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Cato Daily Podcast - The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Devastating Drug War
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Cato Daily Podcast - Demographics against Republicans on Gay Marriage
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Cato Daily Podcast - ObamaCare Is Still Vulnerable
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election
This week Ruth Alexander looks at the other winner the US elections. Blogger and pioneer of aggregated polling, Nate Silver, predicted the outcome of the vote in every state one better than 2008. Others who have tried similar methods have also done well. Is this the dawn of a new era of poll prediction or just luck? Also, what effect did Hurricane Sandy have on death rates in places it hit and how did they differ from a normal day.
Cato Daily Podcast - Politics Makes Us Worse
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Cato Daily Podcast - Libertarian Ideas in Election 2012
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Cato Daily Podcast - Grading Obama, Congress on Transparency
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Reality of Welfare States
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Is America?s conviction rate really 99.5%?
Conrad Black has claimed that 99.5% of prosecution cases in America end up in convictions. Is it really this high? We try to estimate how this compares to the number of convictions in other parts of the world.