Posted by
thompnickson2 on
Nov 04, 2020; 6:05pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/election-eve-tp7599317p7599360.html
Gary,
If you want to live in the bubble for a few more hours, try
https://abc.com/watch-live/abc-newsMarcus, The message I am getting from those folks is something like: "We tried rationality for 50 years and look where it got us; let's try crazy for 4 more years."
I know two trump supporters quite well. Mind you, we don't talk politics that much. Both are owners of small businesses who have led the highly regulated lives that folks must lead if they are going to make money in a politically diverse community. Both [thought they] saw gains from the Tax Cuts. I think both think the economic policies have been good for them and they find the crazy stuff kinda fun. Like a bit of a wild fling. They certainly don't take those things any more seriously than I took Clinton, with whatsername under the Resolute Desk, while he was negotiating with the Majority Leader. Tsk Tsk, I say and them move on. That's what they do, and they cannot under stand why I am scared by Trump, any more than I could understand why they were scared by Obama. I once called one of my relatives in Texas during the bush/Kerry election, because she had been born in Massachusetts and I thought she could help me understand. "I think that man is dangerous," she said. I agreed, thinking she was talking about Bush. "Yes," she went on. "No telling what he will do if he and the democrats get in."
Kerry, DANGEROUS? My god that man was scared of getting tomato sauce on his polo shirt. But she really was quaking with fear.. Just like I am now.
The one I really am scared of is McConnell. Hitler got in because the cartels that dominated German politics thought they could "use" him. Look how that turned out.
Nick
Nick
Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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Yeah, the main take home to me is the same as before: Almost half the country is batshit crazy.
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Right. So both the guardian and nyt show called Biden: 227, Trump: 213 with PA(20), NC(15), and GA(16) toward Trump and MI(16), WI(10), NV(6), and AZ(11) toward Biden.
227+16+10+11+6 = 270
213+3+15+20+16 = 267
I don't think there's a reason to be optimistic ... cautiously or not. Regardless of which value the artificially binary outcome lands on, it's the closeness of it that causes the problems.
On 11/4/20 9:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Biden has got a 270 vs. 267 last time I checked, assuming he can’t take Pennsylvania.
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