A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

Voters' memories will fade some.