I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

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

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

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

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.