At the risk of sounding like even more of a dork than I usually do, I think that this past week I’ve been experiencing election withdrawl. The fact that we had so many Senate races take so long to get resolved kind of helped a bit, but there was a certain fascination I had with looking at poll numbers and electoral projections and trying to figure out how the big races would be resolved. Now, with Saxby Chambliss likely to retain his Senate seat in…
On Tuesday I cast my vote for Ralph Nader quite quickly; there was no line at all at my polling place when I got there. Then again, every time I’ve gone there in the past I’ve had women who were old enough to be my grandmothers running the show; this year the poll workers couldn’t have been older than twenty. I’m guessing that they were Obama supporters who volunteered to make sure that things ran smoothly there. Anyway, obviously there was no worry about Nader…
I’m already on the record with my students with this, so I figure I might as well embarrass myself in front of the world. I was on the fence with Indiana and Missouri, but I think that Obama’s grandmother dying will give him enough of a "sympathy vote" to get those two. Possible McCain flips: Missouri and IndianaMcCain dark horses: North Carolina and FloridaPossible Obama flips: Montana and North DakotaObama dark horses: Georgia and Arizona Given that Obama will get 73 guaranteed electoral votes at…
Back before the financial crisis exploded into the national conscience, I did an electoral projection based on how I saw the states breaking at that time. Going off of the 2004 electoral map, I gave Barack Obama all of John Kerry’s states as well as Iowa, New Mexico (the two states that flipped red in 2004), and Colorado, and didn’t think John McCain could turn another state in his favour. If the election broke down that way, Obama would win the electoral vote 273-267, and…
In addition to being sick, and just plain busy with a hundred things, it’s been hard for me to come here to write because most of my spare time has been spent following the election, and I just don’t have that much to say about the election. I’ve got the worst case of election burnout I can ever remember having, and instead of doing the smart thing and taking a break, I’m just going to tough it out for the next nineteen days. It’s not…