Peter Snow (him of the swingometer) has done a pretty good article for BBC News explaining how the actual process work in the election (electoral colleges and so on) – check it out. (You need RealPlayer for the video.)
The Guardian also has an interesting breakdown of what will actually happen over the course of tonight, [...]
I just spotted the ‘Quote of the Day’ on the IMDb front page – how apt is this…?
It does not matter which way you vote. Either way your planet is doomed. Doomed. Doomed.
If you were wandering, it’s Kang from The Simpsons…
The Simpsons website also has quite a witty piece about Homer running for president, including [...]
Possibly my favourite Flash animation of the election so far – Bush 43 and John Kerry singing Bohemian Rhapsody. Absolutely classic!
Make sure you watch it before it’s too late!
Not quite as good, but certainly a brilliant animation nevertheless – The Timewarp (from the Rocky Horror Picture Show) US Election stylee. Check it out!
Another brilliant one [...]
The Grauniad newspaper has, over the last few weeks, been running a feature whereby its British readers write to American voters in Clark County, Ohio, to try and influence the result of the Election next Tuesday.
They launched the campaign as follows:
…At the core of it is a unique scheme to match individual Guardian [...]
I’ve just watched Question Time on BBCi, which this week came from (of all places) Miami, Florida.
The panel was a fantastic mix of views, with a Senior Advisor to Bill Clinton, the guy who invented the phrase ‘axis of evil’ for George Bush 43, and – best of all – Michael Moore. There was also [...]
From Michael Moore’s blog:
Michael Moore filed a theft complaint with the Lansing City Police today stating that “someone has stolen both the brains AND the sense of humor from the Michigan Republican Party.”
The brains were locked in a box where they were placed after the last moderate Republican governor of Michigan retired in 1980. The [...]
From BuyCostumes.com:
The BuyCostumes.com Presidential Mask Election Predictor is HERE for the 2004 Election! You’ll remember the mask predictions from the 2000 Presidential Election, as referred to by many media sources including CNN, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
What is the Presidential Mask Election Predictor? In 2000, due to the popularity of [...]
“This is one of the worst example of media bias I have ever seen. President Bush was campaigning in Wisconsin on Friday and told a crowd of supporters that President Clinton had been admitted to the hospital. President Bush extended his best wishes to the former president, and the crowd cheered.
But that’s not the way [...]
From the BBC News Convention Weblog:
This will be the first convention covered by bloggers, those opinionated cyber-diarists who have renewed the internet’s promise of self-publishing.
Bloggers blog at the bloggers breakfast
To celebrate, the Democratic Party threw them a breakfast.
“Do you have Wi-Fi?” one of the bloggers asked Michael Feldman who writes for DowBrigade.com.
“No, and my server [...]