I analyzed the Democratic candidates’ ability to give straight answers to questions during the NBC debate on October 30, 2007. I have done this before with the Republican candidates in their third debate and the Democrats in their second, third, and fourth debates. There have been a few debates between then and now that [...]

[Read more →]

As I suffer through the increasing obfuscation of the Bush administration, I’m looking for a candidate who can give a clear answer to a clear question. I’ve had enough ridiculous parsing of every word that emanates from the White House and the tortuous Orwellian logic used to try to convince me that ignoring the Constitution [...]

[Read more →]

The YouTube Democratic debate analysis is in! I analyzed the candidates’ ability to give a straight answer to each question during the debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate and the Democrats in their second and third debates. I don’t evaluate the merits [...]

[Read more →]

Jim Gilmore, Republican presidential candidate from Virginia, has withdrawn his candidacy for the nomination. He cites his late entry in the race and “front loaded nature of the primary schedule” for his withdrawal.
Notably, he comes right out and says that it takes “years of preparation to put in place both the political and financial infrastructure [...]

[Read more →]

Speculative Bubble did a great job of aggregating all the presidential candidates’ blogs into a single page. Or at least the ones with an RSS feed. It’s a great way to compare the talking points the campaigns are pushing side by side. It also provides a nice view of how active these blogs really [...]

[Read more →]

I analyzed the Democrat candidates’ ability to answer a question the most recent debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate and the Democrats in their second debate. If you’re looking for the analysis of the YouTube debate, you can find it here.
Who among [...]

[Read more →]

This on Think Progress:
Yesterday on MSNBC’s Hardball, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) defended Ann Coulter’s attacks on John Edwards, including that she wishes he “had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
He said that Elizabeth Edwards’s calls to stop making “personal attacks” against her family were attempts to “silence conservative voices.” He added that Coulter “is [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve created a consolidated list of the official presidential candidate campaign websites on a new page. You can either look for the link in the pages section of the sidebar or you can just click here.

Sphere: Related Content

[Read more →]

As promised, I analyzed the Democrat candidates’ ability to respond to direct questions with clear answers in their second debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate.
I wanted to discover who among them is most likely to answer the question asked, who prefers [...]

[Read more →]

I analyzed the Republican candidates’ ability to respond to direct questions with clear answers in the third debate. The results were surprising and revealing. I’m even handing out awards based on their performance!
The goal was to determine who among them is most likely to answer the question asked, who prefers giving hollow answers by speaking [...]

[Read more →]