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I'm speculating there's a polling bias toward people who are older and still willing to answer a potential spam call and talk to a pollster (which I for one no longer am willing to do in this day and age of constant junk calls). If that's true, how on earth can you get a representative sample?

 

The guvvmint ain't gonna tell me whut ta dew

Specially when they're tellin me not to lynch n****ers, yuh know?

FREEDUM!!

 

The polls themselves were quite good this year and showed the Democrats performing strongly. Where 538 got lost in the weeds was when it added historical trends and pundit predictions into the model. (To his partial credit, Nate Silver wrote a couple of articles before the election pointing out the discrepancy and acknowledging it as a potential flaw.)

 

GQP: The treasonous party of bigots, racists, and Nazis, always on the wrong side of every issue. Always.

 

You forgot, "FREEDUM FOR ME!!!, (not so much for you)"

One of the most beautiful things in the US that I think people take for granted is that IDEALLY its always a two way street, what the government/other side gets, you get the exact same thing. Which is what "equal protection under the law" is supposed to address. Of course that sounds great and in practice not always there, but at least its there most of the time.

 

The Trump effect really strikes me as odd. I wonder if we would've seen the same thing in 1930s Germany. There may have been polling there for all I know, not sure how developed of a science it was.

 

The algorithm was probably not quite as well calibrated in the 1930's.

I don't think the Nazis cared. Nor do some willfully blind folks now.

 

Who ever thought Florida was turning blue?

 

The House passed a $858 billion defense package today, which was $45 billion more than POTUS asked.
As a veteran and fan of the military, I say in all sincerity "Why?"

 

That bill also, apparently, allows Supreme Court spouses to keep their employment private. I wonder why that was added?

And the senate better fucking kill the provision.

 

I know this is rhetorical on your end, but it’s all about stuffing pork into a bill that no one will question. Even if there is a bridge to nowhere, no one will ever find it/dig into the bill deep enough to find it.

 

I think aid to Ukraine is in this puppy, which would account for the $45 billion add-on.