Hot Free Press on September 26th, 2008

Tonight, drunken frat boys and sorority scamps, for your drinking game, take a swig of tequila every time a newscrunt incorrectly refers to the lecterns as podiums, or, if they’re feeling particularly uppity, podia.
Remember kids, you can stand on a podium, but you lose debate points for standing on the lectern.
I wanted to put out [...]

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Hot Free Press on September 24th, 2008

As we near the end of September, several States are still up for grabs in the presidential election.  State polling data is sparse and erratic.
I am obsessed, not with polls, but with polling data, and trying to make sense of what one of my least favorite professors from back in the day would have called [...]

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Hot Free Press on September 22nd, 2008

Yes. It will change the final vote tally for both McCain and Obama. Whether it will change the outcome remains to be seen, and it depends on whether Obama has a large enough lead going into the final days.
That is a big if. Between now and the election the Republican hate machine [...]

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Hot Free Press on September 19th, 2008

Hot Free Press is the only site using State by State data to look at Electoral Vote trends before the State polling data arrives.  Sounds magical, no?
It really isn’t magic.  It’s a risky, error-ridden model we use to convert the national polls to electoral vote trends.
The margin of error is rather high, but it always [...]

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