Real Numbers and Other Musings

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ [2/18 note: There is some debate whether Portuguese-American Albert Coutinho should be counted as a Latino legi...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Recent hearings held by the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission in Newark and Jersey City were domi...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ The New Jersey census data has arrived. Now the process of legislative redistricting can begin in earnest. If...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Today, Governor Chris Christie inserted himself into the national political debate. It wasn’t on repeal of Pre...

This post originally appeared as an Op-Ed in the Star-Ledger . UPDATE: Commission public hearings announced: 1/12-Rutgers Law School in Ne...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ It seems fitting that Chris Christie’s first year as governor wraps up with a snowstorm. That’s how it started...

With the loss of a House seat, members of New Jersey's delegation will each represent 56,000 more people than they do now. Have our Con...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ The national attention on New Jersey’s governor has taken a new turn – now portraying him as the anti-Obama. I...

The clock is ticking for NJN. New Jersey Network. The New Jersey Channel. JerseyVision (yes, it was once called that). Forty years of broad...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ What did we learn from this election? Two things: - Internal campaign polls that make their way into the publi...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Our latest Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Press Media Poll asked New Jerseyans how much they trust the...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Much has been made of New Jersey Governor Christ Christie’s initial harangue over the state’s loss of Race to t...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ I recently wrote that a publicly released campaign poll memo was from a message testing survey, with the resul...

Cross-posted at New Jersey Newsroom One of the hardest things for a president to do is to stay in touch with the concerns of everyday folk. ...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ . Numbers matter. Poll results, budget deficits, health statistics. Attach a number to any issue and it becom...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ . The political blogosphere recently took note of a poll in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional district purporting ...

So what’s the deal with the New Jersey homebuyer tax credit ? This program would give homebuyers in the state a tax credit worth up to $15,...

This originally appeared as a guest column on Pollster.com . The motto of Nate Silver’s website, www.fiverthirtyeight.com , is “Politics Don...