Just how likely is it that the polls will be right?Notice first, I said, polls, plural, with an “s.” There is no particular reason any one poll should be “right” — except ours, of course. That’s what the statistical margin of error is all about...
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Mark Mellman - 10/18/16 04:38 PM EDT
Perhaps we have reason to be complacent about the persistence of our democracy. It’s lasted nearly 230 years, through war, depression, recession, cultural change and even civil war. Still not perfect, it has, with fits and starts and setbacks,...
Mark Mellman - 10/04/16 06:54 PM EDT
As a wise and wizened reporter once pointed out: “Buried deep inside that word ‘newspaper’ is the word ‘news.’ And inside that, you’ve got ‘new.’ ”This aphorism explains why some trends evident in this election are described as radical departures...
Mark Mellman - 09/20/16 06:44 PM EDT
Republicans have suddenly discovered the economic privations afflicting America’s middle class and those struggling to join it.Their newfound interest in people they argued for decades would benefit if only the rich were helped to get richer is not...
Mark Mellman - 10/25/16 05:20 PM EDT
We think of “follow the leader” as a rather inane children’s game.It’s much more than that. In an adult version, it describes how many partisans go about deciding their views on public issues — they follow the course charted by the leader of...
Mark Mellman - 10/11/16 06:18 PM EDT
Where to begin?Stranger things have never happened in presidential politics — at least in the modern era.A candidate for the highest office in the land gleefully describing his penchant for sexual assault on tape. Some 50 senators, governors and...
Mark Mellman - 09/27/16 07:33 PM EDT
We enjoy believing debates are central determinants of election outcomes. They give campaigns a focus, journalists a hook around which to wrap their coverage and citizens the illusion that we render verdicts based on intellectual trial by...
Mark Mellman - 09/13/16 07:08 PM EDT
Pundits now regularly proclaim that Hillary Clinton has an almost singular and unique problem with voters who don’t think she’s honest or forthright. These pundits are wrong, both as a matter of fact and of voter perception.Nonetheless, the...
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