Last year I recommended a donation strategy that nearly 400 of you followed to give nearly $45,000 to one side (and an unknown amount to the other side). Now that Al Franken is finally on his way to being Minnesota’s junior senator (by 312 votes, a 0.01% margin), was it a good strategy?
Entries Tagged as '2008 Election'
Obama’s signing…statement?
February 18th, 2009, 2:23pm by Sam Wang
Today at 6:50pm ET, I’ll be on CNN’s Situation Room to talk about left-handed presidents and their brains. It might be re-broadcast tomorrow at 6:50am ET and/or 8:55am. I free-associated a bit – let’s hope nothing embarrassing emerges.
Update: here’s the video. Note that Obama curls his hand to avoid smearing ink. A more efficient but [...]
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Lunchtime talk on Campaign ‘08
February 5th, 2009, 3:36pm by Sam Wang
For locals – next Wednesday the 11th at noon, I’ll be giving a talk on a polling geek’s view of Campaign ‘08. It’s part of our Office of Information Technology’s Lunch ‘n’ Learn Series. Come on by!
Update: here’s the podcast. And here are my slides (PDF).
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Amazing Inauguration photo – 1.5 gigapixels
January 25th, 2009, 11:00am by Sam Wang
Taken by David Bergman. Check it out here.
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Forbes’s top 25 “liberals”
January 23rd, 2009, 11:22pm by Sam Wang
Forbes has an article on the “25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media.” It’s unintentionally amusing.
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The end for Coleman?
January 23rd, 2009, 9:27am by Sam Wang
Two recent events suggest that Coleman’s contest of the Minnesota Senate election result is nearing an end.
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Satellite view of the inauguration
January 21st, 2009, 11:56am by Sam Wang
Taken by Geosys and visible with 0.5-meter resolution here, at Popular Science.
Thanks to Marc Ambinder and Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic.
Now, how to estimate the crowd from this image? Update: an interactive version via the Washington Post is here.
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Thoughts on Inauguration Eve
January 20th, 2009, 1:56am by Sam Wang
First – for a list of ways to watch tomorrow’s festivities, go here. Online (C-SPAN, Hulu) as well as via MSNBC in a Starbucks near you. Now then…
For a look back at 2008, Pollster.com has an excellent roundup. Did you know that 30% of all votes were cast early? That more than ever, the 2008 [...]
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