After all of the state-by-state images we see during the election, it's interesting to get this full county breakdown of the 2008 general presidential election. I'm particularly interested in the belt of blue cascading through the southern states. How weird. Courtesy Wikipedia. Where else?...
Dammit. It's a bit of a bummer that close races like this one leave our legislators (on either side of the aisle) in a position where they are unable to really push their agenda or be too noisy, since they're always looking over their shoulder at the opposition ready to...
I realize it's 3am. Cats woke me. These are the partial (and thus largely useless) results from the 8th district federal representative seat, currently being fought out by Reichert and Burner. But the coincidence at this snapshot is striking: at this point in the process, the spread is only 60...
Play-by-play coverage of individual state election results is absolutely useless outside the context of the rest of the country. Particularly because the demographic trends apparent in each voting block are arranged geographically, both across time zones (central time zone and west coast are both heavily polarized), and in the order...
It's incredibly difficult to be involved enough in local politics to make an informed decision about many of the candidates running for some of these offices. I've got pretty much everyone down to the state legislative level figured out, but some of the more obscure state offices (Insurance Commissioner) and...
...or maybe just make The Weakest Link into a legislative tool....
If you live in Washington, don't forget to vote tomorrow. Practically everyone I know out here lives in King county, so if you don't know already where your polling place is, you can find it here. They're all open from 7am to 8pm....
The Washington state primary is coming up on August 19. This excites me far more than the Presidential primaries and caucuses that swept through months ago. One interesting point is that this year, Washington has switched to a Top 2 primary, in which the two candidates with the most votes...
We got a flyer in the mail recently asking us to rank our preference for which local park projects should get funded. I've never gotten anything like this before. I like it. We voted for the ... park stuff....
Another election season over. Hurrah for the unchanging forward march of change—and just how much things won't change because of it. There really weren't any hugely controversial issues at play here in Washington this election—the three biggest initiatives (I-920, to repeal the recently-instituted estate tax; I-933, to compensate landowners for...
The Huffington Post was launched today. They note that they, as our motto says, has been delivering news and opinion since, well, a few hours ago. Within the first few hours, they've got columns by Walter Cronkite, Sen. Corzine, Elaine from Seinfeld, a Cusack, Ellen "she's gay!" DeGeneres, and—of course—Arianna...
This is probably the highest comment-to-post length ratio I've ever pulled off. We're talking around 100:1 here. P.S. The title of this post came from a letter by Bob Jones, III (president of Bob Jones University) to the Right Honorable Mr. President George W. (W is for "white") Bush, just...
CBS has apparantely just published an article about tapes that were recently released and pin Bush as a pothead. This neither surprises me nor interests me, to be honest. I guess it confirms that Bush is a good deal more uptight and weasily than, say, Clinton; but it's hard to...
