Wisconsin Election

For the Wisconsin Gubernatorial race, Republican Scott Walker has defeated Democrat Tom Barrett to become Governor of the state.

2010 Wisconsin Gubernatorial Election Results:
Walker won with 52% of the votes, over Barret who got 47%. Well over 2 million people voted in the state of Wisconsin this year.

For the Senate race, which was also extremely tight up until the end, Republican Ron Johnson defeated Incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold to take over his senate seat.

2010 Wisconsin Senate Election Results:
Johnson won with 52% of the vote, over Feingold who had 47%.

Both major office seats have changed political parties. They previously were held by Democrats but now will be occupied by Republicans.

Charlie Crist Trailing

Crist led Rubio in the race for much of the pre-election, and only recently fell behind him in August according to the polls. There are no exit polls in yet, but 4% of the official votes have now been counted.

Here are the latest 2010 Florida Election results for U.S. Senate
- Republican Marco Rubio – 94,565 Votes – 43%
- Independent Charlie Crist – 84,596 Votes – 39%
- Democrat Kendrick Meek – 35,049 Votes – 16%

Again, you must realize that only 4% of the total votes are only currently in, so these number could easily change by quite a bit. Stay tuned for further updates.

Election Results

There are many places to find the latest 2010 election results and exit polls once they begin to be released. However here are two that we feel are the best.

ABC News Political Division has a nicely formatted “Vote 2010″ page that allows people to see the latest results. They allow you to view results for county data as well. Their site can be found at: http://abcnews.go.com/politics/2010_Elections_All_State_Races

CNN Election Center also has a very useful and easy-to-use website that allows users to find information on exit polls and election results in an easy manner. They allow you to view results simply by mousing-over your state of interest. Their website can be found at: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/main.results/.

On top of these two options, TheNewsOfToday.com will also be giving updated results, so be sure to check back often.

Marco Rubio & Charlie Crist

Last week, we heard news from several sources, that Crist and Bill Clinton were trying to persuade Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race. If this happened, Crist most likely would have received at least a 15% increase in voter support. Meek currently holds the support of 19.4% of voters, according to the latest polls. However, most of those supporters are Democrats, and Democrats would favor Charlie Crist over the Republican Marco Rubio.

The news of Crist possibly trying to convince Democrat Kendrick Meeks to drop out of the Florida Senate race seemed to have a very large negative impact on Crist’s campaign. As you can see by the chart below, Crist has been on a downward spiral since early August, but took an even larger hit this month.

2010 Florida Senate Election Polls

It is possible that some supporters of Meek will realize he doesn’t have much chance of winning and decide to vote for Crist, in order to keep Rubio becoming a senator. However it will take quite a bit. We should see later today how it turns out.

Voting Locations

With the 2010 Election Tomorrow, individuals everywhere want to find out where the closest places are that will allow them to vote. Two new services help make it a lot easier.

If you prefer to find a voting booth with your cell phone over SMS (text) messaging, there is a new service that will help. It is called “Mobile Polling Place Locator” by Mobile Commons. All you have to do is text the word “WHERE” to 30644. If you speak Spanish, you can text the word “DONDE” instead of “WHERE”.

The other service has been released by Google. It is an app that allows anyone to type in their zip code and/or address for the nearest voting locations. You can use the app right here on this page:

Time Traveler?

“The Circus” was filmed back in 1928, when technology wasn’t even close to what it is today. However, as you can see in the video footage below, a woman appears to be talking on a cell phone during the filming of the movie. If this really is in fact a cell phone, there really is no explanation unless this women is a time traveler….. Right?

Twitter and Facebook have been buzzing all day, with people trying to determine if the device that the woman appears to be talking into is really a cell phone.

Even if it were a cell phone, how on earth would she be getting a reception on it? If she was a time traveler from the future, her cell phone still would not operate without the infrastructure that exists today. That is of course, unless this women could have traveled to 1928 from a point in time beyond today, when cell phones could operate without cell towers.

These are all simply theories. Other theories explain that the device is not a cell phone, but simply an old-fashion hearing aid. Perhaps, the woman was having trouble with her hearing aid device, and is talking in order to see if she can hear herself properly. So far this theory seems to be the most believable we have heard so far.

What do you think. Did the filming of Charlie Chaplin’s film really catch a woman from the future talking on a cell phone, or is there a better explanation?

2011 Stagecoach

The festival is presented by Goldenvoice, and features some of the nation’s best country music. This year’s lineup includes:

- Kenny Chesney
- Rascal Flatts
- Carrie Underwood
- Darius Rucker
- Loretta Lynn
- Josh Turner
- Chris Young
- Leon Russell
- Easton Corbin
- Ricky Skaggs
- Jerry Douglas Trio
- Gatlin Brothers
- Jack Ingram
- Mel Tillis
- Rodney Crowell
- Rhonda Vincent
- Secret Sisters
- Steel Magnolia
- Joanna Smith
- Wanda Jackson
- Stealing Angels
- The Gourds
- Rosie Flores
- Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
- Sara Watkins
- The Cleverlys
- Phosphorescent
- The Punch Brothers
- Truth & Salvage

Tickets to the event go on sale on November 5, 2010. A weekend pass for both days will only cost $99.00. Parking for the event is free, and it will be held rain or shine. Although this is the official lineup, it is subject to change.

LA Fitness

The new application helps members find information about group exercise classes, competitive leagues for basketball and racquetball, as well as LA Fitness club locations. Other features that the new app includes are:
- Ability to schedule personal training sessions and receive emails with reminders of when they are scheduled.
- Reserve racquetball courts in advance.
- View your LA Fitness check-in information.
- View your membership information
- and more.

The app is also available on the Android App Market, by simply doing a search for “LA Fitness”.

Indonesia

A tsunami watch has been issued for coasts within 62 miles of the earthquake’s epicenter, which was located 149 miles south of Padang, at a depth of 20.5 miles.

The quake is being reported as being felt in the West Sumatra and Bengkulu provinces. As of now, there has been no injuries or major damage reported.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, thus it is known for experiencing major earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.

Dizzy Gillespie

Gillespie is known as one of the main figures in Jazz Music culture. He was a huge influence in the development of “Bebop”, “Afro-Cuban Jazz” and “Modern Jazz”. He was a Trumpet player, singer, bandleader, composer, and Jazz teacher.

What do Fats Navarro, Arturo Sandoval, Jon Faddis, Miles Davis, Chuck Mangione, Lee Morgan, and Clifford Brown all have in common? They learned their trade from the influence and lessons of Dizzy Gillespie.

Gillespie is known as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters in the history of Jazz music. He passed away in 1993 at the age of 75.

Today Google is honoring Dizzy with his very own “Google Doodle” located on Google homepage.