Halloween weekend in pictures

( 33 Pictures from Halloween weekend... )

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GO VOTE!

Everyone needs to go vote!

[Poll #377093]

I expect to see everyone answer this poll that can!

But remember... for all that is holy, sacred, and sane:



MY PREDICTION:
Kerry - 284 (OH, PA, MN, WI, MI)
Bush - 254 (FL, CO, MO)

Did you know that no Republican president has ever won the election without Ohio?

I've voted!

I voted all democrat with exception of one libertarian (Secretary of Education).

I voted yes to all 3 of the Indiana amendments, even though they seemed kind of lame. I can't imagine why one would vote against them.

You know what I realized I've never mentioned here before?

In the 2000 election I was an elections volunteer. I worked at the place where all the presincts drop off the ballot boxes in Indianapolis, Indiana (East side). We pretty much just organized everything. I got some student council points for it. Haha.


I think I might volunteer for the next elections.

The people that were at my precinct were all very old. The lady that looked up my name took forever to find it. Her sense of alphabet looked to be leaving her mind.

Seriously, though. The election volunteers were on average 80 years old. No joke.

There wasn't much of a line at all.

Outside the polling place there were tons of political signs stuck in the church yard... most of them were democrat and none of them were for President.

Two lone people stood outside campaigning... for a democratic judge (Vorhees, I believe, whom I voted for).

After work tonight I'm heading to the Neeley House to watch the election results unravel on television.

Oh, cable television. How I miss having you in my own house.

Drudge sucks, seriously.

Fox News slaps Drudge: Report of Philadelphia voting fraud said bogus

Fox News debunked a story sending shockwaves across the Internet this morning from the conservative website, The Drudge Report, which asserted that roughly 2,000 votes were found on voting machines in Philadelphia before the vote began.

District Attorney Lynn Abrahams told Fox that the ‘extra’ votes actually referred to the ‘lifetime totals’ of all votes ever made on the machine, which would include testing, much like an odometer records all miles traveled in a car and a specific counter records miles traveled for a single trip.

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At the time of this filing, the story is still blazing away on Drudge, without any of this new information from the “fair and balanced” 24 hour news channel. The information was added about an hour later.

Minutes after this story ran, Drudge yanked the story off the top of his page and slipped it into the second column.

Figures... I think Drudge is much worse than Fox. He ignores what doesn't prove his point. He makes up stories as he goes.

Talk about bias.

My bumper sticker t-shirt

I even remembered to shave before I took a picture of myself!

Such a responsible cam whore.

ps: I didn't get an "I voted!" sticker. I feel so ripped off. That's why I voted in the first place!

Bush: 254; Kerry: 242

Wow.

This is what we got here, kids.

So far everything from my prediction is right...

For the rest of my prediction to come true, Kerry would have to win New Mexico (5), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (7), and Ohio (20).

That would put them at Bush: 254; Kerry: 284. I'm amazed that so far my prediction is right on.

However, the election basically comes down to Ohio (which is also what I had predicted to coworkers and friends).

Fox News and (MS)NBC have already claimed Ohio to be for Bush. CNN, ABC, CBS, Yahoo!, NY Times, and several others are holding out because of the large number of provisional ballots that could possibly change the vote. They're being safe like this because Iowa was claimed in the last election for Bush before the absentee ballots were counted and changed to Kerry on a later day.

Final Polls
Bush is leading Ohio (20) by ~110,000 (51% to 49%) votes. There are said to be 200,000-250,000 provisional ballots to be counted.
Iowa (7), which was expected to slightly favor Kerry, has Bush winning by 14,000 votes (50% to 49%). They have postponed calling a winner until tomorrow.
New Mexico (5), which leans a little democrat and voted for Gore last election, has a Bush lead by 1,700 votes (50% to 49%, 99% reporting)
Wisconsin (10) has a Kerry lead by 15,000 votes (50% to 49%, 96% reporting).

It doesn't matter if Bush gets Iowa and New Mexico as long as Kerry gets Ohio and Wisconsin.

Whoever gets Ohio wins.

I have a feeling a bunch of legal business is about to take place... I bet we won't know our president tomorrow.

On that note, I'm already thinking about what would happen if Bush were re-elected:
1. Bush continues reckless policy - Anti-Bush movement gets even larger, Republican party has internal split, Hilary runs in 2008.
2. Bush attempts to clean up to leave the Republican party looking somewhat decent (even though this is not possible by any means, at least to people like me that don't support corporations running the world).

It's sad that the House and Senate will be Republican again. Sigh. Not a good thing.

*jack