Okay, who kicked the ant hill? Gore Boosting McCain (Stoller) Obama Clueless (Krugman) Clinton Duplicitous (Fremon) ABC Overlooking Big Story: Their Debate Coverage (Tyndall) Candidates’ Horoscopes Bonus absurdity! Greenwald: Beltway Pundits Disingenuously Claim to Speak for Joe American, Drudge (i.e., The Anti-Greenwald) Is Emperor of American Media Gobsmackingly typical: Greenwald cites a Philadelphia Daily News poll from their website, in which 85% thought the debate was bad or horrible due

Regular PW visitors know that one of my recurring themes is that laypeople often interpret public opinion polls far too literally, with an under-appreciation of how much art there is mixed with the science involved in polling.  Indeed, I have noted that election polling, where there are often multiple polls with different results, makes for excellent case studies in how differences in polling methods can affect the results.  The following example is even more

I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but my will has been broken. I’ve realised that covering Mrs Clinton’s campaign without explicitly stating that it has turned into a win-at-all-costs operation fueled by phony outrage, hypocritical proclamations and absurd notions of who is electable and who is not is an exercise in deliberate deception, and I can’t do that. Perhaps I am weaker than my colleagues, but a certain fatigue

A McClatchy story about a study of the Iraq conflict by former senior Pentagon official Joseph Collins is blasted by Collins at the Small Wars Journal blog: The Miami Herald story (“Pentagon Study: War is a ‘Debacle’ “) distorts the nature of and intent of my personal research project. It was not an NDU study, nor was it a Pentagon study. Indeed, the implication of the Herald story was that this

At AoSHQ, Gabriel Malor takes issue with Eric at Classical Values — as well as a number of AoSHQ commenters — who have reacted to the news about the week-long raid by Texas authorities of a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints polygamist compound by wondering whether Muslims and renegade Mormons receive the same treatment on TV: Yes, there’s moral relativism going on here, but it’s not coming

New information regarding this year’s trek at the website. If you’ve got the scratch, think of kicking a little over there, or plugging it in your space.

Vladimir: “Take that, Sarko!” “I have always had a negative opinion of those who, with their snotty noses and their erotic fantasies, meddle in other people’s lives,” he said. Oh, yeah, Puto?  Well, Jeff could beat you up.  And it’s not as though you’re not known for meddling in people’s lives. Record number of Americans have (their) heads up (their) asses.

Rasmussen Reports: Among Americans who believe their personal finances are getting better, 67% say that faith and religion are Very Important in their lives. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey also found that, among those whose finances are getting worse, 55% consider faith and religion that important. The survey also found that those who are optimistic about their finances are also more likely than others to pray, read the Bible,

When Barack Obama suggested Thursday that he doesn’t see any point in having another debate with Hillary Clinton, few were surprised, given his poor performance in Philly.  It is even less surprising when viewed in the larger context of Obama’s campaign. When Obama complains that “it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking — until we started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people,”

That’s how The Club for Growth touts their post.   Holy. Mother. of God.  That’s like 45-minute live version of Billy Thorpe’s Children of the Sun!