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...oracle, accurately predicting the results of nine out of 12 races last week.But the Web site’s new “Election Pulse” also had a few “Dewey Defeats Truman” moments. For example, an independent candidate for Texas governor, Kinky Friedman, won 66.9 percent of the Facebook vote—but garnered just 13 percent at the polls. Facebook’s new “Pulse” feature allowed members to support candidates by visiting profiles and clicking a button, much as users can “friend?...
...you’ll be just one flip away from seeing a familiar face: that of Alex C. Math ’10. At the end of his senior year of high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Math, now a freshman in Matthews, was interviewed and trailed by Devin Friedman, GQ’s senior writer and an alumnus of Shaker Heights High School. And when a photographer showed up at his door to follow him and his prom date around for the evening, Math was excited about his newfound VIP status. “We had a limo, went...
...broad reconfigurations but of petty technicalities. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker has too much faith in science’s divinity to risk exposing students to a “Reason and Faith” requirement. Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 acts predictably—though not irrationally of course—when he demands more stature in the curriculum for the poor, scorned, and maligned discipline of economics. Professor of Biology and of Geology Charles R. Marshall, who teaches Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives...
...That leaves the wild card of the election: Jewish cowboy Kinky Friedman, 61, the singer/songwriter/novelist who is trying to recreate a southern-fried version of wrestler Jesse Ventura's 1998 unlikely gubernatorial win in Minnesota. Friedman, also running as an independent, has outpolled both Bell and Strayhorn at times, but his bad prep and repetitive one-liners ("Why the hell not?" is his campaign slogan) are beginning to seem stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw...
...recent polls, the Democrat Bell has picked up steam, Friedman has started to fade fast and some 20% of voters remain undecided - an unusually high number for so late in the race. The problem for Perry's opponents is that Texans traditionally vote straight ticket 60% of the time. This year, the entrance of two independents into the race, however, has thrown old political calculations to the wind. "If this was a two-person race, he'd probably be in trouble, but as long as there's a four-person race, Perry wins with unimpressive numbers," says UT's Buchanan...