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fighting and dying to bring freedom of speech to the Iraqi people, there are forces in America who find this concept no longer applicable to America.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

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

That's screwed up.

[winegodeatsyou.livejournal.com]

wow... with the indy media stuff, things are beginning to get more than just heated.

a perhaps greater concern?

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

well everyone looks for the other side taking an
advantage, and the guy is understandably unhappy
about a denial of service attack but it doesnt seem
to me that his bias to Kerry has ever been expressed
as strongly in the main part of the site as in this
complaint, so while the hackers after him may just
be fooling around or may be hackers who dont like his
slant, it seems to me he is making more propaganda
now than at any time before so there is little loss
to the Kerry side whatever...
However isnt it a concern that a memo from the ABC
director of news told people to use a more critical
standard with the President than with John Kerry? and
that he was not dismissed?
This seems like a rather serious thing in a way
although it is fairly normal and part of the perhaps
still more or less balancing assymetry of power access
in this country. But one would rather that ideally
journalists not be biased except in editorial circumstances
of course...
+Seraphim.

[sophysduckling.livejournal.com]

I saw that today, too...I check it just because it's a balance for me, and it's more realistic and up-to-date than the openly biased conservative poll trackers. Upon seeing that, my initial reaction was, "Why on earth would 'professional' Republicans go to the trouble of shutting down E-V.com?" It seems to me to be entirely irrational for anyone to attack someone for saying what the polls say. Of course, he also has stuff like this (http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/records.html), which is hardly balanced. He seems to be playing the victim. On the other hand, it could be serious and he might actually be being attacked. If he is, we should find out who it is and smack them.

[indianarhino.livejournal.com]

All I have to say is God bless rock solid Linux Systems. A microsoft server would have gone down in a heartbeat.