Daily Archives: November 7, 2012
Post-Election Notes For the GOP (Not That They’ve Asked For Them)
Posted on November 7, 2012 392 Comments
Having just voted against both its presidential and Ohio senatorial candidate, I am reasonably sure the GOP doesn’t want any notes from me about its failures last night. On the other hand, I am a white, male, well-off, heterosexually-married, college educated fellow, which means according to these exit polls at least, I am the GOP […]
The Schadenfreude Pie I Make This Week Will Be Dedicated to Right-Wing Pundits
Posted on November 7, 2012 84 Comments
Particularly the ones who shat all sorts of bricks in the direction of FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver. Nate Silver, who applied statistical modeling to the polls to see how likely it was that either Obama or Romney would win the White House, consistently had Obama as the most likely to win — in fact, he never […]
Next Morning Presidential Election Thoughts
Posted on November 7, 2012 152 Comments
Last year in October, I did a book tour of Germany. Every night I was there, after my reading, I would have dinner with some of the Germans who were kind enough to have hosted me on the trip. And almost without fail, after enough time had passed that they felt comfortable with me, the […]
Obama Wins a Second Term
Posted on November 7, 2012 184 Comments
I’m not gonna lie. I am vastly relieved. I will have more to say later, but for now, here’s a thread for your comments. Please be good to each other in it.
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying