In the weeks ahead, we’re sure to hear about dramatic results! or shocking details! from presidential or statewide polls. Over at FiveThirtyEight, they’ve 13 Tips For Reading General Election Polls Like A Pro. All thirteen are instructive, but tips 1 and 2 are especially useful guidelines: Beware of polls tagged “bombshells” or “stunners.” Any poll described thusly is…
Presidential race 2016
Politics, Poll, Presidential race 2016, US Senate Race 2016, Wisconsin
Marquette Law Poll Results (Late August Edition)
by JOHN ADAMS •
The latest Marquette Law School poll results are out, and here are a few key findings from the 8.25.16 to 8.28.16 poll (the full results will be available online later this afternoon). Clinton-Trump, Among LV: Among likely voters in WI, Clinton 45%, Trump 42%, with 10% supporting neither. #mulawpoll — MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) August 31, 2016…
Johnson-Weld, Libertarians, Politics, Presidential race 2016
Johnson-Weld 2016 Video
by JOHN ADAMS •
Politics, Poll, Presidential race 2016, US Senate Race 2016
Latest Marquette Law Poll Results
by JOHN ADAMS •
The latest Marquette Law School poll results are out, and here are a few key findings from the 8.4.16 to 8.7.16 poll (the full results will be available online later this afternoon). Occasionally, I’ve heard some Democrats complain about pollster Charles Franklin (notably Ed Garvey among them), but Franklin’s surveys have had a generally good…
Libertarians, Politics, Presidential race 2016
One Day
by JOHN ADAMS •
Poll, Presidential race 2016
Friday Poll: Will You Watch the Republican and Democratic National Conventions?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians, Politics, Presidential race 2016
Johnson-Weld 2016
by JOHN ADAMS •
Occasionally, someone will ask me how I’ll be voting this fall. I’m a libertarian, from an old libertarian family, and it’s an easy choice for me: Johnson-Weld 2016. Here’s a video in which Gov. Johnson and Gov. Weld introduce themselves. They offer America a principled alternative, and would assure us a government, among other things,…
Politics, Presidential race 2016
GOP in MKE: Tonight at the Milwaukee Theatre
by JOHN ADAMS •
POLITICO has answers to likely questions about tonight’s debate: Everything you need to know about Tuesday’s Republican debate. Here are the two important answers about the main debate (an undercard debate will begin at 6 PM CST): When and how long is the debate? The prime-time debate will last two hours and begins at 9…
Gov. Walker, Politics, Presidential race 2016, Press
Last Night’s GOP Debate
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’m not a major-party voter, but like millions I have watched the GOP presidential debates (and will watch the Democrats’ debates, too). There’s a lot to learn from watching the candidates, for all the showiness, the pre-debate theatrics, etc. The key point about all these encounters is that they are intra-party affairs – it’s a debate…
Presidential race 2016
Meanwhile, From Mr. Trump’s Campaign
by JOHN ADAMS •
Education, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Presidential race 2016, University
Gov. Walker, In-State and Out-of-State
by JOHN ADAMS •
Two posts about Gov. Walker this week, one on how he’s come to propose a budget with so many education cuts, and the other on his considerable fundraising potential as a national candidate, are especially informative. Over at Urban Milwaukee, Bruce Murphy write about Waker’s budget proposal, in Why Walker Had to Cut UW Funding:…