Welcome to 2021!

Happy new year fellas, we can put 2020 behind us, and importantly for this blog, a new American Presidency starts, as well as a new Congress, the 117th, to go with it.

Over the course of the next two years I want to turn this place into much more of an old school 2000s blog, with frequent updating prioritized over long posts. I want to focus on tracking the actual political work being done on Capitol Hill and in the White House, looking at bills passed, nominations confirmed, and executive orders signed, and evaluating how they will actually impact America and the world, not just the partisan fights getting highlighted on Twitter.

I want to continue to work on psephological models ahead of 2022, my goal is to be able to do a real probabilistic Senate forecast for that year’s midterms.

I also want to put in some video work, maybe a weekly update that’s mostly just me talking into a camera, I don’t know, we’ll see.

I will see people back here on January 3rd, where I will try to kick things off with a reflection of what has happened since the election and what to expect in the weeks ahead in the new Congress and new Biden administration. And as a bonus on January 2nd, you can expect a weirder article to attempt a project in interested in.