Are you paying attention? Are you watching the results? Is Iowa on your radar?
Today, a non-binding vote by a tiny fraction of America will kick-off the primary season. That vote will award zero delegates.
That’s right. Zero. [cont…]
The Patrick Henry Caucus getting some love from GOP voters?
December 27, 2011 by
Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (left) & Rep. Carl Wimmer (right). (Photo KSL.com) The Deseret News put a poll out this last weekend. It shows, among other things, that if the election for the 4th Congressional District were held today, Matheson would probably win. Meh. This same polling company also put Philpot at 26 points behind Matheson back […]
Could Google predict the next “not Romney” candidate? Maybe…but what about Ron Paul?
December 1, 2011 by
Could Google predict who’s next in the “not-Romney” race for the nomination? Maybe, suggest political scientists. Says Erik Voeten at The Monkey Cage: One of the driving forces behind the creation of Google Insights was the observation that Google searches can predict flu epidemics more quickly than other types of observations. Shauna Reilly, Sean Richey, and Benjamin Taylor have a forthcoming article (nongated), […]
Iowa: Why are we still listening to you?
November 1, 2011 by
Why is Iowa still first in the nation? The little states has almost no relevance in the general. Why should we care what they think in a caucus? And Iowans gave us Mike Huckabee, for heaven’s sake. That’s the real story in the weekend’s big poll: how we’ve managed to concoct a system whereby so […]
“Bring it on,” says Speaker Lockhart.
October 3, 2011 by
Speaker Becky Lockhart ain’t afraid of the big bad wolf. Or Jim Dabakis, either, for that matter. By the time you read this, you’ll also be able to read the Robert Gehrke’s intrepid reporting about the Utah Legislature‘s Special Session Monday on redistricting. I can’t wait to see what juicy tidbits he has found. Meanwhile, […]
Google/Fox Debate: Of Perry and Piñatas
September 23, 2011 by
Story of the Night: Perry cannot touch Romney, but everyone can hit Perry Per his own expression, there’s no doubt that Rick Perry feels like a piñata. But at least a pinata is attacked by blind folded people, and usually they miss. In Perry’s case, the swings are coming from people who not only have […]
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