I feel sorry for Dylan Byers, a media blogger at Politico, and, from what I read, an entertaining and competent writer.
I'm embarrassed for David...
Category: presidential election
I feel sorry for Dylan Byers, a media blogger at Politico, and, from what I read, an entertaining and competent writer.
I'm embarrassed for David Brooks, a conservative columnist at The New York Times and a smart guy who writes about human nature in addition to politics.
As for Joe Scarborough, I'm always happy to catch a few minutes of his intelligent msnbc morning show, Morning Joe, when my kids aren't watching Phineas and Ferb. But I'm cringing at his remarks...
CNN has the "news": It reports that estrogen influences who women are likely to vote for. "When levels of the hormone estrogen are high, single women appeared more likely to vote for Obama and committed women appeared more likely to vote for Romney," CNN reports.
Or,...
CNN has the "news": It reports that estrogen influences who women are likely to vote for. "When levels of the hormone estrogen are high, single women appeared more likely to vote for Obama and committed women appeared more likely to vote for Romney," CNN reports.
Or, that's what it did report. It has now posted an editor's note retracting it.
Adam Marcus at Retraction Watch explores this goodie in a post this morning.
Interestingly, the CNN reporter, Elizabeth Landau...
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...
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...
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