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Monday, October 27, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Part of my daily routine used to be going back through the archive of Scripting News to see what happened on this day in fill in the year. But when the number of years passed ten for some reason I stopped doing it. 
I thought it would be interesting to see what happened on this day four and eight years ago, to see where we were in the elections of those years.
http://scripting.com/2004/10/27.html
http://scripting.com/2000/10/27.html
Nothing really earth shaking happening election-wise in either year, but the Red Sox had just won the World Series four years ago, snapping a losing streak that had been going for 86 years. They called it The Curse of the Bambino. That's why there's a picture of Babe Ruth on the 2004 entry, with a big R.I.P. on it.
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