Monthly Archives: October 2009

The A.D.D. Right

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Nate Silver, in a post asking how Democrats regained the momentum on health care, makes an interesting observation: [T]he tea party/town hall movement that dominated the headlines in August is at this stage somewhat immature, with a lot of sound and fury but not so much focus — sort of where liberals were at in 2002/03 before the failures of… Read more »

Pondering BCS at-large candidates

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In an article I linked to earlier, ESPN’s Ted Miller wonders whether Saturday’s USC-Oregon clash will be “the sort of contest where two teams play so impressively that even the loser becomes a top candidate for an at-large BCS bowl berth.” Miller is really asking the wrong question. BCS at-large berths aren’t determined by one team’s “impressive” losing performance in… Read more »