Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar unveiled a proposal to require drugmakers to put the list price of medicines in their direct-to-consumer advertising.
The move had been talked about for months as a way to increase transparency and contribute to lower drug prices. President Donald Trump floated the idea in May when the administration unveiled its drug pricing blueprint.
The proposal is open for public comment until mid-December, so changes to DTC ads would be months away. Yet if implemented as the proposal stands, the next time a TV ad for a new preventive migraine drug appeared, the list price of a $575 monthly dose would need to be included, too.
"The proposal creates a difficult quandary that promotional messages [about drugs] must be truthful and non-misleading, but inherently to present some list prices as the actual price of a drug is misleading," said Jon Bigelow, executive director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication.
The argument against the HHS proposal is few patients will actually pay that $575 for the drug after it goes through the complex system of pharmacy benefit managers' negotiations, rebates, and their individual insurance coverage.
The industry is already on the defensive. Hours before Azar's speech, PhRMA released its own approach to drug price transparency, one that was much friendlier to pharma companies than his. PhRMA announced its member companies will begin using DTC ads to direct consumers to more information about a drug's price, including list price, out-of-pocket costs, and financial assistance, instead of stating the list price outright.
The alternative proposal is modeled after other FDA requirements on pharma ads for lengthy prescribing and safety information in TV ads.
Instead of putting the entire prescribing information in the ad, it can instead direct patients to a website, magazine ad, phone number, or their doctor for the additional information.
The HHS proposal leaves questions from the industry, said Megan Olsen, senior director at Avalere Health.
"There are still several outstanding questions both about how this would work, what implications this would have for patients and drug prices, and regarding the enforcement mechanisms, as currently outlined there isn't a single primary enforcement," Olsen explained.
Because of these outstanding questions, the timeline for implementing the HHS proposal is more unclear than usual, she added.
In the meantime, pharma marketers should begin preparing for changes to DTC ads, experts say.
One change could be longer TV ads. Pharma's 60-second ads are already packed with side effects and risk information, so adding another required element could push them over the one-minute mark.
With TV ads usually sold in 30-second intervals, pharma ads may include more 90-second buys.
That could mean even more money spent on TV advertising, which already accounts for 63% of all pharma ad spend, according to Kantar.
It also begs the question of whether consumers will even pay attention to a drug ad for longer than a minute when smartphones are already drawing attention away from commercials.
Indeed, the attention span on TV and video content lapses after 15 seconds, and in a mobile world, people look at their phones during TV spots.
"There comes a point where the ads stop being effective because it's not engaging people when you're adding a lot of extra information that might not be relevant to the viewer," noted Carly Kuper, SVP of public relations and corporate communications at CMI/Compas, which is advising clients to begin discussions now to prepare for such broadcast media implications.
Bigelow also suggested pharma marketers start thinking about how to incorporate more information into a TV drug ad, whether that's looking to shorten another part of the ad or extend the commercial length.
Moreover, with issues such as high drug prices and healthcare reform top of mind after the midterms, pharma marketers should keep an eye on the public's pulse.
Kuper said upping social listening to get a gauge on public perception during this tumultuous time could be helpful for building future drug ads.
Americans are generally supportive of drug prices in advertising. A Kaiser survey in June found three quarters approved of the idea overall, and it held steady across all political affiliations, with 83% of Democrats, 73% of independents, and 72% of Republicans supporting the idea.
Both Bigelow and Kuper, like many in the pharma industry, agree more with the PhRMA proposal.
Their thinking, like PhRMA's, is that the proposal gives viewers context for the price, and an idea of what they might pay when they get to the pharmacy counter.


