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  • #61
    Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

    Originally posted by Rover View Post
    Handy I saw you trying to deal with the President of the Bedwetter's Caucus, Scooby yesterday.
    Would you please stop with stuff like this? As a favor? You aren't a troll, but it makes you sound like one.
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    • #62
      Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

      Originally posted by joecct View Post
      Even if they want him out of their club?
      "Promote up and out," the time-honored way to get rid of a jerk and why so many unpleasant people wind up way above their Peter Principle-dictated level of incompetence.

      There's something to that.
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      • #63
        Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Would you please stop with stuff like this? As a favor? You aren't a troll, but it makes you sound like one.
        Kep my apologies but Scoobs is an idiot. I'm hopeful you're feeling a little better about the election however. If there's one bright spot in the self centered ramblings of my postings, its pointing out that excessive nervousness does in fact hurt the movement. As the great song goes.."paranoia strikes deep. Into your lives it will creep. Starts when you're always afraid..."
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        • #64
          Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

          Originally posted by Rover View Post
          Kep my apologies but Scoobs is an idiot.
          Anyone who disagrees with Trump is an idiot or a loser or a coward. It's not a good look.
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          • #65
            Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

            Originally posted by Rover View Post
            excessive nervousness does in fact hurt the movement
            As does over-confidence. As one is Charybdis, the other is Scylla.

            The polls need no narrative -- simply look at them. Hillary's probability in the 538 Polls Plus model has varied as follows:

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89.2 ... 8/14   Height of bounce plus Trump's terrible weeks
56.2 ... 9/20   Low point of erosion plus Hillary's terrible week
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            • #66
              Originally posted by joecct View Post
              Even if they want him out of their club?
              I thought about that. But the ability to embarrass him by shooting him down would outweigh any downside of keeping him around.

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              • #67
                Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

                Nate is reading the Cafe.
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                • #68
                  Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

                  Questions, because I don't know: What is the best mechanism we know for predetermining turnout and to what degree has it been successful in the past? And if there is such a thing, what does it say?

                  Seems like that's the key and the hardest thing to predict.

                  With high negatives for both candidates the surface primary driver seems like it's to "stop" the other side, which I see as a negative motivation vs. a positive one, like a strong feeling for "Hope and Change", for example. My head tells me that a negative motivation isn't nearly as good and is much more easy to blow off on election day for the average citizen. Because of that, I feel like actual turnout could be suppressed as things stand today.

                  Which could be totally wrong, as for example, it's true that there's massive interest in the debates. But then again, there would be as much or more massive interest in Kanye throwing down with Taylor Swift. It kind of has some of that train wreck quality that you can't stop watching about it.
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                  Other than Wisko McBadgerton and Badger Bob, who is universally loved by all?

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                  • #69
                    Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

                    Originally posted by Wisko McBadgerton View Post
                    Questions, because I don't know: What is the best mechanism we know for predetermining turnout and to what degree has it been successful in the past? And if there is such a thing, what does it say?
                    It's the hardest thing there is, and with a split electorate like ours it's inconveniently decisive.

                    The first approximation is easy: on-cycle elections have similar turnout; as do off-cycle elections. Presidential elections have a much larger and more Democratic electorate. Think of that as the mean. The variance is explained by local effects like voter anger, or scandals, or the state of the economy, or incumbent fatigue. If you can figure out a good system for predicting the balance of all those things you are going to be a rich man.
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                    • #70
                      Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

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                      • #71
                        Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

                        Mark Cuban will be in the front row for HRC. For tD - yep, Gennifer Flowers.

                        One bag or two bags of popcorn?
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                        • #72
                          Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

                          Articles like this one in the NYT would be the most effective way to discredit Trump to his own supporters, but his supporters are too stupid or blind or naive to be able to grasp the truth. And that truth happens to be he is a lying puddle of diarrhea who is treating most of them like the rubes they apparently are. If nothing else, I think Clinton's inability to put a 1972 or 1984 style beatdown on Trump is because people who want to vote for her DO listen to the detractors and CAN find reasons to wonder about her. Some are legitimate, most are not. But Trumps minions can't be bothered to think critically. That such a massive portion of the American public is so emotionally and logically stunted is why we're probably effed as a civilization anyway.

                          I've always believed the undecided voter was a myth. In one presidential election in my life (and there have been a lot by now) I went into the post convention stretch not completely convinced who I would vote for (ended up being GHW Bush), but every other time I knew by the springtime who I wanted to vote for and certainly by the convention I had decided. I know that is anecdotal and not evidence, but I doubt there really are people who are still weighing a choice between Clinton or Trump. Perhaps a few are going back and forth between one of them or a third party vote, or one of them and sitting out the election altogether. But whatever undecideds there are, I hope they watch the debate and I hope Clinton crushes him and then takes a figurative whiz on the ashes.

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by joecct View Post
                            Mark Cuban will be in the front row for HRC. For tD - yep, Gennifer Flowers.

                            One bag or two bags of popcorn?
                            Is that confirmed? I thought tD just tweeted that as a response to Mark Cuban a al "oh yeah?!?! How 'bout I just bring Gennifer Flowers?"

                            Did Trump ever respond - even flippantly - to Cuban's offer to donate $10 million to a charity of his choice if he sat down with Cuban to explain his policies?

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                              Is that confirmed? I thought tD just tweeted that as a response to Mark Cuban a al "oh yeah?!?! How 'bout I just bring Gennifer Flowers?"

                              Did Trump ever respond - even flippantly - to Cuban's offer to donate $10 million to a charity of his choice if he sat down with Cuban to explain his policies?
                              Just saw a tweet that it is confirmed by the tD camp.
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                              • #75
                                Re: Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

                                Yeah, just noticed that. So ridiculous.

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