Colorado Pursuit

01/20/2021

Time for a fresh start!

11/20/2020

LISTEN: How did America's push for freer markets in developing countries play out? (In short - mostly well.)

‎Show The Indicator from Planet Money, Ep Evaluating the Washington Consensus - Nov 17, 2020

11/14/2020

Take a moment to catch up on ballot controversies.

Republicans and the Trump campaign allege voting irregularities as media organization from Fox News to The Associated Press still project Biden won election.

11/07/2020

All this uproar over a brief reporting typo.

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

11/06/2020

11/06/2020

The second map is a better representation of the population.

11/03/2020

Contrary to popular perception, pollsters predicted the 2016 popular vote fairly accurately. The RCP polling average had Clinton winning the popular vote by 3.2%. Her actual result was +2.1%. However, the pollsters were wrong about Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Trump swept these three key battleground states with a total of 78,000 votes. What put Trump over the top were people who decided in the final days of the election. Most polls did not capture this surge because they were already completed.

Polls also underweighted voters without a college degree, which underrepresented Clinton support in the Southwest and Trump support in the Rust Belt. Most pollsters have adjusted for college education in 2020.

11/02/2020

It is time for a major rethink on conservatism. Here's how we will define it in the post-Trump era.

10/21/2020

Here is a great example of the brokenness of our tax system.
From 2019, a happier time -

Amazon paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2018. On top of that, the company also received a multi-million dollar tax rebate from the federal government. How ...

10/17/2020

“…scientists were able to deduce that turtles have a 50 per cent probability of death after consuming 14 pieces.”

Study suggests younger reptiles are particularly vulnerable to pollution

10/07/2020

12 Reasons Trump Is Not Conservative
Article 9: Trump Withdraws America From Global Leadership

By Nils Bergesen