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What is it Like to Work as a Child Protection Expert?
A RefugePoint Child Protection Expert's Thoughts from the Emergency Evacuation Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niamey, Niger.
"What if it were your nephew?" As a proud auntie, this is the question I ask myself when writing child protection assessments for refugee children evacuated from Libya to Niger. The children, mainly teenagers from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, have faced unimaginable horrors – being held captive and repeatedly sold and kidnapped by smugglers in the Sahara as they attempt to reach the Mediterranean.
Forcing the children's families to pay ransoms, the smugglers use starvation, beating, burning and sexual violence as forms of torture. They often place family members on the phone while torturing the children, in an attempt to speed up ransom payments. Once the ransom is paid, the children typically fall into the hands of another smuggler, and the process repeats itself for months or years until they reach the Mediterranean, where they attempt to cross to Europe in an overcrowded rubber boat.
Many of the children I have interviewed have described boats breaking apart, and how, sinking into the water, they believed they were taking their last breaths, before being picked up by the Libyan coastguard and brought back to detention centers in Libya. From here, the children who are lucky enough to be identified by UNHCR are evacuated on flights to Niamey, Niger. When they arrive, they are overjoyed to be out of Libya. With this safety, however, they begin to reflect on what has happened. They begin to recognize the traumatic nature of the past few years and this reality continues to affect them. Many endure vivid nightmares of being tortured by the smugglers. These are children who, in the most sensitive years of their adolescence, have grown up in captivity and have been treated as a commodity, having been tortured for financial gain.
Despite the magnitude of the horror that they have seen, the children resist allowing what has happened to them to define them in the most powerful of ways: they are compassionate, understanding, creative, life-loving, caring, hilarious, and intelligent.
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I'm certain that wherever these incredible children may be resettled, they will flourish. However, after surviving the very worst that humanity has to offer, they deserve to have the chance to get back the love, care, familiarity and solidarity that sometimes only one's family can provide.
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Women 2.0 syndicated a recent article about Managing The Product Development Lifecycle, as well as my post about Holding Your Position In Your Startup From Startup To Outcome this past month. Thank you to Women 2.0 for including me!
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What Makes A Good Startup Community?
Silicon Valley, Alley, Flatirons, Prairie, Beach — the startup tech community and business has leaped from its legacy home of Northern California to nearly every major city in the U.S. As each area of the country sets a stake in creating a place that fosters and helps grow startup business, there is increasing talk of these new, great hubs for the industry.
It also brings up an interesting discussion point about what makes a good startup community. The answer ranges — what entrepreneurs and founders might need at an early stage of the company can often be different from the desires and needs of executives and employees working in the business at later stages. While some believe it's networking events and media attention, others look to deal flow and access to capital within their city. Some may benchmark it by a robust community of resources, like engineers and other talent. Everyone, of course, looks to jobs and job creation as an integral element.
For entrepreneurs and founders, needs are often centered around an environment where they can focus and leverage the ecosystem. This group in the ecosystem often benefits from access to capital, networking and/or educational events, but the type of curriculum for conferences, attendees, and other elements can be different from what executives and employees working with a tech hub might seek or benefit from. In terms of resources, it can range from affordable office space, to good talent pool, and of course, investors. Though because we are in a truly global (and often virtual) world, these elements can be surprisingly less important or necessary — good companies and ideas can find and work with remote resources and often do successfully. In terms of learning and access to resources, many startup entrepreneurs and founders need or want to learn as much about corporate structure, equity allocation and other business elements of owning a company as they do strategies and other means to grow or market their business. With email and the internet, networking to find potential partners or customers can often be done without attending events. Therefore, moving the founder or entrepreneur to attend such gatherings has to be focused on the potential of a return on their time investment as many are juggling busy schedules as is. Legalities such as tax breaks, regulations, and other elements can also be important for entrepreneurs and many cities have worked to create this to attract startup business.
For executives and employees, what constitutes an ideal startup tech community depends on the stage of the company . Events where business development and marketing executives can evangelize the company, meet and network with peers or potential customers, can be key. Connecting with the tech community outside of the company takes a different value proposition and need. Access to resources shifts a bit — talent to support the company efforts such as engineers, marketing, graphic designers, and sales or business development executives may replace the desire or benefit of meeting potential investors and other founders. Just the same, availability of top talent is as critical to this group within a startup tech environment. Talent is attracted to where it can earn income or revenue, and markets that are not demonstrating job opportunities and growth are often passed on. Regulatory and compliance issues tend to be less or not relevant as employees are often removed from this burden within a business.
But as there are some differences among the needs of everyone within a technology and business market, many things that are the same. Location and/or ease of getting around the community can be critical to all regardless of what position they hold in the company. Affordable housing and other personal services such good medical practitioners and schools can be an attractive benefit. Good restaurants, grocery stores, and even eco-friendly living may be top of mind for many in the industry. It takes decades to build a flourishing community of startups and entrepreneurs, it cannot be willed, and many factors play a vital role. When such a community reaches a critical mass it becomes uniquely nurturing and self-perpetuating. While media coverage and attention is often assumed to be a value, it's important to understand that a technology community best benefits from the right kind of attention. Inflated expectations or 'hype' within a market can actually hurt its growth, both long and short-range.
Creating the impression or illusion that a market or the companies within it are 'hot' is not always for the good — in some instances, it can set companies up for the impression of failure when the natural, often unavoidable challenges or pitfalls of any startup company come into the picture. What's more beneficial from a media and attention standpoint isn't the 'deals and exits,' or the 'buzz' alone, but important fundamentals such as real market traction, authentic, steady growth, market maturity, solid leadership and management, and many of the components that helped put the original 'Silicon' (the Silicon Valley) startup market on the map.
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I had the opportunity to meet Lady Gaga this past month after her concert in the Bay Area. I was not only inspired by her musical talent but her immense business acumen as well. She truly is a force to be reckoned with and a great success story.
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It is an exciting time in innovation. Technology has helped redefine, reinvent and even create new categories, products and markets. Companies like Amazon, which traditionally sold books online, now have retail products, media and content as well as their own hardware devices such as Kindle and the Fire smartphone,. It's not just limited to the technology industry, but dozens of others. Medicine, research, investing, transportation, design, the home, you name it. We are truly in a new and impelling world.
It brings up an interesting element for companies in the web business. It goes beyond the traditional players like Google and Facebook, to the startup you may own or work at as well as in some cases, major legacy companies and corporations. Innovation, in itself can be rather disruptive within these environments themselves, and charting where and what innovation needs to look like to your company regardless of size is a critical (and often overlooked) first step. While the internet enables every company regardless of legacy market to expand into new frontiers, where and how to innovate can be nearly as important to the picture as the innovation and effort itself. Many companies (including major, successful players) make these mistakes.
For web companies, avoiding missteps in innovation within your organization begins with a solid sense of what you do. This sounds simple enough, but many often misunderstand this element in the business online. In consumer space and for that matter in business-to-business , it can be broken down to two areas: products or service/utility — or in some instances (as with Google or Amazon), it can be both. How this can best be identified or defined is by asking yourself what exactly do you provide to the market? Is it a product that consumers can purchase? Or a service/utility they use? In the example of Google, it has a consumer product (Android smartphone) and it has a service/utility (Google Search).
Determining if your company falls into the consumer product or service/utility category doesn't just help identify where and how to innovate. It can also enable a sense of the best route to take. For example, Amazon enables people to purchase books (service). A device for reading digital books was an obvious, potentially viable path (product). Then, Amazon recognized that it could go beyond books to sell content of all kinds, including music and television shows (service). It realized it could offer more than just one device as well — the Fire smartphone introduced this year (product).
By understanding where its core/legacy position resided, Amazon was able to identify multiple, organic routes to expand its business. The company then equally went beyond the consumer category to understanding where it might fit into the business-to-business (B-to-B) market — tools for authors to create and publish digital books, and ultimately pioneered a business utility in the form of cloud storage and computing. It's a great example of how knowing your inherent, core position within a market can be expanded.
While it can be possible to expand into something with less of a natural, organic path with your company, taking this type of leap doesn't just present challenges for an organization but moving a customer base to that offering will likely be the same. For example, Facebook provides a means for people to communicate with family and friends. But Facebook enabling retailers to set up stores on its platform has been widely reported to be unsuccessful. That's because though Facebook has millions of users on its site daily, most would not easily make the correlation to also do their shopping there. Having to put in the work to marry Facebook users to also use Facebook in this way turned out to be a larger job for most retailers, and many shuttered their Facebook storefronts in the end to focus attention on other, more fundamental ways of using Facebook to drive sales.
When it comes to where and how your company can innovate, there truly is no 'wrong' answer, just the one that best fits. It all begins with identifying what side of the market you fit into (consumer product or service/utility). Your course for innovation, including whether or not you can expand beyond the consumer market, should unfold much more easily from there.
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Pharma.Aero is an independent association comprised mostly of members from airport communities and pharmaceutical shippers.
Learn more about Pharma.Aero from this interview with Nathan De Valck, Chairman of Pharma.Aero.
Can you introduce to us Pharma.Aero?
It is an exclusive and independent membership-driven association comprised of members from airport communities, pharmaceutical shippers and other cargo logistics stakeholders from all around the world.
What are Pharma.Aero's vision and mission?
Our vision is to achieve reliable end-to-end air transport for pharmaceutical cargo. As for our mission, it is to foster collaboration between CEIV pharma-certified airport communities dedicated to developing and leading when it comes to handling pharmaceuticals.
How will Pharma.Aero accomplish this?
We will focus on concrete and tangible projects and content creation. The organization will foster route certification/development of pharmaceutical trade lanes. Its members will help connect the dots (markets) for pharma shipment with other partners that are committed to CEIV and dedicated to properly handling pharma.
Through collaboration among all pharma stakeholders, excellence in reliable end-to-end transportation for pharma shippers and patients can be achieved.
Which pharma shippers are actively involved?
Johnson & Johnson is a strategic member with a seat on the board of directors. Further membership discussions with other pharma shippers are ongoing, of which MSD, Pfizer and UCB have already signed endorsement letters.
The active involvement of pharma shippers is key to the objectives of Pharma.Aero. The association has received endorsement letters from several major pharmaceutical shippers who welcome the initiative and will give their guidance and active support in the projects and events organized by the association.
Who stands behind the launch of Pharma.Aero and who belongs among its initial members?
Our founding members are Brussels Airport and Miami International Airport. Our strategic launching members are Singapore Changi Airport, and Sharjah International Airport.
Also, our additional launching members are Brussels Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Brinks Life Sciences.
Pharma.Aero welcomes airport communities, airline carriers, logistics companies and other pharmaceutical stakeholders, including shippers, to become members.


