Surprise! I thought everything on Twitter today would be experts predicting what will happen at tonight’s debate, but it’s only 9 out of 10. Looking forward to tomorrow, when all those experts apologize publicly for their predictions turning out to be wrong and accept accountability. Here’s the only prediction guaranteed to be 100% right: no […]
An essay by nearly-one-hundred-year-old Kirk Douglas on the rise of Trump.
I can’t post the chart here, but go check out the graphics Scott Bateman makes under the heading, “What Trump Has Lied About In The Past 24 Hours.”
After my piece earlier this week wondering how accurate polls (presidential preference of otherwise) can be if so many of us don’t have landlines, and we can easily ignore calls from numbers we and our smartphones don’t recognize, Dennis Hartin e-mailed: Read your post with interest, and have wondered the same thing, thanks to a […]
Clicking around the channels on TV the other night, I came upon the last 15 minutes of Rob Reiner’s “An American President.” It was right at the point where President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) bursts into the press room to respond to some of the attacks his opponent, Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss), has been making […]
Every day, it seems, a new presidential preference poll is released. Some are national, some are state-specific. Some survey registered voters, some survey likely voters. But all of them are conducted by telephone, which I find problematic.* How can those polls-by-phone truly represent the American populace when so many of us no longer have landlines? […]