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While you wait breathlessly for the "Why do you blog?" survey to be edited and posted at the IT Kitchen (and cross posted here I suspect), take a look at the Presidential election exit poll data and be amazed!

Speaking of American polls, if anyone sees Marek, tell him we’re waiting for his response to the survey.

Thanks to Oliver Willis for this Brand Democrat graphic…

Liz Ditz forwarded the following:

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Dear President Bush

Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals.Actually,we’re a bit ticked off here in California, so we’re leavingyou.

California will now be its own country. And we’re taking all the BlueStates with us. In case you are not aware, that includes Hawaii,Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, all ofthe North East States, and the urban half of Ohio.

We spoke to God, and she agrees that this split will be beneficial toalmost everybody, and especially to us in the new country ofCalifornia. In fact, God is so excited about it, she’s going to shiftthe whole country at 4:30 pm EST this Friday. Therefore, please leteveryone know they need to be back in their states by then.

God is going to give us the Pacific Ocean and Hollywood. In addition,we’re getting San Diego. (Sorry, that’s just how it goes.) But God isletting you have the KKK and country music (except the Dixie Chicks).

Just so we’re clear, the country of California will be pro-choice,pro-gay marriage, and anti-war. Speaking of war, we’re going to needall Blue States citizens back from Iraq. If you need people to fightin Fallujah, just ask your evangelical voters. They have tons of kidsthey’re willing to send to their deaths for absolutely no purpose. Andthey don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their kids’ casketscoming home.

So, you get Texas and all the former slave states, and we get theGovernator and stem cell research. (We would love you to take BritneySpears off our hands, though. She IS from the south, right?)

Since we get New York, you’ll have to come up with your own late nightTV shows because we get MTV, Letterman, the Daily Show, and ConanO’Brien. You get… well, why don’t you ask your people at Fox News tocome up with something entertaining? (Maybe you should just watchCrossfire. That’s a really funny show.)

We wish you all the best in the next four years and we hope, reallyhope, you find those missing weapons of mass destruction. Seriously.Soon.

Sincerely, California

Colin Shea posting at Zogby has some interesting insights on the vote counting in Ohio…

In 30 precincts,
more ballots were cast than voters were registered in the county.
According to county regulations, voters must cast their ballot in the
precinct in which they are registered. Yet in these thirty precincts,
nearly 100.000 more people voted than are registered to vote — this
out of a total of 251.946 registrations. These are not marginal
differences–this is a 39% over-vote. In some precincts the over-vote
was well over 100%. One precinct with 558 registered voters cast nearly
9,000 ballots. As one astute observer noted, it’s the ballot-box
equivalent of Jesus’ miracle of the fishes. Bush being such a man of
God, perhaps we should not be surprised.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Thanks to Amy and Beth for the insight.

It looks like we’re back to arguing about the honesty of the Florida election process again.  Phyllis Hasbrouck engages the nation from her "Prove it on Paper" site here in Madison.  Are there other local groups out there agitating for action before the electoral college convenes?

Thanks to Ted for the link to BoingBoing’s purple map… a much clearer picture of America’s folly: