Robert's Stochastic thoughts

According to a google search I am the webs fourth leading source on "national guard tcrs" which is odd since I had to look up tc...

Social Security Book Cooking Blogger ate a long post I wrote on this recently. Republicans are still talking about not describing the inc...

Rejecting the Alternative Elementary statistics makes the front page of the New York Times Michael Kinsley take notice. "Witt...

Private sins and public service I have long been totally irritated with the gossipy interest in personal scandals unrelated to fitness to...

Faint Praise From Senator Leahy "the president, with the majority he has in the Senate, could have sent up Attila the Hun and got h...

Shorter Matthew Yglesias At Least Ashcroft wasn't Gonzales.

I hope Alberto Gonzales doesn't suffer organ failure during his confirmation hearings but I also very much hope that he is closely int...

It's all in the timing - John Carson Kristof writes "Paging China! Help us! Urge the U.S. government to respect freedom of the ...

Truth Justices and the American Way Everywhere including the Washington Post "Military trials set up to determine the guilt...

Class War The Democrats decades long effort to be Republican light has not succeded yet. I have long thought that an extreme proposal to...

I think I'm going to return to my previous semi rule of avoiding making predictions.

There are an estimated 250,000 provisional ballots in Ohio . These are ballots cast by people whose right to vote was challenged. Bush cu...

Random Vote totals at C-Span 2 For New York with 0 % of precincts reporting C-Span 2 has 17 votes for Bush and 17 Votes for Kerry. Yel...

Congratulations Senator Castor Bit allarmed about the Senate exit polls which seem to be from Luntz. However, I am calling Florida for ...

CNN says the election will be decided by Gays Lesbians and Bisexuals ARE YOU GAY, LESBIAN OR BISEXUAL? BUSH KERRY NADER TOTA...

Exit polls from Wonkette who is hanging in there by switching to text only Hot, Fresh Polling # 5:40 p.m. CO Bush 50 Kerry 48 FL Ke...

Wonkette backup site 6:50 p.m. 6 p.m. exit polls -- not internals. K/B: FL 51 49 NC 48 52 OH 51 49 Missouri 46 54 Ark 47 53 Mi...

4 p.m. exit polls via kos Tue Nov 2nd, 2004 at 20:41:53 GMT Grain of salt, yadda, yadda... These numbers come from Slate . Kos ...

Exit Polls Via kos Tue Nov 2nd, 2004 at 18:03:32 GMT Jerome over at MyDD gets the big scoop on the 2 p.m. VNS numbers: AZ ...

Faulty Polls or Faulty Analysis One thing many poll watchers seem able to agree on this year is that there is something wrong with the po...