QLD: Vote early, vote often

Polls seem to suggest a close one. Get your Antony Greens on at the ABC election site, and there’s blogging at Crikey’s place. Of course, everyone south of Queensland has the advantage – they can bring Queenslanders the election results from the future.

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Every vote counts

This is what a close election looks like: 1,209,188 vs 1,209,183 at the time of writing. You can also have a look at what the contested ballots look like.
In other news on the Minnesota ballot changes, Nate Silver notes that the Canvassing Board thinks Brett Favre is less likely to be a real person than [...]

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Vote early, vote often

It’s Victorian council election day. The Poll Bludger had a preview a couple of weeks back; no sign of coverage yet on the ABC Elections page; official info should come through on the VEC site.
UPDATE: Ben Raue at The Tally Room will be tracking the results.

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US Wish List check-up

How did I do?

Darcy Burner is in a close race, but trailing at the moment. But with only 71% of precincts reporting, it is far from over.
Elizabeth Dole was beaten soundly.
California Proposition 8 succeeded, banning same-sex marriage in the state. Needless to say, I am extremely disappointed by this result – it shows just how [...]

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They’ll always have Wellington

There’s more Antipodean election festivities happening today, and one that the conservatives might take some consolation in – Helen Clark’s Labour government is tipped to lose power in NZ. To get some views on NZ politics from different ideological perspectives, I would recommend No Right Turn and Kiwiblog.

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And so it begins …

As we saw the Liberal Party do last year, the Republicans begin the process of apportioning blame. And suddenly, Andrew is willing to listen to bad words spoken about Sarah Palin – even from anonymous sources.

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Teh Right

Credit where it’s due to the Bolt and Blair audience – they have largely been graceful and accepting of the election result. While Andrew started out handling the defeat pretty well, his inability to keep from injecting snippy remarks into every update. My favourite came right at the end:
Now he’s doing his “yes, we can” [...]

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EXPENSE UNACCOUNTED

The most obvious question for me about this 2008 election – did News Ltd. contribute to the cost of Tim Blair flying to Chicago to produce this shit?

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Nate says it’s done

So it’s done. Congratulations, President-Elect.

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Wish List

I’m far from being across all of the contests in the US elections, but there are a few results I hope to see:

Darcy Burner (whose house burned to the ground during the campaign) winning in WA-08.
Elizabeth Dole (who recently ran an ad suggesting that her opponent is a godless heathen) losing the Senate race in [...]

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