OPINION: Made to happen as it does just weeks ahead of the general elections, the arrest may signal, if not the cause of, far-reaching consequences in the course of Indian politics. The Opposition charges that the ruling party at the Centre has unleashed the police to catch a leader every...
Our real-world example is the forecasting of US presidential elections. First, we ask whether a model should be changed. To illustrate problems and opportunities, we examine the forecasting history of different models, in particular our own, which has tried to foresee presidential selection since ...
The second section of this post, “Unapologetic TDS,” is venting, pure and simple. If you’re tired of hearing what’s wrong with Trump, I sort of understand. Trump Derangement Syndrome is that first case of presidential derangement I’ve ever had. And though I’m not ashamed to complet...
In fact, they seem to be very good at campaigning to win elections. What many of them are not good at, and maybe don’t even care about, is doing the “people’s work” that we supposedly elect them to do. It’s this failure that should lead us to ask, “who are these hacks ...
I began to get a clearer idea of why Gorbachev shied away from an electoral campaign in 1990, however, when the draft legislation was finally published. According to the draft, presidential elections would be decided by a majority vote in a majority of the republics. This provision was obvious...
Some show up ready, but many do not at this critical time when young brains are developing rapidly.出自-2016年6月阅读原文 Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.出自-2016年6月阅读原文 Real friendship is when two individuals share the same soul.出自-2016年6月阅读原文 Pat...
I’m worried about what’s going to happen next. We were surprised in 2017 when he didn’t become more presidential or tone down the rhetoric or act more like what we were used to, but this time no one should be surprised if he does some of the out-there things he promised to do...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_polling_for_U.S._Presidential_elections#United_States_presidential_election.2C_2000). Yet there was no indication of large non-response problems by party from any of the polling organizations (maybe there was and I didn’t see it/it wasn’t reported,...
We’re deep into what-ifs with those representations, but the conversation about robots and work is increasingly paired with the debate over how to address growing income inequality – a key issue in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. ...
Presidential electionsCandidatesAbramson (2008) shows that the candidate of the median voter in the French two-round presidential election in 2007 was Franois Bayrou, but that he did not win the election — for the simple reason that he was eliminated at the first round of the balloting and ...