Does this make any sense?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 3:55pm
So Biden is surging in the polls.
Why?
What has happened to cause this surge?
The man who is running on 'electability' got crushed in Nevada.
This comes after underperforming the polls in Iowa and N.H.
Why would any of this cause a surge in approval?
It makes no sense.
That's why I think Biden will underperform the polls again, and will be lucky if he wins by a slim margin.
Comments
Don't Worry. Be Happy.
Pete the Cheat gets shamed
this video gets better and better
What a phony
Building on what others have suggested, at times, he even sounded a little like Obama...
Creepy guy.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Biden has the over 65 demographic
And if the pollsters only poll people with land lines, ie, the over 65 group, they get skewed results in favor of Biden. Add into that, the South like Biden and his racist buddies he hangs out with, so he's favored to do well in racist states like SC, Alabama, etc.
Basically, the Confederate States love Racist Joe. So you get a "surge" from the polls.
Fortunately, Sanders has the hispanic vote and is grabbing up the black vote. Though not as much in the Confederate States for reasons I've never understood, (Stockholm Syndrome maybe?) I think it will be enough to mean he cruises to victory.
It's the Great Awakening.
I found the breakdown of some polls
emerson poll
So oversample landlines (old people)
Monmouth poll
So it undersamples the young.
yeah, found the same skewed polling
sounds more like a set up for another DNC
cheating scam, exit polling doesn't seem to
exist (yet)
Apparently 70% of the people who voted in SC were
over 45.
Bernie does not do well with Black people over 45. I have no idea why. I guess getting chained to that woman and dragged away means nothing, and being the only white legislator in D.C. to attend John Conyers' basement meetings in 2004 means nothing, and the only thing that means anything is Barack Obama's success and what Democratic leadership tells you.
Authoritarianism and partisanship. If that's where you are, you won't join Bernie.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
It's simple. Bernie is the wrong religion.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
They are setting up the argument
That if Bernie is close in SC tonight it's because Republicans crossed over and voted for him.
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
@boriscleto ssshhh be kewl, KGB....
ssshhh be kewl, KGB....
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The DP PTB
are just projecting because ratf**king a GOP primary is something they would like the opportunity to do. Trump has been encouraging Republicans to go vote for the weakest Democratic candidate Sanders and this week in SC told them to vote for Sanders. But that requires more effort and time than more than a very few voters are willing to expend.
C'mon, man!
Campaigning is so 20th century!
Biden Hasn't Campaigned In ANY Super Tuesday States
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mC5_umo4ic]
No visits in over a month. One "six figure" ad buy (against $183 million by Bloomberg). One campaign office in all of California and it's closed.
As someone commented a couple of days ago, Biden's campaign is "running on pride". He's going to win one state (probably, maybe) dammit then suspend his campaign.
Can you really win delegates while running NO campaign? Asking for a friend.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
The more Biden campaigns, the worse he looks
The only way for him to keep what little support he now has is to keep his mouth shut. It has become painfully obvious that he is suffering from early onset dementia.
Just like Hillary
We see how well that worked out for her. Lol
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
It's a grand experiment
Hillary had a light campaign schedule in '16 and double the ad buys over Trump. Bloomberg is running a campaign almost exclusive in ad buys -- lots and lots like never seen before. Biden has others dragging around Obama/Biden signs and bumper stickers.
Biden's high national and early states poll numbers
throughout 2019 never made any sense to me. He's the same guy, only twelve years older and with a somewhat higher name recognition, that he was in 2008 when he didn't make it out of IA alive. Obama nostalgia could be increasing and giving him a boost. A possibility in SC is that the state DP has brought out its whips and combined continuous Bloomberg trashing Sanders ads leading undecideds and soft support for other candidates to default to Biden. Testing that hypothesis, take a close look at the two Post and Courier polls 1/26-1/29 and 2/23-2/27, the Biden "surge" is 25% to 28%. Sanders 20% to 24%, Steyer 18% to 16%, Pere 7% to 11%, Warren 11% to 12%, Amy 2% to 4%, and Tulsi 3% to 5%. Recall that Sanders did get 23% in '16.
