In keeping with the spirit of LGM on this Fourth day of October 2012, I have a few observations about yesterday's debacle debate. As Scott suggested moments ago, and as Silver wrote yesterday, challengers typically do well in the first debate. However, in this case,...
Author: Dave Brockington
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
Three months ago I mashed together a little data set in order to examine variance in state level public support for the ACA, and wrote about it here. This thing has.
This is the time of the season where many if not most of us pore over the various state level election tracking sites available. Electoral Vote was a big one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9IXwFb_cg George Galloway, former Labour (he was kicked out of the party in 2003) current "Respect Party" MP for Bradford West, and global lefty gadfly, is suing the National Union of Students for libel. Yes, he fights what he and others consider to be "the...
When I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, I argued that voter fraud "simply doesn't exist". Mea maxima culpa. Unsurprisingly, the right has, yet again, beat the opposition.
Several days ago in these very pages, discussion ensued regarding the latest conservative attempt to rewrite reality through re-weighting polls to one guy's liking. Of course, polling is not an.
What really fascinates me about the voter fraud myth is how fervently the zealots believe this shit. None of their phantom busloads of fraudulent voters transported in from out of state have been verified. Few if any of the fraudulent votes that they identify appear...
The Hillsborough Independent Panel's report was released yesterday, following nearly three years of work re-examining the Hillsborough disaster of April 15, 1989. A good summary of the findings are here..
Finally, after much prodding and criticism, the President has seen fit to release the White House beer recipes. Obama's beers: 2. Romney's tax returns: 1. As an amateur brewer, writer,.
As Erik points out, Silver has positive news for Obama in Ohio. Much of this optimism hangs on the house effect of the recent Gravis Marketing poll; measuring and adjusting for house effects can be a bit of an art. House effects can also vary from...
Excellent, largely realistic first hand account post on TDS about this issue. A bit optimistic in places, especially in the appeal to the Federal government: "As a citizen, I appeal.
This courageous quote comes courtesy of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. Being the governor of Mississippi, one might guess that Bryant is white, male, in his late 50s, and very conservative..