Tag Archives: election

Freedom to Tinker – NJ election cover-up

Just plain scary a whole elec­tion result con­sid­ered null and void, no idea what hap­pened, who to blame or how to fix the problem.

NBC News – Just 32% of Tea Party candidates win

Just a reminder don’t get to car­ried away with delu­sions of grandeur.

FiveThirtyEight – The Most Overrated Concept in Elections Analysis: Momentum

FiveThir­tyEight takes on the con­cept that because polls move in one direc­tion in the past, they con­tinue to move in that same direction.

Travel Day

Today I’m in DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) for work, and I have a bunch of thoughts run­ning through my head about dif­fer­ent things, so this is a post with­out any real clear topic, but more of a ram­ble of what’s going on in my head tonight. I need to do a post about the elec­tion and

You Should Educate Yourself and Vote, or maybe not

I was think­ing about this lit­tle thing we have com­ing up in the US, that well is dom­i­nat­ing every­thing. The Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion and at first I was going to urge that you should edu­cate your­self and then go and vote on Nov. 4, and also point you to a place to go in case you

This Republican Party Bothers Me

(I am a reg­is­tered inde­pen­dent and my views align with the Lib­er­tar­ian, Repub­li­can, and Demo­c­ra­tic Par­ties, yes, all at once. I con­sider myself a social lib­er­tar­ian, some­thing I con­jured up on my own to explain my views, which are too com­plex to explain here.) The Repub­li­can Party of the United States over the past sev­eral

What If We Let Iraq’s Decide To Stay The Course Or Not?

I read some two inter­est­ing arti­cle that got me think­ing about a pos­si­ble solu­tion to Iraq. What if we let the Iraq’s decide if the US should stay the course in Iraq or pull out? I know rad­i­cal idea let­ting the peo­ple we are directly affect­ing decide their fate. Two things got my radar buzzing on