Month: October 2008

Nate Silver doles out some seriously useful information about the various tracking polls here.  He gives some historical background for each of the pollsters, notes their party tilt, comments on…

Stories about anti-Obama hostility keep piling up and I noted this one today in the Charlotte Observer:  30 people attending an Obama rally in Fayetteville, NC had their tires slashed…

Many of us are addicted to the Presidential polls.  Pollster.com and RealClearPolitics provide constant updates of both national and statewide canvasses.  And then there's fivethirtyeight.com, which projects likely outcomes of…

This from the Washington Post: The Wisconsin Republican Party has issued a call for volunteer poll watchers for Election Day, and the criteria is a little specific, seeking especially folks…

We're very pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Crocker as a guest in the Faculty Lounge.  Tommy is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina where he…

According to a news story in the Huntsville Times yesterday, the state has been improperly (and thus, presumably, illegally) striking registered voters from the voting rolls. State court administrators say…

People unfamiliar with high school and college debate tend to express surprise and disgust about the nature of this fun activity. This response isn't new.  This was true back in…

With a razor thin 1-0 victory tonight, the White Sox sealed a place in the playoffs.  It's never fun to end your season in a slide (the Sox made a…