Maps and cartograms of 2004 US presidential election results
Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked: why several states using electronic voting machines or scanners programmed by private, for-profit corporations and often connected to modems produced votes inconsistent with exit poll numbers
Too many voting "irregularities" to be coincidence: Right now there is no hard proof, but the circumstantial evidence is a mile high. Looking at all of these ?irregularities? it?s hard to imagine how one could conclude that this election was clean.
U.S. elections exit-polls: a new pretext of debate between bloggers and mainstream media
The downside of publishing exit polls: The media has long used two arguments for why exit poll data should not be made public until polls closed: 1) The results could influence voters and turnout; 2) That the information might not be accurate and it's impossible to tell how accurate it is until polls close and early returns are compared with the early exit polls.
Election night traffic numbers: Nielsen//NetRatings reports that at-home traffic to AOL Elections took the top spot as the fastest growing news and political site election night, with a 324 percent increase from November 1 and 2, causing its traffic to spike to two million unique visitors.
Newsweek's Dereliction of Duty: What did Newsweek know ? and when did the magazine know it?
Barely 24 hours after the polls closed Tuesday, the newsweekly came out with its special election edition, chock-full of fascinating behind-the-scenes tidbits culled by a team of reporters during the lengthy campaign.
Included with all the little anecdotes (Teresa Heinz Kerry is a royal pain ? duh!) was at least one major political bombshell.
After clinching the Democratic nomination, Newsweek reports, John Kerry was so desperate to enlist GOP Sen. John McCain as his running mate that he made an "outlandish" offer: He'd expand the role of vice president to include the duties of secretary of Defense.
Moreover, Kerry ? seeking the presidency in a time of grave international danger ? promised to put McCain in charge of all U.S. foreign policy should they win.
"You're out of your mind," McCain reportedly told Kerry. "I don't even know if it's constitutional." [...]
Time was when journalists were taught that as soon as they had a story down solid, they went with it.
Holding off on this story may have been a good deal for Newsweek ? but it was a disservice to the U.S. electorate.
2004 Best Blogs - Politics & Elections Readers' Choice Awards