P&C compared to the other three recent polls: Sanders and Pete are flat. Biden up 6 to 16 points, Steyer down 3 to 5 points, Warren down 5 to 7 points, Amy up 1 to 2 points, and Tulsi down 2 to 3 points. There seemed to be some shifts from Steyer to Biden in NV. (Has Steyer been a stalking horse for Biden all along?) Warren has been taking from '16 Hillary and Sanders in roughly equal amounts in other states, but in SC it appears to have been nearly exclusively from Clinton; so, not odd that retreats would be to Biden. Amy picks up the whiter Clinton chump change.
If the averages are close enough to the actual, it means 1) Sanders ground team isn't much improved from that of '16 and 2) the SC DP remains powerful in turning out wins for Clinton/Obama without its voters reaping anything.
Wait a minute...
Biden surges by 15+ points? WTF? Did Hunter Biden get exonerated or something? Did Joe Biden's corruption in Ukraine magically go away? Maybe Harvey Weinstein is keeping his mouth shout about the Bidens....?
I guess one has to view polls kind of like securities rating agencies, they get paid to say, what you pay them to say.
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Hunter Biden is getting hauled before a judge
Apparently he's still not paying child support and so the judge wants to talk to him about it. Hunter asked if it could wait till the election was over because he's so busy trying to help dad win. The judge told him not a chance bub because you're telling me that you're unemployed and should have all the time in the world to answer a few questions.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
South Carolina is a 'touchy feely' state?
Odd.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Just now ABC News Special report calling SC for Biden.
In future tense! Apparently they fired up the time machine.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
presumably based on exit polls, released now that
the polls have closed. it's disappointing, because they probably wouldn't have done it unless the margins were significant.
on the other hand, their exit polls won't have included the absentee ballots, which will probably represent about a quarter of all ballots cast.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
The polls aren't closed yet!
not for another 1.5 hours
huh, i read somewhere that they closed at 7 eastern.
Maybe in only some districts?
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
different time zones
It's beer thirty somewhere
It must be some districts
When I looked it up last night it was 6pm closing
Repeat after me.
Election fraud. Just like in 2016.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Well, that's always possible, of course.
He got over 50% of the vote, last I looked, and Bernie got 17% or 19%, can't remember which. Nobody else qualified for anything. So either they cheated, as they often do, or it's because a very large percentage of those who turned out were over 45. Apparently Black people over 45 don't like Bernie. They like Biden and, for some ungodly reason, Bloomberg.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
No, No, No.
Conservative southern black evangelicals over 45 don't like Sanders.
They'd all be republicans if the GOP weren't so much more institutionally racist than the Dems -- which is mainly a result of all the racist conservative southern Dems switching parties over the 16 years between 68 and 84.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Fits right in then
Most of the Dems would probably be Republicans if they got woke.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
But they're willing to vote for Biden
who has repeatedly said racist things like "Poor children can do just as well as white children" and, back in 2008, said candidate Barack Obama was "very clean." To say nothing of the bankruptcy bill and the 1990s crime bill.
And they're willing to vote Bloomberg (at least in Alabama, apparently), who instituted Stop and Frisk.
To say nothing of the fact that Biden can't keep straight what Obama's name is, nor which office he's running for.
Your point is well taken, but these are not really left v right issues. I'm guessing it has more to do with authoritarianism and blind partisanship.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I agree about authoritarianism, and the point is that
in South Carolina, the applicable authoritarianism is Christian evangelical moralizing. From that perspective, "Stop and Frisk" is a policy they would approve of. "What are those young men doing loitering around on the streets anyway? They're all gangsters and hoodlums anyway!"
Similarly my comment about racism being "institutional" was intended to convey a vague, nonspecific quality, rather than specific instances like Biden's occasional revelatory blurtings. They don't perceive him as the enemy he is, because they don't relate to the urban demographic who are the targets and victims of this racism.
But I'm just talking, I can't prove any of this.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Very smart.
But good luck for any of us wishing to make this argument, if we're white, or anything other than Black.
There are a few illusions we are required to support, or be deemed racist. One of them is that all Black people are united with all other Black people--except for the few who join the Republican party, and we usually don't talk about them (somehow we're supposed to applaud the achievements of people like Colin Powell and Condi Rice while decrying the racist politics and policies of George W. Bush). We certainly can't bring up the divisions between Joy Ann Reid and black teenagers with no money in Ferguson, or black children drinking poisoned water in Flint. And we can't bring up the divisions between conservative Christian Black people in the South and young Black men with no money in NYC.
