About a month before the 2016 presidential election, a picture circulated on the internet of a middle-aged female Trump supporter grinning wryly and wearing a handmade shirt giving Trump permission to grab her (in the pursuit of decency, I won’t say where). Continue reading “Not Feeling Stupid: The Root of Trump’s Resilience”
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What Ted Cruz Misunderstands about Peer Pressure
Ted Cruz ran a smart campaign, but it wasn’t smart enough.
In the lead up to the Iowa Caucuses, presidential hopefuls use every trick in the book to turnout their supporters. Ted Cruz’s campaign took this to a new extreme recently by sending personalized “Voting Violation” letters to prospective voters that showed how they, and all their neighbors, had failing voter turnout scores.
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The Idiot-Genius Confidence Reversal
The Idiot-Genius Confidence Reversal Continue reading “The Idiot-Genius Confidence Reversal”
The Hotelling Theory Behind Trump’s Strategy
Imagine you live in a city where all of the attractions are evenly distributed on Main Street, and tourists pick hotels solely based on how close they are to the greatest number of attractions. If you were a hotel magnate, where is the ideal place on Main Street to build a hotel? Continue reading “The Hotelling Theory Behind Trump’s Strategy”
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