Reading the Presidential Tea Leaves

EJHill
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Do the polls have you worried? Are you fretting about the direction of the country? If so, take a deeeeeep breath and exhale and say to yourself over and over again the word “February.”

Because in February of 2016 this what you were hearing:

SANDERS ERASES CLINTON LEAD! RUBIO BEST BET IN NOVEMBER! BERNIE LEADS INDEPENDENTS OVER KASICH!

Mmmmm, ok.

How was February 2012?

ROMNEY IN DEAD HEAT WITH OBAMA! SANTORUM “SURGING” IN OHIO!

Yeah. That sounds right. Wanna trip back to 2008?

McCAIN BEATS BOTH CLINTON AND OBAMA IN FLORIDA! CLINTON TO CRUISE OVER OBAMA IN OHIO & PENNSYLVANIA! ABC/WaPOST: RUDY GULIANI BEATS McCAIN IN TRUST, LEADERSHIP AND UNDERSTANDING VOTERS!

Uh, huh. It’s science.

The bottom line? They don’t know crap. You don’t know crap. I don’t know crap. It’s all crap.

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  1. Steve C. Member
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    7:26 PM EST ⋅ Feb 11, 2020

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    MISTER BITCOIN (View Comment):

    On labor day, 2008, McCain was leading Obama by 4 to 5 points.

    McCain took a dive in a late round and threw the fight. Maverick!

    I don’t know if he actually threw it as much as he was such a pompous/clueless arse that — even after The New York Times had libeled him earlier in the year along with the women he was alleged to have had an affair with — Maverick still thought he was going to get fawning press coverage for his statesmanship in suspending his campaign due to the mortgage crisis.

    He really was that addicted to fawning media coverage, to the point that even after losing to Obama in 2008, he immediately began trying to curry their favor again when the next Congress began in 2009 (daughter actually seems to have caught on a little bit to the game, possibly because she’s married to Ben Domenesch, who the #NeverTrump people see as a pro-Trump shill because of his Federalist website).

    The press was the scorpion and McCain was the frog.

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  2. JimGoneWild Coolidge
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    6:09 PM EST ⋅ Feb 12, 2020

    Norm McDonald (View Comment):

    EJHill (View Comment):

    Norm McDonald: So: “Its all crap, so pay $5.00 to fling poo in an orderly fashion at each other?”

    Damn straight. Orderly is the key word there. It’s the civil thing to do.

    “We march to the drum of a different plumber here at Ricochet.”

    Except Joe Plumber.

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