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  • Pumpkin Eater P
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    P Pumpkin Eater wrote on last edited by
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    Well GA was not a toss up. Trump won Ohio by a wide margin. NC too. We all knew TX wasn't a toss up.

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      Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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      Not sure what your definition of "toss up" is... or what your post was in response to for that matter.

      NC was separated by 177,000 votes out of 4.5mm. Georgia 130,000 out of 4mm. Those are close, competitive results which is my definition of toss up.

      Ohio was widely predicted for Trump albeit not by the margin he rolled up.

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        @mld-woody said:

        The real America polls or the liberal cuck polls?

        It doesn't matter Woody . Seems to me the consensus of every pore had Donald Trump losing by 4.

        The last few days Democrats have been on MSNBC taking an early Victory lap.

        WSS

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        MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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        @westside-steve said:

        It doesn't matter Woody . Seems to me the consensus of every pore had Donald Trump losing by 4.

        The last few days Democrats have been on MSNBC taking an early Victory lap.

        WSS

        This seems like an anomaly. if anything, a chance to rework the formula

        Though many will take it as validation of their anti science / anti academic beliefs.

        "they say Clinton would win, why should I believe them about the climate?"

        Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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          @westside-steve said:

          It doesn't matter Woody . Seems to me the consensus of every pore had Donald Trump losing by 4.

          The last few days Democrats have been on MSNBC taking an early Victory lap.

          WSS

          This seems like an anomaly. if anything, a chance to rework the formula

          Though many will take it as validation of their anti science / anti academic beliefs.

          "they say Clinton would win, why should I believe them about the climate?"

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          W Westside Steve wrote on last edited by
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          @mld-woody said:

          This seems like an anomaly. if anything, a chance to rework the formula

          Though many will take it as validation of their anti science / anti academic beliefs.

          "they say Clinton would win, why should I believe them about the climate?"

          As I was partly paying attention to the news coverage today on MSNBC I heard a black woman panelis bemoan the fact that and this is almost a direct quote, as journalists I feel we didn't do enough. As journalist? Please.

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            Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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            One last poll comment...

            There was one in 538's, national poll, data base that "got it right". The final Marist poll, an "A" rated poll put HRC up by one in their raw data, but their adjusted number was Trump +1.

            http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/national-polls/

            A click on the embedded Marist link takes you to the article associated with the poll's release. It opens with:

            A majority of voters believe Hillary Clinton has done something illegal, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll days before the presidential election.

            A total of 83 percent of likely voters believe that Clinton did something wrong – 51 percent saying she did something illegal and 32 percent saying she something unethical but not illegal. Just 14 percent said she’s done nothing wrong.

            By comparison, 79 percent think Donald Trump did something wrong, though not nearly as many think he did something illegal. Just 26 percent think he’s done something illegal, while 53 percent think he’s dome something unethical but not illegal. Just 17 percent think he’s done nothing wrong.

            http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article112635048.html

            I'm sure the election will be dissected 20 ways to Sunday over the coming weeks, but at a glance this could be as close to a rationale I've heard.

            The late Comey letter impact? I'll leave that for others to parse... but if you dig into Marist's preceding Sept. poll (see page 14) "Soft Dems" were far more favorable towards HRC than Soft Repubs were toward Trump.

            http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article103597232.ece/BINARY/The%20full%20McClatchy-Marist%20poll

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              W Westside Steve wrote on last edited by
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              Plus gee whiz thanks for bringing up global warming again.

              I think all it proves is that for all their bragging and puffery They Don't Know Jack Schitt about polling data.

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                MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                538 predicted everything correctly last year. So clearly they know something.

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                  W Westside Steve wrote on last edited by Westside Steve
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                  By the way tour out of hundreds of prognosticators a few of them will get the NFL scores pretty close.

                  And they still call it gambling.

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                    AxeA Axe wrote on last edited by
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                    I know people that predicted 330 electoral votes for Hillary 😁😆

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                    • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

                      @westside-steve said:

                      It doesn't matter Woody . Seems to me the consensus of every pore had Donald Trump losing by 4.

