Michael Barone, One-Time “Great Election Analyst,” R.I.P.

By Nicholas Stix

Ten days ago, my sometimes colleague, Steve Sailer, discussed republican Michael Barone’s analysis of the 2022 mid-term elections.

Barone: “However, it also signaled a residual republican strength. republican house candidates had a hard time dislodging democrats in marginal districts. But relatively few were weighted down by highly publicized endorsements of Donald Trump’s backward-looking insistence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen; the few identified with that view ran significantly behind the many who didn’t.…

“In 2012, democrats’ popular vote edge owed much to heavy black turnout to reelect the first black president. But many of those votes came in overwhelmingly black districts and did nothing to elect democrats elsewhere.”

N.S.: But many of those votes came in overwhelmingly black districts, with more “votes” than voters, and did nothing to elect democrats elsewhere.

I fixed it for Big Steal-denier Barone, who is anything but a “great election analyst.”

Maybe, to be charitable, he was once great.

There are certain truths that are non-negotiable. Deny them, and you destroy your ability to honestly deal with anything related to the issue at hand.

I have stacks of books by education “experts” who either explicitly deny the very existence of “IQ” or “g,” or who act as if neither concept existed, and yet who talk about improving children’s school performance.

Likewise, I have stacks of books that promote the fakestats popularized by “America’s top cop,” Bill Bratton, which spread around the country through Bratton and his former aides.

And it only gets worse, both in the individual and the social sense. Every week, the msm get their dnc talking points, and declare yet another hoax to be simply a matter of “following the science,” or otherwise immune to questions: the George Floyd case, the Ahmaud Arbery case, covid, etc. Meanwhile, we must not raise issues that tptb are not raising: e.g., America's one-sided race war; the biggest bio-chemical warfare attack in world history; crt; sexual psychopaths exposing themselves to girls and women, when they aren't raping them, etc. And if you contradict the deep state talking points, point by point by point, you’re a “conspiracy theorist,” an “election-denier,” a “White supremacist,” etc.

Meanwhile, the self-styled “patriotic party,” the gop, surrenders every battle.

I suspect that Steve trims his sails on certain issues, because he’s trying to influence “conservative” new york times pundit Ross Douthat, the way he used to influence David Brooks at the same outlet, and Barone, now at the Washington examiner, and if he tells the truth about The Big Steal, Douthat, Barone, and other “conservatives” will cross him off their secret “must-read” lists, and no longer respond to his emails.