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John Brennan hearings

Jake at Polymic points us to news today: John Brennan gets interrogated. President Obama’s nominee for head of the CIA will face the Senate at 2:30 p.m. today for his…

Polling Obsession

…to call the state leans Obama and give more than 269 electoral votes in Obama leaning states. Here is the graph with Foster-McCallum Here is the graph without them This…

Bounce and momentum

…trend. I have checked and confirmed that dropping a medium old poll with huge Romney – Obama can cause the current estimate of Romney minus Obama to go *up*. I…