Archive for the ‘Presidential election’ Category
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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 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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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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If I Had to I would Vote for Trump; I Wouldn’t Vote for Cruz
Posted on January 11, 2016
(This originally appeared in The Hill). Last week, I tweeted that I would vote for Donald Trump for president if he were the GOP’s nominee but that I wasn’t sure...
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2016: Marathon, Not A Sprint
Posted on December 27, 2015
(Photo Credit: “1122-WAS-The White House” by Ingfbruno – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons.) (Published in the Christian Science Monitor.) The 2016 election will be a marathon,...
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