Good on ya for trying, though. I honestly hadn't thought about that, because I couldn't believe that any Black person would side with a racist tyrannical asshole like Bloomberg.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Bernie cleaned up in Nevada but it was "too early to call"
here, 1% counted, that's it! Biden!!!
Yep. Typical.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Election Central calling it, with no votes in.
Mayo Pete will probably challenge the results
because of the "razor-thin" margin between 3rd (Steyer) and himself (4th). Or perhaps, when the counting is done, between Warren (4th) and himself (5th)
That seems fair, because I'm certain that the results
will challenge Mayo Pete.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Really? Is he nuts, am I nuts, or is SC nuts, or is Biden nuts?
Pfft.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Looking like NV in reverse
The Guardian has a nice status page.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
The Guardian #s are better for Bernie than MSNBC and CNN's
I've been looking at all three and the MSNBC and CNN numbers are lagging no doubt on purpose coz Bernie keeps inching up.
It seems clear that only Biden and Bernie will get delegates. My guess is that Bernie will be somewhat under 25% which is pretty much what the polls showed.
Charleston - we have a problem
https://www.euronews.com/live
Palmetto machines tweaked with new system
The ExpressVote is a ballot-marking device (BMD). A BMD is a device that helps voters mark a paper ballot more accurately and efficiently. A voter’s choices are presented on a screen in a similar manner to a voting machine. However, a BMD does not record the voter’s choices into its memory. Instead, it allows the voter to mark the choices on-screen and, when the voter is done, prints the ballot selections. The resulting printed paper ballot is then either hand counted or counted using an optical scanner/tabulator.
The scanner tabulates the votes on your ballot and feeds the ballot into a locked ballot box. The paper ballots are then used to verify and audit election results.
Sounds wicked weird. Wonder if it was test run first?
So, why not?
Sounds wicked evil.
I am going to bed to sleep. I am not going to visit SC again. I just don't get 'thme folks' and how they could ever accept a voting machine that doesn't record a voter's choice into its memory and produces printed receipts of the voter's choice that the voter can't read.
Makers perfect sense, right?
Gimme a break.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Jennifer Cohn trying to alert the public to fraud
from e voting machines that are supposedly better than the old ones because you get a receipt...which you cannot read.
Huh? - You get a receipt of your vote that you can't read?
Are you kidding us?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Georgia is adopting these hackable new machines to
replace the hackable old machines. The printed receipts have text but also a code to be machine read. There is no way for the voter to know if the code matches the text. Our evil Sec. of State, Brad Raffensberger is Securing the Vote.” He fails to mention who he is securing it for. I don’t think it’s for the voters.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
beyond me, sorry /nt
https://www.euronews.com/live
I hear the pundits are now saying
that Biden has overall favorability with Blacks all over the country. SC is the most diverse...therefore Biden will now win all the diverse states. Totally disappointed in SC AND Clyburn.
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
Uh... Nevada is a diverse state.
Wow, man, being Latino/Latina really means that you are whatever the powerful Anglos need at the moment.
Did you just kill a young black man? Then you're white. Good for you!
Did you just vote for Bernie Sanders? Then you're white. Fuck you!
Did you just vote for Hillary Clinton? Then you're an oppressed minority. Good for you!
Are you undocumented and the Democrats need an anti-Trump rally? Then you're an oppressed minority. Good for you, but make sure Nancy Pelosi knows where you are.
Are you undocumented and you need a path to citizenship? Then you're brown. Fuck you!
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Woo-hoo
Tulsi is beating Yang, Bennet, Booker, Delaney, and Patrick. So, there is some intelligent life in SC. Not so much among those that voted for candidates no longer in the race, but guess it's hard to keep up.
Chuckle
How long have some of them been out of the race? Most probably long enough that when the ballots were printed they had already dropped out. Just more election hooiey..
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Of course they're on the ballot
that's how authentically dead people sometimes win general elections. That's actually a more rational vote than voting for a primary drop-out.
I do so hate being held hostage to the 19th century
values of the american confederacy.