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The 2014 SAG awards are just around the corner and a slew of A-listers are set to present. Oprah Winfrey, Jared Leto, Ben Affleck and many more will be handing out trophies during the star-studded event.
A slew of top-rated celebrities have been announced to present at the 2014 SAG Awards, including A-listers Ben Affleck and Jared Leto, as well as talk-show maven Oprah Winfrey.
Other top stars set to present include Jennifer Garner, Don Cheadle, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Tom Hanks, Sasha Alexander and Kerry Washington. Also presenting will be Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Clark Gregg and Lee Daniels' The Butler's Forest Whitaker.
The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be honoring 2013's performances in several categories in film and television, including the distinctive ensemble awards. In addition to handing out awards, several scheduled presenters are up for their own SAG trophies as well this year.
Jennifer Garner is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for playing Dr. Eve Sachs in Dallas Buyers Club, while Jared Leto is up for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for his part as Rayon in the same film. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey is nominated for his first Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role as well as Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.
Tom Hanks is up for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role as Capt. Richard Phillips in Captain Phillips; Forest Whitaker is nominated in the same category for his role in Lee Daniels' The Butler and is also up for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the same film. Oprah Winfrey is also nominated for her work in Lee Daniels' The Butler for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Don Cheadle is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his work as Marty Kaan in House of Lies. Kevin Spacey is nominated for his work in House of Cards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Kerry Washington is nominated for her leading role as Olivia Pope in Scandal.
Update, Jan. 16, 2014: More presenters have been announced today! Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Chiwetel Ejiofor, SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, Mindy Kaling, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Marsden, Ewan McGregor, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Julia Roberts, Elisabeth Röhm, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson will join the A-listers already named.
Update, Jan. 17, 2014: Additional presenters join growing list of A-listers: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tina Fey, John Goodman, Josh Holloway, Pauley Perrette, and Jeremy Renner will also present awards at Friday's event.
The SAG awards will air on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST on TNT and TBS.


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Q: Using on an object created in a different method I'm trying to make a generic SQL call, which led me to an interesting question. I have a method that executes the SQL, and returns a SQLDataReader.
    private SqlDataReader ExecuteSql(SqlCommand command)
    {
        using (var connection = new SqlConnection(ConnectionText, Credentials))
        {
            command.Connection = connection;
            connection.Open();
            return command.ExecuteReader();
        }
    }

The calling command takes the reader and processes the returned data correctly. However, knowing that the reader needs to be disposed of, I enclosed it in a using statement.
        using (SqlDataReader reader = ExecuteSql(command))
        {
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                try { ... }
                catch(Exception e) { ... }
            }
        }

I think Dispose should be called on the SqlDataReader at the end of the using statement despite where in the code it was created. However, I have not been able to find anything that specifically confirms this.
Generalizing, can the using statement be successfully used on an object that was created elsewhere in the code?
As a side note, I do realize that if the SqlDataReader was created as an object in the ExecuteSql method rather than returned directly, then there could be an issue with it throwing an exception while in the ExecuteSql method and not being disposed of.

A: You can accomplish this by passing an Action like so:
private void ExecuteSql(SqlCommand command, Action<SqlDataReader> action)
{
    using (var connection = new SqlConnection(ConnectionText, Credentials))
    {
        command.Connection = connection;
        connection.Open();
        using (var reader = command.ExecuteReader())
        {
            action(reader);
        }
    }
}

Then the calling function:
var myCommand = //...

int id;

ExecuteSql(myCommand, (reader) => {
  id = reader.GetInt32(0);
});

Now any caller doesn't need to know if they have to dispose of it or not and your connection will be disposed after the method has done it work on the reader.

