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Skip to comments.Chuck Todd: A Kerry Landslide? Why the next election won't be close.
Posted on 10/05/2008 1:17:38 PM PDT by Chet 99
A Kerry Landslide? Why the next election won't be close.
By Chuck Todd
Over the last year, most political TV shows handicapping the upcoming presidential election have repeated the refrain that the race will be extremely tight. Last month, CNN's astute commentator Jeff Greenfield hosted an entire segment on how easily this election could turn out like 2000, with President Bush and Sen. John Kerry splitting victories in the popular vote and the electoral college. Greenfield even threw out the possibility of an electoral college split of 269-269, brought about by a shift of just two swing states that went for Bush last time, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. He ended his feature with the conventional wisdom among Washington pundits: "We're assuming this election will stay incredibly close." Reporters covering the campaign echo this expectation, sprinkling their campaign dispatches with references to the "closely fought" electoral race and "tight election."
The campaign staffs themselves have been saying for months that they anticipate that the race will go down to the wire. In late April, Republican party chairman Ed Gillespie told The New York Times that he expected a "very, very close" race. This winter, Democratic party chairman Terry McAuliffe urged Ralph Nader not to enter the race, fearing that the perpetual candidate could take precious votes away from Kerry in a race sure to be won by a hairline margin.
There are perfectly understandable reasons why we expect 2004 to be close. Everyone remembers the nail-biting 2000 recount. A vast number of books and magazine articles describe the degree to which we are a 50/50 nation and detail the precarious balance between red and blue states. And poll after poll show the two candidates oscillating within a few percentage points of one another. There are also institutional factors that drive the presumption that the race will be tight. The press wants to cover a competitive horse-race. And the last thing either campaign wants to do is give its supporters any reason to be complacent and stay home on election day.
But there's another possibility, one only now being floated by a few political operatives: 2004 could be a decisive victory for Kerry. The reason to think so is historical. Elections that feature a sitting president tend to be referendums on the incumbent--and in recent elections, the incumbent has either won or lost by large electoral margins. If you look at key indicators beyond the neck-and-neck support for the two candidates in the polls--such as high turnout in the early Democratic primaries and the likelihood of a high turnout in November--it seems improbable that Bush will win big. More likely, it's going to be Kerry in a rout.
Bush: the new Carter
In the last 25 years, there have been four elections which pitted an incumbent against a challenger--1980, 1984, 1992, and 1996. In all four, the victor won by a substantial margin in the electoral college. The circumstances of one election hold particular relevance for today: 1980. That year, the country was weathering both tough economic times (the era of "stagflation"--high inflation concurrent with a recession) and frightening foreign policy crises (the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan). Indeed, this year Bush is looking unexpectedly like Carter. Though the two presidents differ substantially in personal style (one indecisive and immersed in details, the other resolute but disengaged), they are also curiously similar. Both are religious former Southern governors. Both initially won the presidency by tarring their opponents (Gerald Ford, Al Gore) with the shortcomings of their predecessors (Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton). Like Carter, Bush is vulnerable to being attacked as someone not up to the job of managing impending global crises.
Everyone expected the 1980 election to be very close. In fact, Reagan won with 50.8 percent of the popular vote to Carter's 41 percent (independent John Anderson won 6.6 percent)--which translated into an electoral avalanche of 489 to 49. The race was decided not so much on the public's nascent impressions of the challenger, but on their dissatisfaction with the incumbent.
Nor was Carter's sound defeat an aberration. Quite the opposite. Of the last five incumbent presidents booted from office--Bush I, Carter, Ford, Herbert Hoover, and William Howard Taft--only one was able to garner over 200 electoral votes, and three of these defeated incumbents didn't even cross the 100 electoral-vote threshold: --1992: 370 (Bill Clinton) to 168 (George H. W. Bush) --1980: 489 (Ronald Reagan) to 49 (Jimmy Carter) --1976: 297 (Jimmy Carter) to 240 (Gerald Ford) --1932: 472 (FDR) to 59 (Herbert Hoover) --1912: 435 (Woodrow Wilson) to 88 (TR) to 8 (Taft)
Poll sitting
Historically, when incumbents lose big, they do so for sound reasons: The public sees their policies as not working--or worse yet, as failures. That's certainly increasingly true of Bush today. From the chaos in Iraq to an uncomfortably soft economic recovery to the passage of an unpopular Medicare bill, the White House is having a harder and harder time putting a positive spin on the effects of the president's decisions.
And while Bush still retains a loyal base, he has provoked--both by his policies and his partisanship--an extremely strong reaction among Democrats. One indication is that turnout in this year's early Democratic primaries was way up. Nearly twice as many Democrats turned out for the 2004 Iowa caucuses as they had for those held in 2000. The turnout in New Hampshire for the Democratic primary was also extraordinarily high, up 29 percent from the previous turnout record set in 1992--the year Bush's father lost his reelection bid.
The Democrats' recent enthusiasm at the polls may in part be because this year's primary featured nine candidates, and Howard Dean's unusual campaign mobilized many new voters--both for and against him. However, the excitement in the Democratic race can't explain primary voter behavior on the other side of the aisle. Republican turnout in the New Hampshire primary was lower than in 2000, but that isn't surprising considering that Bush's nomination was never in question this year. A fairer way to gauge the eagerness of the president's base to rally behind him is to compare this GOP primary to the last one that featured an incumbent running for reelection with no real primary opposition: Bill Clinton in 1996. That year in New Hampshire, 76,874 Democrats cast ballots for Clinton. This year, 53,749 Republicans cast ballots for Bush. This is especially astonishing, considering that, in New Hampshire, there are more registered Republicans than Democrats.
