Stefan Sharkansky, reckless blogger?
I don't believe that a person's record of successfully predicting the outcome of election challenges is necessarily relevant to their fitness as a citizen blogger, and no, I wasn't looking for this sort of thing - a fellow blogger was the one who first brought it to my attention.
But Stefan Sharkansky's prediction from June of 2005 is interesting in its own way. David Goldstein, fellow writer, political analyst, and comedian par exellence, sent me links to two posts during the heat of the election challenge trial last June and told me I had to read them. Some excerpts:
Again, this doesn't necessarily reflect on his fitness as a reputable citizen blogger (well, maybe it does - you decide!), but his blog traffic is likely to face some ups and downs over the next seven months.
In the interest of having reliable analysis out there, I hope Matt Rosenberg does most of the future predicting for unSoundPolitics.
Editor's Note: Not funny? Sorry. Stefan's just not very good at humor and as a consequence it's kind of hard to turn any of his material into a really good joke. I tried my best.
But Stefan Sharkansky's prediction from June of 2005 is interesting in its own way. David Goldstein, fellow writer, political analyst, and comedian par exellence, sent me links to two posts during the heat of the election challenge trial last June and told me I had to read them. Some excerpts:
He [Bridges] will either use the proportional analysis as proposed by the Republicans or punt on the issue by using an even more generous standard for tossing out illegal votes that will help the Republicans. I believe the Democrats have little credibility with the judge on this issue, and only the Republicans have given him a practical (if imperfect) path for moving forward. (June 4th)What's interesting is that the prediction was apparently made on the same day that Stefan left for Wenatchee. Perhaps he was predicting carelessly because he was distracted thinking about his travels. (I mean, how could anyone have made such a silly prediction after witnessing what happened in that trial?)
As I've mentioned before, I'm predicting that Judge Bridges will set aside the election. (June 5th)
Again, this doesn't necessarily reflect on his fitness as a reputable citizen blogger (well, maybe it does - you decide!), but his blog traffic is likely to face some ups and downs over the next seven months.
In the interest of having reliable analysis out there, I hope Matt Rosenberg does most of the future predicting for unSoundPolitics.
Editor's Note: Not funny? Sorry. Stefan's just not very good at humor and as a consequence it's kind of hard to turn any of his material into a really good joke. I tried my best.
