For those of you who prefer your Election Setup Pieces in spoken word format
Here’s my in-depth, 20 minute interview for Worldview, the global news magazine show on WBEZ (Chicagoan for NPR). If you’ve been reading the blog these last few days,...
Politics
Ad War Update: The Last Chapter
Ninety six days after it launched, the official campaign is now over. Last night, the candidates made their final pitches to voters on the streets and on TV....
Capriles as Juan de Austria
My last post before the election over at Foreign Policy. As Quico said, it’s difficult to write many of these without sounding repetitive. On this one, I gave...
Lloviendo Sobre Mojado Chronicles
I had great fun writing my election Set-Up piece for The New Republic. It’s tough writing so many of these without overlap, though. To keep it fresh, this...
Bedstemoderen har født
A treat for our Danish readers – wait, we have Danish readers!?
Appolling!
Over on YVPolis, Iñaki Sararzazu has a last word on Venezuelan public opinion research in 2012, and that word is: appolling! Getting beyond the ulcer-inducing guessing game about...
Believe
As this electrifying Presidential campaign season comes to a close, this will be the last post in favor of Henrique Capriles, per the CNE’s rules. I leave you...
Safety in numbers
My latest piece over at Americas Quarterly. I’m actually … kind of pleased with how it came out.
Final Consultores 21 Projections
Let’s just take a deep breath and realize that a final projection from a single polling shop – even a good one – is just a data point....
Faces and Voices of an Election
I loved Portuguese photographer Eduardo Leal’s project, “Faces and Voices of an Election”: a strongly visual approximation to the story of Sunday’s vote. I had fun trying to...
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