Squash is my preferred sport. It’s a complete burst of energy, it needs agility, strength, endurance, perseverance, and A LOT OF FUEL to burn. The average rally is of 7 to 12 seconds for a normal / pro player, and the average distance is around 1,000 meters/yards per game. I usually play 8 to 12 games in a 90 minutes period. On average, the active part of the game is around 55%. So bottom line, I sprint like crazy for 50mn and cover a distance of 8km to 12km (5 to 7.5 miles) in that period.
Continue reading ‘Barack and Hillary should play squash’
Yesterday, during the “Potomac Tuesday“, we saw Barack Obama pass Hillary Clinton again in the race to the nomination at the Democratic convention.
Continue reading ‘1,312 delegates to go !’
Half a billion in advertising
The subject of the candidates’ campaigns finance and budgets have been discussed a lot recently. I decided to dig a little deeper, checking the previous elections as well as the ratios to their success (or failures …). Here is the spreadsheet I created.
Continue reading ‘A $572M absurdity: the presidential campaigns fundraising’
Notes: all figures are from February 7th, 10am
As said yesterday, I started doing some maths on the ratios, averages, representations of each Democratic candidate during the super-tuesday. My aim was to illustrate what I claimed two days ago: all votes are not equal.
Continue reading ‘Doing my math on the delegates’ count: WTF ??!!’
Following yesterday’s post on the difference between super-delegates and pledged delegates and the fact that the number of delegates per State is not linear (proportional) from one state to another, I am analyzing the results of Super-Tuesday and discover some strange numbers. I will post as soon as the results of yesterday primaries are officials.
Continue reading ‘Who really won Super-Tuesday ? The Super-Delegates.’
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