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endorsement and predictions
2012-Nov-05, Monday 09:34 pmThe famous American intellectual Noam Chomsky has endorsed Jill Stein, my chosen candidate. I'm happy to see someone of his caliber agree that great progress is still possible within our current political system. It gives me hope. I'm also pleased that he chose the same opportunity that I did. I'm looking forward to casting my vote for her tomorrow.
I admit that I'm doing less research for all of my other decisions this year than I have in previous elections. I may let party affiliation of the candidates (rather than their history and their published platform) determine my choice more than usual this year. I've been tired, as usual. And distracted. I've been much more worried this year with the integrity of the election process than the integrity of the candidates themselves. I've been directing my attention to that problem. More on that topic in later weeks, I hope.
Prognosticators are trending toward an Obama victory tomorrow. The recently famous Nate Silver is forecasting an Obama second term. He predicts only a 50.9% chance of Obama winning the popular vote, but a 92.2% chance of Obama winning the electoral vote. InTrade contracts are forecasting an Obama victory by 67.4%. Not to be left out of the fortunetelling, the GayGamer forum predicts an Obama win by 72.9%. I don't understand why gay people vote Republican, but there are gay sexists and dark-skinned racists, so I guess anything is possible.
I'm still worried that the electoral wins may be too close tomorrow to depend upon, so we won't really know who is president until the Electoral college votes on December 17th. How is anyone supposed to celebrate when the apocalypse is just 4 days later? ;)
I admit that I'm doing less research for all of my other decisions this year than I have in previous elections. I may let party affiliation of the candidates (rather than their history and their published platform) determine my choice more than usual this year. I've been tired, as usual. And distracted. I've been much more worried this year with the integrity of the election process than the integrity of the candidates themselves. I've been directing my attention to that problem. More on that topic in later weeks, I hope.
Prognosticators are trending toward an Obama victory tomorrow. The recently famous Nate Silver is forecasting an Obama second term. He predicts only a 50.9% chance of Obama winning the popular vote, but a 92.2% chance of Obama winning the electoral vote. InTrade contracts are forecasting an Obama victory by 67.4%. Not to be left out of the fortunetelling, the GayGamer forum predicts an Obama win by 72.9%. I don't understand why gay people vote Republican, but there are gay sexists and dark-skinned racists, so I guess anything is possible.
I'm still worried that the electoral wins may be too close tomorrow to depend upon, so we won't really know who is president until the Electoral college votes on December 17th. How is anyone supposed to celebrate when the apocalypse is just 4 days later? ;)