Delegate Math thru 15 March

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Thursday February 18, 2016 · 7:50 AM PST

2016/02/18 · 07:50

Fun with delegate math!

I’ve done some rough pledged delegate calculations for the states, through 15 March. Using current data taken from FiveThirtyEight.com I project a Clinton lead in pledged delegates of 1170-861 by that date. Follow me below the fold for assumptions and caveats and a bit of breakdown…

Disraeli

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Thursday March 03, 2011 · 4:25 AM PST

2011/03/03 · 04:25

Was climate change one of the causes of the wave of popular protests and uprisings that has swept the Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East since January? At first blush, the question might seem absurd. Surely the myriad long- and short-term social, economic, political and religious drivers of anger and dissent are the obvious culprits. How could climate change have had any – let alone a significant or meaningful – impact on the Arab spring?

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 5:51 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 05:51

An important heads-up to all ex-pats:

Election day is today. For many states, absentee ballots have to be received by the elections offices by 4 November. If you are posting an absentee ballot from abroad, you need to mail it NOW.

If you have requested your state absentee ballot, but haven’t received it yet, all is not lost.

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I voted the FWAB and then got my state ballot, which I've sent or will send TODAY

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Winning the Right War: Obama’s national security team

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 4:23 AM PST

2008/02/11 · 04:23

One of Barack Obama’s advisers(fn1) on national security issues, Philip H. Gordon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former National Security Council staffer during the Clinton administration, published an article in the winter 2007-08 issue of Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (fn2). He argued that America’s strategy against terror is failing

because the Bush administration chose to wage the wrong war.

The Bush record is six years of failure, according to Gordon, because of a misdiagnosis of the origins of the problem, too much faith in military force and belligerent rhetoric, alienating friends and allies, conflating America’s foes into a single ‘enemy’, and misunderstanding the ideological fundamentals of the struggle.

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Jerome a Paris in Survival, and more

Disraeli

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Monday March 26, 2007 · 3:58 AM PDT

2007/03/26 · 03:58

I’m pleased to announce the publication of an article, "The View from the Peak", by Jerome Guillet (Jerome a Paris) in Survival, the quarterly journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is a review essay covering two recent books on Peak Oil, but is more of an op-ed than a book review.

As was the case for Jerome’s op-ed in the Financial Times a few months ago (see this comment), DailyKos was instrumental for us to identify Jerome as a potential author. In fact, it was through diaries and discussions on DailyKos that I first became aware of the concept of and debate about Peak Oil. As a thank-you to both Jerome and the DailyKos community, the IISS has made the article free-to-view (normally the on-line files are behind a subscription wall or available as pay-per-view).

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Delegate Math thru 15 March

Global Warming and the Arab Spring

Ex-pats: Vote Your FWAB Now!

Winning the Right War: Obama’s national security team

Jerome a Paris in Survival, and more