This is the third post in a series that began here and continued here. With five days to go before the first one-night Democratic presidential primary debate in Houston, nearly every polling outlet took it upon themselves to release a…
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Primary Polls Revisited: Warren Up, Biden Flat, Harris Crashing Out
This post is the second in a series that began here. My friend Matt Frese requested an update on the primary poll analysis that compares apples to apples rather than RCP‘s penchant for bunging apples, oranges, and lemons into the…
That West Virginia
I currently live in West Virginia. The reason this state exists as independent from regular Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the original colony of Virginia, is its refusal to secede from the United States of America in order to violently…
A More Accurate Look at 2020 Primary Polls
With the first round of Democratic primary debates behind us and the next about to be announced, the 2020 campaign is in full swing. More than twenty candidates are elbowing for the right to take on Donald Trump as a…
My April 2019 Facebook Primary
Over the course of the last week, I’ve had a poll about the potential 2020 Democratic Party nominees open via Google Drive on my Facebook page. The poll was shared on my personal “timeline” as well as the page for…
78-Year-Old Trolls 29-Year-Old for Caring about Planet’s Future
WASHINGTON, DC (AP) — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) was unimpressed with the Green New Deal put forth by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) to try to combat climate change and prioritize life on a jeopardized planet. When asked…
First Wednesday in December (Anticlimax)
When it snows, I’m accustomed to rushing to the window, plastering my eyes against the glass, feeling the eyebrow-brush against icy pane as I struggle to find contrast. At night, I look at lamplight, dull yellow or hard sodium orb,…
The Devastating Self-Defeat of Racing to the Middle
On Sunday, Trump’s US government temporarily closed the US/Mexico border at San Ysidro between Tijuana and San Diego. He ordered the use of teargas to disperse the crowds, colloquially and pejoratively described by some as the “migrant caravan,” many of…
A Sexual Education
Content warning: explicit sexual content, rape, rape culture When I was 11, I watched Anita Hill’s testimony during Clarence Thomas’ Senate confirmation hearing. It felt like everyone was watching, or at least listening. My parents held a week-long garage sale…
Anatomy of a Blue Wave: Storey’s 2018 US Election Prediction
After my upsetting (in multiple ways!) and remarkably accurate prediction of the 2016 election two years ago, I’ve been expected by a particular cadre of Facebook friends to recreate the magic with the 2018 midterms. The midterms, unlike 2016, are…