https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/04/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-texas-senate-2018-election-222188

Hmm. Have there been articles like this all throughout the campaign that I’ve missed? Or is this just the media being useless?

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24572/russias-dry-dock-accident-could-have-far-larger-repercussions-than-a-damaged-carrier

Interesting.

«Russia’s biggest dry dock has completely sunk and it’s debatable if it has anything that could fully replace it anytime in the foreseeable future.»

O may thy soldiers, faithful and bold,
fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
and win with them the victor’s crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

It’s just allegory, of course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/trump-women.html

«“I didn’t vote for him for his character,” said Charlene Brown, 57, a real estate agent from Indianapolis who attended the president’s rally there on Friday. “I voted for him for his positions.”»

Policy positions matter more than character. I agree, actually.

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-need-a-systematic-polling-error-to-win-the-house/

I hope nobody has time to read this because they’re all out voting.

«The model then has 34 seats between its three most competitive categories: “lean Democratic” (8 seats), “toss-up” (16 seats) and “lean Republican” (10 seats). If Republicans win 24 of those 34 seats — assuming everything else went to form — they’ll keep the House.

How hard is that? Because of the possibility of a systematic polling error, it isn’t really that hard at all. If there’s a typical polling error of 2 to 3 percentage points and it works in Republicans’ favor, the House would be a toss-up. We might not even know the winner for several days as everyone waits for additional mail ballots to be returned from California. Thus, the Lite forecast gives Republicans a 2 in 9, or 22 percent, chance of keeping the House based on the possibility of a systematic polling error. Their chances are 18 percent in Deluxe and 15 percent in our Classic version, meanwhile.

That isn’t a great position, but those are real, tangible chances.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/us/delta-black-doctor-racial-profiling.html

You would think, in this age of Total Information Awareness, that steward(esse)s would be given a list of known medical professionals (and posers) at boarding time. Especially when seating is known ahead of time, Delta.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html

This looks like a repeat of a story I posted a while ago, but maybe there are more details (https://herereadthisarticle.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-of-chinese-agents-foreign-policy/). (I haven’t fully read it yet.)

«From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to its secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources.»

«Nearly 1,500 readers replied, from every state but Alaska and Vermont. Hundreds wrote long essays about their families and communities. They go to prominent megachurches as well as small Southern Baptist, nondenominational and even mainline Protestant congregations. Some said they have left evangelicalism altogether. We read every submission and spent many hours interviewing respondents. Here’s what we learned: Young evangelicals are questioning the typical ties between evangelicalism and Republican politics. Many said it had caused schisms within their families. And many described a real struggle with an administration they see as hostile to immigrants, Muslims, L.G.B.T.Q. people, and the poor. They feel it reflects a loss of humanity, which conflicts with their spiritual call.»

Source: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/the-new-york-times-is-on-pace-to-earn-more-than-600-million-in-digital-this-year-halfway-to-its-ambitious-goal/

«It’s doing fine. Take 98 percent of whatever energy you devote to worrying about the future of the Times and rechannel it into worrying about your local daily, which is very likely approaching existential crisis.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/trumps-race-baiting-midterms-ad-could-backfire/574627/

«Just because it’s a desperation play doesn’t mean it won’t work.»