David Silberthau / November 7, 2012 9:27 pm
...ues over the next four years. One thing I will wager on: Marco Rubio will be on the ticket in 2016. Now for a little retrospective analysis, because there are some important issues that have to be cleared up. Pennsylvania and Minnesota were the Romney campaign’s last gasp, not powerplay. Hurricane Sandy did not determine the race. Romney’s polling momentum had stalled before the hurricane even hit. Which brings up another point: Polls are actuall...
Jamie Boothe / October 30, 2012 2:19 pm
...the New York Times’ allocation of “lean” states and which states are considered tossups; barring a get-out-the-vote miracle or a freak November surprise, Arizona and North Carolina are relatively safe in the Romney column and Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Nevada are relatively safe for Obama (although Nevada is much less safe than the rest). That leaves Wisconsin, Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, and Virginia as...
Taylor Thompson / March 28, 2012 1:15 pm
...or Tampa is nearly over; the fight for the Electoral College is about to begin. And Romney is going to lose. At least, that’s the way it looks if you run the numbers. Setting aside the safe states for both parties (Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan will all go for the Democrats), and assuming that Missouri, Indiana, and North Carolina break Republican, 86 electoral votes will be up for grabs, in seven states: Iowa, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico,...
Ian Crone / December 2, 2007 4:44 am
...nol – thereby driving up the market price of corn – we waste it on an inefficient alternative to oil and, tragically, eventually make food prices in most of the developing world dramatically higher. According to University of Minnesota economists C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer, one SUV gas-tank’s worth of ethanol requires the same amount of corn as would feed a person for a year. Subsidized corn is exported to poor nations to feed hungry popu...
Alper Bahadir / May 2, 2007 9:33 pm
...ge— some thought the shows of sympathy had “gone too far.” “[The assassination] marks a turning point. Dink’s funeral showed how deeply the country is divided,” said Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at the University of Minnesota, who was one of the first Turkish academics to openly call the events of 1915 “genocide.” What Akcam calls the “deep divide” is not limited to the debate over the Armenian genocide. As Turkey continues to shed its...
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