Recall that in 2016 we were fed the line that African Americans supported HRC and did not support Sanders. The evidence: A bunch of uptight, very conservative evangelical African Americans from South Carolina voted for HRC. Nevermind the gulf between those clowns and the urban African Americans of the northeast and the upper northwest (nevermind california!)
So they set the tone, despite living in a state that hasn't delivered an electoral vote to a democrat since the party ran a pious southern evangelical who wore his faith on sleeve, 44 years ago.
Fuck 'em.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I was looking at some footage of the live results
"The evidence: A bunch of uptight, very conservative evangelical African Americans from South Carolina voted for HRC"
And they showed the previous efforts of some older AA women Biden supporters hitting the campaign trail for Biden. One women squinches her face up and says (no kidding)…"these people think they can get things for free, free, free...well that is just not true...ain't nothing free in America" Okaaay, so let's vote for Biden to make SURE nothing is free or changed...and especially not in your poor neighborhoods. What is up???
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
what is up is this: the long, undying reach of Messrs
Calvin and Knox, wreaking sorrow and suffering on humanity in the name of Christ for four and a half centuries.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Well, and also, don't underestimate
the authoritarianism of those folks, leading some people to follow to the letter the advice of their preachers and community leaders.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
... and that authoritarianism is very much in the tradition of
Calvin and Knox. the presbyters of the Scottish Kirks were the enforcers of local morality, to be feared and obeyed by all. their savage anti-humanism, well-rooted in the anti-sex misogyny of Paul, forms part of the backdrop of plenty of Scottish literature.
Angry, dissenting Calvinists were amongst the earliest adherents of the "baptist" christian sects that now dominate the south.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Well then
so much for my "close" theory. So far it's looking like the polling from a few months ago.
ATM the Guardian is showing 9.5% reporting, Biden 52 / Sanders 17. I suppose things could tighten up later, but who knows.
Congratulations, Joe Biden. Three Presidential campaigns and you finally won a state, decisively to boot.
It looks like Sanders won't be shut out of delegates. It also looks like Steyer was unable to buy a delegate. I hope that acts as an indicator for Bloomberg's prospects.
Worth noting that these results look NOTHING like what Data for Progress predicted a few days ago (I mentioned them earlier today). Their technique does not seem to have translated well from Nevada.
I'll be interested to see the final numbers. For now it's on to Super Tuesday!
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
at 29ish % of precincts, it's biden 50.8, sanders 18.6.
Note, however, that the total votes counted are about 170,000. Unless turnout is beyond all history or imagination, that's going to be around 45% of the total.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Hmmm
I'm not sure I agree about "no end in sight". The race will pivot on Super Tuesday results. It's more like the race didn't end tonight.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Biden doesn't have a "black base", outside of the deep south.
Sanders will crush him everywhere north of the mason dixon line.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I didn't think my despise Rachel meter could go higher
But it has.
ByeDone finally wins one state in 30 years and Rachel thinks that the other candidates should drop out. Why? Bernie and reasons....gahh I can't even stand to listen to her speak anymore. I'm guessing that if Bernie somehow makes a miraculous recovery she will blame it on Russia Russia Russia Russia.....Russia!
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Biden wants Warren and Klobuchar to stay in
So Bernie has competition in MA and MN.
Buttigieg? It will be interesting to see if he drops out.
Steyer? Why did he run in the first place?
The Hawaii Democratic primary will take place from March 1 through April 4.
Steyer was in it to prove
that he could come n third in SC. No delegates but still hopes to crack 12%. Only cost $200 million and worth every penny.
Steyer's actually in third right now
Not that it means anything. He's still toast.
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore
How can a primary in HI last for several weeks?
Don't get it.
My son went to an event which was announcing that you can meet Bernie Sanders in person there and ask him questions. That was in HI, Wailuku. He went there and found a youngish guy distributing pamphlets and material of how to organize Bermies' campaign in HI.
Would have been nice, if the campaign volunteer guy who organized that wouldn't have lied on the website about meeting Sanders in person. Result. My son was pissed.
And I had to listen to him cursing the world for being all liars - on the phone over whats up in Germany. Not sure what caused my headaches. My son or this idiotic website who lied upfront in public.
Geez, guys control your emotions and use your brains. I should have used my brain and not send my son the link to that website suggestiong he should have a look what is going on with Bernie in HI and realized that the suggestion one can meet Bernie in person in HI was a hoax. Then I was pissed at myself.