A: It's OK to use the object created in another method in the using statement.
However, in your case, you are using an SqlDataReader which uses the SqlConnection which is disposed at the end of the ExecuteSql call.
As explained here, you need a valid connection object to use the SqlDataReader

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Saturday Ethics Warm-Up, 1/11/2020: Epstein And Facebook And Barr, Oh My!
January 11, 2020 / Jack Marshall	/ 5 Comments
It's Thaturday!
Time, once again, to salute the courage of Karen Carpenter's much less talented brother Richard, who nonetheless had the courage to offer, as his only notable solo offering for the Carpenters, a song that highlighted his speech impediment. Why did he do this? We'll never know.
And yes, I have "The Wizard of Oz" on the brain. It was so much better when that wonderful movie was only on TV once a year: then it was special. Now, especially over the holidays (and what it has to do with Christmas, I don't know) I had to repeatedly change channels to avoid it. Well, after Judy sang "Over the Rainbow, anyway…
1. Is it really so unreasonable and a "right wing conspiracy theory" to wonder about how Jeffrey Epstein, who could have implicated such powerful people as Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew in criminal activities, ended up dead in his cell?
The latest forehead-slapping development: The video made outside of Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan jail cell when during his failed suicide attempt seemed to be missing, and even possibly destroyed. The jailhouse video turned up, however, muting suspicions about whether Epstein's successful suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center wasn't something more sinister. Prosecutors confirmed that the video had been saved. This week, however, prosecutors revealed that the jail staff had preserved video from the wrong jail cell, and the Epstein footage no longer existed.
Meanwhile, two guards who were on duty when Epstein killed himself are being charged with falsifying records and conspiracy. The guards surfed the internet and dozed instead of checking on the prisoner every half-hour, as they were required to do.
Conspiracy or not, this is epic incompetence, and rather convenient incompetence at that. Hanlon's Razor, however, applies. I guess.
My only other observation is that government efficiency and job performance is obviously so reliable that I don't know why Bernie Sanders isn't running away with the Democratic nomination race. Of course we should put government employees in charge of our lives. It's a no-brainer. Continue reading →
Fevered Thoughts While Hanging The Christmas Tree Lights…
December 22, 2019 December 22, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 22 Comments
(…which is NOT going well. At all.)
Even Andy Williams blaring out "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" couldn't stop my mind from flowing into dark places.
Anything can happen, of course, but it is not too early to seriously consider what will happen if Donald Trump sweeps to victory next November. All the signs point that way now. The Democratic Party/"resistance"/ mainstream media axis's plan(s) to take destroy Trump and force him out of the White House have not only failed, but made him stronger and more defiant. Those who voted for him deeply resent the way their choice for President has been treated—more disrespectfully and disgracefully than any previous POTUS—and are substantially more enthusiastic about their support than ever. Many of those who did not vote for him—like me—have seen their alarm over the increasingly radical, bellicose and anti-American drift of the Democratic Party slowly overcome their visceral revulsion at Trump's style, manners, character and rhetoric. In the meantime, either by good fortune or good management (or a combination of both), the nation is doing well in many respects, and the President deserves credit.
The Democratic Party's reliance on Big Lies to counter that, as was on display most recently in the PBS/Politico debate, is transparent, unconvincing and damning. Joe Biden, the alleged front-runner for the nomination, said that the economy is "out of kilter." High employment, low unemployment, higher wages and a booming stock market is only "out of kilter" to socialists, who measure success in the relative terms of "How dare anyone do better than I'm doing! That's not fair!" Unfortunately for Democrats but fortunately for us, most Americans don't think that way–enviously, greedily, avariciously. They don't resent the success of others; they don't believe is absolute equality of outcomes. Well, high employment, low unemployment, higher wages and a booming stock market is only "out of kilter" to socialists…and liars. Continue reading →
Ethics Recovery, 12/19/19, Post Op Edition: Terrible People
Here I am, I think! Hello?
I'm still groggy from the anesthesia, and the doctor said not to do too much, and definitely not to make any important decisions. I remembered that advice just in time, when I was tempted to watch the Democratic Candidates' debate, and realized I must still be disoriented. Then I turned to ABC, and thought I saw the Miss America Pageant, which is impossible in enlightened 2019, so I was definitely hallucinating. I've also been off my blood-thinner for two days, and could stroke out any second.
1. On Pelosi's desperate stunt. The House of Representatives adjourned before voting to send the articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate for a trial. Apparently Democrats are refusing to forward the impeachment to the Senate until they receive assurances the trial will be "fair" in their eyes. You know, like the partisan impeachment in the House, which began with closed hearings overseen by Adam Schiff, and no witnesses who had anything to offer but opinions and hearsay, and ended up with Articles that failed to assert impeachable offenses. Fair.
The Democrats have been following through on this insane scheme hoping to get as much TV time as possible showing Democrats insulting the President, hoping that more repetitions of "Orange Man Bad" supported by the seven Big Lies will somehow change enough votes to avoid a disaster in 2020. They know that absent some presently unknown smoking gun, there is no way they can get the two-thirds super-majority to convict (they're wishing and hoping for that, too) and knew this all long. The plan now is to try to discredit the Senate acquittal in advance.
This requires a belief that the non-Trump Deranged among the public (think of the rest as the equivalent of the infected in "World War Z") have the IQs of annelid worms, and the short-term memories of mayflies. The party really believes that after Pelosi and the rest said it was imperative to impeach Trump as soon as possible because the nation and the Constitution is in imminent peril, the decision now to stall the impeachment process won't be seen as proof that the whole exercise was a cynical, dishonest, hypocritical sham. This is more than irresponsible and incompetent. This is a parody of irresponsible and incompetent.
2. More…It also illustrates the dishonest and insincere nature of the Democrat/"resistance"/mainstream media's three-year narrative about President Trump ignoring "democratic norms" and the Constitution. Prof. Noah Feldman, who made it clear when he testified that he wants to see Trump impeached and is willing to warp his interpretation of the Constitution to get it done, isn't willing to endorse this trick. He wrote,
If the House votes to "impeach" but doesn't send the articles to the Senate or send impeachment managers there to carry its message, it hasn't directly violated the text of the Constitution. But the House would be acting against the implicit logic of the Constitution's description of impeachment.
A president who has been genuinely impeached must constitutionally have the opportunity to defend himself before the Senate. That's built into the constitutional logic of impeachment, which demands a trial before removal.
To be sure, if the House just never sends its articles of impeachment to the Senate, there can be no trial there. That's what the "sole power to impeach" means.
But if the House never sends the articles, then Trump could say with strong justification that he was never actually impeached. And that's probably not the message Congressional Democrats are hoping to send.
Alan Dershowitz, who has derided this impeachment from the beginning,writes.
"It is difficult to imagine anything more unconstitutional, more violative of the intention of the Framers, more of a denial of basic due process and civil liberties, more unfair to the president and more likely to increase the current divisiveness among the American people…President Trump would stand accused of two articles of impeachment without having an opportunity to be acquitted by the institution selected by the Framers to try all cases of impeachment. It would be as if a prosecutor deliberately decided to indict a criminal defendant but not to put him on trial."
Civil rights attorney lawyer Harvey Silverglate described Pelosi's gambit as "manipulation of the system." The whole impeachment sham has been a manipulation of the system, and now Pelosi's defenders will have to go deeper into denial to defend it. Professor Turley, no surprise, also condemned the maneuver. "Articles of impeachment were not meant to be articles of barter," Turley wrote. "Just as the House elected not to seek to compel the testimony of critical witnesses, the Senate can make the same decision for its own house." Continue reading →
What's A Blogging Ethicist To Do?
How would regular Ethics Alarms readers expect me to say about this story?
An Arlington High School student (in Arlington, Mass.) filed a complaint with police. alleging that a teacher history teacher assaulted her during school hours. Sadie Earegood confirmed with NEWS 7 that the teacher involved in the incident is Bernard Arthur, though the Arlington School District has not confirmed with us that the allegations against him are true. Earegood claims ripped a "Dream Big, Fight Hard" Elizabeth Warren pin off of her shirt…"He grabbed it and I pulled and I tried to push his hand away and he grabbed my shoulder, just kind of put his hand there, and then he started pulling more and more and I just started backing up." The teacher then put the pin on his own shirt, upside-down, and said it "belonged that way."
