Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Bowles concedes. I love that man. Damn. 11:35:23 PM    comment []

Fox is calling North Carolina for Burr over Bowles. 10:57:50 PM    comment []

From the Guilford County elections site 100% reporting Kris Cooke whips Bill Davidson in District 7 school board race. Dot Kearns beats Jim Kirkpatrick in the at-large school board contest. Mike Winstead beats Mike Barber in District 7 county commissioner race, 13,487 to 13,020. Dem. Paul Gibson gets late surge, joins reelected Rep. Trudy Wade as county commissioner -- Wade hangs on to beat Dem. John Parks 91,191votes to 91,118. Kirk Perkins crushes Eddie Souther to become District 4 commissioner. Kay Hagan romps to reelection in state senate. Wow -- Pricey Harrison beats Joanne Bowie by a ton, 56.55%-43.45% Bloggin' Jeff Thigpen wins for Register of Deeds Robby Hassell reelected District Court Judge. 10:52:14 PM    comment []

NC Board of Elections site. 10:04:27 PM    comment []

Oooh...VH1 has the rerun of the Sally Jessy Raphael episode of Surreal Life on... 8:44:56 PM    comment []

CSPAN map. 8:37:04 PM    comment []

CBS is showing North Carolina in red... 8:22:13 PM    comment []

Ohio results. 8:07:37 PM    comment []

Tonight's 7:30 Simpson's episode on channel 14: the dog stars in Duff ads as Suds McDuff. Lisa: Why does the dog have human girlfriends? Marge: People do crazy things in ads -- like eat at Arby's! First commercial at the break: Arby's. 7:53:05 PM    comment []

Florida real time results. 7:49:32 PM    comment []

Guilford County elections site. 7:43:58 PM    comment []

CBS News is calling the NC governor's race for Democrat Mike Easley; says Burr/Bowles too close to estimate. 7:42:30 PM    comment []

A bond-trading buddy points me to this site, which shows Bush futures dropping...click on "start trading" at the top to see presidential and senate races...and assume the old adage applies: nobody knows anything. 5:13:35 PM    comment []

Jimmy Cliff: "Sitting here in Limbo, Waiting for the dice to roll." 1:30:28 PM    comment []

Jay Rosen and I will co-host a dinner at Scott's Seafood in Palo Alto on Saturday night after BloggerCon. By "co-host" I mean nudge the conversation toward our designated topic, the election and blogging, not pay for your dinner. But come anyway. We will talk about more than politics. And as far as this co-host is concerned, eating and drinking well are priorities. 9:44:44 AM    comment []

NYT: Textile Quotas to End, Punishing Carolina Towns "For many years, textile and clothing factories in the mill towns of the Carolinas...have been closing one after another as the industry migrated abroad in search of ever-cheaper labor. Now, this gradual loss may be about to turn into a rout." (I elided the part of the first sentence that said those factories were "originally drawn from New York and New England decades ago by the prospect of inexpensive nonunion workers" because I think it's so broad as to be inaccurate. A qualifier like "many" or "some" would make it more accurate. The textile industry was roaring along in Greensboro before the turn of the 20th Century, and it wasn't just fleeing union labor.) But anyway, the Times is right about this: "Meanwhile, here in the slowly beating heart of the remaining American textile industry, workers and owners of factories still operating along a stretch of Interstate 85 from Charlotte to Greensboro see the dawning of 2005 as a death sentence. More companies, they fear, will go bankrupt. More communities will wither like Kannapolis, and thousands more workers will be desperate for training, employment and health insurance." 9:00:05 AM    comment []

"The U.S. military may have a huge advantage in weaponry in battling insurgents in Iraq, but when it comes to using cellular communications they are 'at least as good as we,' says Lt. Gen. William Wallace, commanding general of the Army Combined Arms Center and former commander of V Corps. Adversaries may actually be using networks more effectively to collaborate and to build hard-to-detect communications, he adds. (Aviation Week, no link, via the must-read John Robb.) 8:44:15 AM    comment []

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Follow the money: the N&O has a list of North Carolina's largest political donors. 8:40:27 AM    comment []

N&R columnist Charles Davenport Jr. has a website. Not a blog, but a conservative, old-school static site. Appropriate. 8:39:15 AM    comment []

Did you hear? Something called the "Web log" is having an impact on the election. I read it in the New York Times! "So what transformed politics this time around? The rise of the Web log, or blog." The paper of record runs blurbs from several famous bloggers about what they want for Christmas, er, what they want from the vote. It's an odd, rightward-skewing view of the blogosphere, including a self-congratulatory post from the Powerline guys ("The most important event of the campaign was the exposure of documents cited by '60 Minutes' in its report on President Bush's Air National Guard service as fraudulent"); there were pro-Kerry entries, but some were weak (a tepid piece from Mickey Kaus) or played for laughs (Wonkette)...Glenn Reynolds was there, but no Atrios or Kos. I guess the Times felt their regular columnists could pick up the slack...but as a representative sample of the blogging world, it was a bit off. 8:07:52 AM    comment []

6:25 AM, the line's out the door at Irving Park Methodist. The early-birds have been there since 6, voting starts at 6:30. People banter with their neighbors in line. Lots of folks I know. An 8-page ballot, Kerry on top, lots of judges I know nothing about in the middle, amendments and bonds at the end. It feels good to vote, even if it is on an electronic machine that offers no paper trail. I'm out the door by 7:20, the line is as long as ever. By now the sign people are holding their signs in their designated sign-holding area. It's a beautiful warm morning. I get home in time to help make lunches for school. 7:57:58 AM    comment []