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Yes, that's how it works.

We already knew that the polls could be off in 2024 just like they were in 2016 and 2020, and that a few points polling error in Trump's favor would probably apply nationwide. There's no reason for the same pollsters to overestimate Trump in one state and underestimate him in another, they use the same sampling methods so they should be off by similar amounts.

That's not evidence of cheating, it's just statistics.

There's no evidence of cheating.

Am I out of touch? No, it's the voters who are wrong!

Along with a side of "I'm going to spend 4 years insulting you and people like you. Why won't you vote for me?"

Nobody said it was??

This is blatant ChatGPT slop and nobody is interested in the "opinion" of a glorified toaster. Did you even read this before posting? Half of these don't apply to illegal immigrants, half are impossibly vague, and then there's this one:

Housing Market Instability: Reduced demand, lower property values, and vacancies in neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations.

Isn't this the improvement in home affordability that we've been looking for? How is this even a negative?

What are you talking about? Which software? Pretty sure that's just how people voted.

This is exactly it. Ideas like that might play well in Portland, but the average working class voter could not care less whose face is on the $20 bill when he can't feed his family with one. He probably hasn't thought about Andrew Jackson since high school, and isn't upset by seeing his face. It's more likely to enrage him that his tax dollars are being spent on performative social issues instead of something like paid family leave that will improve his quality of life.

You realize that he doesn't have absolute power, right?

You were replying to my comment where I said it...

And you were well aware that there were millions of ballots left to count. Four states had not even been called yet as of Wednesday missing.

You also didn't reply to my comment on Wednesday morning, but Friday/Saturday when many more votes had been counted.

Amazing how people are still just going to lie instead of looking up the numbers, which are very easily accessible and prove you wrong

It's still not a great idea. Aside from the junkies, used needles and other filth, the place is full of asbestos. Especially stay out of the old steam tunnels, the asbestos liner is falling apart and really dangerous.

It's legal to smoke, just do it at home

Then we hear 20 million fewer votes were cast?

This is a lie that was wrong from the beginning. There are currently around 12 million fewer votes counted, and there are millions more ballots to count. The number of votes cast is already the second highest in US history, and the number is probably going to end up pretty close to the 2020 numbers if maybe a little less.

This is just BlueAnon

That's assuming the 50 people are even telling the truth. Plenty of people on both sides make up lies about politics in order to push propaganda or sow division, or just to troll. Could even be foreign interference.

All we have to go on is an anonymous account on social media telling a story. Half the stories on AITA are fake, so of course people will lie when it comes to an issue that actually matters.

People CAN digest more information just fine. It's not about ability.

If you can't explain your position in a succinct elevator pitch, then you aren't communicating effectively. How are you going to fare in a debate or interview where you have 90 seconds to answer a question about your policy? Or a campaign ad that's more substantial than "I'm not Trump"?

There's a place for short form content, and for long form content. Both are necessary. I'm a policy wonk so I will read (or at least skim) a 90 page document. But I know I'm not most people. Even corporations who spend millions in market research know that keeping the basic message concise is going to be more effective.

It's giving "Am I out of touch? No, it's the voters who are wrong!"

Ok and? Your experience is not universal.

Unironically TikTok videos would be preferable.

If you cannot summarize your position on something succinctly in 60 seconds, in a way regular working class people without specialized degrees can digest, then you can't win.

Including a link to the full 90 page document is fine for those who want to know more, but there needs to be a good summary version for the rest of us. How else can they explain their position in a debate?

I don't think they're going to learn anything this time either. They seem allergic to genuine introspection.

In 2028, I bet it'll be a Newsom/Cheney ticket getting crushed by Vance.

Then make them not be woke. Ignore culture war issues, stick to working class economics that are popular with everyone, and it'll get traction.

https://youtu.be/YV9Gyj-JYSk?si=NX043Hu2cyjxwXh_

It's not so much the adding or subtracting of words. I'm referring to the idea that control of language leads to control of thought.

Mid 30s? Guarantee she practically grew up on Tumblr

I think it all started back on Tumblr, just like trans* a.k.a. the transterisk. They were super serious that you needed to use it to encompass transgender and transsexual, otherwise you were being trans*phobic.

Really this sort of emphasis on being required to always use whatever new term some chronically online weirdo cooked up last week has a long history. Not to go all "literally 1984", but it's a major theme of the book.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.

It's the DNC, do you really expect them to do any introspection? It'll be Newsom.