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Real Time Economics (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 14 times,” Macroeconomic Advisers said. One of those times was in 1968, when the model predicted Hubert Humphrey would hold the White House for the Democrats but Richard Nixon was elected. The other time in 2000, the model correctly predicted George W. Bush would win the election, but it said the incumbent party would lose the popular vote. Despite losing the election, Al Gore took...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... Kennedy's assassination, many of his and Senator Eugene McCarthy's supporters refused to back Hubert Humphrey, which gave us Richard Nixon, a prolonged Vietnam War and Watergate. And we can thank all the self-righteous radical purists who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 for eight years of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, soaring energy prices, a disastrous economic policy, governmental...
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Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... only exception is 1968, when the barometer (calibrated to range between +100 and 100) gave Hubert Humphrey a wafer-thin advantage of +2; he lost, with a popular vote deficit of less than 1 percentage point. The barometer not only picks winners but pretty accurately points to winning margins, too. In 1980, Jimmy Carter had the biggest postwar negative reading (66); Ronald Reagan beat...
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
To Nanny, or not to Nanny, that is the question. (And sad to say, I think I know the answer, as does Hubert Humphrey.)...
