Headline Reaction (“No Joke” Edition)
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Via ABC News: Punxsutawney Phil Isn’t Always Right.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003.
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Is it still winter? It’s 82F right now and got as low as 42F back in December. Whatever variety of Prunus they’ve got down here–cherry, plum, almond?–well, they’re in flower already.
Water temperatures are still in the 60s, though, so it’s a bit too cool for the beach.
Maybe Phil needs some company, like a boa constrictor, to keep him on his toes…
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Actually, I misspoke. It did get down to 32. Farmers were figuratively sweating a freeze for one night.
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@John Burgess: Where is here? In Daejeon today the high will get all the way up to 33 (for the first time in 6 days), so our winter is doing just fine, thank you.
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