Author Archives | E.E. Tyson
E.E. Tyson was a carpenter, a factory worker and a machinist after dropping out of high school. He started a machine shop business, grew it for a few years, then sold it and started a graphic design business which became a political consulting business. He fundraised and created direct mail for local, state and federal elections in Kansas. Nineteen years ago he moved to New Mexico, and moved out of direct involvement in electoral politics to take a job as an administrator at a not-for-profit education institution. For several years he has been caring for elderly relatives, building a house, and going back to school. All that’s over for now, so he’s back to messing about in electoral politics, although no one is paying him yet. Follow him on Twitter @eetys0n.
Oh what a tangled web panel we weave
The U.S. political polling universe shifted a bit this past week when CBS and The New York Times decided to radically depart from their reliance on traditional live-interview telephone polling. In collaboration with the British marketing survey firm YouGov, CBS and The New York Times switched from random-digit dialing to a much more difficult to understand methodology for their political polling...
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24. July 2014
We have elections that are mostly controlled by two major parties and the partisans of each who function to organize policy arguments in our representative democracy.
This process has its critics. Complaints surface here and there in the New Mexico commentariat. Ideas for improvement – suggestions like open primaries – are championed.
But some of the arguments around the issues of voting and parties and elections and partisanship need to be chopped down or trimmed back before we can get on with a more reasoned discussion of any changes...
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31. July 2014
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