Crazy is what crazy does.
https://www.euronews.com/live
If this was during the impeachment fiasco, then
Bernie may have been stuck in DC. He could make short plane flights at night, if he was not still required to be in the Senate, but Hawaii is too long a haul for a round trip between Senate impeachment duties. I think that was part of the purpose of that idiotic circus Pelosi was running— to tie up Sanders.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
wow, that needs a lot of imaginatory thinking, to explain
it like that. Thanks. It gets skurriller and bizarrer by the hour.
Like some one said in another essay. Let's pray this is over after 72 hours.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Several Bernie venues had to have surrogates
represent him due to the impeachment proceedings. I’ve seen some very moving video of those surrogates spreading his message. It’s the personification of “Not me. Us!” YMMV
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
I just corrected my assumption I made about it
Talked to my son who corrected me on that. See my comment below. Sorry for my premature judgement. I guess we are a bit too emotional and easily disappointed and see dark things around the corner or behind the stage way too often. My mileage does not vary, I am in Tulsi's camp amd in Bernie's if he works together with Tulsi as VP or in the Cabinet.
https://www.euronews.com/live
OK
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
I have to correct myself
just talked with my son about the event in Wailuku, HI and the website I mentioned in the above comment. My son said I misread the website, it didn't actually say that people who would come to the event, would see Bernie in person. I misread or was too quick to read and too enthusiastic about my son having the opportunity to meet Sanders on a live event. My bad.
But it makes me happy that my son actually corrected me.
So, I apologize for me loose lips.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I’ve been done with her for years. I can’t believe
she’s the same person from Air America Radio. She must have sold her soul.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
^ ditto ^
Ditto ditto
I gave up on her right after Obama became president, but when she started on Russia......I started despising her and I thought I'd topped out. But today she made the meter go off the charts.
Twitter is giving her lots of shit for saying this. And for everything else she's sputtering.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
ditto ditto ditto
n/t
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
ditto quatro n/t
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
She sold her soul.
But she got more than her asking price and she hadn't used it in years.
Since the result is going to horrify me in any case,
I'm going to choose a conceivable but long-shot objective and hope that we get there: Biden under 50%, Sanders over 20%.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Curtis Mayfield: Take Nothing Less than the Second Best
I can't believe they played that song as Biden came to the stage for his victory speech.
[video:https://youtu.be/Jo50otY1nLI]
This primary should get another asterisk on it
Lots of talk about precincts being shut down and other hijinks so the numbers can't be trusted.
If you have to cheat to win then you will be a laughing stock. I doubt any of the numbers are valid. No way Pettigrew beats Bernie with blacks. This has been his biggest problem during the primary. And yet we're supposed to believe that SC blacks came out in droves to vote for Pete? I'm not buying it. The world is watching how the USA is nowhere close to what it says it is.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Not the best news. But Her Heinous did well in SC in 2016. I'm
disappointed, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Per CNN - Steyer's out this evening. EOM
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Ah, just when he hit show.
Opens that spot for Bloomie.
gee, i wonder who will get his delegates.
*cough*
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
And from the Guardian
Tom Steyer drops out of 2020 race after disappointing South Carolina result
It will be interesting to see if he does get a delegate or two, and how many hundred million dollars each one cost him.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
@WoodsDweller This chart is from a
This chart is from a week or so before the primary. Steyer got a very poor return on investment as did Tulsi of all people.
Interesting!
So Sanders only spent $101k on advertising. Maybe he didn't expect to do well, and so decided not to spend much? He invested in the ground game, but didn't commit much cash.
Biden only spent $263k. It certainly worked for him, so any more would have been wasted. Of course, he probably didn't have more to spend.
Gabbard spent twice as much as Biden. Didn't work out for her. That's got to hurt, she can't throw money around like that and get no return.
They're going to have to rewrite the textbooks after this race, it doesn't seem like the candidate who spends the most money wins.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Without knowing the figures on SuperPAC spending,
we don't really know what the media landscape or $/vote really looked like.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
It's sort of (oddly) reassuring to see that SC voters are
stubbornly unreceptive to the vast advertising by Steyer and Bloomberg. It could be that they are unreceptive to any new messages from any source, including Bernie.
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