As regular readers know, I regard Senator Warren as one of the worst of a horrifying Democratic field, an unprincipled liar and a demagogue. Still, the ethics call on this incident would be unavoidable. No teacher has a right to touch a student and steal her property, not does one have the right to mock her for a political statement, however foolish it may be. If the story is true, the teacher has behaved unethically, and probably illegally. No one should support or sympathize with the teacher, or try to rationalize his conduct.
Well, the story isn't true…not quite. It didn't take place at Arlington High School (my alma mater), but at Mason High School in Lansing, Michigan. The teacher is named Paul Kato. Oh..,one more thing! The button that the young student was wearing said "Women for Trump." Continue reading →
Comment Of The Day: "Yes, It's Open Forum Time Again!," And Reflections On The State of Our Democracy, Part 2
November 22, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 28 Comments
Part I, and Michael R's Comment of the Day, are here.
The embedded government bureaucracy has always been recognized as a necessary evil, because the pre-Civil Service system of cleaning house after every election was inefficient and an invitation to cronyism. It cannot be denied, however, that partisan biases and loyalties within the "Deep State" create other serious problems, including individuals taking it upon themselves to undermine and sabotage policies they disagree with. Usually the phenomenon is subtle and not routine, but the partisan hysteria weaponized it against Trump, with anti-Trump government employees with influence and power felt more justified in betraying the President than ever before. Prime among this group has been the judiciary, the intelligence community, the State Department, and the diplomatic corps.
Seduced by a partisan narrative, spread daily by the mainstream media, that an illegitimate President who was elected by racists and morons was poised to destroy the country, and maybe the world, because of his greed, stupidity–and insanity!–once unthinkable levels of disloyalty and active opposition to a President by those paid to support the leader chosen by the people were not only justified, but necessary. This attitude quickly metastasized into a coup mentality. This too is routinely derided as a Fox News talking point, but denial only works for so long. In this case, time is almost up.
I finally concluded, early in 2017, that Trump's election showed that our democracy works and remains vital. The nation was being dragged into a new culture which was violently contrary to core American principles and values that have made the nation what it was, in great part because of the Left's ideological capture of American institutions, notably education, the legal profession, journalism, and the political elites. Somehow, in the inexplicable wisdom of crowd, the ignorant, confused, misinformed and emotion-driven U.S public found a way to say "Enough!" in the most startling, obnoxious, disruptive way imaginable.
Lincoln was proven right. You can't fool all the people all the time. Continue reading →
Sunday Ethics Warm-Up, 11/10/2019: Be Warned, I'm In One Of Those "The Morons Are Everywhere, So Why Do I Bother?" Moods…
November 10, 2019 November 10, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 24 Comments
Why is there a picture of a Popeye's Chicken Sandwich here, you may well ask? It is here because it symbolizes how weird American priorities are. That was last week's ad. This week, being ignorant of Popeye's recent promotions, I offered to cheer up my wife, who was not feeling well, by driving up King Street (usually about a 10 minute trip) to the local Popeye's for some dark meat fried chicken, her favorite. As soon as I got on King, however, I was in gridlock. It took over a half hour to get to the restaurant, and it's parking lot was in chaos. It turned out that the whole traffic disaster was being caused by the jam in the Popeyes drive-up line, which spilled into the street. I crawled up past Popeye's and parked by the 7-11 a block away. Then I walked to Popeye's—I would be damned if spent all that time in traffic without coming home with my wife's treat—and the restaurant was packed wall-to wall. I was informed by one customer that the end of the line was out the door. "What's going on?" I asked. "It's the chicken sandwich!" he said. "All of this is for a fast-food chicken sandwich?" I asked, incredulous. "Yup!" he said, smiling.
"You're all idiots," I said, and left.
More than half of American won;t take the time to vote, or bother to investigate the vital issues and events that are shaping their lives, but they'll waste hours of their lives to spend $4.50 on a Popeye's chicken sandwich. Then, presumably, take pictures of it with their smartphones and put them up on Instagram.
1. Dog ownership ethics: Anyone who can't figure this out on their own shouldn't have a dog. What a surprise! Researchers have shown that screaming at dogs traumatizes them over the long term, and that love and patience lead to better training results. Science Alert reports that a team biologist Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro of the Universidade do Porto in Portugal tested 42 dogs from dog training schools that used reward-based training, and 50 dogs from aversion training schools. The dogs trained with shouting and leash-jerking were more stressed, indicated by higher levels of cortisol in their saliva.
"Our results show that companion dogs trained using aversive-based methods experienced poorer welfare as compared to companion dogs trained using reward-based methods, at both the short- and the long-term level," the researchers write in the paper published by biology news service bioRxiv.
Duh. Routinely shouting at dogs is animal cruelty. Our sensitive English Mastiff Patience would hide under the sink in one of our bathrooms any time anyone in the house raised his or her voice to anyone. If my wife and I argued, we had to coax Patience out by hugging each other as she watched.
2. Is the 2020 election a mass "Bias makes you stupid" experiment? Two terrible (and unelectable) potential candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg and even worse, Obama "wingman" Eric Holder, are reportedly exploring joining the still-crowded field. Why? They recognize that none of the current candidates look like they can attract broad-based support from Democrats, much less the rest of the electorate. A short way of describing this phenomenon is to say that if either Bloomberg or Holder are an improvement over the current crop of socialists, totalitarians and septuagenarians vying to run against President Trump, the Democrats are in big trouble.
A week ago, a New Times/Siena poll showed President Trump highly competitive in the six closest states carried by the President in '16. The New York Times' Nate Cohn wrote about it, and didn't sugar coat the message: even with a 24-7 news cycle bashing the President on all fronts, and even with the impeachment push giving Democrats the opportunity to soak the public's brain with denigrating quotes, President Trump still looks like a formidable opponent.
Well, of course he is, and it should be obvious to all why. Yet Ann Althouse, who flagged the article, posted the two highest comments to the revelation from Times readers:
This is the most depressing article I've read in a while. The idea of a second Trump term is literally terrifying. Who are these people that like him? How can it be? Fox News, owned by a soulless Australian, is destroying this once great country.
Second highest:
I simply cannot fathom this. How is this even possible? Also I live in Michigan and my sense is that Trump is deeply unpopular here. Are these polls using the same techniques that were used to predict a 97% chance of victory for Hillary? Perhaps the polls are wrong? I sincerely hope so because the alternative is unthinkable.
Wow! How cocooned does one have to be in Leftist echo chambers, false narratives, fake news. conventional wisdom, "resistance" talking points and Big Lies to write things like this for public consumption? If reality is that far from permeating the biases of such people—-after three years of a mass effort to effectively disenfranchise citizens who rebelled against the media-progressive bullying of the Obama years and the blatant dishonesty and corruption of the Clinton candidacy—-they must be permanently damaged. Continue reading →
KABOOM! "Human Sacrifice, Dogs And Cats Living Together, Mass Hysteria!"… If I Hadn't Seen This, I Wouldn't Have Believed It, And My Head Wouldn't Have Exploded
September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 18 Comments
Remember, Donald Trump is the fascist who is trying to crush democracy. Just repeat that to yourself as you consider this, and maybe…no, it still will still make your head explode.
Joe Biden's presidential campaign, in the persons of Biden's top aides Anita Dunn and Kate Bedingfield, sent a letter to the heads of the major news and cable networks, as well as top news anchors, demanding that they refuse to book Presidential advisor Rudy Giuliani. It read in part,
"We are writing today with grave concern that you continue to book Rudy Giuliani on your air to spread false, debunked conspiracy theories on behalf of Donald Trump. While you often fact check his statements in real time during your discussions, that is no longer enough. By giving him your air time, you are allowing him to introduce increasingly unhinged, unfounded and desperate lies into the national conversation, We write to demand that in service to the facts, you no longer book Rudy Giuliani, a surrogate for Donald Trump who has demonstrated that he will knowingly and willingly lie in order to advance his own narrative…Giuliani is not a public official, and holds no public office that would entitle him to opine on the nation's airwaves."
Then the letter demands that if the former mayor is put on the airwaves, "an equivalent amount of time" be given "to a surrogate for the Biden campaign."
Frankly, I still can't believe Biden approved this, but of course, he must have. What's going on here? Incredibly, this: A former Vice President and current (though doomed) Presidential hopeful is asking the news media to actively censor a political critic. Continue reading →


