http://krtrail.blogspot.com Musings from Knight Ridder correspondents covering the presidential campaign. 2004-11-06T20:58:40Z en-US http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/partys-over.html The people have spoken. We have spoken. We blogged for large parts of the year. When we first started out, as Hot Off the Trail, Howard Dean was screaming, John Kerry was winning (primaries) and we had a plethora of candidates who were already getting Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-06T20:06:40Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/you-might-not-be-sorry-to-see-it-all.html ... but the folks at Rent-a-John sure are. Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-06T18:27:49Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/in-case-anyone-is-still-counting.html Bush officialy won Iowa, three days after Election Day. Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-05T16:41:56Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/are-you-ready-to-be-canadian.html For any Dems ready to head for the border - the northern border with Canada, that is - Thane Burnett, a columnist for the Toronto Sun, offers an unofficial citizenship test in today's Philadelphia Daily News. Questions include: "What are Smarties?" "If Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-05T16:12:57Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/disconnection-in-extreme.html Many in the San Francisco Bay Area are looking around and wondering what happened on Tuesday. In six Bay Area counties, the vote for Sen. John Kerry over President Bush was a resounding 71 percent to 28 percent. And yet, 44 percent of California voted Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T20:40:33Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/60-percent-thats-not-even-passing.html The Philadelphia Daily News, which has a lot to say, offers two opinions on Tuesday's outcome. Stu Bykofsky says: "For blue-faced Democratic diehards who insist this is the first time [Bush] "won," pardon me for saying that sour grapes like that helped Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T20:19:32Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/too-many-people-not-enough-machines.html It wasn't just heavy turnout that made polling places look like Soviet-era bread shops, with lines around the block, the Charlotte Observer reports. The system was strained by precincts stuffed with too many registered voters, an unusually long ballot Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T20:08:10Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/to-late-for-voting-controversy.html Never! More than 4,500 votes may have been lost in Carteret County, N.C., because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes. Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T20:00:41Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/canadians-speak.html Disgruntled Democrat looking for an out? You could go through the usual Canadian immigration process ... or you could marry into the country! A Canadian spoof site, Marry an American, offers to help out forelorn Yanks: "And let's face it, when compared Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T19:05:55Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/four-more-years-until-2008.html Is it too soon to pick a leading Democratic candidate for 2008? The New York Times says it's not and adds that Clinton looks like the one to beat. Hillary Clinton, that is, the former first lady and junior Senator from New York. Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T18:46:38Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/britain-asks.html How can 59,054,084 Americans be so dumb? OK, Britain didn't really ask. The Daily Mirror did. Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T18:31:50Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/more-on-canada.html The Philadelphia Daily News - which we can always count on to speak its mind - is running a plea for Canada to adopt us. We would get flu shots, free health care and a national anthem that's much easier to sing to. Our neighbors to the north would g Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T18:20:18Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/now-to-important-news.html The Associated Press is reporting that a new puppy will be entering the White House. W marked Laura's 58th birthday today by announcing he would give her a Scottish terrier puppy that is a relative of the current first dog, Barney. Miss Beazley, as Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T16:54:07Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/insulting-t-shirts-all-around.html Whichever side you're on, there's an insulting T-shirt to express your opinion at T-Shirt Hell. Warning: Some - or maybe all - may be offensive. Two shirts showing the red and blue states offer opposing views. One says: Blue=Democrats, Red=Complete Mor Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T16:38:44Z http://krtrail.blogspot.com/2004/11/united-states-of-canada.html Making its way through e-mail boxes: A new rendering of North America (most of it anyway). Ellen Dunkel 2004-11-04T16:14:21Z