Sunday, 31 October, 2004. 07:25:36 PM
Here's the latest election projections. Everywhere Bush is at about 48% or
less is a state that he will lose.
| Solid, Uncontested Support |
States too close for CNN to call |
| Bush |
Kerry |
Bush |
Kerry |
| Alabama |
9 |
California |
55 |
Nevada |
5 |
Pennsylvania |
21 |
| Alaska |
3 |
Connecticut |
7 |
Missouri |
11 |
Florida |
27 |
| Arizona |
10 |
Delaware |
3 |
Colorado |
9 |
Iowa |
7 |
| Georgia |
15 |
Washington DC |
3 |
Arkansas |
6 |
Michigan |
17 |
| Idaho |
4 |
Hawaii |
4 |
West Virginia |
5 |
Ohio |
20 |
| Indiana |
11 |
Illinois |
21 |
|
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Minnesota |
10 |
| Kansas |
6 |
Maine |
4 |
|
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New Hampshire |
4 |
| Kentucky |
8 |
Maryland |
10 |
|
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New Mexico |
5 |
| Louisiana |
9 |
Massachusetts |
12 |
|
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Wisconsin |
10 |
| Mississippi |
6 |
New Jersey |
15 |
|
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|
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| Montana |
3 |
New York |
31 |
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| Nebraska |
5 |
Oregon |
7 |
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| North Carolina |
15 |
Rhode Island |
4 |
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| North Dakota |
3 |
Vermont |
3 |
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| Oklahoma |
7 |
Washington |
11 |
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| South Carolina |
8 |
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| South Dakota |
3 |
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| Tennessee |
11 |
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| Texas |
34 |
|
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| Utah |
5 |
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| Virginia |
13 |
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| Wyoming |
3 |
|
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|
|
191 |
|
190 |
|
36 |
|
121 |
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| Totals |
|
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| Bush |
Kerry |
|
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|
|
| 227 |
|
311 |
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| 538 total |
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| 270 needed |
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/n
Sunday, 31 October, 2004. 02:33:14 PM
With just one more set of polls that will be delivered tomorrow, it's
really looking like a Kerry victory on Tuesday. I don't think it's
going to be close at all. Kerry's going to win by a landslide. After the
last state polls come out tomorrow, I'll put up my best guess of which
states Kerry is going to win. Then on Tuesday, we'll see how well I guessed.
/n
Sunday, 31 October, 2004. 01:29:32 AM
My server was down all of Saturday evening, for an upgrade. I'm replacing
the old Celeron 300 computer with a new one based on a Via ME6000 board.
The Via board is a Mini-ITX board, 17cm square. I've had it for a while,
and it was waiting for the custom case made of a Sun 911 external hard
drive enclosure, but that was taking too long. In the past couple days
I made a little box for it out of cardboard, which should serve well until
I can get some time to finish the real enclosure. I think everything is
working again on the server. Over the next few days it'll be up and down
as I finish up the computer. Before I shut it down today, it had an uptime
of 364 days, which is the longest I've gone without rebooting. Still have
never had a system crash while running Linux, and that's going all the
way back to June 1993. No Windows user can say the same.
/n
Sunday, 24 October, 2004. 04:44:55 PM
Kristiana has started saying her first word, 'dog'.
/n
Sunday, 24 October, 2004. 01:16:35 PM
This is an old news story, describing how Bush had plenty of opportunities
to kill Al Zarqawi, but didn't, because he didn't want to undercut
his case for war in Iraq. Now, Al Zarqawi is cutting people's heads off,
and Bush can't do anything about it. Notice that this is an old article,
from March 2004. We've known about this a long time, and for the most part
our conservative-biased press is ignoring the issue.
/n
Tuesday, 19 October, 2004. 09:01:35 AM
The neighborhood bullies visited again, knocking down every Kerry/Edwards
sign in the neighborhood. None of the Bush signs were touched, nor have they
been knocked down at any point.
/n
Wednesday, 13 October, 2004. 09:36:08 PM
I just watched the final debate between Bush and Kerry. I was expecting
Bush to harp on the 'liberal' smear against Kerry, since their national
coordination recently directed all their agents to pick up that particular
attack for this week. I was a little surprised at how much emphasis Bush
was putting on education, to the point that his education program serves
as his jobs program. Unfortunately, Bush wasn't skilled enough to make his
point clearly, and it came across that if you're not doing well, you're stupid
and you need some more education. Clearly, in Bush's world, those who are
doing well are smarter than the dumbasses who are having their jobs sent
overseas. If you've got a PhD in EE or Materials engineering, and Intel
just eliminated your job, Bush thinks you can go to a community college and
teach yourself to fish.
/n
Tuesday, 12 October, 2004. 03:57:59 PM
I upgraded OpenOffice on my computers recently, and printing broke. There
is a new configuration line that allows for nonstandard (nonCUPS)
printing systems. I use pdq and not cups, so I needed this in
/etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf: export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1
/n
Saturday, 09 October, 2004. 12:16:41 AM
Bush freaking out, and Kerry cleaning up.
/n
Friday, 08 October, 2004. 09:16:47 PM
Comment on the Daily Kos:
How about the next year, we get rid of lame moderators and let real Americans ask the questions? This has been a great debate. No stupid questions about process, but about issues that truly do affect us. I'm smitten.
Missouri has done itself proud tonight.
I agree with that sentiment completely. These questions aren't easy, either
to answer or to ask. And the regular media chooses softball pitches far too
often.
/n
Thursday, 07 October, 2004. 07:42:52 PM
The crap flying around after this last debate has been really interesting.
CNN was showing a clip of President Bush in Wisconsin, talking about how
Kerry voted for the war after seeing the exact same information that
he (Bush) saw. That's a bit more than a little distortion, because Bush
and his cabinet cherry picked the intelligence that was released. And Kerry
is not on the intelligence committee, so he doesn't have clearance to
see what the President sees. Based on what was released by the White House,
Kerry voted for the war. Later, it turned out that the evidence about
the aluminum tubes was very controversial, with some good reasons not
to believe that they were for weapons productions. It also turned out that
Iraqi attempts to acquire uranium from Niger were completely
fabricated. People at the CIA were screaming the truth about both of these
things, but nobody heard about it as the White House filtered the
information.
/n
Wednesday, 06 October, 2004. 04:46:06 PM
Changing the FontPath in the XF86Config-4 file fixed the VMWare problem.
/n
Wednesday, 06 October, 2004. 03:39:55 PM
Looks like the problem with vmware on my desktop machine is that the
new mstcorefonts Debian package moved the default location of the fonts.
I will test it when I get home.
/n
Tuesday, 05 October, 2004. 02:34:54 PM
VMWare on my home machine is giving me a strange error: Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
serial 864 error_code 2 request_code 45 minor_code 0. There's no reference to that error anywhere on Google, so I'm going to just look at the Gdk source
to find it. The error seems related to an upgrade of the core fonts
package on my X server.
/n
Monday, 04 October, 2004. 11:08:57 AM
I made a Lone Star out of tile on my bathroom floor this weekend. Photos
up soon.
/n
Monday, 04 October, 2004. 10:42:27 AM
Spaceship One reached 368,000 feet this morning, breaking the old X-15
altitude record, and winning the $10,000,000 Ansari X-Prize. I think
they ought to start another prize competition, this time for a suborbital
flight that will double or quadruple the amount of reentry heating. The
goal would be to come up with a series of prizes, ending in a final prize for
a reusable single stage to orbit spacecraft.
/n
