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1. Coolidge
   kedavis

   @kedavis

   8:50 AM EST ⋅ Nov 2, 2020

   Gazpacho Grande' (View Comment):

   Brian Watt (View Comment):

   @blueyeti – Defend the 538 map, please.

   Regarding the collapse of the Blue Wall in 2016, it certainly was not attributable only to James Comey’s announcement. Trump throughout the campaign had been appealing to blue collar voters in the Midwest and many of those who voted for Obama twice voted for Trump – the dismal or nebulous (smoke and mirrors) Obama economic “recovery” certainly played a factor. Then, of course, there’s Hillary’s dismissal of those Midwestern states by refusing to campaign there in the last few months of the campaign BEFORE Comey’s announcement, when her own campaign organizations on the ground in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio were begging the New York HQ for the Clinton campaign to get her butt out there because they had already detected a momentum shift for Trump.

   So, no I’m not buying that Comey’s announcement was the pivotal game changer.

   As mentioned by the pundits in the pod, those “game-changers”, even late in the game where change is occurring, don’t swing voters in enormous waves. It doesn’t change votes for people who have already made up their mind. It changes some votes at the margin, and that may have a bigger impact in some states vs. others.

   We’re always talking about the middle. How many, in the middle, are actually paying enough attention to politics where they would switch their vote, if they even read the story (like the Comey example)?

   How many? 10%? 50%? Half the middle? Depending on how big the middle is, undecideds maybe, that’s really more likely than not to be a small number.

   But hey – be honest, per Yeti. Yeti is asking us to be honest in our feelings about unprovable theoreticals that one can only speculate upon, but if one has read Locke, one’s conclusions must somehow now be more valid.

   Maybe I’ll just read a book this afternoon and this will somehow bolster the logic of my arguments, arguments and conclusions which will become more likely to occur because of said book-reading.

   Jonah sure seems to think reading a lot of books, the more obscure the better, makes his predictions more valuable.

2. Inactive
   Kevin

   @JaredSturgeon

   4:02 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   These guys dont understand the legal issues of the social media companies and 230 well enough to talk about it.  Just nonsense.  

   The fact that facebook features some conservative stories does not mean they are not suppressing stuff.  They clearly are.  They are using their fact checks to suppress.  Jonah often fixates on some simplistic argument that he holds as a shield to hard thoughts about the topic at hand.  

   Anyway, nevertrumpers rejoice.  You might not have Trump anymore.  I cannot wait to hear all of you talk about how there was no cheating.