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2016 Postmortem

joshcryer

(62,276 posts) Mon Jul 9, 2012, 11:57 PM Jul 2012

Electoral-Vote.com is looking spiffy.

http://electoral-vote.com/

Just thought I'd plug this out there. He changed up the way the site looks (just now catching up so not sure when it happened yet).

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Electoral-Vote.com is looking spiffy. (Original Post) joshcryer Jul 2012 OP

+1 demosincebirth Jul 2012 #1

I'd gotten so used to the exact same look from 2004. NYC Liberal Jul 2012 #2

Same here, have followed that site since. I remember Slashdot discussing... joshcryer Jul 2012 #3

He also mentions that polling essentially dried up in July. stubtoe Jul 2012 #4

demosincebirth

(12,537 posts)

1. +1

Reply to joshcryer (Original post)

Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:54 AM

Jul 2012

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)

2. I'd gotten so used to the exact same look from 2004.

Reply to joshcryer (Original post)

Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:42 AM

Jul 2012

I remember checking it regularly that election. Time flies.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

3. Same here, have followed that site since. I remember Slashdot discussing...

Reply to NYC Liberal (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:59 AM

Jul 2012

...that Andrew Tanenbaum was the Votemaster: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/04/11/01/152256/the-votemaster-isandrew-tanenbaum

It was a shocker for a lot of people (he's the creator of Minix), a major debate in the late 90s early 2000s was the "microkernel" vs "monolithic" debate with Operating System design. Purely awesome.

stubtoe

(1,862 posts)

4. He also mentions that polling essentially dried up in July.

Reply to joshcryer (Original post)

Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:22 AM

Jul 2012

Dang! And just as things started to look bad for the GOP.
/irony

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