Statistics require attention to detail. Early Tuesday morning, with the Pennsylvania primary coming up, the idea of predicting the outcome based on a simple linear formula built from regression data on race of the states having voted up to that point came to me. I pulled my data from my email account since I wasn't... Read More

I just returned from the Kansas caucus. I'm in the third district, by far the most liberal of the state's four. The geographically diminutive district encompasses two-and-a-half counties, biting in to the only two counties in the entire state that went for Kerry in '04. The third county, Johnson, is not only the state's most... Read More