Well, Missouri is dragging it out right to the end. With 99% of precincts reporting (3498 out of 3533), McCain is ahead by only 554 votes (1,418,537 to 1,417,983). Not that it affects the outcome at this point, but I would like to see us go for Obama.
The NORC (who ran the Florida Ballots Project) still has their data online, along with an Access database (click on the Data Files link at the bottom of that page). Maybe that database is what I'm remembering.
Lenny@363 "I thought the postmortem consensus was that Gore probably did win Florida by thousands of votes in 2000, if they'd all been counted.
That's my understanding as well - a full state-wide recount would have resulted in a Gore win, but the smaller recounts being requested by the Bush and Gore campaigns would have all led to a Bush win. A bunch of media outlets (CNN, AP, New York TImes, etc) got together & sponsored a project to examine all the Florida ballots and that's the conclusion they came to. There's a paper documenting the results at the AEI (that link is to a PDF file).
The raw data from that project was at one time available on a web site that let you play around with various recount scenarios to see how they turned out. I can't find it now, it may not be online anymore.
I should have added that part of the problem is it's not just the Cedar River that's flooding. As you can see from all the purple dots on this map, most of the rivers in the southeast part of Iowa are experiencing major flooding, and they all drain into the Mississippi.
Abi @ 67:
It'll be more than a minor addition. For instance, NOAA is forcasting record flood levels at Keokuk by the middle of next week. (Keokuk is on the Mississippi down in the southeast corner of Iowa). And Hannibal, MO, which is a bit farther downstream, may be setting a new record for flood levels by late next week.
P J @ #9
Some weather radios can be configured to cut down on nuisance warnings. The one I bought from Radio Shack a few years ago (which I can't find on their web site now) can be connected to a PC via USB cable; a program on the PC lets you set the radio's response for each type of weather alert. So for example, I'll get woken up in the middle of the night for tornado warnings & watches, but not for floods. It doesn't completely eliminate the nuisance factor - one recent afternoon it seemed like NOAA was sending out alerts about every 10 minutes or so that were all saying basically the same thing over & over - but it does cut down on them.
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