Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature do not need a 3/5ths quorum to pass non-budgetary legislation.
Gov. Scott Walker previously rejected calls to pass the collective bargaining provisions of the budget bill separately. Walker’s reasoning was that while the collective bargaining provisions in isolation may not be...
Just a day after the release of a devastating video of NPR officials dining with a purported Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group for the purpose of soliticing a $5 million donation, and months after the Juan Williams firing, Vivian Schiller, President and CEO of NPR has resigned.
NPR just released this statement from NPR...
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Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in
campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion,
and quantitative and experimental approaches to political
science.
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Handling Bias
Today I will discuss ways to handle bias when you find it, and then...
If you read this blog, you have heard many tales of woe regarding my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
The state’s economy is sinking under the weight of public employee pensions and high taxes. That’s not me talking, that’s The NY Times’ assessment.
Last November, in a three way...
I appeared yesterday as a guest of Mark Carbonaro of KION 1460 in Monterey, California, to talk about the March 3, 2011 decision of Judge Roger Vinson in Florida granting a stay of his
The battle taking place in Wisconsin is just one of many battles in which elected officials are attempting to take back control over state and local government from public employee unions.
The stakes for the public are high. Increasingly large percentages of state and local budgets are devoted to servicing public employee...
The Daily Caller has a video filmed by a group run by James O’Keefe in which the President of the NPR Foundation reveals the blatent biases of NPR and puts to rest any claim that NPR’s news operation is non-political.
O’Keefe’s group presented itself to NPR as a Muslim Brotherhood affiliated organization...
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Matthew
Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in
campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion,
and quantitative and experimental approaches to political
science.
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Samples & Margin of Error
1. Sampling Error Will Always Be There – No Matter What The Sample...
Thanks to reader Jason for sending this photo he took near Raleigh, North Carolina, which apparently is almost as fertile bumper sticker hunting grounds as Ithaca (I said “almost”):
Oh, and in case you were wondering, we have a Class A hyprocrite behind this wheel:
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00There is a sentence no one seems to pay attention to in an opinion piece masquerading as reporting in The NY Times on how Beck and Fox News – supposedly – will be parting ways at the end of the year.
The rest of t...
Cousin of Michelle Malkin, has disappeared mysteriously in Seattle.
Please spread the word, particularly those of you in the Seattle area.
Here is the latest
news report:
Seattle Police say a missing pers...
My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is as blue a state as they come. Our entire congressional delegation is Democratic and Democrats control the state legistature. Democrats outnumber Republicans by 37%, the highest gap in any state (only the District of Columbia has a larger gap).
I have written before...
So says Sarah Palin’s father in this interview with
the BBC, because of death threats:
In the kitchen of their Wasilla home, among an extraordinary collection of animal skins, skulls and bones, the spoils of...
This is the first in a series GUEST POSTS by Matthew Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion, and quantitative and experimental approaches to political science.
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Analyzing polls with only what polling companies release is a tricky business. Near-ideal poll analysis requires a...
Per posts at The Hill and Ben Smith, the Obama administration is playing its usual childish games, this time heaping praise on Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Republican Governor of Utah, for the purpose of undermining Huntsman’s appeal to Republican voters should Huntsman choose to run for President. Or maybe...
