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Lost in a Gallup: Revisiting the final hours of the 2016 campaign
Oct 19 2020
This excerpt from Lost in Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections revisits the many confident expressions about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy in the final days and hours before the 2016 general election. A close outcome seemed possible, but her defeat was implausible. Clinton won
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When noted journalists bashed political polls as nothing more than ‘a fragmentary snapshot’ of a moment in time
Oct 07 2020
by W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential ElectionsThis post was originally featured in The Conversation, and has been reblogged with permission.Poll-bashing – the aggressive, even extreme lambasting of pollsters and their work – used to be b
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What It’s Like to be a Black Republican in 2020
Sep 24 2020
by Corey D. Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American RepublicansThe 2020 Republican National Convention featured a diverse line-up of speakers, including many Black speakers who trumpeted the Republican Party and its presidential nominee Donald T
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Atonement: What Reparations Can Look Like in 2019
Jun 18 2019
The fundamental purpose for redressing atrocities is to accentuate a common humanity between perpetrator and victims.Roy L. Brooks, author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black ReparationsAn issue sure to be part of the 2020 election cycle is HR 40, the commission to study reparati
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