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We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know In This Election Season
Posted on January 26, 2016
“He’s all over the place! Nine hundred feet up to 1,300 feet. What an asshole!” The scene from the iconic movie “Airplane” reminds me of the latest polls on both...
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The Rise of the Misinformed Voter and Donald Trump
Posted on January 25, 2016
(Originally Published on The Hill) I was meeting with some D.C. press secretaries about a complicated legislative issue when it became clear to me that everything has changed since I...
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The Predicting the Future Fallacy
Posted on January 22, 2016
When it comes to predicting the future, I am a bit of a skeptic. I am skeptical of political pollsters, I am skeptical of economic forecasters, and I am a...
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Bob Dole’s Last Mission
Posted on January 21, 2016
Few people can rival Bob Dole in his service to America. In April of 1945, Dole was severely wounded during World War II in the Italian Alps, and lost the...
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Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, and Political Instability
Posted on January 20, 2016
(Published in the WSJ) Political instability leads to economic instability. And nothing says political instability more than Sarah Palin. Mrs. Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump has been described as performance...
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