The call has been made. Bush has won the election. It was more decisive than anyone would have believed. Bush: 286 Electoral Votes to Kerry's 252. Bush also won 51% of the overall popular vote, a definite majority of the overall vote. What's also significant is that turn out was very high this year. More people voted this year than any previous election by a significant margin (about 115,000,000 votes).  Bush won by almost 4 million votes overall. For those who dislike the Republic...

FoxNews has just called Ohio to Bush. That essentially means it's over. Bush has won.

Zogby's prediction may be the worst of them all: Our Call Zogby International's 2004 Predictions (as of Nov. 2, 2004 5:00pm EST) 2004 Presidential Election Electoral Votes: Bush 213 Kerry 311 Too Close To Call Nevada (5) Too Close To Call Colorado (9) Tsk tsk.  Score: Political Machine 1, Zogby 0.

Everyone hopes that their game will win. But right now, no one knows. Exit polls won't be useful in any remotely close states until the end of the day (beware of anyone trying to toss around any exit polls in battle ground states until the end of the day - whether they be for Bush or Kerry). We'll keep this blog running throughout the day and see how things go. 5pm EST: Only a couple hours left until the polls close in a few states. At that point, we'll be able to start looking and seeing ...

Conventional wisdom says that high turn out means victory for Democrats. While it is possible Kerry may win still, I don't think the pollsters have adequately taken into account just how high the turn-out is amongst Bush voters. Today my wife and I voted. And unlike 4 years ago, the lines were long. Not only were they long but looking at the pages of marked off voters, even at 10am this morning, most registered voters on the pages I saw had already voted. Incredible. Never seen anything li...

I talked to my dad today and he was leaning towards Kerry. He's a really smart guy. One of the smartest people I know. But he doesn't follow politics that much, he's very busy doing other things. So he gets his info from the mainstream media which has done a pretty good job convincing him that Bush is a bad guy. So what were his issues and how did I counter act them? Outsourcing. If you're really worried about out-sourcing then don't vote for the candidate whose party and policies have l...

With the election tomorrow it's time for predictions. Based on using The Political Machine's issue based predictions and looking at polling data and trends, this is what I'm concluding: Kerry victory with 306 electoral votes to Bush's 232.  This is a much clearer victory for Kerry than any of the polls and pundits are showing here. But then again, they don't have The Political Machine. So what do I base this on? The Iraq war isn't a positive for Bush but in fact a negative. ...

Here's a link to an interesting article where the writer puts his endorsement in a series of images.

If you lived in a house that had a rat "nuisance" you might tolerate it. But if one of your children died from a rat bite, you might be tempted to start going around killing all the rats in the house and getting rid of the rat holes. After 9/11, there were a lot of rat holes in the world. You don't worry so much about which rat bit your kid as getting rid of all the rats. The most obvious infestations were Taliban Afghanistan and Saddam's Iraq. So goes the thinking in this article. Check i...

The left-wing media and Kerry supporters made a mountain out of a mole-hill by trying to claim, without evidence, that around 200 to 300 tons of explosives were looted under the noses of the US military thus proving Bush's incompotence (that's their reasoning, not mine, I agree, it's pretty wacked logic). However, a new report seems to indicate what I had previously suggested - that a US detachment probably hauled off the weaponry at some point. Why? Because 200 to 300 tons would require far ...

One thing that you can't ignore from Osama's latest message is how deflated his words are.  Long gone are the talks of world domination and accusations of American cowardice. In the end, Osama is looking essentially for a truce. And he's delivered his truce offer on the eve of the election. Choose Bush and continue the war or choose Kerry and there's an opportunity for peace with Al Qaeda -- assuming you take the word of a murderous terrorist. Stay the course with Bush or become like "Sw...

Well known blogger Andrew Sullivan has argued that a Kerry victory might be a good thing because it would force the Democrats to finally get serious about foreign affairs. That the war on terror would be a wake up call for them and their constituents about the ways of the real world. I think that's a dangerous assumption. Imagine if the election today was between George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. Would you vote for Carter over Bush? Even given what we know about his first presidency? If n...

Terrorist Osama Bin Laden has ended speculation over whether he is alive or not with his new video that threatens more action against the United States.

The anti-war advocates made loud and vigorous claims that the United States would end up killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians if it invaded Iraq.  Others claimed that it would take years for the United States to defeat Saddam ("Iraq would be no Afghanistan") and ("The road to Baghad will be covered with American blood."). And yet despite that, the American military crushed Iraq in a matter of a few weeks. Now, nearly 2 years later, fewer than 1,1200 Americans have di...