Election Day table scraps:

♣JOSH MARSHALL HAS some good election day survival advice.

♣IF YOU'RE FEELING especially partisan today, check out this list of food companies' donations to political causes. Most companies (including Heinz) are siding with Bush, but at least the Democrats have Diageo -- makers of fine products such as Bailey's and Captain Morgan -- on their side.

♣THERE IS PERHAPS one person in the world who is guaranteed not to suffer after today's results are announced, and it's not because she's five years old.

♣SINCE 1936, THE Washington Redskins have predicted the next president: a Redskins loss on the Sunday before Election Day has been followed by the incumbent losing his stay in the White House. Last Sunday, the Redskins lost.

♣THE CAMPAIGNING MAY be over after today, but it's still worth checking out this piece about ABC news producers trying to attend rallies of candidates while wearing the shirts of their opponents. Bottom line: they were accepted at the Kerry rallies, and booted out of the Bush events.

♣NO SURPRISE, BUT still worth a sigh: when Fox News ran a story about a poll showing Bush ahead by two points, its headline was "Bush Up By Two Points Over Kerry." When it ran a story about a poll showing Kerry ahead by two points, its headline was "Voters Split."

♣LEGENDARY COLUMNIST JIMMY Breslin wrote his last regular column for Newsday today, and it starts out as cocky as ever: "One day last May, I assigned the election to John Kerry. I said it early, and often. As I looked more, I saw that it shouldn't even be close. I said that in this space more than once. Now I am so sure that I am not even going to bother to watch the results tonight. I am going to bed early..."

♣REPORTERS WHO WANT to cover Bush's election night event tonight will have to cough up some cash: "$300 for the privilege of a 3-by-2-foot work space and a padded seat in a tent nearby to watch the proceedings on television. Wanna eat? That's $200 extra." Is this going to the Bush-Cheney retirement fund?

♣THREE HUNDRED CHILDREN were attacked by blood-sucking monkeys in India. Ok, so this doesn't have anything to do with the election -- or does it?

Posted by Jason Feifer at November 2, 2004 12:20 PM