Jay Cost

Jay Cost
Residence Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Virginia
University of Chicago
Occupation Political pundit, blogger
Employer The Weekly Standard
Website The Weekly Standard

Jay Cost is a conservative elections analyst,[1] political historian, and pundit who writes for The Weekly Standard. Cost previously wrote "HorseRaceBlog" at RealClearPolitics.[2] Cost is also an author, having written Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic.

Personal life and education

Cost received a B.A. in Government from the University of Virginia, as well as an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago.[3] Cost currently serves as a part-time professor at Robert Morris University.[4]

Career

In 2005, while working on his dissertation at the University of Chicago, Cost joined the staff of RealClearPolitics. Cost became a writer for The Weekly Standard in 2010.[2] Although his education background is in political science, Cost claims that he has come to rely more on his reading of the history of American elections than on political science and public opinion polling.[5] In 2012 Cost released a book, Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic, in which Cost argued that the Democratic Party has been taken over by interest groups.[6] In 2012, Cost repeatedly called Barack Obama the underdog in the 2012 presidential election.[7][8][9][10] Barack Obama ultimately won the election, and PPP's Tom Jensen and New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait criticized Cost's skepticism of the polls.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Frederick, Don; Andrew Malcolm (9 March 2008). "The only sure bet: A senator will win". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 Cost, Jay (31 August 2010). "Farewell!". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Jay Cost". Amazon. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Jay P. Cost". Robert Morris University. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  5. ↑ Foster, Daniel (5 November 2012). "Chomsky on Nate Silver and Jay Cost". National Review Online. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Have Democrats Lost Sight of Their Founding Principle?". PBS. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Cost, Jay (19 April 2012). "Morning Jay: Obama the Underdog". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  8. ↑ Cost, Jay (20 July 2012). "Morning Jay: Are the Polls Skewed Toward Obama?". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  9. ↑ Cost, Jay (8 August 2012). "Weekly Standard: It's Romney's Race To Win". NPR. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  10. ↑ Plumer, Brad (5 November 2012). "Pundit accountability: The official 2012 election prediction thread". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  11. ↑ Zengerle, Jason (7 November 2012). "The Polls Ultimately Ended Up Making Sense — But Next Time, Who Knows?". New York Magazine. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  12. ↑ Chait, Jonathan (17 April 2014). "Why the New Data Journalism Really is Partisan". New York Magazine. Retrieved 5 May 2014.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.