I’ve been busier than a cat burying shit on a tin roof, so fewer updates for you, my loyal and exclusive readership.
As an aside, one of the things I often type wrong on my BlackBerry Pearl is the word ‘relax’. For reasons known only to Ganesh, I often have BlackBerry exchanges that look like this:
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Barack is doing quite well, so far, but we’ll see the McCain ‘campaign’ throw a lot of shit around just to see what sticks.
There’s also a debate coming up tonight. It’s unlikely that Barack will take many risks. He doesn’t have to. He has a commanding lead. McCain will need to [...]
Well, first, that’s what the Republicans do during every election, but one of the underlying reasons in the McCain-Obama contest is that McCain has fallen badly behind and is in grave danger of losing in a landslide. In a desperate attempt to save his shaky, dishonorable campaign, McCain is about to unleash the Republican [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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