In my opinion, the true test of these dubious "move right and win more voters" hypotheses isn't whether Republicans repudiate stupidly racist tactics and messages, but whether they repudiate sophisticated racist tactics and messages that amount to the same thing.
The status hypothesis won.
By hypothesis, there exists (win X) such that (upreccurlyeq w) and (vpreccurlyeq w).
Two of the three hypothesis yield an Obama win.
It means that the direction of scientific research should not be determined by the pressure to win the 'significance lottery', but rather systematic, hypothesis-driven attempts to fill holes in our knowledge.
Our results therefore support the hypothesis that humans can help prey win the predator-prey "space race".
Since early in the campaign, the candidate has been said to suffer from the Red Queen hypothesis: each time he says something outrageous to win media attention, it raises the bar for how outrageous his next statement has to be.
3. Interview local attorneys about their hypotheses as to why the law professors' briefs failed to win over any of the justices.
Based on my own experience running for Senate, and Mr. Silver's math, my hypothesis is: With highly focused social media, candidates will soon be able to win primaries for well under $100k.
