Is it me, or does it feel the campaign for President might never end? Especially when I see things like this:
What You’ll Never See if You Live in Utah: A Presidential Candidate
January 6, 2012 by
What will you never see if you’re a voter in Utah? You’ll never meet the candidates for President, unless you count emails asking for money or phone calls. If you live in New Hampshire, though, or Iowa, or maybe even South Carolina, you might learn something like this: You learn that Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) is awful […]
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), […]
Rick Perry at Cornerstone: Drunk, Tipsy or Just Hyper-Expressive?
October 31, 2011 by
What are we to make of this? No, seriously. What is going on here? Someone tell me that he’s had a little bit to drink…if he’s not had a drink, then I’m even more worried. [The Week] Rick Perry at Cornerstone
Hanover Economic Debate: A different debate, a similar result.
October 13, 2011 by
This debate was different. I tried and tried and tried to write a post about Bloomberg’s “Hanover Economic” Debate on Tuesday night, but just couldn’t do it. I started watching it late, from the beginning, and by the time I finished, even the pundits had packed up. The immediacy of the event had passed, and any […]
Reagan Debate Recap: Perry, Romney and six other candidates
September 8, 2011 by
Ah, presidential debates. They have little to do with demonstrating one’s fitness for the highest office in the land, and yet they are often weighed and measured with the highest of stakes. Such it is for our generation, cultured to see winners and losers after a series of head to head play-offs, championships, and competitions between […]
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