In Case You Missed It
From my Twitter feed... Headline this morning on the front page of The Clint Eastwood Times-Courier-Journal-Post: "The Chair Won!" The answer to the question, "Does America have a drinking problem?" is that 48,776 people voted for Roseanne Barr yesterday. Without a...
Wrong In Every Way
These are some of the claims spewed in recent weeks by GOP politicians, pundits, radio and TV talk-show hosts, consultants, experts, and similar blowhards -- all of which turned out to be completely wrong: Enthusiasm for Obama is way down. Young people will not vote...
The Nation Will Still Stand
I have tried for several weeks to write an extended essay on the vitriol that passes for political discussion in this country, the effect it has on the electorate, and why it's completely irrelevant to how America truly is, has been, and will be as a nation. For...
In Case You Missed It — Election Day Edition
From my Twitter feed... Took me 22 minutes to vote this morning. Only complaint: not enough touch-screens, too many paper ballots. Isn't this the digital age? This is the first election my daughter has voted in, which means she has never voted for a white guy for...
Romney’s Inside Straight
Over the weekend, I compared Nate Silver's forecast of Obama's 80% chance of victory to a hold'em poker hand, where you're all-in pre-flop with aces vs. kings. You're a heavy favorite, but one time out of five, you're going to lose. On his blog today, Silver has...
Three Post-Election Wishes
I wish that all the partisan pundits who have made multiple proclamations on TV and radio about what will happen on election day, and turn out to be wrong, were banned from making any media appearances for five years. I'm not talking about pollsters sharing data or...
Making Voting Easier
It's ludicrous that there's no national standard in how we cast our votes, with policies often at the whim of partisan officials trying to game the election the same way they gerrymander congressional districts. We end up with some states that only allow you to vote...
Statistically Speaking
Nate Silver, a brilliant statistician whose must-read FiveThirtyEight blog appears in the New York Times, says President Obama is an 80% favorite to win the electoral college on Tuesday. He based it on a proprietary formula which combines state polls,...