The most obvious evidence cutting against the historical trend of elections featuring incumbents being won or lost by large margins is that opinion polls have consistently shown Bush and Kerry running neck and neck. But look carefully, and you'll find a couple of nuances in the most recent poll data that point to the potential for a big Kerry win. First, in polls that implicitly assume a higher turnout, Kerry performs better than he does in other polls. Most of the polls you hear about--and the ones that prognosticators trust the most--are surveys of "likely voters." Among the criteria pollsters typically use to identify likely voters is whether the subjects participated in the last election. These polls have proven more accurate in recent elections, like 2000, when voter turnout was relatively low--of the last nine presidential elections, only two showed lower turnout than 2000. But there are strong reasons to think that voters will turn out in larger numbers this year--especially among Democrats.
Four years ago, when the economy was strong, the country wasn't at war, and both presidential candidates ran as moderates, just 43 percent of adults told an early April Gallup poll that they had been thinking about the election "quite a lot." This April, when the issues seem much bigger and the differences between the candidates much starker, Gallup found that 61 percent of adults said they had been giving "quite a lot" of thought to the election.
So, presuming higher turnout, an arguably better predictor of election results would be polls of registered voters--both those who voted and those who stayed home in 2000. In an early April Gallup poll, Kerry trailed Bush 46 percent to 48 percent among likely voters, but led 48 percent to 46 percent among registered voters. Kerry's support had dropped incrementally in a late April Gallup poll, but he continued to garner higher support among registered voters than likely voters.
The second nuance to look at is what political consultant Chris Kofinis calls "the Bush bubble": the gap between the president's overall approval ratings and his approval ratings on specific policy areas. According to the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, Bush's approval rating now stands at 51 percent. That isn't bad, though it is noticeably below what the last two incumbents who won reelection had at this point in the election cycle: Reagan's approval was 54 percent and Clinton's was 56 percent. But even Bush's 51 percent may be softer than it looks. In the same poll, on seven of nine major policy issues--the economy, Iraq, Social Security, health insurance, taxes, jobs, the deficit--less than half of respondents said that they approved of the president's performance. In several cases, his approval was well below 50 percent. Only 45 percent approved of Bush's handling of Iraq; 44 percent of his performance on the economy; 34 percent of his performance on the deficit; and 33 percent of his stewardship of Social Security. Even on policy areas in which the president's approval is now relatively high--education and the war on terror--he is vulnerable to later substantive attacks by Kerry. For instance, he currently garners 51 percent approval on education, due largely to his role in passing a bold education measure; increasingly, however, educators and the public are alarmed about the effects of No Child Left Behind.
Kerry's challenge
Of course, the tight polling data does reflect a fundamental reality: For all the fallout from his policies, Bush still appeals to many Americans because of his seeming decisiveness, straight talk, and regular-guy charm--not qualities that John Kerry prominently displays. The historical pattern may strongly suggest that if Kerry wins, it will be by large margins--but that is hardly fated. It will only happen if Kerry successfully highlights Bush's failings while showing himself to be an appealing alternative. Otherwise, the senator could see himself losing an electoral rout, not winning in one. In fact, the second most likely outcome of this election is a Bush landslide. With just one exception, every president to win a second consecutive term has done so with a larger electoral margin than his initial victory. The least likely result this November is another close election.
Right now, the president is vulnerable. As The New Republic's Ryan Lizza argued in a recent New York Times editorial, undecided voters "know [the incumbent] well, and if they were going to vote for him, they would have already decided. Thus support for Mr. Bush should be seen more as a ceiling, while support for Mr. Kerry, the lesser-known challenger, is more like a floor."
That points to both an opportunity and a challenge for the Kerry campaign. Kerry needs to convince voters that he's up to the job--and that Bush isn't. If he can woo voters dissatisfied with Bush's policies, there's a potential--and historical precedent--for Kerry to win big.
LOL! These people think we forget. Thanks for posting!
And Chuck Todd NEVER gets it wrong!
You should email this to him. I think ol' Highpockets could use the reminder.
McCain/Palin win in landslide - America a racist country
Republicans pick up 10 senate seats, 54 house seats, again proving racism
Thank you for posting.Very illuminating. I appreciate all of your threads also.
A monkey slinging its poo at an electoral map would be a better predictor than must of these media pundits.
I hope Rush gets this and reads it on his show.
Chuck Todd either needs to hire a proofreader or take some remedial history.
Call me crazy, but didn't W run against Al Gore in 2000 and not John Kerry?
Ok...yes Crazy, Bush vs Gore in 2000, and Bush vs Kerry in 2004. There is nothing in this article that states otherwise, even though it's wrong as hell on everything else.
The Va. GOP fears McCain could lose the state
Virginia being a battleground state for a Republican running for the WH is a serious problem.
Eh..I'm sure he probably would've written the same thing in October of 2004, because the race was still neck and neck at that time. The media is always telling us about how there is going to be a HUGE Democrat turnout, and always talk about the new registered Dem voters.
