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Election forecasting

Future Sense

by Christopher Beha,

In February 2017, one month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the New York Times ran a story by Nate Cohn, with the headline president’s approval ratings are down, but how much…

The Improbability Party

by Walter Kirn,

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about…

Frank Luntz, empty vessel

by Jeff Shear,

The miracle that wasn’t

by Rich Galen,

Voting in the Passive Voice

by Christopher Hitchens,

What polling has done to the American democracy

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Art by Steve Brodner,

The Latest on Early Returns

by Eric David Nadler,

An exegesis of the exit poll

Constitutional complaints

by Henry Fairlie,

What ails America

Is Kennedy the one?

by Harper’s Staff,

The people-machine

by Thomas Bruce Morgan,

A grass-roots guide to ’58 and ’60

by William G. (William Graves) Carleton,

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