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Gap between men and women in polling reaches near historic high
An analysis published Sunday by FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver in the New York Times shows that polling reveals that women’s candidate preferences differ dramatically from men’s in a gap greater than nearly any time in modern history. “If only women voted, President Obama would be on track for a landslide re-election,…
How worried should we be?
Teabagger pic from Matt. Nate Silver has a good post up talking about the extreme exaggeration about the teabigot crowd size from the right, an exaggeration that puts all disputes over the size of protests in the past to bed. In the past, conservatives have, at best, been able to…
Why this holiday season will be stressful
Nate Silver analyzes his hilarious and disturbing interview with John Ziegler, and concludes that the problem with conservative pundits and other persuasion professionals is they don’t even know how to persuade anymore. Their every waking moment is dedicated to rousing the base with Pavlovian catch-phrases, and as such, the ability…
Not Quite Ready
Somehow, I ended up at Rapture Ready today, your one-stop guide to the apocalypse. I was particularly fascinated with the Rapture Index which purports to show in a simple 45-part calculation that…well, that the Antichrist still isn’t coming. There’s always a particular tension in millenial movements – you’re awaiting what…
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