This is the same tired old reasoning every four years...thank goodness it never materializes.
Eh..Im sure he probably wouldve written the same thing in October of 2004, because the race was still neck and neck at that time. The media is always telling us about how there is going to be a HUGE Democrat turnout, and always talk about the new registered Dem voters.
This is the same tired old reasoning every four years...thank goodness it never materializes.
Republicans pick up 10 senate seats, 54 house seats, again proving racism.
Leftist, progressives, Marxists and illegals fleeing the country in droves for fear of persecution.
Cuba opens borders for sanctuary to those bearing the $100,000 immigration fee.
"A monkey slinging its poo at an electoral map would be a better predictor than must of these media pundits."
It's pathetic how little it takes to amuse me. Good one!
So you subscribe to the Dick Morris school of predictions: keep making new ones until you happen to get one right?
VA was supposed to have been a battleground in 2004 as well... Kerry ended up abandoning the state in October. Same could be said of New Jersey in 2000. Bush/Rove wasted countless resources trying to win that state based on numerous polls showing it to be a dead heat.
Well, the main point of his piece is that presidential re-election campaigns are almost always decisive and not ties, like 2000. So, the options in his opinion were decisive Bush win or decisive Kerry win, and he looked at how things were in May, before the conventions and the debates, and viewed a Kerry decisive win as more likely.
No, but you are comparing Todd's 1-month-out predictions to the ones he makes way back in May. They are apples and oranges. You need to show that his 1-month-out predictions have been garbage.
VA was supposed to have been a battleground in 2004 as well... Kerry ended up abandoning the state in October.
Yes, but Virginia GOPers are willing to go on record talking about how tight the race is there. That's not the same as in 2004.
The press and MSM always call it too, close, gotta keep selling newspapers etc. Why pick a winner?
Chuck Todd whose WIFE is a Democrat Spinster !
Yes, but at this point Kerry was not leading by 8 (7?) points, and Bush hadn't just whored himself to the Democrats in congress by supporting the most unpopular bill of our time. (no, not Clinton)
I absolutely despise Jeff Greenfield who could always find a silver lining in every report for the Demos. Everything always looks like the Democrats have great chances to him.
I don't remember Chuck Todd, but then again I try not to watch CNN.
This is the kind of stuff they do with polls. It is conservative voter supression, plain and simple. With Palin throwing some serious punches, they have got to turn up the pressure with more slanted polls and more slanted interpretation of polls and bold predictions that Obama is unstoppable.
This same Dem/Wash Compost hacks website reported a hot tip that Rove was going to be indicted so the WH was forcing him .
Rove left 18 mos later to become TV pundit.
The Politico reported Alberto Gonzales was going to resign immediately but Alberto left one year later !
Jeff Greenfield seemed reasonably fair back in the 1980s, as did some others in the media. That seems like ancient history now.
Todd's May 2004 prediction does not really apply that closely to the situation today. But it does show that opinions change, pundits get things wrong, and that elections can be volatile.
Yeah I stopped reading at that point. That kind of massive error was too distracting.
Hate to break it to ya, Chuckie, but New Hampshire went for Kerry last time.
No: When someone says a race is "over", regardless of when - they are either right or they are wrong. If they can't get it right, then their credibility takes a deserved hit.
When Michael Barone says it is "over", then I become very nervous. He's not one to just pull predictions out of his ass, based on the latest conventional wisdom.
I don't know what VA GOPers were saying in 2004, but that is a pretty broad statement to make: that no VA Republicans were concerned by all the close polling in 2004 (which was not close at all in election day).
It is obvious to me that you haven't been paying attention for very long to make a statement like that.
In 1996 most of the polls had Dole losing by double digits. CBS had him losing by 28% right about this time in 1996. How can you generate any popular support, or raise funds if people think a "margin of error" insures accuracy, and that means Dole is going to get his clock cleaned?
In the end I think he lost by 8%, and that was with Ross Perot eating up a big chunk of the fiscal conservative vote. Jeff Greenfield is a partisan democrat idiot, second on that list only to Bill Schneider.
There's no error there. He's saying it could turn out "like 2000."
There is no error there. "This election" refers to 2004.
I thought Gore ran in 2000, not Kerry.
Oh, you're right. The article is from 2004. Sorry.
Oh, ok. Got lost in the time warp.
JOhnny Martin formerly of the Wash Compost is a DNC operative who will LIE and Cheat for the Obama.
The GOP in DC have already complained to the owner of the the POLITICO about his , Allen, and Jimmie Van Deilh
promoting of Obama faxes as News at the Obama website.
Old Johnny peddling dozens of non stop Sen Allen attack "Macca" pieces in the Wash Compost for the Webb campaign
He is a complete fraud and a disgrace !
NO...let him forget how stupid he was then. Let him keep spouting his garbage.
Thank you! Great find. Will forward to morning joe blow this week.
Yes, I am crazy like a mule.
Well using the 2004 dem primary in comparison to this years as a way to predict the election has several shortfalls.
One, the gop brand has a lower approval rating than it did in 04. Two, as far as 04 was concerned, it was Dean who brought a lot of new voters to the fold before he ruined his chances. Kerry was in the party insider. A rough but fairly accurate (for the sake of Todd's argument) is that Obama is this years dean, and Hillary was the Kerry candidate.
