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Archive for ‘Electoral Process’ Category
Challenged Ballots: You DecideThe Senate race in Minnesota STILL isn’t decided! The race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat and former comedian Al Franken was too close to call after the votes were counted. In fact, after over 2 MILLION votes were counted, the difference was less than 300 votes. LESS THAN 300 VOTES!!! (Don’t ever let anyone EVER tell you that their vote doesn’t count) The state of Minnesota is currently recounting the votes. While this seems simple, it really isn’t at all. Sometimes its hard to tell EXACTLY what the voters intent is! Can you tell who the voter intended to vote for?
Challenged ballots: You be the judge – Minnesota Public Radio puts together a sample of challenged ballots like this one. Check it out! What do you think? Obama WinsIn case you have been living in a cave and your only source of news is MrOsman.com – Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. He landed the 270 (and more) electoral college votes that he needed. Were your electoral college predictions correct?
InTrade’s Electoral PredictionsMSNBC’s Election Day WidgetPerhaps this can help ona few last minute ideas for your projects. Approaching the witching hourAccording to FirstRead:
Good luck with your predictions! Barack ‘Prime Time’ ObamaTonight at 7:00 Barack Obama will show a 30 minute infomercial on NBC, CBS, FOX, Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One. This will be his ‘closing argument’ for the campaign that ends in 6 days. The address will be a ‘block’ address, on all of those channels at once. Fox has even agreed to post-pone the World Series for 15 minutes in order to accommodate the spot. Too much? Or just the right thing to do to convince Americans at the last minute? Politico says, Smart? or Overkill? What do you think?
Washington Post Elections 2008Use this great resource to help you find out the ethnic composition of your state, the economic composition, and more! What a great resource!!! And don’t forget… |