The problem this year is that there are fewer good polls than in past years (with news organizations trying to cut costs and people increasingly looking to aggregators and models like FiveThirtyEight anyway), so Silver is filling the void by plugging in data even from popup firms that have no track record and agendas…

No, he didn't, which is why he still makes the top 10. And for all my unease over the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I have to admit I'm glad I wasn't the one having to make that decision. The force depletion projections for Operation Downfall are incredibly sobering to read even now.

Hooray, thanks for getting that They Might Be Giants song stuck in my head.

Truman's in my top 10 for sure. There is the whole matter of him nuking two civilian targets, though.

Hey now, Lost in the Dream is a great album.

William Van Buren is so unmemorable, his real name was actually Martin Van Buren!

Not a ton, but Massachusetts is a populous, industrial, reasonably diverse state, and he also had experience putting together a pretty successful Winter Olympics. I wasn't concerned about his lack of experience, just his retrograde politics and the fact that he came off as a corporate hatchet man devoid of concern or…

FDR would rank higher (maybe top of the list) if not for the whole Japanese-American internment thing. Trying to pack the Supreme Court wasn't a good look, either.

I'd go with 2012. Romney's problem wasn't that he was incompetent or inexperienced, he was just a tone-deaf muppet whose social views were out of step with the electorate.

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2. Roosevelt I
3. Roosevelt II
4. Eisenhower
5. Obama

Not sure I buy that, personally, but if there's a state where it's happening, Florida seems like it'd be the place — lots of Cuban Republicans, a demographic that Trump has really not impressed.

I don't know what's the deal with Arnold, but there were a couple of hints dropped tonight that Ford might not be (entirely) human. The first was when he asked Dolores if he remembered him the way he used to be — I suppose he could have meant "as that younger CGI version of Anthony Hopkins", but the implication seemed…

If the Clinton camp is sitting on one last, devastating oppo bomb, I have to think it's Russia. The characteristically cautious Clinton calmly calling Trump a puppet of the Kremlin ("No puppet! No puppet! You're the puppet!") during the third debate — I have to think she wouldn't have used that language unless she had…

I miss the days when idiot presidential brothers confined themselves to making shitty beer.

Comey at the king, you best not miss.

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She should tell Comey to delete his account.

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It's a nothingburger.