To be fair, Todd never said Kerry was going to win in a landslide. He was using accurate historical markers to say that the possibility existed (it certainly did). We all know that Bush ended up sealing the deal in a slightly more comfortable win than 2000.
This analysis holds little bearing to the 2008 election though.
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Updated 7.9.2009: I've added another video showing the effect of attractors on the layout
I've been working on visualizations silently of late. Today, though, I threw together a quick FDL (force-directed layout) algorithm based on POV-Ray's static-field isosurface or "blob" equation, which is (sorry, but I'm using plaintext)
density = strength * (1 - (distance / radius)^2)^2
The documented equation has a problem, in that if distance > radius, the density approaches infinity fast, so I change it to be:
density = strength * (1 - (min(distance, radius) / radius)^2)^2
That solves the infinity problem, and now all there is to the algorithm is to apply it:
adjust :: Double -> Double -> Double -> Double -> Double -> Double -> (Double,Double) adjust sx sy ss sr dx dy = if isNaN vx || isNaN vy then (dx,dy) else (dx+force * vx, dy+force * vy) where force = density ss sr dist dist = sqrt ((dx-sx)^^2 + (dy-sy)^^2) vx = (dx-sx) / dist vy = (dy-sy) / dist
Note that it is possible for dist to be NaN for a single point-to-point interaction, so we correct for that. Basically, this function is a single adjustment from point set to a point set that fits our force constraint a little better. In the following code, we take a static vector, <sx,sy> and a movable vector <dx,dy> and take the distance. We apply the density function to the distance using ss as our strength and sr as the radius or distance at which the density function falls off to zero. We return the translated point P' which is translated along the normal vector <vx,vy> by the variable "force". Simple and straightforward.
Now I know… by my title, you're thinking, "What's ugly about that?" Well, when I code fast, I use shortcuts. The following code, which uses this adjustment function as a kernel for the actual force-directed layout algorithm is imperative. I've tried FDL and MDS (multi-dimensional scaling) algorithms before using lists and tries and always ran into enough overhead that it significantly diminished the number of points that are viable to run a single iteration in real-time. I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I solicit the community's help in suggesting a faster way than this. Yes, I could have used STUArray and avoided IO, but that doesn't really eliminate the imperative nature of things.
layoutIteration :: Double -> [Attractor] -> (Arr Int Double) -> (Arr Int Double) -> (Arr (Int,Int) Double) -> IO () layoutIteration alpha attractors xsArray ysArray radii = do bounds <- A.getBounds radii forM_ (A.range bounds) $ \(r,c) -> when (r /= c) $ do radius <- radii -| (r,c) x0 <- xsArray -| c y0 <- ysArray -| c x1 <- xsArray -| r y1 <- ysArray -| r let (x',y') = adjust x0 y0 alpha radius x1 y1 xsArray =| r $ x' ysArray =| r $ y' forM_ attractors $ \(CAttractor ax ay arArray) -> do bounds <- A.getBounds arArray forM_ (A.range bounds) $ \ix -> do x0 <- xsArray -| ix y0 <- ysArray -| ix ar <- arArray -| ix let (x',y') = adjust ax ay (-alpha) ar x0 y0 xsArray =| ix $ x' ysArray =| ix $ y'
As you can see, this is pretty ugly, even with the aliased (-|) readArray and (=|) writeArray binary operators cleaning things up a bit. It's straightforward, and random access to the points is O(1). There are algorithms for which this is more important than this one, and I can see a list comprehension version coalescing even as I write this, but this kind of code is O(N^2). The constants are sometimes (depending on the adjustment function) quite high, so what I really need is the fastest version possible, probably taking a lot of advantage of fusion in the compiler. The other problem, which is more subtle, is that points are updated multiple times in one pass and we always want to use the latest point. Any functional solution would have to take this into account (and storing all the update deltas and taking their centroid won't work, because each update wouldn't then be based on the point's most current position).
This one seems to handle up to about 250 points quite well, which is decent for an FDL algorithm (keep in mind, that's 10000 distance calculations per iteration, all of which have to happen before sending any points to the video card and other such matters — doing this 30-50 times a second along with other functionality is harder than it sounds). Handling more than that would require one of two modifications to the algorithm: either select a random N moves to make per iteration or subdivide the point set into sqrt(N) size blocks, perform the FDL on each of those, and then on their centroid, translating them all by the delta.
So essentially, there were two purposes to this exercise. One was coding an FDL algorithm in Haskell, but the other was trying out an FDL I hadn't seen tried before. This one in particular does not result in the usual circular pattern arising and also handles negative forces as easily as positive forces with a simple, low-overhead function. Oh, and of course the other was showing that I could get realtime performance of such an algorithm (that previously people insisted had to be done in C to be done properly) with a relatively naive implementation.
Force directed layout algorithms are useful for tasks like graph layouts and other dense datasets as well as for performing a sort of "visual" clustering. Here's an example showing the starting state, with all points clustered in a square in the middle of the screen:
And here is one after the layout has run for a few hundred iterations:
The evenness reflected here is because the ideal distances I selected are random. If there is a system to the distances, there will be a system to the layout. The neat thing about this algorithm is that given any set of input points and distances, the result of the algorithm at any point is deterministic. Follows is the code that I used to generate the above pictures and a short movie of the forces in action.
