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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Some Observations About the 2012 Elections You Won't Read Elsewhere
1. Mitt Romney improved on John McCain's net votes against Barack Obama in 47 out of the 50 states plus DC.
2. The states where Romney didn't improve on McCain's net are actually pretty interesting: Alaska (no sitting governor on the ticket), Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. None of those states were battlegrounds, but it is interesting that aside from Alaska and Maryland, the other three are pretty much Bible Belt territory. Oklahoma bills itself as the buckle of the Bible Belt and Romney did about 10,000 votes worse on net that McCain did in 2008.
3. Obama got fewer votes in 2012 than in 2008 in every state but Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.
4. Although there has been a lot of gnashing over the fact that Romney got fewer votes overall than McCain this ignores the impact of Sandy. The states with the two biggest dropoffs in voting were New York (-23.5%) and New Jersey (-17.3%) ; if those two states had been average for dropoff in 2012, Romney would have had a net increase over McCain's total.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
But It's Too Late, Baby...
I got a chuckle out of this headline at the LA Times:
Rush vindicated: A Rock Hall of Fame berth for Canadian rock band
Can we say the obvious here? This is a bid for vindication of the Rock Hall of Fame, not by the RHF. By that I mean simply that Rush's absence in the RHF has become more of an embarrassment for the latter than the former. Ditto with some of the other bands not yet inducted, like the Moody Blues or Deep Purple.
I visited the RHF in 2005; to be honest it was one of the most boring museums I have ever seen. How many sequined outfits and electric guitars can you look at before you say, enough? Jim Morrison's third grade report card was actually one of the highlights.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Riot Only Late in the Day?
Heh.
“My warning, we need to stay calm for much of the day,” Stephanie
Cutter, Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said, touting thousands of
early ballots already submitted by voters.
“My warning, we need to stay calm for much of the day,” Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said, touting thousands of early ballots already submitted by voters.
Monday, November 05, 2012
Slate does its quadrennial story on whom its employees are voting for and why:
Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Stein (Greens), Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Romney, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Nobody, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Johnson (Libertarian), Romney, Obama, Obama, Johnson, Obama, Obama, Obama.
Obama 29, Romney 2, Johnson 2, Stein 1. The two Romney voters are business and management-oriented people: managing editor and publisher. Johnson promises to legalize pot, which probably explains his appeal.
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