I ran into a really cool website while looking for historical election results, Dave Liep's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. It has TONS of info and interactive maps with election results. It also has some neat tools for evaluating the current election situation with integrated polling results. At the moment, it's not looking that great for John Kerry, but there are still several weeks (and more importantly 3 debates) to go. His current estimates have Bush at 285 electoral votes (270 needed to win), because Florida and Pennsylvania, two big swing states, are currently leaning Bush. It's scary that at the moment other than the New England states and the Pacific states, Kerry only has Illinois and Michigan. What's the middle of America thinking?
On a side note, did you know/remember that in 1992, Ross Perot had almost 19% of the popular vote? What's even crazier is that he actually got more votes than Bush Sr. in Maine. I thought they lived in Maine?
Posted by ramk at September 18, 2004 09:03 PMThey have a vaction estate at Kennebunkport (although that town may not exist in the form that I've spelled it).
Like Nader screwed Gore in 2000, Perot screwed Bush in 1992 ("Read my lips, no new taxes" didn't help much either though).
Posted by: Andrew at September 30, 2004 08:09 PM