Monthly Archives: June 2012
Pay No Attention To Those Polls (Or To Forecast Models Based On Them)
Brace yourselves. With the two main party nominees established, we are now entering the poll-driven media phase of presidential electoral politics. For the next several months, media coverage will be dominated by analyses of trial heat polls pitting the two … Continue reading
“41″ The Movie: “When We Saw What He Had Done”
Thanks to a timely heads up by Stanis Moody-Roberts, I was able to catch the HBO premier of “41” two nights ago. It is well worth watching, not so much for breaking new ground – it mostly skimmed the most … Continue reading
Romney or Obama: Who Wins the Beer Test?
The other day I was watching my go-to source for informed political analysis, ABC’s The View, where the topic du jour was whether one would prefer to have a beer with Mitt Romney or President Obama. This “beer test” question, … Continue reading
Is George H. W. Bush the Best President Not To Win Reelection?
George H. W. Bush turned 88 yesterday, and the milestone got me thinking: is he the best president not to win reelection? Bush, as most of you know, served one term before losing in 1992 to Bill Clinton in a … Continue reading
Joe Biden: Our Secret Weapon On The War On Terror
One of the great ironies of this presidential campaign is that President Obama, who won election in 2008 in part due to his promise to reverse his predecessor George W. Bush’s militaristic foreign policy, is now trumpeting his aggressive war … Continue reading
