Archive for January 20th, 2008
Primary States
Matthew Shugart takes stock after the first rounds of primary elections:
If one goes by the cable news and other media, one “knows” that John McCain is the front runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Maybe he is even inevitable. One would also “know” that Mitt Romney is in trouble, and that Mike Huckabee might even be finished.
When one looks at delegates—or even quaint indicators like votes–one gets a different picture.
Social scientists don’t get midaeval on the media, they get empirical 
Anyway – Shugart still counts Romney in the race for the Republican nomination and questions the way the Democratic party has organised its primaries.
And today is the start of the last year of George W. Bush’s term in office.
links for 2008-01-20
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I guess the real challenge is how you get the academics and the creatives to play together This is not a famously productive relationship and it will take some tremendously good mediation to make these two parties mutually useful, let alone mutually inspi
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…I still think he is an outright sellout. His is a business, not a scholar. I think maybe just the idea that people consider him as an authority on “what’s good for a city” is offensive. His writings are not constructive either…