North Carolina - 56% of whites under 30 voted Obama / +21 more than overall white vote

—The Generation Gap: Young white voters in the South.

Viking Warrior, Unwillling Wife. One of many titles available at eHarlequin.com. [via, awesomely enough, an ad on politics.msnbc.com]

“There is no Cheney branch of government” [via rahmfacts]

Getting a crossbreed certainly could be seen as symbolic of Obama’s own heritage.

—Today Show contributor Mike Celizic, wondering if the Obamas will get a “labradoodle”. Way to keep it classy, you moronic jackass.

If you’re into the widget thing, the one my coworkers built is pretty awesome.

Liberal rag ‘The Economist’ endorses Obama for president

Laments, as I’m sure does he by now, the Palin pick and wonders what could have been if only the real McCain had been running.

Flickr reverse-geocoded a bunch of photos to create a bunch of GIS-like shape files

This is ridiculous cool - using people’s photos, they’ve created freely available shape files that works from the neighborhood level to the continent.

Have a sexy Halloween

What kind of odds could you have gotten in 1908 that a black dude would get elected president before the Cubs won the Series again?

—Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight.com

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