Having now reviewed every single race-related case on which she sat in more than a decade on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, I've concluded that Judge Sotomayor does not allow bias to infect her decision-making.
Whitman spent a whopping $144 million of her own money -- the most every spent on a single race by any political candidate in American history up to that point (according to Wikipedia) -- trying to convince California voters that the governor's office should stay in Republican hands.
In 2012, on Election Eve, for example, the Princeton Election Consortium relied on polls alone to predict every single Senate race correctly, while Silver, who used a polls-plus-fundamentals approach, called two races incorrectly, missing Heidi Heitkamp's victory, in North Dakota, and Jon Tester's, in Montana.
In 2012, on Election Eve, for example, the Princeton Election Consortium relied on polls alone to predict every single Senate race correctly, while Silver, who used a polls-plus-fundamentals approach, called two races incorrectly, missing Heidi Heitkamp's victory, in North Dakota, and Jon Tester's, in Montana.
"Clearly this set of facts, this case -- about allowing a national political party to independently expend resources -- is a case that has impact on every single political race in the country next year, especially at the state level with all of the governor's races coming up next year," said William E. Baroni Jr., an election law expert who is representing Mr. Schundler.
