Looks like an unprecedented 70% of the voters turned out in Travis County. That’s pretty cool.
That so many folks in Texas voted for Bush? I’m less pleased, but then, here in my hood, the numbers I came up with might be a little skewed by our “Austin Liberal bias.”
Seems like I predicted this one right, though.
I can’t even provide sources for most of my recap, and I’ve not had enough coffee yet, but it looks like only 1 out of 10 of the under 30 crowd voted. Not that it’s unusual, but the other 9? No excuse for complaining.
Many local Democrats retained their positions (good). Commuter rail passed (possibly quite bad).
Only 26 shopping days left
Unrelated news:
Giant squids taking over the world?
Still part of my Y2K supplies.
Round a-bout, 11/2/04 9:44 AM, ya’ll said:
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:26 AM
> Subject: FW: Meter
> This could be useful while watching election coverage! Or maybe just to have
> around ……………
Think I’ll use it…
> London, UK – 2 November 2004, 02:30 GMT – The most comprehensive study ever
> undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence Unit over 12 months reveals that the
> world’s safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment – operating
> system plus applications – is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD
> (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin.
Complete article here.
Jo’s special
The hat.
Wasn’t much of a line at the polling place, basement of a church. 30 seconds of instruction on how to use the electronic ballot. Sign here. (Sagittarius?)
A little later, notice the special on the board at Jo’s, I was doing a chart reading, looking for trends and explaining the astrological weather, and I noticed a TV set going in the background.
“Wait a sec, I’ve got to see who’s winning,” I said.
“It’s Tuesday, I didn’t know there were any sports on today,” exclaimed the Gemini.
Election coverage, pro sports, all about the same, these days; although, there’s less chance of injury in politics.
Best early election coverage I could find? Oddly enough, it was news.bbc.co.uk. Look at the address closely, “news” dot “bbc” dot “co” dot “uk” – from the good old days of the internet? The “dot co dot uk” meant the server was located in the UK, the United Kingdom, sometimes referred to as Britain? Yeah, or as I would extol, with a drawl, “yea, verily.”
I didn’t know my vote mattered so much.