Posts by Paul Rowe
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And Maryland seems to have swung back to the Dems with 55% counted. VA will be real close (I have to wonder about the 7% of registered Dems who, according to exit polls, voted for the other guy!)
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Shit, less than 8000 votes in VA now. Might be too little too late...
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Maryland might conceivably go the other way with a third counted. Dem incumbent has retired.
Montana potentially another Dem win (according to Pollster), but counting only just started
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Lieberman looks to be extending his lead in Connecticut.
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Dems are claiming three now:
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Haydn, good call on crazification, very funny read....
Being the trainspotter I am I kept on reading the comments and found a link to this one:
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Tim:
This is from the Blog at Pollster.com:
Something else to remember: One of the things the network analysts are doing right now is comparing the exit poll results with averages of preelection polls -- averages not unlike those we have posted here on Pollster.com. If the exit poll result in a state looks out of line with the preelection result, they will not call the election even if the exit poll lead looks statistically significant. So if you see a "big" lead in a leaked exit poll, but the networks don't call that state when the polls close, you can assume that they are waiting to see hard data to confirm the exit poll result.
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"Reports of busted machines from everywhere ... a bomb threat that closes a polling place ... reports of Democrats harassing Republicans in Ohio. In Michigan, the GOP is suing Democratic poll watchers for speaking to voters. And in Colorado, Latino voters are allegedly being summarily informed that, as Latinos, they are ineligible to vote at all. In Arizona, Hispanic voters are allegedly being harassed at gunpoint."
Leaving out the allegedly bit, isn't this very similar to what the US observers criticised the Nicaraguan election for (not these exact acts, obviously)
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Ben: I've heard it said that the only really sure way for an incumbent to lose his seat in the Congress is for him to be caught in a sex or corruption scandal.
There's a line in a Pacino film (City Hall?) that goes something like:
The only thing that can end a politician's career are being caught with a live boy or a dead girl...
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IMHO, it is essential that any stadium in or close to the CBD *doesn't* have extensive parking facilities. What it needs is extensive public transport options (which costs money) to encourage people not to drive their cars into the city.
Eden Park should only be considered an option if they spend another $320m on making sure there is a train service from Britomart, West & East that can provide park n ride facilities to the stadium.
And if not Mt Smart, then Carlaw! Imagine the walk up from Britomart, then the travelator through the tunnels under Albert Park to a stadium nestled in a nice amphitheatre. Lovely!