                      The last few days Democrats have been on MSNBC taking an early Victory lap.

                      WSS

                      This seems like an anomaly. if anything, a chance to rework the formula

                      Though many will take it as validation of their anti science / anti academic beliefs.

                      "they say Clinton would win, why should I believe them about the climate?"

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                      DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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                      @mld-woody said:

                      This seems like an anomaly. if anything, a chance to rework the formula

                      Though many will take it as validation of their anti science / anti academic beliefs.

                      "they say Clinton would win, why should I believe them about the climate?"

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                        I know people that predicted 330 electoral votes for Hillary 😁😆

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                        bbedwardB bbedward wrote on last edited by
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                        @axe said:

                        I know people that predicted 330 electoral votes for Hillary 😁😆

                        LA Times predicted 350+ yesterday morning, but they said Ohio might be close

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                          The real America polls or the liberal cuck polls?

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                          hoortaH hoorta wrote on last edited by
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                          @mld-woody said:

                          The real America polls or the liberal cuck polls?

                          Ha- they didn't do enough polling in Hicksville USA, Farmer City, Illinois, or Mount Olive, North Carolina. & don't forget without that real America, you'd need your own victory garden out back, as well as a few chickens to survive.

                          I was jumping back and forth between Fox and the Communist News Network, and it was almost comical (at least if you were pulling for Trump). It was like- how can this be happening? As state after state went red. They had all but given HRC the presidency as a done deal last week. Waited for 30-60 minutes to call a state for Trump after every other news outlet had. Around what was it 2:30 or so? She's not giving up- there's still a chance. Then- oh, HRC just called Trump to concede- our bad.

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                            @axe said:

                            I know people that predicted 330 electoral votes for Hillary 😁😆

                            LA Times predicted 350+ yesterday morning, but they said Ohio might be close

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                            MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                            @bbedward said:

                            LA Times predicted 350+ yesterday morning, but they said Ohio might be close

                            Well she won the popular vote, and there were a lot of very tight states. It doesn't take a ton of votes to swing a ton of electoral college votes, in the grand scheme of things.

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                            • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

                              @bbedward said:

                              LA Times predicted 350+ yesterday morning, but they said Ohio might be close

                              Well she won the popular vote, and there were a lot of very tight states. It doesn't take a ton of votes to swing a ton of electoral college votes, in the grand scheme of things.

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                              hoortaH hoorta wrote on last edited by
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                              @mld-woody said:

                              Well she won the popular vote, and there were a lot of very tight states. It doesn't take a ton of votes to swing a ton of electoral college votes, in the grand scheme of things.

                              Granted- but it's not the first time someone has won the popular vote, and lost the election. I'm sure the crybabies are going to push for getting rid of the electoral college after this one.

                              I'd be in favor of breaking up California's 55 votes. Hillary won Cali and NY- those 2 states put you 31% on your way to 270.

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                                @mld-woody said:

                                Well she won the popular vote, and there were a lot of very tight states. It doesn't take a ton of votes to swing a ton of electoral college votes, in the grand scheme of things.

                                Granted- but it's not the first time someone has won the popular vote, and lost the election. I'm sure the crybabies are going to push for getting rid of the electoral college after this one.

                                I'd be in favor of breaking up California's 55 votes. Hillary won Cali and NY- those 2 states put you 31% on your way to 270.

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                                bbedwardB bbedward wrote on last edited by
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                                @hoorta said:

                                Granted- but it's not the first time someone has won the popular vote, and lost the election. I'm sure the crybabies are going to push for getting rid of the electoral college after this one.

                                Even though they've been saying the Democrats have a ridiculous advantage with the electoral map due to shifting demographics.

                                Without the electoral college honestly California might as well be the only state that votes for the president - I'm up for reform but there has to be some kind of system to represent the rest of America too (like the electoral college)

                                Unlike 2000 though, Trump won the electoral college in a landslide.

