Strategy in electoral politics is sometimes portrayed as 'too complex for the public to understand' but as I see it there are only two ways to fail a two-party election: Not getting enough votes for your guy, and too many votes going for the other guy.

Given that simplistic and crude premise, the other day, severinpgh asked me with respect to strategic ( Read more... )

The awful thing about statistics -- that you can make the numbers say whatever you want -- is also the crux of its virtue.

It is particularly useful when working with small but significant changes.

For example, when we hear that 8 students have been bullied into suicide in one of Congresswoman Bachman's Minesota school districts in the last two ( Read more... )