Confusion about Polls
For some reason, the average Joe on the street REALLY believes that if a polling gap closing 4-5%, that actually means something. In reality, however, changes within the margin of error (usually 3-4%...
View ArticleHow the Democrats can use Federalism
The following article was published in my college paper at Brooklyn College: The results of the 2004 election paint a portrait of a heavily divided country. On the one hand, the Northeast and the...
View ArticleWhere I (and I hope we) Stand
Some decades from now, American citizens will look back on the beginning of the new millenium in History classes, around election time, and in pop culture. And the geeks amongst us--and I expect to...
View Article"Bias" in Education: Fact or Fiction
I wrote the following editorial for my school newspaper in response to criticism about my local chapter of Students for Academic FreedomI understand opponents of the so-called Academic Freedom...
View ArticleThe Alternative Minimum Tax (Part I)
A variety of sources, including The New York Times and Bloomberg News have announced that a bipartisan group of Senators plan to target the Alternative Minimum Tax for repeal this Congress....
View ArticleDeep Throat Unmasked
ABC News just revealed that W. Mark Felt, the #3 guy at the FBI under Nixon, has unmasked himself as Deep Throat. Their source is an upcoming story in Vanity Fair, and they had his lawyer on the phone,...
View ArticleCNBC Cuts off GWB Quote
No "George Bush Doesn't Care about black people." We got a concert screen instead. The main part of the quote was still there though... One wonders why NBC decided to keep in the most damning part of...
View ArticleFrom PowerlineBlog: Miers A Disappointment
From John at Powerline:A Disappointment: Harriet Miers, that is. I'm sure that she is a capable lawyer and a loyal aide to President Bush. But the bottom line is that he had a number of great...
View ArticleNYC Election Worker Incompetence
So I went to vote today in my local New York City precinct. It was the second time I voted this year (the first time was a primary in which I supported Anthony Weiner in the Democratic race) and the...
View ArticleWinning Back New York
By all accounts, 2006 was a great victory for Democrats. We pulled out victories that seemed very unlikely, took control of a bunch of state houses (including some very impressive work in New Hampshire...
View ArticleState of the Art Grassroots Software
As a guy who does web development pretty much for a living, I've been thinking about how recent developments in social networking on the Internet could improve the tools that we use to communicate...
View ArticleFavorability Ratings Predicted Senate Races
A front-page post on myDD today suggested that favorability ratings were pretty useless in determining the winner of this month's Senate elections.In a one-off comment, I suggested that once factoring...
View ArticlePork A'Plenty
As some of you might know, the New York State Senate recently released a document with all of its pork projects for the years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.One little problem. It was in a password-protected...
View ArticleIt's About the Delegates, Stupid
Even as everyone repeatedly talks about how tomorrow will be "about delegates," the pre-game spin is still about winning states. In fact, virtually none of the spin is about how the margins in...
View ArticleHillary's Desperate; Push Obama Over the Edge
Apparently Hillary has loaned her campaign $5MM to keep her anemic (in terms of fundraising) campaign alive after yesterday's stunning close by Barack Obama.Loaning your campaign money is sure evidence...
View ArticleWe're So Wrong on Technology
Earlier today, a recommended diary applauded CBS and YouTube for taking down a video by the McCain campaign that (unethically, slanderously, and shamelessly) called Obama a sexist for his "lipstick on...
View ArticleThe Real Facts About Voter Fraud
At this point, the politics of "voter fraud" are pretty clear. Republicans use claims of voter fraud to justify draconian rules and voter purges that are targeted at traditionally Democratic-leaning...
View ArticleMcCain's Corporate Socialism
McCain has been going on and on about how Obama's plan to give tax relief to Americans not already paying taxes amounts to socialism or "welfare". In essence, the poor and lower-middle class, because...
View ArticlePaine Was a Socialist
Last week, Glenn Beck invoked the memory of Thomas Paine to encourage American citizens to protest against Obama's proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy in order to provide the poor and middle...
View ArticleCorporations Cannot Have Natural Rights... Duh
When I first read through the Citizens United decision that essentially made it illegal to "discriminate" against corporate political speech, I found myself very torn. On the one hand, I'm an extremely...
View ArticleDaily Kos Mobile Update
Hi guys,You may not know me, but I'm the developer who works on Daily Kos Mobile (m.dailykos.com). For the past year, the mobile site scraped content off of the normal Daily Kos site, re-presenting it...
View ArticleEarly Beta of the Mobile Site
Since my last post about the mobile site, I've cobbled together an initial beta of what will hopefully become a much more fully-featured application.You can take a look at...
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