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Sexual Health Checks Fall By Almost 250,000 As Services Suffer Severe Cuts
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Sexual and reproductive health checks have fallen by 245,000 in three years, amid "swingeing" cuts to the vital services, new figures published by the Labour party show.
Spending on the facilities by local authorities fell by £56 million over the past five years, according to House of Commons library data.
It comes as the number of people diagnosed with syphilis and gonorrhoea is on the rise.
There were 420,000 diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases in 2017, Public Health England figures show.
Health minister Steve Brine revealed the extent of the decline in response to a parliamentary question from shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Jon Ashworth.
Brine also admitted the number of face-to-face consultations fell by 85,000 and the number of non face-to-face consultations halved, falling by more than 13,000 since 2016/17.
Declining contact with sexual and reproductive health services have raised concerns about access to facilities.
In January, HuffPost UK reported on the impact of the loss of one sexual health clinic in Ipswich, after funding was withdrawn by the local council.
Labour will use an Opposition Day Motion in the House of Commons on Tuesday to try and force the Government to reverse cuts to public health budgets.
Ministers were earlier accused of 'sneaking out' an £85 million cut to the public health budget last December, in a move which affects sexual health clinics and other services, such as mother and baby support.
Ashworth warned that the "completely short-sighted" cuts will result in wider pressures on the NHS over the long term.
Cuts could impact population health and spark a rise in future demand for treatment, Labour warned.
"The government can't be taken seriously on their commitment to prevention while at the same time cutting vital services that provide contraception, tackle sexually transmitted infections and offer crucial support and advice," Ashworth said.
"It's why in the Commons on Tuesday I will demand that Ministers start by reversing these swingeing cuts to public health provision and publish their equality impact assessments so we can see the effects these cuts are having on society.
He added: "If Tory MPs refuse to join us in blocking cuts to public health services it will show once again they simply can't be trusted with our NHS."
The Department of Health and Social Care said in a statement: "We have a strong track record on sexual health with teenage pregnancies at an all-time low and sexually transmitted infections continuing to fall.
"Sexual health services and tests are now more widely available online – over 11,000 diagnoses from online tests were reported last year.
"Prevention is at the heart of the NHS Long Term Plan, and comes alongside the £3 billion we are giving to councils to fund public health services this year, including sexual health services."
Source: Huffingtonpost.co.uk
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India's Food Regulator under Probe for Partnering with Food Manufacturers
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has entered into several partnerships with organisations floated by food companies, sparking off concerns about conflict of interest since these companies are to be regulated by the Authority.
On its website, FSSAI lists its partnerships, which include one with an organisation called CHIFFS (CII-Hindustan Unilever Initiative on Food Safety Sciences). The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is an industry association that lobbies for corporate interests and Hindustan Lever's well known food brands include Knorr soups, Brook Bond tea, Lipton, Cornetto and Kissan.
The initiative includes other companies such as Dupont, Keventer Agro, Rasna, Nestle and Dabur. The partnership is "to co-produce food safety as a shared responsibility".
The witnesses for the MoU signed between FSSAI and CHIFFS include the regulatory affairs official of Coca-Cola and the executive director of Food and Agriculture Center of Excellence (FACE). FACE is a joint initiative of CII and Jubilant Bhartia, better known for Dominos Pizza and Dunkin Donuts. FACE and CHIFFS seem to have many common people in various capacities.
FSSAI's 'Eat Right India' campaign has involved several food businesses that have "come forward to voluntarily make commitments" on reducing transfats, sugar and salts in packaged foods and to promote healthier food options.
The website of the campaign, which lists almost every big food company as a partner, states that food businesses have been nudged to promote healthier food options in several ways. An industry notorious globally for resisting and even flouting regulation is being "nudged" for voluntary commitments though self-regulation by it hasn't worked in any other country.
Resource Centre for Health Supplements & Nutraceuticals (ReCHaN) is yet another "collaborative initiative of FSSAI, International Alliance of Dietary/Food Supplements Association (IADSA) and CII". Partners of ReCHaN include DSM, one of the biggest multinationals manufacturing micronutrients, HerbaLife, Amway and SunPharma. IADSA described itself as a "global platform to guide the evolution of policy and regulation in the sector". It is primarily composed of 50 member associations representing over 20,000 companies worldwide and meant to give its members a part in shaping regulation globally and in individual countries.
FSSAI has also partnered with Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP), a public-private initiative established by the World Bank "to improve food safety in low and middle income countries". GFSP's collaborators include food MNCs such as Unilever, General Mills, Cargill, Mars Inc and Nestle. GFSP is supporting FSSAI set up an International Training Centre in Mumbai and is also "facilitating study visits of FSSAI or Indian delegations to various countries".
In collaboration with Tata Trusts, and various international NGOs working in the field of nutrition, FSSAI is establishing a Food Fortification Resource Centre to "promote large-scale fortification of food and to nudge and facilitate food businesses to adopt fortification as a norm". Several Tata companies are under FSSAI regulation. The international NGOs involved include Food Fortification Initiative and Nutrition International. Almost all identify themselves as public-private collaborations with collaborators including some of the world's biggest micronutrient manufacturers, food companies or associations and research institutes floated by the food and beverage industry.
FSSAI CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal told TOI that the partnerships were being wrongly interpreted. "Food safety is globally seen as a shared responsibility with focus shifting from prosecution to preventive action to ensure food is safe in the supply chain. We are extremely careful in partnerships as far as conflict of interest is concerned. Capacity building of food businesses and consumer awareness building are important parts of our roles," said Agarwal.
CII defended its partnership stating that CHIFSS initiatives were focused on building capacity and capability in high-risk areas and that there was no room for any conflict of interest in its initiatives.
Source: IndiaTimes


