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Tag Archives: 2008 election

i really didn’t mean for my blog to become an obama lovefest

3 March 2008

From Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape:

We asked him directly, how concerned should we be that you haven’t had meaningful experience as an executive — as a manager and leader of people?
He said, watch how I run my campaign — you’ll see my leadership skills in action.
Well, as any political expert will tell you, it [...]

in which our hero uses his blog for bookmarks

9 February 2008

I came across two helpful election web sites today.
First, I had a hell of a time figuring out when polls closed on Super Tuesday before the date. Now it’s all over Google, but I couldn’t find out when the polls closed today on “Significant Saturday” or whatever stupid name they’re giving it. I [...]

all cnn talks about is the number of states won

6 February 2008

An interesting set of statistics I hadn’t yet seen today, from the Time Swampland blog, about the overall popular vote:
TOTAL VOTES CAST
Clinton: 50.2% (7,347,971)
Obama: 49.8% (7,294,851)

Clinton won the popular vote by only 0.4% — roughly 50,000 votes out of 14.6 million cast.
It also has a comparison of “get out the vote” numbers between [...]