deconcept » politics http://blog.deconcept.com You've got your good thing, and I've got mine Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:14:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Electronic voting voter fraud? http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/11/07/electronic-voting-voter-fraud/ http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/11/07/electronic-voting-voter-fraud/#comments Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:27:29 +0000 Geoff http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/11/07/electronic-voting-voter-fraud/ Continue reading →]]> The Blue Lemur blog has some interesting stuff about the variance in exit polls and actual results in states that use electronic voting machines and those that do not (or those that have them but with paper trails).

Exit polling accurately predicted the results in most states with very little error. Where there were discrepancies, they were significant in the +5 percent range, and always favored Bush.

No paper trails mean no way to contest this. Also interesting is how the AP ‘adjusted’ their exit poll data after they realized they were off by so much. I wonder how past exit poll accuracy compares to this year.

UPDATE (11-09-2004): More details just keep coming:

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Find out where to go with this site: www.mypollingplace.com

]]> http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/11/01/a-reminder/feed/ 0 Ann Coulter and her brush with Al-Pieda http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/22/ann-coulter-and-her-brush-with-al-pieda/ http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/22/ann-coulter-and-her-brush-with-al-pieda/#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:39:53 +0000 Geoff http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/22/ann-coulter-and-her-brush-with-al-pieda/ Continue reading →]]> Yes, everyone’s favorite batty as all hell conservative spokeswoman was grazed by a creme pie while giving a speech at the U of A in Tucson last night.

It’s really too bad they only got her shoulder. There’s a video of the incident up on iFilm, too.

]]> http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/22/ann-coulter-and-her-brush-with-al-pieda/feed/ 1 Deconstructing the design of campaign stickers http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/16/deconstructing-the-design-of-campaign-stickers/ http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/16/deconstructing-the-design-of-campaign-stickers/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:01:34 +0000 Geoff http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/16/deconstructing-the-design-of-campaign-stickers/ Continue reading →]]> The New York Times has an interesting piece that deconstructs the Bush / Kerry campaign stickers.

The verdict:

Bush / Cheney: Overall design conveys masculinity and supremacy.

Kerry / Edwards: Overall design is tentative. It conveys congenial subservience.

Unfortunately, I’d have to agree.

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So then i hit up the news sites to see what people were saying in their online polls. . . and the results were quite a bit different:

From CNN:

President George W. Bush: 18% 18300 votes
Sen. John Kerry: 79% 81310 votes
Evenly matched: 4% 3834 votes

And MSNBC:

Bush: 30%
Kerry: 70%

Now I know, I know, online polls aren’t accurate and all that crap, but I just thought it was really interesting that it was such a large gap between the two viewpoints.

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Gallup has done it again. After supplying CNN and USA Today with a poll two weeks ago that showed a double-digit Bush lead amongst likely voters that turned out to have a significant bias in its sample favoring the GOP, Gallup did it again yesterday.

. . .

Likely Voter Sample Party IDs – Poll of September 13-15
Reflected Bush Winning by 55%-42%

Total Sample: 767
GOP: 305 (40%)
Dem: 253 (33%)
Ind: 208 (28%)

Likely Voter Sample Party IDs – Poll of September 24-26
Reflected Bush Winning by 52%-44%

Total Sample: 758
GOP: 328 (43%)
Dem: 236 (31%)
Ind: 189 (25%)

UPDATE: Gallup responds. Too bad it’s nothing more than a ‘Our methods are too complicated for your simple mind to understand’ response.

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1) Daily show viewers are more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch Intersting.

2) Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet “basic international requirements” and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says. Great.

3) And, after reading those, you can take a little quiz to find out just how F**king american you really are.

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Two shirts to start it out, and there will be other cool things coming down the pipe in a bit. More t-shirts and possibly some action figure type things.

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