This is the code for the algorithm and a test program in Hieroglyph/Buster
A video of the algorithm in action


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Demonic possession is not an easy thing to overcome. But, after a great deal of effort I am happy to report that I am now demon free.
OK, it's possible that I wasn't really suffering from demonic possession. It is entirely possible that I was simply suffering from the ordinary, every day common cold. But I doubt that very seriously. The reason I doubt that is because if that were the case then I would have to admit that the media trend to portray us men as big, dumb, sniveling, cry babies has some basis in fact (at least in my case). And that's just not possible. Nope, I wasn't infected with a common cold, I was possessed by an incredibly clever servant of the devil which masked its possession of my body by making it appear that I had a cold.
Shortly after becoming possessed and under the impression that it was just a cold, I did my best to continue working, because, after all, I was surely tough enough to fight off a little cold. After arriving at work and making the announcement that I had been infected and should be avoided at all costs, I sat down at my computer terminal and tried to decide which of the three wavering screens in front of me I should try to focus on. The reason I was having trouble focusing was because the demon which had possessed me had decided to first try and take over my sinus passages. Once it had successfully done so it apparently decided to make everything above my neck either run, ring, scratch or see in triplicate.
So while I was trying to decide which computer monitor to focus on, my coworkers sprayed a blanket of Lysol around my desk and repeatedly suggested that I should go home. But I was tough and still under the impression that I just had a cold, so I refused. Which is when someone suggested that if I were to vomit I would feel better. The funny thing about demonic possession is this: demons have a wicked sense of humor. Up until this point my stomach had felt fine, but hearing this fine suggestion the demon within me decided that the next part of my body it wished to take over would be my stomach. A half an hour later and I had fled to my home. Once safely in my home I began to exhibit all of the classic signs of demonic possession: speaking in tongues, weeping and gnashing of teeth, head spinning, you name it.
The necessary steps to mutate a reasonably civilized man into a grunting, scratching, screaming, oozing creature with the ability to scare small children are surprisingly few and I made those necessary steps rather quickly. After sitting in my favorite chair for a couple of hours whimpering like a small child and still under the impression that I was suffering from a cold, not from demonic possession, I decided to take some medicine. This should have been my first hint that I was possessed. Because most men don't take medicine. I would much rather sit and whine about being miserable than actually do something about it. But, since I had the house to myself, I was the only one hearing the whining and I was beginning to get on my nerves. So I ordered up a shot of Theraflu with a Pepto Bismal chaser and crawled to my bed.
After several days I began to feel a little better and I started to wonder at how easily I had been kicked around by a common cold. It was then that I realized I must have been possessed by some sort of demon. Because I never would have been such a sniveling cry-baby if I had just been suffering from a cold. That's not even in the realm of possibility. It must have been demonic possession. And somehow I had fought my way through to victory. Which is a good thing, because I'm going to need all of my strength to recover from an infection which could necessitate the amputation of my left hand. OK, it could just be a hangnail.


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Curriculum Vitae, Standards-based web application developer
I recently updated my CV online. It was a static HTML website before – I had never even thought about using TXP because it didn't seem like a traditional layout / format for the CMS. As a static website it remained, well, static for over 3 years. So when I finally needed to update it I almost gave up because of the sheer tedium of coding HTML by hand – that's when it occurred to me I should probably be using TXP after all. In the end it took much less time to integrate with the CMS than it would have to finish coding by hand – and TXP opened a lot of doors for what was then possible. The site is here (shameless plug):
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- There is some fancy JS coding with Mootools.
- I use hak_article_image to manage multiple image articles and the essentials: asy_wondertag and chh_if_data and that's about it for the public side.
I coded a quick and dirty tagging system using the TXP keywords field. In my forms I have something like this (wrapped inside chh_if_data natch):
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Re: Curriculum Vitae, Standards-based web application developer
Hey, very swish!
Couldn't get your 'experience' links to work though. They all go to ~aeronglemann/aeron/?q=something and I get 404s.
Love the examples that pop up on the right. Kudos.
[EDIT: Oh wait, it works now. Was I too quick for ya? :-p ]
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EDIT: Oh wait, it works now. Was I too quick for ya? :-p ]
Yes :) Just noticed that right after I posted the link. Now I just noticed that
the results count is wrong…. well, it's a tuesday.
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The bubbles is my favorite thing too … saw this from CSS Mania first and didn't even realize it was Textpattern…
Nice use of AJAX … mootools rocks ! Love that the links are real so AJAX or not you get the same page.
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Nice use of AJAX … mootools rocks ! Love that the links are real so AJAX or not you get the same page.
hi! Thanks for the kind words! Actually it's not even half so clever as AJAX: it's just an iframe. The page template in TXP for the iframe has a script that fades in the content onload – but it would work just the same with JS turned off (just no fade natch).
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Originally posted by azurrei
They don't look the similar at all. WoW is stylized realism...Wildstar looks like a saturday morning kids cartoon - which is one of it's many turn-offs for me.
stylized realism?...lol maybe in 1998.
I can understand that people compare everything to WoW as most gamers aren't old enough to know that Wow was pretty much a copy of its predecessors.
