2008 so far is a year in which the legal status of fusion will not change in any state.

On the one hand, bills to restrict fusion (in states that already have it) seem to have made no headway. On the other hand, bills to establish fusion (in states that don’t have it) have also made no headway.

Bills to abolish fusion seem dead in South Carolina and Delaware.

In Maine, LD 1799, introduced last year by the House Majority Leader to legalize fusion, and also to ease the definition of “party”, has not made any headway. UPDATE: actually, the bill passed the House policy committee on February 27.

In Virginia, HB 70, to legalize fusion, was killed in Committee on February 12.

See this provocative article, saying that it is not completely unlikely that the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008 might again poll the most popular votes, yet fail to win the electoral college.

Virtually all major news media, when they refer to Ralph Nader’s 2004 showing, claim that he got .3%.

Actually he got .4%. More exactly, he got .381%. It is convention to round to the nearest digit. Thus, in 1992, Ross Perot got 18.9%. The media always says he got 19%. Quite sensibly, they never say he got 18%.

The only known news source that has the Nader percentage from 2004 as .4% is Ron Gunzberger’s www.politics1.com.