Here’s Nate Silver on where it stands at the moment: Donald Trump has a 33 percent chance of winning the election according to our polls-only forecast and a 34 percent chance according to polls-plus. These roughly 1 in 3 odds … Continue reading →
Only the shadow knows. This campaign season continues in the “interesting—perhaps too interesting” vein. Each of the candidates is lucky that his/her opponent is the other one. Each is shifty and untrustworthy, although in somewhat different ways. They both have … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →First, let’s talk about pneumonia itself: it doesn’t necessarily mean a person is old and/or otherwise sickly. For example, my son had it in his teens, and gave it to his father and me, and we were all pretty sick … Continue reading →
Seems the big news today is Hillary’s comment about the “ists” and “ics” of Trump’s supporters: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, … Continue reading →
Here’s an article by Peter Beinart in the Atlantic which is exactly the sort of thing I expected more of from liberals and the left this election cycle. It explains anti-Hillary sentiment as being motivated by the fact that she’s … Continue reading →
…asks Michael Barone. His explanation relies heavily on voter turnout models that might favor Republicans this year because of lack of enthusiasm for Hillary in the Democratic camp, as well as Trump’s recent more presidential presentation of self. I can … Continue reading →
I often see people claiming that one advantage of Trump is that Congress would have no hesitation to impeach him if he oversteps. (As so often happens, they’re probably using “impeach” to mean “impeach and convict,” but let’s not be … Continue reading →
Donald Trump gave an interview yesterday: In an exclusive sit down with ABC News’ David Muir, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that people don’t care about whether he should release his taxes, while Gov. Mike Pence argued that the … Continue reading →
The comments section here offers food for thought, and lots of it. So here’s a post based on a few comments and my reaction to them. (1) “The Other Chuck” wrote of all the GOP presidential candidates in 2016: “It’s … Continue reading →
Oh, why rehash the bitter disputes that led us to where we are right now in September of 2016? Sometimes I think it’s impossible—or at least highly unlikely—for people to learn from their errors, or even pay attention to them. … Continue reading →
For a long time I’ve conceptualized Trump voters as falling into two camps: the enthusiastic and the reluctant. No doubt there are some who fall in between, too, but I think that mainly there are those two categories. The first … Continue reading →