Adding unearned titles like "Dr." or "PhD." to your name is deceptive and unethical at the least but for two county officials in Texas it may also have been criminal. The following article is reprinted here with permission. Side notes, links and images are provided by News for Public Officials.
Two of Fort Bend County's top elected officials this week have opted to stop referring to themselves as doctoral recipients, having been informed they may have broken Texas law.
(Section 32.52) of the Texas Penal Code prohibits the use of fraudulent or substandard degrees "in a written or oral advertisement or other promotion .. with the intent to ... gain a position in government with authority over another person, regardless of whether the actor receives compensation for the position."
The inclusion of unpaid positions in the law may be particularly troubling for Wilson. In addition to her paid position as Fort Bend County Clerk, Wilson serves on several powerful state committees and has been a featured speaker for state and national associations as Dr. Dianne Wilson, PhD.
In 2004, County Judge Bob Hebert took credit for earning a PhD. from California Coast University, while County Clerk Dianne Wilson began referring to herself as "Dr. Wilson," in 2003 based on a title she earned through Kennedy Western University, now known as Warren National University.
It turns out since at least 2005, however, it is a crime in Texas to promote degrees from either school. The Texas Legislature that year passed a law which let the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board create a list of schools, "whose degrees are illegal to use in Texas." Both California Coast and Warren National were included on the list.
The law made it a Class B misdemeanor to use "substandard degrees" to apply for jobs in Texas.
"I took an oath of office that I would uphold the laws of the state and country, and that's now a law in Texas, so I'm honoring it," she said on Thursday.
The hubbub, say both officials, began on Monday when a reporter with Houston's Channel 11, KHOU, told them of Texas Penal Code 32.52, which is the law passed by the Legislature in 2005.
"Certainly when I realized there was a law like that, I removed it from my (campaign) Web site and took it off my wall," said Hebert.
Hebert said he found a reference to his California Coast degree on the county Web site, and had it removed. Otherwise, no changes will need to be made to any county stationery or legal forms, he said.
The above image is from document # 2007123005 filed October 02, 2007 at 4:22 pm. It was retrieved from the Fort Bend County Website.
Wilson added the questionable title to her official signature and file stamp in the spring of 2003. It appears on every public document filed with the clerk's office since that date.
Wilson, however, said she will alter references to herself in county paperwork as well as in software programs used by the county.
Both California Coast University and Warren National University (then Kennedy Western) in 2004 were named by the U.S. General Accounting Office as "diploma mills." The GAO, which monitors federal spending, specifically took to task the use of taxpayer money to pay for federal employees' enrollment in the schools.
California Coast University on its Web site does claim accreditation by Distance Education and Training Council, but that agency is not recognized for accreditation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
As for Warren National, it does not bother with any accreditation.
"The true recognition of a Warren National degree comes from its voluntary acceptance by the business, professional and academic communities," states the school's web site.
Wilson was indicted in 1990 by a Grand Jury on charges she allegedly used taxpayer money to finance a Bachelor Degree from St. Edwards University and a fellowship certificate from the National Center for State Courts' Institute for Court Management. That case culminated in Wilson agreeing to reimburse the taxpayers $7,600.00.
Hebert said he will consider his PhD. a matter of personal history, and contends he did not use it to "apply" for a job, having first been elected as county judge in 2002. He was re-elected in 2006, but did not face an opponent. He also readily points out the MBA he earned through Pepperdine University in California came the "traditional" way.
"I don't think it makes a hill of beans about what people think about my service as county judge," he said regarding the doctorate controversy.
Wilson defends her use of the degree, pointing out her work included writing a dissertation.
Kennedy-Western requires students to pass one open-book, multiple-choice test for each class, according to testimony given by Lt. Commander Claudia Gelzer, U.S. Coast guard before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs in 2004.
"With just 16 hours of study, I had completed 40 percent of the course requirements for a master's degree," she said.
"I will say, I'm disappointed because I did the work, I did the study course. I did the test. I wrote the dissertation, but I will honor the statute," she said.
Wilson said she made a good faith effort to comply with the statute after learning about it Monday and discussing it with lawyers this week. She said she does not expect any criminal charges or other legal problems.
Wilson also faced re-election in 2006, defeating a challenger in the Republican primary.
District Attorney John Healey said he has heard of the controversy, but has not examined it first-hand and cannot say if either official broke the law in question.
"Nobody has asked for an investigation or a prosecution of either of those individuals for that matter," Healey said.
The questionable degrees were first brought to light publicly in 2003 and 2004 in columns written by former Fort Bend Herald publisher Clyde C. King Jr.


