Arriving at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, I was on the escalator behind Duncan Black. David Neiwert introduced us in the registration line.
Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com is explaining polling to us now, as Charlie Cook (dean of the polling community), Pollster.com authors Max Blumenthal and Charles Franklin, and Greg Dworkin (DemFromCT) nod in agreement. Shorter Charles Cook: Polling sucks, and sucks worse now than it used to.
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Trump went into the GOP debate last night with a roughly 20% poll standing. Everyone will tell you to ignore polls early in this race, they never predict the outcome of a primary or a general election. That, however, is a non sequitur.
Here is a nice article about Elizabeth Edwards and her new book and here is a nice interview with her.
Earlier, I reported a poll indicating that "one third of British Teachers" support teaching creationism in the classroom. I thought this was vaguely interesting, which is why I mentioned it briefly on this blog, but I put the idea of pursuing this off for a later time.
Boyda poll shows dead heat with Ryun:
During a news conference, Boyda, of Topeka, said her underdog campaign remains a dead heat.