Mitt Romney's Big Data Fail and Its Ideological Roots
The GOP’s skepticism of and opposition to science and data in all its forms isn’t just killing them through outliers like Todd Akin—it’s also a critical issue in current and future GOTV efforts.
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The Informational Stress of Being Poor
Having scarce resources means that even the smallest decisions have major ramifications. How does that effect decision-making? Let’s play the Feud (or Angry Birds) to find out.
Rahm Emanuel and David Petraeus
The man that the White House—then Chief-of-Staff Rahm in particular—feared most as a 2012 opponent on the Republican ticket was the brilliant, disciplined general.
Nate Silver on the Election, Pundits, and His Drunk Alter Ego
The New York Times statistician talked to Chicago while promoting his new book, The Signal and the Noise
The Republicans' City Problem
The GOP is having trouble breaking 30 percent of the vote in the nation’s major cities (over 500,000), costing it millions of votes in an increasingly urban nation. It hasn’t always been this way.
Illinois Democrats: Good at Redistricting, Better than Other Democrats
County by county in Illinois, Barack Obama picked up fewer votes in 2012 than in 2008, including in Cook and all the collar counties. But on a Congressional and state level, Illinois Democrats thrived, thanks in part to redistricting. Concerned? There’s an idea, and an app, for that.
SuperPACs' Nouveau Riche Problem
Karl Rove’s much-feared American Crossroads juggernaut was soundly whipped by the SEIU in the 2012 elections, by a score of 70-6. It’s one of many big-money SuperPACs that got thrashed this season. The Citizens United decision poured tons of money into a billion-dollar cycle, but that wasn’t a guarantee anyone would know what to do with it.
Election Night 2012: A Photographer's Timeline
Event photography is neither for the short nor the weak at heart. Nor is it for rapidly-aging 30-somethings who mostly edit for a living.
Mitt Romney Did a Good Job of Being a Bad Candidate
The T-1000 poly-Mitt alloy who lost to Barack Obama last night is wide open to criticism for his Teflon, managerial ideology. But it raises the question if anyone could have done better, including consistently ideological Mitt Romneys from alternate universes.
Election Night 2012: Scenes from Obama's Victory Party
This year’s victory rally was by invitation only, open mostly to campaign staffers and volunteers. Here’s your behind-the-scenes look, including Rahm, Will.i.am, the First Family, and more.