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Svnla

Lifer
Nov 10, 2003
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CBS News - AZ is leaning to Trump and PA is leaning to Trump too. Things don't look good for Hillary.
 

agent00f

Lifer
Jun 9, 2016
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You are speaking the truth my friend. I can never understand the support behind Bernie Sanders. He is evil. Well I'm glad i've seen things with my own eyes.

Most of cuban immigrants in fl are descendants of the upper class on the wrong end of a revolution.
 

Kazukian

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Aug 8, 2016
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All those polls we followed for months...worth shit and totally wrong.
How?

They kept tweaking them in favor of Hillary, leading questions, and people weren't being honest with the pollsters...

"Let's just over sample women and democrats..."
 

Perknose

Forum Director & Omnipotent Overlord
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I imagined Trump must be shitting his pants realizing now that he is responsible for running this country.

He'll franchise out the position, for a nice little management fee.
 

Imp

Lifer
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All those polls we followed for months...worth shit and totally wrong.
How?

They've been shit for years. This, Brexit, even the 2012 and 2008 elections, I think. They were making those two elections seem close but Obummer won pretty hands down.

I lost my faith in economics and statistics a while ago. They're probably reasonable to +/-10% which is garbage in races that get decided by a couple.
 

Bitek

Lifer
Aug 2, 2001
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The upside for Dems is that the Trump dog caught the car.

He clearly has no idea what he's doing, plans are less than paper thin, and he's made absurd and impossible promises he has to keep.

It also spares the dems from defending in 2020, which can set the next decade. Just need to survive the next four.

There is also a clear message that obstruction works. You got cheated out of a scotus pick. Take the gloves off and punch them back 10x harder.

Trump is a rich target for investigation. He's gotten a pass in this fucked up election, time to tear him apart.

The status quo is fine. There are no burning issues (unlike 2008) so getting nothing done is just fine. Dems own nothing, si are accountable for nothing. Destroy Trump and build up for 2020.
 

LegendKiller

Lifer
Mar 5, 2001
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All those polls we followed for months...worth shit and totally wrong.
How?

I've said it before and I will keep repeating it.

1. Skewed by using past elections, not adjusting for current voting trends. Using 2012/2008 black turnout is moronic.

2. Polls using idiotic sampling, such as D+15, women + 10, college + 20...etc. Throw all of that shit out.

3. Fishbowl politics - non-anonymous polling will *NOT* deliver the same result. Period.

4. Reliance on polling aggregators such as 538. It is Garbage In - Garbage out. His adjustments are a joke, they do not reweight the polls to more reliable numbers. It was obvious that the ABC poll was created to offset the LA Times poll in the RCP average, their weightings were idiotic.

Nate Silver has blown 3 major calls now. His career should be over, but people like Eski will be willing to fellate him endlessly because they supposedly have some magical statistical knowledge.

Many more.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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The upside for Dems is that the Trump dog caught the car.

He clearly has no idea what he's doing, plans are less than paper thin, and he's made absurd and impossible promises he has to keep.

It also spares the dems from defending in 2020, which can set the next decade. Just need to survive the next four.

There is also a clear message that obstruction works. You got cheated out of a scotus pick. Take the gloves off and punch them back 10x harder.

Trump is a rich target for investigation. He's gotten a pass in this fucked up election, time to tear him apart.

The status quo is fine. There are no burning issues (unlike 2008) so getting nothing done is just fine. Dems own nothing, si are accountable for nothing. Destroy Trump and build up for 2020.
Nope, the Dems will have no committee chairs, no capacity to stop anything unless the Reps continue backstabbing each other. Okay, so there is a chance. Ginsberg's looking at four more years.
 

Commodus

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Oct 9, 2004
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So does this mean Hillary will never run again?

She's 70 now... she might have a shot in 2020, but that'd be pushing it.

Barring a surprise recovery for Clinton, the main consolation: Trump could ironically increase Democrat chances of regaining some control of Congress in 2018. Depends on just how much Trump's inexperience and ego hurts his party.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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He'll franchise out the position, for a nice little management fee.

Yeah.
He flat out stated he would get two people to help him. One for foreign issues, one for domestic. He's just gonna make bullshit speeches, manage his businesses, and have lots of fancy dinners.
 

Svnla

Lifer
Nov 10, 2003
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All those polls we followed for months...worth shit and totally wrong.
How?

Pollsters and pundits ignored the silent majority that pissed off at business as usual/corruption in DC and now they are paying the steep price.