The Faculty Lounge

I was taking a look at a comprehensive list of Presidential election results today and noted a variety of details about the less publicized aspects of the results.  Among the…

Nate Silver, the creator of Fivethirtyeight.com (of spoof of which was the basis of my Blawg Review #184 yesterday) has created some must-read materials for anyone planning on watching election…

VOTE. Go to Starbucks, tell them you voted, collect your tall coffee. Mostly also though, VOTE.

__________ OneEightyFour     Blawg Review Done Right             Monday, November 3, 2008 The Obama Effect Continues Around law schools across the nation, there has been a detectable…

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…