Over in Cafe Utne a group of us made Electoral College result predictions yesterday. My prediction was a relatively comfortable 311-227 victory for Kerry. You can use this map to do your calculations. What’s your prediction?

How’d your vote go?

that the upcoming election in the US is an important one, today we learned that Yasser Arafat is quite ill; ill enough to seek treatment in France. That coupled with the news of Chief Justice Rehnquist’s surgery and illness underline the critical nature of this election.