I can't see Warlords of Draenor as any competition to Wildstar as the games are totally different in feel. Having seen what combat, crafting, and gathering are like in Wildstar, I can't see anything in a new iteration of WoW that could pull me in.
I tried, I really did, but WoW is so boring in comparison that I just can't go back.
Sure, in a few years today's games will feel old, but for now I'm eagerly awaiting the open beta for Wildstar.
EQN looks incredibly boring so far, but developer demos often are, so I'll reserve judgement.
ESO may be shooting itself in the foot by not having an auction house system. We'll see.
I do want to try out Arche Age when it finally arrives, but hey, we're all used to waiting, right?
Originally posted by Naral
Originally posted by Asamof
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the art style of wow is such a turn off-very dated, even with their new skins for WoD. hey they can only do with what they got...i respect that. you can see what they are capable of doing in their newer games like hearthstone, Diablo3 etc...
But Wildstar is by far more contemporary in the likes of Borderlands2 and new console games. and the graphics are alot tighter than wow by a million.
but this change as well in a few years time..thats the way it goes...
No bitchers.
"You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity!"
Originally posted by eckspo
Originally posted by Azzras
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Yeah but he makes a good point. The game gets compaired to wow because wow is the #1 mmo in the world. So all games will be compaired to it. It shouldn't make you upset. I have been here awhile and whats happening here with Wildstar and ESO is the same hype on these boards that swotor got. Can anyone really say without a doubt they will be playing these games 5 or 6 months down the road. For me the games i've loved and played the longest got shut down. Both games had monthly subs of 10 bucks too. I haven't found any mmo's to replace either of those game's. But most mmo players these day move from game to game all the time. The same thing will happen with these two games.
I get why people compare it but saying its wow 2.0 Isn't a bad thing. WoW is nothing but a copy of everything that came before and after it.
So yea trying to make a game that isn't a wow clone is impossible because wow didn't make do anything in a unique way. Using Art style as an example is just as bad. There are countless games that use different art styles and the cartoon style has the best life out of all of them. So if you were gonna make a game would u really be worried about using the same style or is it just because its an MMO and it uses the same style?
Come on people its a new game, a new story, and its an MMO. Its different because its not the same... But yea with the current logic you could even say EQN is a wow clone, or would it be an EQ clone lol sigh. I blame WoW for stealing all the successful things from other games.
Originally posted by eckspo
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[mod edit]People like the night elf flip in WoW, so they gave it to every race as part of the game play. My larger point is games that try to out do WoW directly tend to crash and burn because they do not compare favorably to WoW + 4 xpacs in terms of content, polish and player base. You are better off going after niche like PvP, sandbox, crafting etc than doing everything and not retaining anyone.
As long their expectations are reasonable, the game should do well. 2 million box sales and 500k subscribers is really a success in today's market.
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Originally posted by CatAtomic99
Sorry, but Warcraft's signature imagery was pretty much swiped directly from Warhammer.
bingo!-they (blizzard) even have admitted to that!
Swiped is the wrong word.
Games Workshop approached blizzard entertainment all those years ago to create a war video game based on their Warhammer IP. Blizzard made Orcs vs Humans and GW turned it down because they didn't feel it was enough to capture WH (not sure what they expected in terms of technology back then).
But, if you put in all those man hours into creating something do you just throw it away and eat the loss? No, you call it Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans and begin one of the most famous franchises in gaming history.
Reminds me of when Nintendo backed out of their deal with Sony for the SNES CD. Sony said, "Well, whatever, we'll just call it the Playstation and sell it anyway."
considering i'm usually a sandbox person i am surprised to say i am looking forward to wildstar quite a bit. It looks like they've taken pains to add depth to their themepark backbone to make it immersive, and the art style, while it's not for everyone, is adorable to me.
that said... CREDD, Krono, Chronoscrolls..... man, someone at CCP shoulda patented that crap when they came out with PLEX
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Yeah, I'm seeing bits and pieces taken from at least three MMOs and tossed into this with the label "innovative". It's not really innovative when someone has done it before you. EVE Online with PLEX, FFXIV with the housing AND the multiple guild/linkshell, Wakfu with the dungeons on your own property and more besides.
That being said, it DOES look like an interesting game... one which I will most likely pick up just to see how it is (I am a glutton for MMOs).
Originally posted by Atadis
I think the comparisons are fair but when I played it felt more like GW2 in a Wow graphical environment...I just didn't care much for it. I'm not saying that to bash it though if you like it then play it...I just wasn't impressed with what I saw from what I though the game would be.
Same for me felt like I was playing GW2 again the combat is so similar I was personally hoping and actually thought it would be more like tera combat but I can live with it as is had a lot of fun with esper and stalker.
Wow+Hellgate London had a baby, and it was henceforth know as Wildstar!
So i guess age has nothing on it when it comes to making babies.
Originally posted by BorisTheBlade
Saying that this game is a WoW clone couldn't be further from the truth, if anything the only resemblance to WoW is that Carbine is using the same formula that Blizzard used 10 years ago in taking all the best parts of current MMO's and then sprinkling it with their own brand of awesome on top.
