Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “election2008”
Bookmarks
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com
As expected, The Big Picture wins for best coverage of the inauguration. I love the interplay between the close-up press access photos and the crowds of people watching in person and on TV around the world.
FiveThirtyEight: Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls
I'll try, Nate, but … can I just peek a little bit? Just once or twice?
FiveThirtyEight.com: The Big Empty
As far as I'm concerned this is the big story of the election. Win or lose, Obama is in this thing because of his campaign's amazing ground game.
QDN: Even GOP operatives think she's unprepared
Listen to the clip. It's… just… wow.
Rene Wanner's Poster Page / Shepard Fairey posters for Barack Obama
All the parodies in one place.
infochimps.org: Map of Newspaper Endorsements for 2008 US Election
Wow, that's gorgeous.
Presidential Endorsements 2008
In 2004 I wrote a little tool to track presidential endorsements; I've updated it for this election. Even more lopsided this time around.
How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections — New York Magazine
FiveThirtyEight has firmly wedged its way into the small list of sites I read obsessively.
Talking Points Memo | Trying to Snuff Out the Flame
It's good to see McCain trying to tamp down this ridiculous hate rhetoric. Had he struck this tone from the beginning I don't think he'd be in such dire straits today. Now he just needs to send the memo to his VP pick.
Alice Walker on Obama | Views | TheRoot.com
Alice Walker's wonderful endorsement of Obama: “If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is.”
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