The electoral vote maps today in 2008 and 2012

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

I have been following this site since I was a Junior in high school in 2004. Great site.

Electoral-vote was an obsession of mine in 2004 and 2008, as was the Atlas.  I was the ripe old age of 27, a newlywed, with only a little bit of gray in my beard .

When I was a junior in high school Hillarycare was being debated in Congress, and Newt was preparing his Contract with America.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

As a Linux user since 1998 it utterly blew me away when the Votemaster revealed himself at Andy Tanenbaum.  Everyone in the geek community knew him from his raging flame wars with Linus Torvalds over kernel architecture.  That came utterly out of left field, because Tanenbaum was a) not a known political analyst of any sort, b) had been an expat for decades and c) was, in fact, a minor celebrity.