Musings on the political alignment of the blogosphere

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Monday September 20, 2004 · 9:41 PM PDT

2004/09/20 · 21:41

Somehow I ran across this picture and list summarizing the location of various people on the political compass. If you want to find out your location you can take the rather long quiz here.

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Daschle-Thune update

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Tuesday August 31, 2004 · 1:40 PM PDT

2004/08/31 · 13:40

Stan Greenberg's polling firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, has done some polling on the Daschle-Thune race in South Dakota. Daschle is clearly most endangered Democratic incumbent, so any positive news here means the Ds will probably keep all seats except for those where someone is retiring. (You can get these if you have a subscription to Polling Report)

Daschle (D) 53
Thune (R) 45

This race will probably come down to GOTV, but those are encouraging numbers.

Take the poll ...

Nader watch

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Friday August 20, 2004 · 4:52 PM PDT

2004/08/20 · 16:52

Some good news on the Nader ballot access trail:

Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, and Missouri all denied Ralph Nader ballot access this week.

This is not terribly surprising; in my analysis earlier this year, I expected that Nader would need to get 25-40% of his Missouri voters to sign petitions to put him on the ballot this year. So it's not terribly surprising that he's not on the ballot there, considering he has had difficulty in places like Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon, where he will need more help to get on the ballot.

Coupled with the Reform Party's declaration of bankruptcy, things are looking pretty grim for Naderites, which is good news for the progressive cause.

Bounce with me

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Friday August 06, 2004 · 5:40 PM PDT

2004/08/06 · 17:40

Enough of the "no bounce" spin. Greenberg's got your bounce right here. Read More

Clean Elections law holds on

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Friday August 06, 2004 · 1:44 PM PDT

2004/08/06 · 13:44

Arizona has one of the most ambitious public funding programs for elections of any state. But some folks are trying to use everyone's friend -- the ballot initiative--to get rid of it. Read More

Take out the trash day

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