(Political Ramblings from a Little Left of Center)
A quick follow-up to my Data Matters post: Progress has been made but the jury is still out. Last month, the DNC approved the creation of the Democratic Data Exchange (DDEx), a legally separate entity that looks a whole lot like the RNC’s successful data trust. They also named Howard Dean to chair the effort. …
This is getting out of hand. The progressive movement is quickly becoming an albatross around the necks of Democrats in 2020. Democrats most definitely do not need a far-left version of the right’s Freedom Caucus. Don’t get me wrong. It seems that many (not all) of those on the far left truly believe in their…
Let’s talk 2020. I need to contemplate the paradise of a Trump-free future for just a little while. I said back in August that it was too early to talk about the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates… and it’s still too early. However, since everyone with a pulse is starting to announce, it does seems appropriate…
So here I was, in the midst of composing multiple blog entries that weighed in on possible Democrat strategies and candidates to win the Presidency in 2020. Mostly, I was trying to organize a surfeit of suppositions into coherent postings of humane length. I had almost managed to compartmentalize the daily onslaught of insanity from…
Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Schultz was just on 60 Minutes. The man is considering a third-party bid for the Presidency in 2020. Bloody hell. Folks, that’s the ballgame if he runs. Schultz is a billionaire with the money to make a serious dent in the contest. He has no chance of winning the…
“I’m not a member of any organized political party…. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers, 1935. Some things never change. While Democrats have thus far shown remarkable solidarity in response to the shutdown, there are numerous party battles on the horizon that could make Game of Thrones look like a baby shower competition. There’s the…
Paging 2020 Democratic presidential candidates: Where the hell are you? The government shutdown over border wall funding should be your opportunity to break out early. This is a slam-dunk, folks. Trump has shuttered part of the government causing paychecks to stop for some 800,000 federal employees …. … over a wall that doesn’t have popular…
I thought I’d share my current analysis of the Electoral College landscape for the 2020 Presidential election. I’m still collecting data and tweaking algorithms but, since I’ll be doing that for the next couple of years, a work-in-progress snapshot seems appropriate. I find it seriously counter-productive to ignore facts when trying to formulate a game…
I’ve just begun the process of gathering and organizing the necessary data to do some predictive and prescriptive 2020 election analytics. The questionable key word here is “necessary”. As I piece together a data set from a multitude of sources (that are often not easily consumable), I constantly find additional data sets that might also…
Rather than doing “real” work, I’ve found myself digging through initial election results data. Yeah, I’m a geek. I could do this all day. All night. Whatever. However, I thought I’d best share a snapshot of what I have and try to move on for now. As every political commentator has constantly noted, a lot…