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                                  @mld-woody said:

                                  Well she won the popular vote, and there were a lot of very tight states. It doesn't take a ton of votes to swing a ton of electoral college votes, in the grand scheme of things.

                                  Granted- but it's not the first time someone has won the popular vote, and lost the election. I'm sure the crybabies are going to push for getting rid of the electoral college after this one.

                                  I'd be in favor of breaking up California's 55 votes. Hillary won Cali and NY- those 2 states put you 31% on your way to 270.

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                                  MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                                  @hoorta said:

                                  Granted- but it's not the first time someone has won the popular vote, and lost the election. I'm sure the crybabies are going to push for getting rid of the electoral college after this one.

                                  I'd be in favor of breaking up California's 55 votes. Hillary won Cali and NY- those 2 states put you 31% on your way to 270.

                                  Well why should a vote in a big city essentially count for less?

                                  It is also funny that the founding fathers created the electoral college to basically prevent this exact type of thing from happening.

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                                    C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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                                    wrong.

                                    if it was by popular vote alone - the states with comparatively small populations

                                    would be insignificant in every presidential election. Why should THEIR vote

                                    be counted for nothing?

                                    http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/07/why-the-founders-created-the-electoral-college/

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                                      wrong.

                                      if it was by popular vote alone - the states with comparatively small populations

                                      would be insignificant in every presidential election. Why should THEIR vote

                                      be counted for nothing?

                                      http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/07/why-the-founders-created-the-electoral-college/

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                                      Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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                                      @calfoxwc said:

                                      wrong.

                                      if it was by popular vote alone - the states with comparatively small populations would be insignificant in every presidential election. Why should THEIR vote

                                      be counted for nothing?

                                      http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/07/why-the-founders-created-the-electoral-college/

                                      I know there's a new electoral college thread, but...

                                      Wrong question, cal. The correct one is why should the smallest states' citizens' votes count disproportionately more than the largest's?

                                      Your reference is very selective in its citations of Hamilton's intent and ignores his actions when he saw the Electoral College being bastardized, but one thing it does do is say your position is incorrect:

                                      The system empowers states, especially smaller ones, because it incentivizes presidential candidates to appeal to places that may be far away from population centers.

                                      But as much as I love it when your own references support the opposite of your posts, I'll get into that in the new thread... so there's no reason for you to tell me how I'm wrong here.

                                      @bbedward said:

                                      Even though they've been saying the Democrats have a ridiculous advantage with the electoral map due to shifting demographics.

                                      Without the electoral college honestly California might as well be the only state that votes for the president - I'm up for reform but there has to be some kind of system to represent the rest of America too (like the electoral college)

                                      Unlike 2000 though, Trump won the electoral college in a landslide.

                                      Ditto on the "see you in the other thread", bb... including some information you apparently may lack for a change.

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                                        P Pumpkin Eater wrote on last edited by
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                                        The polls in the states trump won were off by 7 points when compared to the actual results (on average)

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                                          C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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                                          Here is what I said, Tour:


                                          "wrong.

                                          if it was by popular vote alone - the states with comparatively small populations would be insignificant in every presidential election. Why should THEIR vote

                                          be counted for nothing?

                                          http://dailysignal.c...ctoral-college/"


                                          Wrong question, cal. The correct one is why should the smallest states' citizens' votes count disproportionately more than the largest's?


                                          Your reference is very selective in its citations of Hamilton's intent and ignores his actions when he saw the Electoral College being bastardized, but one thing it does do is say your position is incorrect:

                                          The system empowers states, especially smaller ones, because it incentivizes presidential candidates to appeal to places that may be far away from population centers.


                                          But as much as I love it when your own references support the opposite of your posts, I'll get into that in the new thread... so there's no reason for you to tell me how I'm wrong here.

                                          *************************************

                                          oh, yes there is. Look at what I said, and what you said. In effect, we are saying the same thing. The electoral college

                                          lends still-important status to states with less population, away from population centers like giant cities, so presidential candidates

                                          still need to take them into account.


                                          Tell me, how is it that you think your are correct, and I was wrong?

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