Year: 2016

It’s Not All on Clinton to Unite the Country

For Jonathan Bernstein, the most undercovered part of this campaign by the media is the depth and breadth of Trump’s lack of support within his own party. It’s easy to dismiss this, but, as Bertstein details quite...

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Ding Dong, the Wicked Campaign is Dead

Election Day is finally here. Here’s one final anecdote from this interminable campaign. Kevin Deame, a scraggly bearded man in a blue sweatshirt, left the [Manchester, New Hampshire] GOP office with a clipboard and a list...

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Last Poll UPdate

About to work legal proection. This is it: The national numbers look better than the state numbers, which say this is close. A volatile election for sure: > The national numbers look better late.  As I thought they...

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Some Pennsylvania Election Returns

I finally got some actual election numbers out of Pennsylvania, but I warn you against putting too much into them. In 2012, my precinct in Chester County, voted for Mitt Romney by a decent 51.6%-47.4 margin. The precinct...

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The decline of the USA

For all the hype and noise, this election has seen a remarkably consistent trend. If you average all the polls, Clinton has always been ahead, whether by 8 points or 2. Right now she is 4 to 5 points ahead, and it would take a...

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