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Placeholder in the Election Eve Festival of Posts™
A bunch more in the pipeline. But I am in the middle of an hour-long interview with someone for ... an actual article! What I think is an interesting post, about the distorting effect that "prediction"...
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No Love for the 'Atlas Shrugged' Guy
Many readers are getting in the spirit of the one-time-only day-long Festival of Election Eve Updates. Here are responses to the previous item, in which the founder of one small high-tech business...
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What If the GOP Loses? 'Atlas Shrugged' vs. 'The Fire Next Time'
This is part of the one-day-only, all-day-long Festival of Election Eve Updates. Two days ago I posted speculations from several readers about what would happen inside the Republican Party if, two days...
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Ground-Game Reports: Ohio, D.C.
This is part of the Continuing Festival of Election Eve updates, all day long.Over the weekend, I posted some reader reports on ground-game trends in Missouri, Virginia, and D.C. These updates,...
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Ask Dr. Popkin: The 3 Myths of the Romney Campaign
Through this campaign year the political scientist Samuel Popkin, of UC San Diego, author of the recent book about presidential campaigns The Candidate, has weighed in about the course of the race....
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Who Says We're a Divided Nation?
From a friend, this flyer left on doorknobs in Connecticut this weekend: Talking Points Memo More here and here. This does help you pencil in how all sides think the seven electoral votes in the Nutmeg...
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Your Sunday Ground-Game Reports: Missouri, Virginia, and D.C.
I'm not out doing on-the-ground campaign reporting myself; the Atlantic has had some great dispatches on that score from Molly Ball. But several readers report what they have seen. First, from a...
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Today's Ignoramus-Nation Moment: 'Best Revenge'
In the final two days of the campaign, the Romney-Ryan ticket and its supporters are all over President Obama for talking about "revenge." On Friday, when trying to shush supporters who were booing the...
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And If the GOP Doesn't Win, What Then?
Nobody knows what's going to happen on Tuesday. (11 p.m. Saturday update: But watching a completely-losing-his-voice Bill Clinton do a barnburner in his intro for Barack Obama in Virginia, I'm seeing...
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The 'Pre-Delegitimization' Watch: It Begins
In previous items here, here, and here, I've mentioned the deeply conflicting versions of reality about how the vote will go three days from now:Most state polls and polling aggregators show Barack...
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Moyers, Chinese Education, China Airborne
I get on a plane at Dulles Airport* with the main question concerning David Petraeus being the what/when/where about Benghazi. And I get off in Seattle to find ... good lord! So let me buy time with a...
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Why You Can't Say 'I Voted!' in Chinese—at Least in China
On election day I showed a multi-lingual "I voted!" sticker from California and mentioned the piquant fact that in 2012, the year when both China and the United States are choosing their new...
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Media Wrap-Up: Moyers, Petraeus, Kaplan, Juneau
1) Just because I enjoyed the show so much, and because I didn't include a program link the first time around, I am daring to mention once again the discussion I had with Bill Moyers, on Moyers &...
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'Scapple': Very Interesting New Software From the Creator of Scrivener
I'll spare you my whole speech about the inklings of another at-least-mini golden age of Interesting Software, especially though not only for the Mac. I consider Scrivener the single most useful...
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Getting Back to the Atlas Shrugged Guy
I have a good problem, but a problem nonetheless: more very, very interesting responses have come in on this topic than I have been able to process in real time. Especially while going from Juneau to...
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My Secret Strategy™ for Avoiding Petraeus-Style Email Pitfalls
I have a foolproof plan to make sure you never suffer the email-borne disaster that has recently befallen David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell.It's a plan so effective and perfect that it doesn't even...
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Atlas Shrugged Watch, California Division
Yesterday, while still in a relatively balmy part of Alaska, I posted two quasi-defenses of the original "Atlas Shrugged Guy." For background on the Atlas Shrugged Guy and his views, see the...
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Festival of Found Art
1) From the Guardian today. Check out what I am sure is the "AdSense"-type ad in the lower right hand corner. This specific photo-and-ad combination is no longer there, so thanks to reader PB for...
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Some (Possibly) Positive Political News
One of the biggest "dog that didn't bark" surprises of the past week has been the relative lack of "election was stolen" / "voter fraud" / "it's all because of ACORN" themes from the Fox-influenced...
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Gangnam Style's Broadway Roots
You probably know this already. But before seeing the boffo Juneau, Alaska, production of Oklahoma! I hadn't really focused on it, so I figured it was worth sharing the point.Where did PSY's...
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