Best of OTB - May 22, 2003
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James Joyner | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
Two posts stand out from my stroll down memory lane of four years ago (a rather light posting day):
“MUSICAL HANGING CHADS?” examines a scandal in the voting in the “American Idol” final, in which Ruben Studdard beat Clay Aiken by a slim margin.
In “HANDICAPPING 2004,” I rebut the extant conventional wisdom that President Bush was a “shoe-in” for re-election because of the national security issue. I was quite prescient in noting that the Democrats could largely neutralize the issue if they went away from Howard Dean and instead chose a John Kerry type. I was much less prescient, however, in my advice that, “The way for the Democrats to win is to neutralize the issue as best they can rather than carping at the way Bush is handling the war.”
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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