An election night guide

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 7:38 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 19:38

I put together a fun election night guide for my family and friends giving highlights of each closing time. It was geared towards people who don't quite rise to the level of political obsession that most of us do, but it is still fun. My HTML formatting skills are not so good, but I will include a link to the Google document if you want to read it that way.

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Tuesday November 21, 2006 · 11:57 AM PST

2006/11/21 · 11:57

In the run-up to the 2006 elections there was great fear among Democrats, and hope among Republicans, that gerrymandering would effectively maintain GOP dominance despite the will of the voters. The fear was that, just as Gore won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college, the Democrats might in fact win the "generic congressional ballot" but still fail to take the House. Even after the election, there was much discussion of how changing a few thousand votes hear and there might have (as Karl Rove said) kept the Republicans in power or (as has been noted here) given the Democrats a huge majority. And so I decided to look at what effect the drawing of congressional boundaries has on the representation in congress. In particular I was concerned with the questions: which states are the most gerrymandered to help one party? and How well does the composition of the next congress represent the actual proportion of votes won by the parties? My results show that (for our next congress) the votes are represented remarkably well.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 7:40 PM PST

2006/11/02 · 19:40

I have generally been disgusted with the outcome of the initiative process in the US, particularly when it comes to tax measures. A new poll by Davis, Hibbitts, and Midghall for the Oregonian and KATU shows that, at least this year, Oregon voters may be wising up. Read More

Bad Analogies: Just like Hitler?

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Monday April 24, 2006 · 12:42 PM PDT

2006/04/24 · 12:42

When I was growing up in southern Oregon, a popular bumper-sticker noted that Hitler supported gun control. This is, of course, true. Hitler did not allow his citizens to have arms outside of governmental control. This is also, of course, utterly irrelevant to the question of gun control here in the United States. Sadly, analogies at pretty much that level seem to be common in the political rhetoric (and quite possibly in the political thinking of our country. Which leads to a question: how can we counter this rhetorical device? Read More

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Bad Analogies: Just like Hitler?