Andymatic

Category: 2004 Elections

  • Friday Roundup

    We will work closely with the government. It’s their government, it’s their country. We’re there at their invitation. I think you meant to say that we’re there at our invasion. I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. Electronic voting machine in Columbus gives […]

  • Coulter Still Not Satisfied

    Conservative fem-bot Ann Coulter is still pissed. She wanted a landslide: It’s absurd that the election was as close as it was. The nation is at war, Bush is a magnificent wartime leader, and the night before the election we didn’t know if a liberal tax-and-spend, Vietnam War-protesting senator from Massachusetts would beat him. I […]

  • Palast: Kerry Won

    Greg Palast is at it again – though this time I’m not sure what actual tangible evidence he’s going to have – though maybe the Blackbox Voting FOIAs will help uncover stuff. Drawing on exit poll data that clearly mismatched the outcome in Ohio he draws some pretty strong conclusions (but takes exit polls as […]

  • Forget the Heartland

    Forget that these folks blindly ignored all objective reality — and their own best economic and national-security interests — and voted for Bush. Look what they did at the Senate level. In Kentucky, they refused to use even basic sanity as a litmus test, and reelected a guy with apparent late-stage dementia; in Oklahoma, they […]

  • E-Voting Watchdog Files Largest FOIA Request in History

    Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone […]

  • Bush Unbound

    “This country is going so far to the right you are not even going to recognize it,” remarked John Mitchell, President Nixon’s attorney general, in 1970. Mitchell’s prophecy became the mission of Nixon’s College Republican president, Karl Rove, who implemented the strategy of authoritarian populism behind George W. Bush’s victory. In the aftermath, Democrats will […]

  • Kerry Concedes

    Kerry has conceded. Flights to Canada. Updates – I’m gonna post fun quotes and reactions here over the next day or so: (the first set from MeFi) Americans could fuck up a baked potato. Once again… liberals bitch, conservatives vote. Americans (collectively) stuck their middle finger up at the rest of the world and I […]

  • Bush 254, Kerry 252 (Bush Almost Certain)

    (I say almost certain because it’s almost totally super-certain – not because of sour grapes) Got up this morning and opened up the automatic updated CSPAN/AP map (quiet a snazzy little web app) and uttered: Oh my God. Ron and I sliced up brie, veggies, fruits and Jake joined us with cookies. So we spent […]

  • Presidential Election Results Past

    Ron and I were wondering what the stats were back in the Clinton years. That dug up: InfoPlease: Presidential Elections, 1789–2000

  • Packed Polls

    Just got back from the 17th Precinct polling place which was a high-rise on Sheridan – also the place for the 35th and 48th Precincts. A winding line from the entrance, up the stairs and through to the second floor. The building’s elderly occupants rolling over feet and pushing the youngsters out of the way […]