According to the Guardian, in 2000 Clark County went 0.3% for Gore while Ohio went 3.9% for Bush, so it was 4.2% more Democratic than the rest of the state. In 2004 Clark County went for Bush by 2.4% over Kerry (compared to about 2.7% for Ohio in 2004). So Clark County moved 3.9% toward […]
Author Archive | Jim Lindgren
Provisional Ballots in Ohio.–
At 4am ET early Wednesday morning, this official list of the number of Ohio provisional ballots by county does not have anything listed for Cuyahoga County. Assuming that there is no way to manufacture new provisional ballots in the next few hours, it appears that Americans were lucky this time that the results in Florida […]
Kerry says he must have been drinking the night before he took intelligence test.–
NEWSMAX reports: Brokaw: Kerry Blamed Low IQ Score on Drinking John Kerry told NBC newsman Tom Brokaw last week that the reason President Bush outscored him on military intelligence tests was that he had likely been drinking the night before his exam. Brokaw revealed Kerry’s off camera excuse in an Election morning interview with radio […]
Reynolds’ latest Guardian column.–
Glenn Reynolds’ column for the Guardian newspaper makes this observation: America, and the west in general, has somehow bred a class of elites who think that their own countries, and societies, are presumptively wrong. Hit from outside, their first instincts are to look inward – to conspiracies, or to some sort of flaw that might […]
Consider this Political Quiz.–
Can you tell who said each statement–Bin Laden, John Kerry, or Michael Moore? I got 65% right. Tip to Betsy, who got 60% right. Pejamesque got 70%.
More Possible Fraud–This time by the Daschle campaign.–
Powerline is reporting that the Tom Daschle campaign is flat-out lying to voters saying that “John Thune is attacking” Daschle’s wife: The Daschle campaign, desperate at finding itself behind in the polls, has resorted to an especially low form of “push polling.” Our correspondent reports: am here in Brookings, South Dakota [and] just thought I’d […]
Election Fraud and Phony Phone Calls.–
1. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (quick registration required): Between 15,000 and 20,000 Milwaukee residents who registered to vote in recent months have not had their forms processed and may find themselves unregistered at the polls Tuesday, Mayor Tom Barrett said today…. Poll workers will already be reviewing about 5,500 addresses where buildings may not […]
Al Jezeera releases a full transcript of the Bin Laden tape.–
The full transcript is now online of the Bin Laden tape. Excerpts: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results. Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of […]
The New York Post has more on the Bin Laden threat against the red states.–
As I posted below (here and here), the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has determined that the initial translation of Bin Laden’s tape was in error. According to both MEMRI and an Al-Qaeda website monitored by MEMRI, Bin Laden in effect offered peace to US blue states that voted for Kerry and warned red […]
Was Bin Laden’s threat to attack Red States anticipated by Michael Moore?–
A reader writes to point out that the new translation of Bin Laden’s threat (interpreted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) as Bin Laden threatening to attack states that vote for Bush and pass over states that vote for Kerry) also brings Bin Laden even further in line with Michael Moore. As Larry […]
The Bin Laden Tape May Have Threatened States Not to Vote for Bush.–
[UPDATE. Yigal Carmon of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has a new translation of the Bin Laden tape, an interpretation that he also confirms by quoting from a similar analysis on an Islamist website that favors Bin Laden. This MEMRI news release was posted on NRO.] According to a shocking story on NRO, […]
The rest of the Bin Laden tape.–
The New York Post is reporting that the unaired portions of the Bin Laden tape make clearer his opposition to Bush, the success of the Afghan election, and the success of the US military in restricting Bin Laden’s actions. Bin Laden also follows the Michael Moore-Teresa Kerry line that it’s all about oil: Osama bin […]
Glenn Reynolds’ better looking brother
joins the blogosphere. Jonathan Reynolds, a history professor at Northern Kentucky, has joined Ralph Luker’s excellent history group blog, Cliopatria. Cliopatria has been on a roll lately, particularly Luker, KC Johnson, and Jonathan Dresner. Glenn Reynolds is back at Instapundit.com, after a brief absence covered by a remarkably good trio of guest bloggers–Ann Althouse, Megan […]
Is Christopher Hitchens Endorsing Bush or Kerry?–
In the Nation, Christopher Hitchens slightly endorses Bush, but in Slate (scroll down) Hitch endorses Kerry. Is the Slate Kerry endorsement a flip-flop or a typo? The text of the Slate endorsement is ambiguous.
The New York Times stumbles again.–
Captain’s Quarters and KerrySpot have interesting commentary on the Al QaQaa story. It appears that even after the New York Times story has been exposed as doubtful, the Times is still not able to use Google or Nexis to read the April 2003 stories to figure out which military units were first on the scene. […]