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• Polling South Florida (July 2012)

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  One of the consequences of living in a swing state seems to be you get polled a lot. I’ve had five robopolls asking who I am voting for in the Presidential election in the last week. So far I’ve told the truth (not happy with Obama’s performance as President, definitely [...]

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• Romney “Gets Worse”

  In Mitt Gets Worse: Julie Goodridge the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit that brought same-sex marriage to Massachusetts discusses her interaction with Mitt Romney.

  It’s pretty powerful stuff. Kathleen Henry’s account of Romney’s first support then destruction of projects designed to support gay and lesbian youth is also [...]

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• DNC Promises No More Horse Videos

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  DNC Regrets Offending Ann Romney, No More Horse Videos.

  Given it wasn’t a such a great video, this is no great loss, but I do think the DNC has to get out of the habit of cringing.

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• DNC Being Cute About Romeny’s Failure to Release Tax Returns

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  The DNC calls this video Mitt Dancing Around The Issues Volume I:

  Yes, it’s a bit amusing, but I think that as an ad it’s just a little too cute and a little too inside baseball. Do most swing (and likely low-information) voters know that Romney has only released one [...]

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• McCain 2008 Oppo File on Romney

  Did you know that back in January, Buzzfeed posted the McCain 2008 campaign’s entire 200 page opposition research memo on Romney?

  I didn’t. And I also just found the Nutshell version: Buzzfeed’s Fifty Greatest Hits From John McCain’s Giant Mitt Romney Oppo File.

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• Hardball

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  Obama campaign’s new ad:

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• Creating Miami’s Future as a Technology Center

  If anyone can pull of the trick of turning Miami into a communications technology center, it’s probably Manny Medina (and the smart people on his team).

  Thus, this excerpt from his profile in today’s Herald is the sign of something that could be A Very Big Deal:

  Q: You’re working [...]

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• Romney in a Venn Diagram

  I love this Mitt Romney graphic:

  It’s from Upworthy, via Mitt, Venn and Now, via Crooks & Liars, Is There Anything Funnier Than Romney Surrogates Accusing Obama of Running a Dishonest Campaign?.

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• Random Citation Watch

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  I have a search on Google Scholar that lets me know when a paper of mine has been cited. It’s very interesting to see the odd places my work washes up. But every so often there’s a truly mysterious citation, and today’s is a new contender for the bizzaro record [...]

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• Who (or Rather How & When) the Stock Market Outperforms Other Investments

  This discovery, reported by Kevin Drum is very very odd:

  They examined stock market returns over the past two decades and discovered that virtually all of the excess return occurs in a series of 24-hour periods eight times a year. Take away those 24-hour periods, and stock market returns [...]

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