Dan Balz of The Washington Post did an interesting story over the weekend, or so I thought initially. With all the polls showing a trend toward Obama, and the election only weeks away, what do political scientists...
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Dan Balz of The Washington Post did an interesting story over the weekend, or so I thought initially. With all the polls showing a trend toward Obama, and the election only weeks away, what do political scientists say about who will win?
I'm not sure that expert are going to have the inside track on things, but I thought it would be interesting to hear what they had to say.
Balz began with numbers and percentages from people with impressive academic titles, and I was wrapped up in it until I got to the sixth graf. "Their projection, made 299 days before the election..."
What? They made these projections last year? Who cares what somebody thought last year; we didn't even know who the Republican nominee would be.
I felt misled. Balz might have better left all of this to moulder in the academic journal in which he found it. Or if...
Nicholas Thompson at The New Yorker is surely more optimistic than I am that Paul Ryan, if elected, could mature into a Theodore Roosevelt-style conservationist, one whose desire to protect comes from his desire to explore and experience the wilderness.
Even so, his...
Nicholas Thompson at The New Yorker is surely more optimistic than I am that Paul Ryan, if elected, could mature into a Theodore Roosevelt-style conservationist, one whose desire to protect comes from his desire to explore and experience the wilderness.
Even so, his post, "Paul Ryan: Master of the Land" is worth reading for what it says about the great TR and about current political calculations regarding conservation.
I would have entitled it "Paul Ryan: Master of the Land?" The question mark is important, because Thompson falls far short of making the case that Ryan will come to understand the importance of conservation. But it's a smart analysis.
-Paul Raeburn
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