Interesting that they are using Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” as background music, which memorably featured in the soundtrack of The Sting, a movie all about the long con. In other words the winner of the GA recount will be John McCain.
Think that is probably mostly true. But I’d guess some of it is them knowing the other person is not going to do anything so they are puffing up. Even back before everyone had cameras we had those types.
There is also a very widespread belief in America that rules matter, which is probably good for the functioning of society but absolutely not true in most cases.
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Seeing these maskless face to face shouting encounters is like more terrifying than the fascist BS the deplorables are spewing. It makes me cringe.
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Yea there are a lot of “touch me I dare you”'s no matter if there is a camera or not
Locals to Ponce de Leon, FL pronounce it like “LEE-AWN” which kinda ruins the whole flavor to it imo. Back to on topic responses…
Dope can’t even get the red white and blue hearts right.
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On the one hand, I don’t entirely understand the polls-were-wrong storyline. This year was definitely a little weird, given that the vote share margins were often fairly far off from the polls (including in some high-profile examples such as Wisconsin and Florida). But at the same time, a high percentage of states (likely 48 out of 50) were “called” correctly, as was the overall Electoral College and popular vote winner (Biden). And that’s usually how polls are judged: Did they identify the right winner?
On the other hand, evaluating how close the polls came to the actual vote share margins is a better way to judge polls, so I’m glad that people are doing that.
And yet, the margins by which the polls missed — underestimating President Trump by what will likely end up being 3 to 4 percentage points in national and swing state polls — is actually pretty normal by historical standards.
However, there are nevertheless reasons to be concerned about the polls going forward, especially if it’s hard to get a truly representative sample of people on the phone.
Finally, there’s a slightly meta point here: Voters and the media need to recalibrate their expectations around polls — not necessarily because anything’s changed, but because those expectations demanded an unrealistic level of precision — while simultaneously resisting the urge to “throw all the polls out.”
So, yeah, it’s complicated.
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So this isn’t Nate, right?
If you can’t tell the difference, does it matter?
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Yes.
One is Nate and the other is doing an amazing job of imitating him.
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Okay let me clarify.
If you can’t tell the difference AND YOU’LL NEVER KNOW
I mean if it’s not Nate, why write a 5 paragraph essay on the musings of polls? Gimmicks are usually one sentence to make a joke.
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It’s okay to mispronounce it, because we misspelled it first.
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It’s not like he ever swung by the old place, right? I know he used to post there, but not in the last decade or so that I know of.
A gimmick replying in earnest to another gimmick is some next-level meta-gimmick shit that I am not prepared to try and unpack.
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Both probably run by the same poster too.
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Yeah. But the posts seem at surface-level reasonable enough to be Nate’s. Plus the post’s content seems consistent with a recent posting on 538.
It’s probably an incredible impersonation but you never know, right?
ROFL
“I wish you were 18, I’d fucking remove your head!”
“I am, bitch!”
(does nothing)
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The two seconds of silence when she drops the bald-bomb are incredible. An adult lifetime of pain moves across his face, it’s joyous.
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