If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

I've just always been a bit of a dork.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.