At risk of going all Obama, all the time at this blog, this piece at Technology Review on Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s chief economic advisor was an interesting read:
(Goolsbee) is part of a generation of economists who have focused on the Internet, network effects, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Whether Obama wins or loses, this is the […]
Gary Langer, (US) ABC News polling guru has interesting things to say about Presidential Nomination Convention polling bounces:
Convention bounces became apparent in 1968 (election polling was too infrequent for reliable conclusions before then), but the focus owes much to Bill Clinton and the Mother of All Bounces: He soared from a dead heat against incumbent […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from the past 8 years, it’s that dumb candidates make bad Presidents. Which means people should be worried about this (via Scatterplot):
That John McCain graduated 894 out of 899 students from the Naval Academy. That’s in the bottom 0.6%. Which is shocking to me. Especially since class rank takes […]
Larry Lessig lays the smack down on the loooong overdue McCain tech policy:
The standard of debate in the United States Presidential Election via John McCain’s spokesman:
Senator Obama punted on questions of great importance to the American people, and sidestepped even simple questions about whether the United States must defeat evil
What are the Democrats doing if they can’t even commit to defeating evil’?! J
McCain’s exorcism policies are undoubtedly […]
Very Al Goresq…. but in a good way:
I don’t think that turning a war that is potentially significant on the strategic level, and already tragic on the human level, into the fodder for cheap political hack jobs is either politically smart, or becoming of a Presidential candidate. From McCain’s blog today:
Barack Obama enjoys a jog at Hawaii’s Kailua Beach, keeping focused on […]
I can’t decide whether this is unfair (anyone can be edited to sound like an idiot) or a legitimate issue for debate on the election trail, but Talking Points Memo’s “McCain Dazed and Confused” video has been generating a fair bit of buzz in the blogosphere:
You can argue about whether or not implying that McCain […]
Nice ad from the Obamanauts.
Via The New York Times, advertising spending in the Us Presidential Election state by state June through July 2007:
A few points:
What’s going on in Florida?? Obama is pouring money in and McCain hasn’t spent a cent?
North Carolina, Indiana and Georgia: Bush beat Kerry by more than 13-16% in both states in 2004. McCain isn’t spending […]