2016 Postmortem

But I remember mentioning that book in my early days on this site in fall 2002, and many posters here were familiar with it, and the theories. Good threads. I was impressed because on other sites a mention of that book had drawn a blank.

Situational influence always fascinates me, in sports and politics. When I entered a 16-man election betting pool in 1996 one of the first things I noticed when studying trends was that the white vote had been declining considerably each cycle, as a percentage of the electorate, but not enough to become decisive or a prevailing theme.