I’m Going To Have A Heart Attack

Final Campaign Stops

THE CAMPAIGN IN FIGURES (@ BBC):
75%: percentage of those in an ABC poll who thought it was the most important election of their lives
$272,573,444: Amount raised by President George W Bush (correct as of 13 October)
$249,305,109: Amount raised by Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry (correct as of 13 October)
43,256: Number of times adverts were run from 21 to 27 October
$46,367,413: Total amount spent on adverts from 21 to 27 October
208-169: US newspaper endorsements for Mr Kerry and President Bush (correct as of 31 October)
28-14: loss by Washington Redskins football team – since 1936, a loss in their last home game before the election has been followed by victory for the challenger

Bush has raised more money, but the Redskins lost. Who will win? Who will win??

From electoral-vote.com:

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 298 Bush 231

Just yesterday it was the other way around. Polls are worthless.

I still believe that this will not be a close election, popular vote wise. The electoral college will probably be hellish, but the fact that so many people see this as an important election (see above statistic), I really think that turnout should be better than normal (ie. higher than the 51% we saw in 2000). And since polling organizations only poll “likely voters,” I don’t know how accurate their polls really will be in this election. But we shall see, we shall see.

Since I have no cable, I was wondering about how I was going to be able to follow the results tomorrow night. I was going to go find a tv somewhere else, or listen to NPR. But the webmaster of electoral-vote.com has said that he will be updating the site in realtime tomorrow night. I expect I’ll be there.

NPR will be on also though.