This week, the Center for Politics' "Crystal Ball" released the latest iteration of Professor Alan Abramowitz's "Time for Change" model, based on the past 16 presidential elections (dating to 1948).

One of the first things I bought when I moved to college was a rice cooker. It was simple, the kind that costs 20 bucks at any old appliance or homeware store and has exactly two settings: on and off.

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Sixth, you have to accept that anything that happens past the end of the second quarter of an election year matters only at the margin. If the economy absolutely collapses, and a previously popular ...