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6569 of 6686 precincts – 98 percent

911,326 – 49 percent – Christine Gregoire (Dem)
911,294 – 49 percent – Dino Rossi (Rep)
38,791 – 2 percent – Ruth Bennett (Lib)

Of course it couldn’t be easy.

Goodnight.

The video linked to from this post sealed the deal. The ballot is sealed and headed to the polls tomorrow morning.

Its about time, because I’m ready for this one to be over. Oh, I also donated some $$$ to help get Miss Liberty to reach the $1,000,000 mark. Not too shabby.

Well, the comment spammers finally got to me. They found a way to sneak past WordPress’s built in spam filters, so a nifty little SQL was required to dispatch of the spam comments quickly. However, over the past three days, hundreds of spam comments waiting in moderation queues got to me, and so I decided to take action.

The result of phase I of overt anti-spam actions here at Arcanius is now complete. The goal here is to keep it highly streamlined for commenters yet baffle spammers, for a little while at least.

Wish me luck.

A friend just sent me this link. The lack of real options is somewhat infuriating (its only Kerry vs Bush; it only lists the media-driven “issues”), but it seems to do a pretty good job nonetheless.

I scored Bush 75%, Kerry 31%.

I want to make one of these that doesn’t artificially limit choices, and lets users answer questions with more than a one-axis of differentiation. I’m neither “in favor” or “opposed” to appointing judges that would make abortion illegal, because thats not the real issue for me. I’m in favor of judges that would limit the federal government’s role on that issue, and all other issues as well. This is completely unaccounted for in this test. But hey, give it a shot anyway.

Ironically, the second time I checked my results, both candidates score 0%…

Does that mean I’m like Badnarik 95%, Cobb 5%?

Hrm.

I want to find someone who would otherwise (reluctantly) vote for Kerry to vote for Michael Badnarik, Libertarian for President, so that I can vote for Michael Badnarik, Libertarian for President as well, instead of Bush, who I would otherwise (reluctantly) vote for.

Why, you probably ask, would I ever vote for Bush? I happened to explain it quite succinctly to a friend a few monents ago. I would vote for him “because his dometstic policy goals are closer (although not much) to my own than the other major candidate (and 3 of the other 4 top candidates), and his Iraq plan needs a chance to work before we sell it short, imho.”

Besides, 9 out of 9 terroists agree – Kerry in 2004.

Ahem, sorry about that. It wasn’t supposed to slip in.

For a while, I have thought that a newspaper, news channel, or another news outlet called something like “The Obfuscated Times” would be a good thing for showing people how much bias can change the outlook on simple facts.

For example, read this commentary on the state of affairs in Iraq. Compare that to what you are used to hearing. And the only difference is a little bias in one direction or another.

The Obfuscated times would put these differing viewpoints on news items side by side, so that you could read them and have a fuller picture of what was actually going on.