Month: November 2012

It is very interesting to peruse Nate Silver’s post-mortem analysis of the pollsters. The thing that really stands out for me is that, among the most active pollsters, there was only one (Pharos Research Group) that showed...

We just went through the first Citizens United (CU) election. Hundreds of millions were contributed by 50-100 billionaires, mostly wasted, mostly ineffectually used. While it is not possible to say if the money was totally...

While I agree with Kathleen Parker’s overall analysis, I do not think she understands the nature of the party she clings to like grim death. And I don’t agree with giving Mitt Romney a 100% pass. He ran the most...

It’s interesting to note the subtext in the Petraeus resignation controversy, that the FBI investigation was the result of his paramour “blowing” the affair: The F.B.I. investigation that led to the sudden...

In the post-election analysis I keep seeing this meme that Romney was a numbers guy, and so the punditry was surprised that his campaign was so unprepared to lose the vote.   Consider, for example, the final paragraph of...