Today: "wow, the polls were pretty far off, maybe we should have taken them with a grain of salt."
Next Tuesday: "Here's Nate Entrails with a deep dive analysis of the latest tracking numbers from the NBS-Squippippinac Approve-O-Meter"
I guess it's time for my quadrennial rant on sampling statistics.
Sampling statistics have a long and proud history in all kinds of applications, from medical studies to manufacturing to agriculture, and yes, for a while, in politics.
Also golden times for people in the Studio Spaceship Command Jumbotron Telestrator biz
I kinda miss the days when it was one guy behind a steelcase office desk in a plaid suit with a big condenser microphone and a paper flip chart, and they told you who won before 10 pm
More astonishing facts for the New York Times' highly sophisticated and informed readership
I kinda hope Trump wins the popular vote in a landslide and Biden wins the Electoral vote, just to watch the history-erasing Year Zero rhetorical chaos
*Moon Equipment is a speed & dress-up accessory company started by Dean Moon in the 1950s, famous for their aluminum fuel tanks, wheel covers, and handsome fleet of yellow race cars. The Mooneyes Special '32 Ford 3 window above is sporting "full Moon" wheel covers.
After my macabre Halloween junkyard car ID thread yesterday, let's get back to some sweet family album shots- like this leggy Dallas lass and a '72 AMC Gremlin. The mall hair and leggings put the photo squarely around 1982.