Electoral Vote Predictor 2004:   Kerry 285   Bush 249

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News from the Votemaster

Not too much news today. Brown University published a poll about RI, the first one since February. Kerry is still miles ahead there, as expected.

To keep everyone from being bored, I wrote a bit of material about the polling process.

I also updated the format of the Excel spreadsheet. The state names now code information: blue if Kerry is ahead by 5% or more, red if Bush is ahead by 5% or more, white if they are within 5% of each other. I considered using six colors, three shades of blue and three shades of red, but Excel's conditional formatting can't handle that. Besides it might be a tad confusing. And the cartoon has been updated.

-- The votemaster