Jeff Isaac has an "essay":http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/public-inquiry-and-democracy-should-the-national-science-foundation-fund-political-science-research at _Dissent._ bq. I join
A rather lengthier response to "Jacqueline Stevens' op-ed":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/opinion/sunday/political-scientists-are-lousy-forecasters.html. Speaking to