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Over 50 killed in ethnic clashes in South Sudan's Jonglei region
FILE: Unused ammunition lying on the road leading in Malakal, South Sudan Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. -
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At least 57 people were killed and more than a dozen others injured during recent ethnic violence in South Sudan's eastern Jonglei region, a local official said on Wednesday.
Armed groups of youths from the Nuer ethnic group attacked members of the Murle ethnic group in the Greater Pibor administrative area, Greater Pibor's information minister Abraham Kelang said.
South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, has been blighted by political and communal violence and clashes over cattle and land disputes for decades.
Kelang said the fighting started on Sunday when armed youths from Jonglei attacked Lanam village.
He said members of both groups were killed while 17 people on the Murle side were among the injured.
Murle community youth association chairman David Ngiro condemned the fighting and urged humanitarian groups to intervene.
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Jonglei State information minister John Samuel Manyuon also condemned the fighting and ordered state youth to withdraw immediately.
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"This is a cycle of violence that has been going on for many years, and we want that support from the national (government) and our partners to see the solution in ending (it)," Manyuon said.
The Jonglei youths also attacked a military barracks. Military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai said the "rebellion" would be dealt with accordingly.
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Pollsters struggle to explain failures of US presidential forecasts
Ramin Skibba
Nature volume 539, page 339 (2016)Cite this article
Most surveys did not predict Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump outperformed Hillary Clinton in several states thought to be her strongholds. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty
What went wrong? That's the question that many political pollsters in the United States are asking themselves in the aftermath of the 8 November presidential election. Republican candidate Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide, but for months most polls forecast a victory for his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Many types of poll, including randomized telephone polls and online polls that people opt into, indicated a tightening of the gap between the two candidates in the weeks leading up to the election — but still pointed to a Clinton win.
"The industry is definitely going to be spending a lot of time doing some soul-searching about what happened and where do we go from here," says Chris Jackson, head of US public polling at Ipsos, a global market-research and polling firm based in Paris.
The most recent national polls — including those conducted by ABC News/Washington Post, Ipsos, YouGov and Fox News — all estimated a Clinton lead of 3–4% over Trump. Minor-party candidates, such as Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party, were forecast to win single-digit support. Yet as this article was published, as the last votes were being counted, Clinton leads the popular vote by a razor-thin margin: just 0.2%. The majority of states have tipped for Trump, awarding him their valuable electoral-college votes and ensuring his victory.
Poll aggregators such as FiveThirtyEight and The New York Times nonetheless forecast Clinton's chances of victory at 71% or higher, and The Huffington Post predicted a Clinton landslide. This dramatic polling failure could have been due to factors such as poorly assessed likely voters, people misreporting their voting intentions, or pollsters inadequately surveying some segments of the population."It's a big surprise that such a wide variety of polls using such a wide variety of methodologies have all the errors fall in the same direction," says Claudia Deane, vice-president of research at the Pew Research Center in Washington DC.
The University of Southern California Dornsife/Los Angeles Times presidential election poll, which included an online panel of nearly 3,000 people, was the only major national poll to forecast a Trump lead days before the election. "But we're not sure we were right either," says Jill Darling, survey director at the university's Center for Economic and Social Research in Los Angeles. She notes that Trump did not defeat Clinton by 3%, as her group's most recent poll predicted.
On a state level, pollsters forecast Clinton's chances as higher than Trump's in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Florida — which the current US president, Barack Obama, had won in 2012 — and yet Trump managed to win them this year. They expected Clinton to easily defeat Trump in Virginia and Michigan, but the races in those states became nail-biters. In Wisconsin, Trump not only pulled off a surprise upset, but did so by a whole percentage point.Most of the midwestern states, including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, tilted towards Trump, despite predictions to the contrary. Jackson says that polls might not have reached enough rural white people without university educations, who are concentrated in this 'rust belt', where manufacturing is on the decline. Exit polls show that this population accounted for a large number of Trump voters.
With each election, pollsters have a harder and harder time reaching people. Now that Americans have fewer landlines and more mobile phones with caller ID, they don't respond to calls from unfamiliar numbers. Online surveys also struggle to recruit sufficient numbers of participants. To make a statistically significant estimate, for every poll, pollsters want at least 1,000 participants who are representative of the general population with respect to gender, race, education, income level and geographic distribution.Pollsters strive to assess not just who supports whom, but also who will be likely to vote on Election Day, which is not a national holiday in the United States. This year, 119 million people voted, accounting for 55.6% of registered voters, according to Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. That is the lowest percentage since the 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
There were also more undecided voters this year than in previous presidential elections, perhaps because Trump and Clinton were historically unpopular candidates. Undecided voters may show up less in polls, yet may tilt towards one candidate more than others, Darling says. Only 53% of poll respondents felt comfortable disclosing the candidate they would vote for, lower than the 70% in earlier elections, she adds. Furthermore, people overestimate their own likelihood of voting."It seems like Trump voters were more enthusiastic about turnout and less enthusiastic about responding to polls. That's a deadly combination," says Andrew Gelman, a statistician and political scientist at Columbia University in New York City.Polling experts in Britain conducted a formal inquiry following polling failures in last year's general election, when polls underestimated the turnout of older, Conservative voters. Now, in the United States, the American Association for Public Opinion Research has already named an ad-hoc committee to dig into the data and conduct a post-mortem on the election polls. They aim to produce findings by next May, Deane says.
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