Face it, you’re too amped up to go home and watch election results alone! So come to the FREE Mercury Election Night Wing-a-ding-ding (Party) tonight at the Doug Fir! Here is what you’ll get: Live election coverage on the big screen!Smarty-pants analysis from smarty-pants Steve Novick!Games, prizes, party-favors, and a “Mormon Magic Underpants” fashion show!Comedy […]
Election 2012
Posted inComic Books
One More Goddamn Election Post—But This One Has a Comic!
Nothing in this comic about the campaign is really that interesting—well, it’s interesting, I guess, but none of it’s new—but the way it’s laid out is fantastic. More web comics like this, please. Guardian US interactive team with Richard Adams and Erin McCann, via
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Stop Instagramming Your Ballots, Dummies
Yes, it’s very hilarious that for mayor you wrote in your pet or your roommate or that superhero with a complicated sense of justice, but as The Awl points out, Oregon law prohibits sharing your ballot photos: (7) A person may not show the persons own marked ballot to another person to reveal how it […]
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You Can Sit In Front of Your Computer All Day Stressing Out About the Election…
…or you can do something about it.
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Happy Election Day! Here’s a Map of Voter Suppression
Mother Jones is maintaining a map of voter suppression around the country. This could wind up being the most important map you’ll see all day.
Posted inTV
Obama Wins!! (At Least According to South Park)
This Wednesday’s new episode of South Park is called, “Obama Wins!”—soooooooo does that mean they have some insider knowledge that the rest of us don’t? Or does Cartman have a trick or two up his sleeve? For a possible answer check out this quick clip from this Wednesday’s South Park (Comedy Central, 10 pm).
Posted inReligion
Today in Faith-Based Voting
1. The Romney Mega Prayer uses SCIENCE to convince evangelicals to pray for a Romney victory tomorrow. I love this chart: Let’s see Nate Silver try to debunk this! 2. Meanwhile, in other faiths, Peruvian shamans have made their predictions: The 12 medicine men and women in traditional Andean dress gathered Monday at the top […]
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Voting Cheat Sheet and Ballot Drop-Off Locations!
Here’s a list of your local ballot drop-off locations… AND the Mercury’s voter cheat sheet, if you haven’t filled yours out yet, and need a little help! (Oh, and you might want to read THIS first.)
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Where’s My Election Night Party At?!
Of course, we’re having a pretty awesome party at the Doug Fir. It’s free and will feature nail-biting results watching as well as a line-up of fun events (donut eating contest! Mormon underwear fashion show!) hosted by Wm. Steven Humphrey, comedy from Ian Karmel, and analysis from the one-and-only Steve Novick. But if you’re into […]
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Don’t Miss the Mercury’s Election Night Party! TOMORROW!
It was the greatest party of 2008, and so shall be the greatest party of 2012! It’s the Mercury‘s Election Night Wing-a-Ding-Ding (Party) at the Doug Fir, where you can most likely expect all or part of the following: Live election coverage on the big screen!Smarty-pants analysis from smarty-pants Steve Novick!Games, prizes, party-favors, and a […]
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Nate Silver: “Obama led in 19 battleground state polls today. Romney led in one.”
538: Although the fact that Mr. Obama held the lead in so many polls is partly coincidental — there weren’t any polls of North Carolina on Friday, for instance, which is Mr. Romney’s strongest battleground state — they nevertheless represent powerful evidence against the idea that the race is a “tossup.” A tossup race isn’t […]
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Mitt Romney’s Threat: If He’s Not Elected, His Party Will Trash the Economy
Romney made his closing argument today. Basically: If he’s not elected, the Republicans in Congress will throw America over the fiscal cliff: “You know that if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress,” Romney said. “He has ignored them, attacked them, blamed them. The debt ceiling […]