@T.E.D. after doing that math - Silver probably forgot about VPs taking over after dead or impeached presidents. He'd still be wrong without them but considerably less so
Although counting more recent time frames: in the past 30 years incumbents have rocked the vote (other than Trump). Bush Sr is a legit loss but Ford was hardly a real incumbent coming off an impeached president. And then we have to go back all the way to Hoover, who was struggling with the Great Depression so his loss was baked in to the fundamentals
But of course ignoring context to come up with a contrarian take based solely on qual data is very Nate
Under Johnson, no one with wealth over __________ recorded on the 1860 census was automatically pardoned.
Group of answer choices
$20,000
$40,000
$10,000
$30,000
Yeah, I fear he may have come in with a predetermined point, and then saw what he wanted to see in the data. I'm seeing rather a lot of behavior out of him in the last few years that looks like that. Kind of disappointing from the guy who pioneered popular data-driven analysis.
One of the things that fueled the Nazi Racial Ideology was the belief in the "Ideal Aryan." Hitler claimed that the Germans were descendants of the Aryan Race, and fed this motive into the minds of the Nazis and your daily German as well. But my question is, was this a fact that Hitler and the Ge...
@TheHistorian Taking a quick look at researching this and turns out there was a thing in heraldry to signify "this is not a place of honor" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abatement_(heraldry)
Huh. I'm not as interested in that stuff as many here, but I take a perverse enjoyment in that bit.
It looks like you wouldn't find a lot of historical examples of this, as they say displaying your coat-of-arms wasn't compulsory, so people who received dishonorable marks on theirs likely didn't do so.
Under Johnson, no one with wealth over __________ recorded on the 1860 census was automatically pardoned.
Group of answer choices
$20,000
$40,000
$10,000
$30,000
