That yields a margin of error, in measuring the difference between the candidates, of about 1.5 percentage point — smaller than Mr. Obama's current lead in the polling average there.
We are accused of disloyalty and irresponsibility, of ignoring the differences between the candidates and of being willing to throw the election to George W. Bush so that we can indulge in a meaningless gesture.
The evaluations include calculations of root mean square vector field differences between the candidates, comparisons of the power spectra, and degree correlations between the candidates and a mean model.
In this year's presidential contest, one of the few stark differences between the candidates lay in the types of judges they promised to appoint.
First, it was deemed to be the most important moment in the campaign, simply because it would be the first and possibly only time when millions of voters would tune in to see the differences between the candidates directly, without the filter of advertising.
"There is a major definitional question about what constitutes a Democrat, and what a Democratic platform is, and what are the differences between the candidates in this new world of ours," she said.
Four years ago he, too, asserted that there were only trivial differences between the candidates, a view even many of his longtime supporters have come to see as, to put it mildly, deranged (O.K., not all that mildly).
As anticipated, the differences between the IGRF-2010 careidates are larger than between the DGRF-2005 candidates, with the mean of the differences between the candidates and the mean model (i.e. the mean of i,M R) being 7.3 nT here for epoch 2010.0 compared to 4.9 nT for epoch 2005.0.
The trouble turned out to be that while a focus on the superficial was annoying, a focus on the substantive mainly revealed how little there is in the way of substantive differences between the candidates.
