In 2000, the entire Presidential election depended on a few hundred votes in Florida. In 2004, the only battlefield of any significance was in Ohio, which was decided by a 2% margin. This year, it’s looking more and more like… Continue Reading
More poll respondents indicated they believed in angels than indicated they believed in God. What’s up with that? How can you believe in angels but not in God?
Battlestar Galactica is quintessential science fiction for our modern era. Science fiction is not about some future where problems are solved by technology — it is about the challenges we face in the modern world; it uses a futuristic setting… Continue Reading
Looking at more polls, here’s today’s Field Poll release: Californians are preparing to reject Proposition 8 by a margin of 42-51. That’s a nine-point defeat for the Defense of Bigotry Amendment. The sample error on this poll is 3.9%. So… Continue Reading
Political Animal raises an interesting question for political poll watchers: are poll results skewed because pollsters do not call very many cell phones? This may not be a big issue because cell phones, while pervasive, are still seen by most… Continue Reading
Senator Obama was expected to enjoy something of a bounce in the polls after locking up the nomination. At least according to Rasmussen, that’s gone now. Obama and McCain are tied at 46% each in a two-way preference matchup. If… Continue Reading
A while back, I took a bet. I bet Michael Reynolds a bottle of our respective favorite scotches on the outcome of the Presidential election. (Now, I know that gambling on the outcome of an election is illegal in the… Continue Reading
NAPP voters were given an impressive array of choices about what would matter most to them in choosing between Obama and McCain come November. The result: A three-way tie between three subjects — “Change,” “Economic Recession,” and “War in Iraq… Continue Reading
It looks like BHO is weathering the shitstorm that Rev. Wright laid on his lap last week. And interestingly, it also looks like a lot of voters agree with me that the suspension of the gas tax is just a… Continue Reading
Statisticians might make sense of this but even after some consideration of how it might work, I can come up way too many explanations for this dichotomy: A [French] woman’s average number of partners has risen from under two in… Continue Reading