You said it, WoW did it 10 year ago, while you have MMOs and Devs trying to do something different, with epic fails, sure, but also great ideas, but the MMO genre is evolving, learning, even when most of the players didnt notice. TESO as an example have learned about the mistakes of Warhammer and Gw2, and so far what they did with AvA is an huge step forward for the MMO genre, time will tell us the real state, but for now it looks like that. But WS is pretty much a 10 years old MMO.
I felt GOOD at lvl 50.
Wildstar tries so much to be "familiar" to WoW players being so close to WoW that the only big problem is actually by doing that its placing itself in collision path with WoW. Well when you release an mmo at least have the brains to steer clear from WoW - collateral damage is bad enough, but facing a direct hit? Wildstar will be destroyed by WoW and anything good it has, WoW will assimilate and have it next patch.
WoW players already have WoW they dont need a second WoW... and WoW doesnt mean "World of Wildstar" although it kinda seems it does looking at the game... So... WoW will continue and as always leave the usual trail of guts pieces and remains of dead mmos along its path... and Wildstar will soon join this dantesque landscape.
The art style of Wildstar being compared to WoW didn't bother me even in the SLIGHTEST. Reason being is because there are enough differences between the two to make them their own unique games. What did NOTHING for me was wildstars lackluster INTERFACE and QUESTING.
Interface is something SOOOOOOOO underrated. And I flat out was confused as to WTH was going on in the quest area for wildstar. Not only that but there were so many quests and it was so confusing that I got frustrated and would just log out.
I felt no obligation to complete the quests because most felt so meaningless. A select few felt immersive to me. This is where wildstar fails to me.
I dunno how many of you are "newer" gamers, but the 1st step was UO to EQ. That was a radical change in playing layout. Then AC showed up, similar in 3d to EQ but different textures,playstyle allowance .Everything after was "EQ" clonish. WOW came out and it was a super-EQ. People called it an EQ clone and then it took center stage.
Now people call games WOW-Clones...and, to be honest, per 3-d they are all EQ clones and per MMO they are all UO clones.
I am looking forward to wildstar as I do with many newer games. The 1st year is always the best. WOW's 1st year was the best by far due to the sheer innovations in quest hubs,spells,player versatility and player interaction.
Let people call it a wow clone, it is no thing. WOW was a clone as well...people just tend to forget that.


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A South Jeffco church is tilling the soil on a patch of untouched land that will eventually blossom into a community garden. The Columbine Community Garden, an ongoing project fueled by volunteer efforts, will grow fresh fruits and vegetables to be donated to needy families.
Volunteers congregated at the 40-by-60-foot space April 17 at Hosanna Lutheran Church to celebrate the official groundbreaking and sink spades into earth, aerating the soil and mixing up its nutrients before seeds are planted.
Bacterial meningitis has been confirmed as the cause in the death of a Dakota Ridge High senior on Thursday morning.
The Jefferson County health department sent nurses to the school to determine if any other students had close contact with the victim, whose name has not been released.
"I can't even imagine how shocking it is for the family, because it happened so quickly," said school district spokeswoman Lynn Setzer.
Some Subaru owners are having trouble passing the Colorado air emissions tests during cold weather, but not when the weather gets warmer.
As a result, the state is advising motorists to wait for a warm day before they get a test, with temperatures in the mid-60s or higher. Otherwise, they could wind up seeking costly and unnecessary repairs. The problem is surfacing in 2010 because Subarus that were new in 2006 did not have to be tested for four years.
A South Jeffco medical marijuana dispensary has temporarily closed following a hearing that upheld a zoning violation notice issued to the business.
The owner of Footprints Health & Wellness, Marc Giuliani, said he will appeal the board of adjustment's decision in district court. The board voted 4-1 to uphold the violation notice, which subjects Giuliani to a potential $1,000 fine for every day he sells medical marijuana.
State House District 28 candidate Steve Harvey wants Jeffco Public Schools to put more emphasis on volunteerism, potentially bringing more parents and community members into classrooms.
Harvey, a Democrat, recently inaugurated the South Jeffco Community Organization and is gathering support for the group's first project: making local schools more accessible for would-be tutors and mentors.
Mr. Biggs is undergoing a name change, with the new moniker seemingly hearkening back to the entertainment center's two prior titles.
Fun City, which has a color-saturated logo complete with a flaming bowling ball and checkered race flag, is the new name replacing the old Mr. Biggs emblems around the building and on the business' website. The name appears to pay homage to Funplex and Fat City, the two businesses that preceded Mr. Biggs at the location at Coal Mine Avenue and South Kipling.
A former inmate at the Jeffco jail is suing Sheriff Ted Mink, claiming he was held illegally for most of his 49-day stay.
Luis Quezada, who was living in Lakewood when he was arrested for failure to appear in court on a traffic charge, is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
"While Luis was locked up illegally, his sister was trying to do something about it," said ACLU lawyer Mark Silverstein. Quezada's sister contacted the civil-rights group, which filed a lawsuit April 21 against Mink.
Columbine High School is closed today to remember the 12 students and a teacher slain there by two students on April 20, 1999.
Results of a recent county-funded survey indicate Jeffco residents are increasingly content with the county's quality of life, though the majority of respondents show signs of being civically disengaged.
Results from Jeffco's 2010 National Citizen Survey, which had a 45 percent response rate for the 3,000 surveys mailed, show that more residents view the county as a good place to live, compared to results of a 2004 survey.
Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport stands to receive almost $900,000 in federal funds this year for projects such as a wildlife study and runway maintenance.
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Orangeville City opened their December meeting with a word from Orangeville Mayor Bart Cox. He said Christmas is a special time of year and also Thanksgiving helps us remember we have much to be thankful for. He said we live in Christian communities and although we aren't perfect he thinks we should try harder to do the things we should and help others in our community.
"It is very fitting to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ," said Cox. He also mentioned Pearl Harbor and the many sacrifices our Veterans have made for us in America.
The public comment portion of the meeting brought Phil Fauver to the microphone. He said he didn't think the public announcement concerning the Orangeville ordinances that were going to be discussed at the public hearings were defined clearly enough. If fees are going to be raised he thinks the public should be made aware of what is taking place.
Fauver said he has asked for information from the Mayor and hasn't received the information yet. He thinks animals may have been on the Tuttle property all three years and never removed from the property as he had previously been told. He said he wonders why Orangeville accepts anonymous complaints. People should be willing to come forth with their complaints. "Orangeville seems to want to punish the weakest, like Hitler, it seems like Orangeville goes after the weakest," said Fauver.
The public hearing was next to hear public comments. Matt Orgill said he lives in the subdivision and this was his first time at city council and he thanked the council and said he likes living in Orangeville.
The first item of discussion was comments on the deletion to the civil penalty code Title II Section 3. It now reads in part, civil penalties imposed not to exceed $750. The $750 will be deleted from the section.
The next item was to amend the fee schedule set by Orangeville City regarding any violation to the development code. There is no fee schedule now.
After some discussion it was determined the initial fee will be $250 and $250 a week after that. A violation will initially be notified with a letter saying the party is in violation and which code they are in violation of and the zoning administrator will determine the length of time the party has to come into compliance with 30 days being a guideline, but under some circumstances less time would be given depending on the situation.
After this warning notice period if the party hasn't come into compliance then the fee would be assessed.
Mayor Cox said the city has been required to adopt the Uniform Building Code. This code requires a party get a building permit to reroof a home. Some people aren't aware of this need so some have reroofed without a permit. You do not need a building permit to paint your house.
Council member Carole Larsen said, "We don't want to fine people, if people come into compliance in 30 days there won't be a fine, but they will know now it will cost $250 for noncompliance. In other cities if you didn't get a building permit initially and then you go in after the fact to obtain a permit then the building permit cost is doubled. We aren't trying to be out of line, but people need to comply," said Larsen.
The next item discussed was the annexation fee. The last annexation cost Orangeville City, $576 and they never recouped any of those costs because the annexation wasn't followed through. An amount of $750 for an annexation fee was agreed upon by the council.
The council discussed the deletion from Orangeville code the section which allows special exceptions. LUDMA no longer recognizes special exceptions so it will be removed from Orangeville code. A variance or conditional use permit will still be allowed when obtained through the proper channel in working with the Board of Appeals.
The period of time to file an appeal with the Board of Appeals was changed from 45 days to 30 days. Anyone wanting to file an appeal is responsible for the cost of the appeal and publishing notification.
Orangeville closed the public hearing after the public comments and went back to their regular meeting and agenda.
Wendy Larsen spoke to the council. She is out of compliance on the number of animals allowed on her property. She told the council she has hired an attorney and the route they have decided to take is to disconnect her property from the city. She presented a letter to the council from her attorney requesting the council wait for the issue to be resolved before they begin assessing any fines to Larsen for being out of compliance on the animals. Especially in light of there not being any fines imposed for noncompliance situations in the past and this is a new fee schedule.
The council agreed on the limit for fines which can be assessed for non-compliance to the development code. A fine limit of $2,500 was set.
Orangeville set their 2009 meeting schedule for the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. and the planning commission meetings at 7:30 p.m. the third Thursday of each month.
The council approved Christmas bonuses for employees of $150 for full time and $100 for part time.
Mayor Cox said one thing he wants to look at next year is Orangeville codes which are more strict than the national code and make adjustments there.
The council decided the city office could close at noon on Christmas Eve. Larsen reported they are still working on the group home.
James Davis councilman in charge of beautification said they are raking mounds of dirt by the bridge and he would like to have power installed outside of the community center on each corner. Davis said he is working on the skatepark plans and plans to have them ready to submit to the CIB in January.
Mayor Cox said they have $500 from the recreation district they need to spend by the end of the year.
Mick Rogers from the audience said he knows some people who will do community service so Davis said to contact him and they can help with the junk tree removal around the welcome park.
Councilman Kevin Reynolds said the Christmas party was a success and they fed 225 people.
A citizen wondered what process you have to go through to get a property disconnect. Mayor Cox said there is a state code, the Utah Municipal code which has a process you must go through. It's quite a process you must have a survey of your property and then petition the city for disconnect.
The person requesting the disconnect is responsible for all fees and costs involved. Even after a disconnect the person is still responsible for paying their portion of any debt service for the city which they just left until that debt is retired.
Mayor Cox said the city could also require that only a portion of the property be disconnected so a peninsula isn't created.
The mayor is having a New Year's Eve party at the city hall and there will be a waffle breakfast right after midnight. Anyone is welcome to attend.


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1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
2 And to our beloved Apphia, and
3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
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8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee
19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
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