Just got back from drinking with a group of Democrats who supported several different primary candidates. The guy who worked with Clark's campaign was making the point that Iowa was a total disaster for Clark. Clark was attractive because of his military background, his southern roots, and his outsider status. How did Iowa go?
1. Military guy (Kerry)
2. Southern guy (Edwards)
3. Outsider (Dean)
Lots of other internal Democratic Party gossip was discussed. Good times all around.
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My other blogs
I've blogged in many different places. Here are some of them:
I'm very proud of War or Car, where I posted a new thing you could buy for the price of the Iraq War everyday, for 121 days. This was during the 2008 elections, and I was glad that the antiwar candidate won. The site got its name because you could buy every American household a Toyota Prius for the $3 trillion price of the war. Or you could buy the Irish their annual beer intake, in Guinness, for a millennium. Or you could buy all the world's pandas their own personal stealth bombers!
Probably my greatest era of internet awesomeness was guestblogging for Ezra Klein long before he achieved his current superstardom at Vox. My posts there are pretty scattered, so they'll be hard to find. My work for Ezra catapulted me into other opportunities like filling in for Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly. After that from 2008 to 2015, my friend Nick Beaudrot and I wrote a blog called Donkeylicious. As the name suggests, it was largely about Democratic politics.
During the 2012 elections, I created a little blog called VoteSeeing that tabulated election predictions and graded predictors on how well they did. The folks at Daily Kos Elections won the prediction contest, with Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight a close second. Shortly afterward, a group of philosophers at a blog called NewAPPS got me to put up a few posts for them.
This post at the Philosophers' Cocoon has more about my job at the National University of Singapore, where I'm a philosophy professor.
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2 comments:
Looks like they were right when they said, "the South will rise again." Maybe both parties should look for new bellwether states below the Mason-Dixon line.
I certainly hope the South rises again! At least, in the sense that I was an Edwards guy in the primaries, and I still am for '08.
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