Time to take a break from national and viral politics to logic-check a local issue on the ballot in my home state of Massachusetts. Massachusetts publishes a detailed voter guide that it mails to every...
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On a recent drive, my son introduced me to the phrase which headlines this post, which reminded me that one of the great beauties of language, and a key pillar of verbal humor, is ambiguity. “British...
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While I had anticipated that this year’s election would be divisive and ugly, I still assumed that the rhetoric in which a heated campaign would take place would fall into conventional categories described in...
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When it comes to debates, voters across the political spectrum are generally united in their disapproval of what goes on when candidates gather together in front of a live audience and TV cameras to confront...
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The one campaign event I saw during my visit to New Hampshire last weekend was a John Kasich Town Hall event held in Milford where about 200 people showed up to politely grill the candidate. Kasich, a former...
Learn MoreOne of the few election artifacts we’ve not yet taken a look at are actual campaign issues, partly because we have been analyzing rhetoric the candidates use to avoid direct discussion of those issues,...
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