into a 13 point lead. The polls have really been all over the place this year - but Gallup isn't usually this volatile. The poll of polls gives her a 4 point national lead."
"2008 pres"
9:23:23 PM
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As it turns out we didn't have to go Mona Shaw on Comcast after all. Yesterday's reconfiguration of our network went seamlessly. After the Comcast technician arrived at Gulch Manor Mrs. Gulch phoned us and we flew home from work early to offer assistance and learn about the new gear they were installing.
The tech was finished with his part when we arrived but we made him stick around while we reconfigured our router, entering the shiny new static IP number and other stuff we really don't understand. We then tested on the home network. Everything passed.
It was now time to test access from the Internet. We reconfigured the iPhone to use the Edge network and we were able to hit Coyote Gulch by IP number. The last test was to hit the Radio server from the web so that we can post when we're on the road. That passed also.
The tech was kind enough to leave his cell phone number on our paperwork. "Call me if you're not satisfied with tech support again," he said. As it turns out he was part of the old guard from the days of Mile High Cable. He knew about my static IP but claimed it was never static but was called "persistent" by AT&T. When we showed him our notes from January 25th, 2004, when a Comcast tech left me voicemail with my two static IPs he left the subject alone. 4 techs and 3 different stories as to why we had a static IP on the 24 network for four years. It really doesn't matter now. Performance seems to be fine.
Everyone from Comcast, since we called the sales rep last Friday, was helpful and seemed to want to solve the problem. The rep even called us the same day, only a couple of hours after we left voicemail, and it was Super Bowl weekend. We especially want to thank the dude that called Saturday with young children you could overhear in the background. That was above and beyond. We're also happy with the credit they've allowed us. It'll pay for the first 20 months of charges for our static IP.
A couple of hours later our DNS hosting service had changed our record and http://coyotegulch.net was resolving. Tonight will be one week since the outage.
We're still going to test Qwest DSL and look into the Dish network. Things are not as urgent now however. 
5:57:49 PM
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Here's a look at the Colorado caucus votes from The Rocky Mountain News. From the article:
Colorado caucus-goers turned out in staggering numbers Tuesday, crowding elbow to elbow in schools, churches and libraries to deliver victories for Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama. Initial tallies showed Romney, who had a campaign presence in Colorado for months, winning Colorado by a ratio of 3-to-2 over national front-runner John McCain. Obama, who made a personal appearance in Denver last week, surged to a 2-1 victory against Hillary Clinton. But it was the turnout for the arcane and often-ignored caucus process, more than the results, that stunned even veteran politicos in the state. As Denver Democrat Jeff Bridges said, "It was a ton of new people, and probably some fire code violations."[...]
Even from the earliest returns, Obama and Romney had appeared to be on their way to dominating victories. "It's Obama country," said Renee Rivera, a volunteer coordinator for the Democratic Party at East High School caucuses, where the early count was breaking hard for Obama. Former Denver mayor and national Obama campaign co-chairman Federico Pena, was jubilant about the results, here and across the nation, on Super Tuesday. "No one expected (Obama) to win 11 states tonight," Pena said. "We demonstrated here in Colorado that we can win if we have enough time. Even in a state that has a large Hispanic population that people thought we couldn't win, we've done very well." At a gathering of Clinton supporters, former Denver mayor Wellington Webb said they were outnumbered by the Obama campaign. "The last time I looked, we're still winning," he said of the national race.
"2008 pres"
7:10:27 AM
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Here's a recap of the Super Tuesday vote from The Sarasota Herald Tribune. From the article:
John McCain seized command of the race for the Republican presidential nomination early Wednesday, winning delegate-rich primaries from the East Coast to California. Democratic rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama traded victories in an epic struggle with no end in sight. Clinton won Super Tuesday's biggest state, California, in the Democratic campaign, capitalizing on backing from Hispanic voters. Obama fashioned victories in Alabama and Georgia on the strength of black support. McCain's own victory in the Republican race in the Golden State dealt a crushing blow to his closest pursuer, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney...
In the competition that counted the most, the Arizona senator had 570 delegates, nearly half of the 1,191 needed for the nomination -- and far ahead of his rivals. Even so, Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said they were staying in the race. Neither Clinton nor Obama proclaimed overall victory on a Super Tuesday that sprawled across 22 states, and with good reason. Obama won 13 states and Clinton eight plus American Samoa. But with victories in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, the former first lady led narrowly in the early tabulation of delegates for the night. Missouri was so close that although Obama won the vote count it was likely to be hours before it became clear whether he or his rival had captured a majority of the state's 72 delegates...
Clinton's continued strong appeal among Hispanics -- she was winning nearly six in 10 of their votes -- was a big factor in her California triumph, and in her victory in Arizona, too. McCain, the early Republican front-runner whose campaign nearly unraveled six months ago, won in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, Delaware and his home state of Arizona -- each of them winner-take-all primaries. He also pocketed victories in Oklahoma and Illinois. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, won a series of Bible Belt victories, in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee as well as his own home state. He also triumphed at the Republican West Virginia convention, and told The Associated Press in an interview he would campaign on. "The one way you can't win a race is to quit it, and until somebody beats me, I'm going to answer the bell for every round of this fight," he said. Romney won a home state victory in Massachusetts. He also took Utah, where fellow Mormons supported his candidacy. His superior organization produced caucus victories in North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Alaska and Colorado, and he, too, breathed defiance. "We're going to go all the way to the convention. We're going to win this thing," he told supporters in Boston...
Clinton won at home in New York as well as in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arizona and Arkansas, where she was first lady for more than a decade. She also won the caucuses in American Samoa. Obama won Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Delaware, Utah and his home state of Illinois. He prevailed in caucuses in North Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, Idaho, Alaska and Colorado...
The Arizona senator had 570 delegates, to 251 for Romney and 175 for Huckabee. It takes 1,191 to clinch the presidential nomination at next summer's convention in St. Paul, Minn. Overall, Clinton had 760 delegates to 693 for Obama, out of the 2,025 needed to secure victory at the party convention in Denver. Clinton's advantage is partly due to her lead among so-called superdelegates, members of Congress and other party leaders who are not selected in primaries and caucuses -- and who are also free to change their minds. Alabama and Georgia gave Obama three straight Southern triumphs. Like last month's win in South Carolina, they were powered by black votes.
"2008 pres"
6:08:30 AM
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