Silence, but plans

The few of you who read this blog are well aware that my posts are, shall we say, less than frequent.  Most of the time, that’s because I find that someone(s) else has already written pretty much what I might have.  Usually, that other essay is far more eloquent, far more pointed, far better than anything I might have said.

It’s not just that.  In face-to-face interactions with local colleagues, chiefly at the regular Tuesday DrinkingLiberally gathering, quite a few indicate that this particular juncture has presented them with relatively few issues of real import.  Maybe it’s the post-election/pre-110th Congress breather.

Anyway… I do have several ideas running around inside my head, longterm projects that don’t necessarily connect with the events of a particular day.  They’re generally of two types—analysis of electoral datasets, and wonky thought-pieces.  Among the topics I’m hoping to present some time soon:

• A simulated application of IRV, using a recent local election as the dataset.
• Examination of national House of Representatives voting patterns as a proxy for presidential voting outcomes.
• Comparison of the structure and composition of the two major parties in the state of Washington.
• Proposals for changing the way some local offices might be elected.
• Detailed analysis of the 2006 WA-08 results, particularly in relationship to the state legislative races in the same area.

That’s a lot of material.  Will I actually complete all of those projects?  Given my prior history, you’re probably not expecting much out of this ambitious agenda.  To be honest, I’m not sure how many of them I’ll actually produce.  But I’m well on the way to working through some of them, and the ideas for others have been percolating for months if not years.  We’ll see…

Comments

It looks like you are well on your way to becoming a political scientists. These are the kinds of questions asked by some of my collegues who study campaigns and elections.

I"d like to find someone willing to put statistical and analytical skills to use examining long-term weather (warming) patterns and the incidence of HRs in mlb.

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