EPTsadly misinformation gets echoed around all too often; and there's no good way to prevent the rapid spread of misinformation.
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
sadly misinformation gets echoed around all too often; and there's no good way to prevent the rapid spread of misinformation. | ||
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
On November 06 2016 08:54 Nyxisto wrote: I cannot fathom how someone can see this website and for a second think that this is 'interesting'. 50% in Spain and Portugal and 70% in Germany? lmao Well if you like Trump it's interesting in that it makes you feel better about yourself. User was warned for this post | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
On November 06 2016 08:55 zlefin wrote: Indeed, it is an obviously bad trash site. I see no reason to use such for anything other than partisanship, or laughing at it's stupidity. sadly misinformation gets echoed around all too often; and there's no good way to prevent the rapid spread of misinformation. It's a good map to figure out the ratio of online trolls to legit voters. In the US it's fairly competitive because the site has a lot of visibility and the trolls get drowned out, In Europe it's only people voting who live on 4chan and alt right sides, and in Asia it gets a little more representative again because the trolls apparently haven't yet reached across the language barrier Nonetheless in actual representative polls Trump loses everywhere but in Russia and China. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On November 06 2016 08:57 ZeaL. wrote: Well if you like Trump it's interesting in that it makes you feel better about yourself. Which is important when you don't have policy or governance reasoning behind your pick. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
Trump's camp gets mad civil employees stay late to make sure everyone can cast their ballot. The only thing that makes me more angry than voter suppression is when people bitch about the votes they couldn't suppress. | ||
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Slaughter
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Plansix
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ChristianS
United States3188 Posts
But this conclusion was based on a few assumptions which might be questionable, notably: a) the polls accurately represent the race in Nevada, or might even be a little Democrat-leaning, b) races tend to move in parallel, so if someone's gaining somewhere, they're probably gaining everywhere else too. There seems to be a decent argument for polls being somewhat inaccurate in Nevada specifically (remember Harry Reid's last reelection?). It also seems like there's a reasonable argument for Clinton support in such a diverse state as Nevada being somewhat less elastic than a whiter state like NH. Models like 538's don't account for early voting, as well, so it's possible even if the race has tightened that Hillary already banked a big enough lead before that to make up for losses from the FBI stuff. | ||
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kwizach
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On November 06 2016 08:42 NukeD wrote: Interesting link on worldwide Trump v Hillary polls: worldwide.vote ...or, if you want to see more scientific results, Clinton wins every country except Russia: link. edit: my bad, Nyxisto had already mentioned it :-) | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
We are going to start hearing about hispanics voting more than once either tomorrow or Monday. Guaranteed. | ||
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Belisarius
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Sermokala
United States13909 Posts
the next few years are going to be rocky as hell if trump wins but I don't think he will completely ruin the nation or cause a civil war. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On November 06 2016 09:55 Sermokala wrote: I think a High school education or a GED should be a requirement to vote. But at the same time you should be signed up to vote when you get that GED or high school diploma. the next few years are going to be rocky as hell if trump wins but I don't think he will completely ruin the nation or cause a civil war. I'm not sure that'd be constitutional, I'd be inclined to guess not. I estimate the net long term damage of a Trump presidency to be 0.5% of gdp total (including the effects of institutional damage, some of which may take some time to show). of course such estimates are incredibly unreliable. and would be hard to detect given annual gdp growth is around 2% | ||
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6635 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On November 06 2016 10:15 jello_biafra wrote: Someone may have just tried to kill Trump...not 100% sure what just happened there though It sounds like a fight in the crowd caused the SS to rush him off the stage. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
we probably won't know what happened in much detail for a day or two. as the secret service is gonna be questioning the guy awhile, and won't release much detail until they know whether there's more related threats. indeed we're not even sure it's an attack on trump. Could just be something else happened and the SS took him off stage as a precaution. | ||
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jello_biafra
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DemigodcelpH
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On November 05 2016 12:28 plasmidghost wrote: That last statement is something I've always wondered about, why people don't see this. You can argue that Hillary is controlled by her corporate donors, but Trump is the establishment that funds the candidates. If she's the puppet, he's the puppet master Trump supporters tend to only see what they want to see. He was right when he said he could shoot someone and they'd still vote for him. That's the scary part about it all. | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
On November 06 2016 09:55 Sermokala wrote: I think a High school education or a GED should be a requirement to vote. But at the same time you should be signed up to vote when you get that GED or high school diploma. the next few years are going to be rocky as hell if trump wins but I don't think he will completely ruin the nation or cause a civil war. Honestly, I think we should give everyone the right to vote as high schoolers. Maybe at age 16. And have every school year a big point made of a field trip to the polls, where everyone eligible gets to vote and gets in the habit. That way we would have a less abysmal participation rate by the young, which leads to policies that favor the old. | ||
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