This week is one of those rare moments when the news cycle is seemingly on fire, with news outlets across the board flashing urgent “updates” every few minutes. But rarely is the news cycle so consumed with breaking stories with so few topics to discuss. One of the topics is the rash of hurricanes and storms that have been pounding the East and Gulf Coasts, and understandably so. The storms were true natural disasters in every sense of the phrase and we’ll be digging out from them for some time to come.
The other topic that didn’t seem to miss a beat is the presidential election polling. Potential voters across the country, particularly those from swing states (of which there are apparently many this year) are hounded mercilessly for their latest impressions and the likelihood that they might vote for either Harris or Trump. Yet despite presumably reviewing the same data from the…
