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Predicting the vote - and the war 

If you were intrigued, as I was, by the item below about the Redskins loss presaging a Kerry victory, and want to know more, The Kerry-Edwards blog has the Redskins and presidential race results for every election since 1936.

Also: check out the latest prediction from Electoral-vote.com: Kerry 298, Bush 231.

And, just as a reminder how important this race is: The Lancet pubishes an article on a Johns Hopkins study that says maybe 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in George Bush's war in Iraq. Worth it?
In Newsweek, Hell to Pay: "And so the bloody battles of the Iraq war - which never quite ended - are about to start up again in full force.".
Oh, and (added later:) Daily Kos notices that ICasualties.org's latest U.S. military casualty figures shows that the rate of death of American soldiers and marines is now 2.33 a day...up from 1.86 a day during the period from the war until the 'turnover' to Iraqi authority.

(Some links via Dave Winer and Metafilter.)

posted by liz at 1:09 PM