ContentOh, I almost forgot to mention my new favorite site. My father pointed this out to me a few weeks ago. Electoral-Vote.com shows a quasi real-time map of the United States that indicates, based on recent poll information, the likelihood that either Kerry or Bush will carry a particular state’s electoral votes. Right now it has Kerry in the lead 301 to 213. However — and this is a major caveat — 173 of those potential electoral votes are coming from states that are barely in the Kerry camp. Whereas a full 142 potential electoral votes are strongly trending to Bush (vs only 87 strongly for Kerry).
All I can say is that if you live in a state like California, Ohio, Virginia, or Pennsylvania, go out and try and get people to vote! Historically low voter turnout favors both the Republican party and the incumbent — and think what a travesty it would be if we ended up with four more years of this simply because people didn’t vote.