Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Klain is exceptionally good at that work. There was no one in the Obama WH, in my reporting, spoken of as highly by as many different factions, across so many different dimensions of the job.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
BREAKING - President-elect Joe Biden will name Ron Klain, a longtime Democratic operative and close confidant, as his chief of staff as early as tomorrow morning. w/ @maggieNYT @katieglueck @thomaskaplan nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Watch this remarkable confrontation between a former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and Paul Kelly, editor-at-large for one of Murdoch's key properties, The Australian. The subject is climate change and the Murdoch empire's disastrous legacy.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Chancellor #Merkel congratulates @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. The German-American friendship has proved its worth over many decades, as #9 November, a special day in German history, also reminds us. #Election2020
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Statement by President George W. Bush: bushcenter.org/about-the-cen…
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Just imagine if we had an election that came down to the Philadelphia suburbs in Pennsylvania, the D.C. suburbs in Maryland, the Houston suburbs, Dayton Ohio, and Montgomery Alabama. Then the rest of the world would have to keep track of which Montgomery County is which.
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This page has been really useful the past few days for tracking which news organizations have called which states.
It does require reloading in the browser, though, since it doesn't auto-update.
We're tracking race calls from news orgs here nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273.
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.
Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST
All Results: results.decisiondeskhq.com/2…
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I just rechecked 2008 with the data from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_U… and got that it was an Iowa/Colorado tie.
A month from now, when we have all the final vote numbers... I wonder what the tipping point state in this election will have been, and whether it agrees with what the pundits and forecasters thought it would be.
My list of past tipping point states: dbaron.org/presidential-elec…
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This is a plausible path to a @JoeBiden victory without either Pennsylvania or Georgia (both of which he still seems to have a decent chance at). Map via @270toWin 270towin.com/maps/1pyb7 #2020election
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Democratic legislators in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin begged Republicans to let election officials start processing and counting mail ballots well before Election Day. Republicans refused, which is why we will not know the winner of the presidential election tonight.
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Seems like this is the point in the evening where our East Coast friends should go to bed... and we'll call to wake you up if there's white smoke coming out of the chimney of the Supreme Court Building?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
“turned down a federal judge’s order” = breaking the law with both pinkies up
USPS turned down a federal judge’s order this afternoon to sweep mail processing facilities serving 15 states after the agency disclosed that more than 300,000 ballots nationwide could not be traced.
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Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (12,370,175) in California.
Source for ballots has moved to tableau.the-pdi.com/t/Campai…
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So big shifts are possible. The range of scenarios in @FiveThirtyEight's Senate forecast at projects.fivethirtyeight.com… is not unusual
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And going back further to 2002, the Republicans picked up three seats (Minnesota, Missouri, and Georgia), and the Democrats picked up one seat (Arkansas).
(The Republicans would lose that Minnesota seat in 2008, and the Democrats would lose the Arkansas seat in 2014.)
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Going back to 2008, the Democrats picked up seats in Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Virginia, and North Carolina.
(Note that the Alaska, Colorado, and North Carolina seats were lost in 2014.)
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