A moderately liberal Democraticly-themed blog
Note: these numbers might change as new polls are released, but, as of the polls available now, these are the numbers. Romney definitely appears to have stalled Gingrich’s momentum in Florida, and there are signs that he’s reversing the tides. Whether this is due to Romney going on the attack, Gingrich calling the dogs off [...]
Some of you may have remembered that I did electoral college projections back in 2008 and I was thinking of doing it again this year. I thought I would start out by doing some of the GOP primaries. My code as it existed in 2008 isn’t really meant to handle primaries, besides I don’t have [...]
The New York Times had a long, and very interesting article on why Apple moved pretty much all of their manufacturing business over to China this morning. I definitely urge you to read the whole thing. There are many interesting things about it. One thing is glaringly clear: what the GOP is advocating as a [...]
This week we lose two candidates from the ratings as Michelle Bachmann dropped out of the campaign on January 4th and Jon Huntsman dropped out yesterday. So we’re down to 5 GOP candidates and President Obama on the ratings. If you aren’t aware of how I calculate these, candidates get awarded 2 points for a [...]
I don’t know how many people remember from 2008, but I decided to do an election prediction algorithm that I called EV Status back then. I even had my own domain for it, though I can’t use it now because someone else grabbed it up. But you can still see an archived version of my [...]
As you probably saw last night or read this morning, Mitt Romney won a pretty resounding victory in last night’s New Hampshire primary. It’s hard to see how things could have been better. He won by 16% getting nearly 40% of the vote, Ron Paul, the person who poses the least risk of beating him in a [...]
So David Sirota has a new article at Salon essentially arguing why liberals should vote for Paul for President over Obama (but he’s not really, he swears!). The short version is this: Paul is 50% progressive and Obama is 50% progressive, so either person you choose is OK. However, Paul can implement all his progressive [...]
I’ll probably start doing these “thruthfullness scales” a little more frequently now that we’re actually into the primary season. I don’t know about weekly, because I don’t know if the updates on Politifact really justify that, but I may do it every other week now. If you aren’t aware of how I calculate these, candidates [...]
