From electoral-vote.com

[arisbe]

"The site has had technical problems repeatedly in the past several days and has been down several times. I didn't want to discuss this, but I don't want anyone to think the problem was an incompetent hosting service. Just the opposite. The site has been subjected to a full-scale, well-organized, massive attack with the clear intention to bring it down. The attackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-solid Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and hasn't crashed since I got it in May. While our troops are fighting and dying to bring freedom of speech to the Iraqi people, there are forces in America who find this concept no longer applicable to America. I don't know who is behind this attack yet (although we are working it), but it is too professional to be some teenager working from a home PC. Given that all the hate mail and threats I get come entirely from Republicans, I can make an educated guess which side is trying to silence me, but I won't say. And I won't surrender to cyberterrorists."

MetaFilter seems to have gone silent as well.

Comments

liberal propaganda mills and hackers

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

well you are able to say that but I notice
a good many people on livejournal are so
zealous for mr Kerry that they say well
after the debate flood these addresses with
your polling because if you dont all the
networks will give Bush the edge...this is
of course far from the case(perhaps Fox
is exceptional). but people all are afraid
of losing out at every point.

I never had any trouble reaching his site,it
seems a good selection of polling information,
he does perhaps try to spin a bit but only
in the margins and as is his right in the links.
I wonder if he is not playing the paranoia card
as a form of propaganda, but also I think it is
possible some hackers are after him in the
spirit of school boys who will go after anything
identified with the other side. I would be
distressed if fox news were so symmetrical as
to behind this!
+Seraphim.

Re: liberal propaganda mills and hackers

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

You hit the nail on the head here. Some political operatives are frat boys with pretentions -- look at the idiots who ruined Nixon! (All right, he had something to do with it himself, I admit.)

By the way I read a lot of folks on LJ who are Bush fanatics, going on about how all criticism is treason, and so on.

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

yes that is also not helpful.
I wonder if ,apart from psychology
if that is possible, at least partly
a fact that many people do not how to
write well and least of all in a measured
way. Sometimes I feel that, with people
sounding off, that they are unable to
argue in a calm way through never having
learned how or seen or read example.