There's an admirable and unencumbered purity to high school campaigning.
52 days out from the election, I'm thinking about the kid who ran for my high school student council and his campaign speech was coming out on stage in a black suit/black shirt/red tie, twirl devil sticks, shout, "Vote for Satan!" and walk off the stage. He really was ahead of the political curve.
I really don't know. My guess is that the overlap between people who would question election integrity and the people who think the photos of her rally crowds are fake is non-zero.
Thank you. This would seem to moderate the strength of the narrative that Trump not holding rallies in swing states will significantly hurt him, and that Harris holding lots of rallies gives her an advantage over him.
Is there evidence that holding a rally in a swing state positively affects the candidate's chances of winning the state? If so, how strong is the evidence, and how big is the effect?
Much of the current moral panic around kids and technology, or technology in schools, is grounded a pretty simple claim: "Kids today should have the same kind of childhood and education as their parents." But that's not an argument, it's nostalgia. www.techdirt.com/202...
I recognize why some parents are worried about screen time and the use of technology in the classroom. But isn’t the better idea to teach kids how to use it properly, rather than banning it altoget…
The best way to follow American politics is to read coverage of the election while listening to the Mr. Robot soundtrack.
The Taylor Swift endorsement itself is likely to have a smaller electoral impact election than the enthusiastic coverage of it might indicate. But it does tie into a larger story about young people feeling jazzed about this election in a way many of them never have before, and that's a big deal.
We like what we view as good about our own cultural ways, and are inclined to ignore what's bad or harmful. This means not only that "the kids today are worse than when *I* was a kid" tends to mistake "different" for "worse," but it also fails to see all the ways the kids are *better* than we were.
My most radical political position is that homework is stupid, giving a lot of it as a learning tool is a crutch for ineffective teachers (and an ineffective tool), and making teens spend hours a night doing homework is disrespectful of their time and developmental needs.