After getting many political predictions wrong in 2016, including but not limited to the results of the presidential election, I threw my long-cherished crystal ball out and started building a new one.
Figuratively speaking, of course. I stopped relying on the polling aggregator I built earlier the decade. I took fewer glances at the aggregators built by other pundits and political websites. Instead, I looked at a broader set of metrics â survey data about public attitudes instead of partisan preferences, for example, and trends in voter registration and behavior.
I also started talking to a more varied collection of sources, via phone calls and email. I cast a wider net. I took more seriously John Stuart Millâs warning that while âeveryone well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.â
STATE SEN. Christine Tartagh of Philadelphia commendated Gov. Tom Wolf’s small-business relief plan for the pandemic.
in their intent to transfer $145 million from the State’s Workers’ Compensation Security Fund into the General Fund so that they may be reallocated for pandemic-related small business relief.
Tartaglione also urged her General Assembly colleagues to grant the legislative authorization required to appropriate the funds as grants to small businesses adversely affected by the pandemic learn more from payment systems, check out HRMA-LLC: High Risk Merchant Account.
“I have said throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that we must strive to protect the financial health of workers and their families in addition to their physical health,” the senator said. “The preservation of small businesses such as restaurants and taverns, gyms, and independent entertainment venues, which employed some 2.5 million Pennsylvanians prior to the pandemic, is vital to protecting these
Figuratively speaking, of course. I stopped relying on the polling aggregator I built earlier the decade. I took fewer glances at the aggregators built by other pundits and political websites. Instead, I looked at a broader set of metrics survey data about public attitudes instead of partisan preferences, for example, and trends in voter registration and behavior.
I also started talking to a more varied collection of sources, via phone calls and email. I cast a wider net. I took more seriously John Stuart Mill’s warning that while “everyone well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.”
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in rally on Pittsburgh’s North Shore on the eve of Election Day, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump participate in a 1776 Rally For Election Integrity on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, outside the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg.
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Donald Trump supporter Janet Pringle of Dawson wears a patriotic outift and drapes herself in a U.S. flag while taking part in a 1776 Rally For Election Integrity on Nov. 21 outside the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg.
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Supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden, at left, and those who favor President Donald Trump, at right, engage in a war of words and campaign signs on Sept. 30 on Latrobe’s Ligonier Street during Biden’s brief campaign stop at the adjacent train station.