Voting in the US election.

I should b e looking for a party that is in line with my views, that will have to wait until we get Bush out of the office of President. Having a Fundamentalist Christian as a President is really a bad idea since they are so hyped up about "The End Times" and the are *always* expecting it to be *soon* means that they don't care about the long term, just the short term...and it doesn't matter to them what they do, because they consider themselves Good Christians, and thus can do no wrong.

We need to look forward, as one thing that they almost all miss is the fact that everyone is living longer, and Moore's Law is going to have a dramatic effect on medical technology and and proceedures....for all of the medical field is an information technology, and it will experience the same type of growth that we have seen in the computer sector since the more data that they can access and cross-correlate, the better their understanding of how the body works, and how to fix it. I expect that those under 50 now will probably live a healthy useful life until around 100 years, and those under 20 will have a good shot at a century and a half...or more. It's not a matter of leaving things for our kids, it will be a matter for us do deal with in our elder years. And *that* is very scary!

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Ahh, finally got an LJ client running again!

Well, I finally downloaded and installed LogJam, a LJ client to post with...it allows me to show the esoteric music I listen to when I work on my computer...

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Popular Vote vs Electoral Vote vs The Media

Everyone is constantly hearing how close the vote is this year...but that is not totally true. Much as we would like to think that who the majority of voters vote for should win, the 2000 Presidential Election showed us differently. Despite this, the media is only reporting on the popular vote, again, when what really counts is the Electoral Vote count.

To solve this problem, a person who goes by the name "The Votemaster" has set up a web site called Current Electorial Vote Predictor. Votemaster searches out the current State polls for president, and then uses that to predict if that State will be a Republican or Democratic State in it's Electoral Votes. And they also keep a running track of this which you can download...W00T, Open Sourced Data!!! They also have a nice interactive map.

The site also does analysis of the data to predict who will win, and recently, they also started tracking the State Senate races too. A facinating site if you are interested in this year's electoin! But we should also note one thing about the current polling system...it only survey's "likely voters", which means people who voted in the last election. Michael Moore points out that many people will be voting in this election that didn't in the last, and that has the potential to totally skew the results. All I can say is get out and vote, 'cuz letting less than half of the voters determine something that is as important as this election is borders on the insane.

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