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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only

@edino.bsky.social

A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan.

Tax the rich.
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Trying to do my own part to lower the temperature.
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SurveyUSA (a good pollster) finds the following result in a collected sample of voters across AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI. This election is a coin flip. There is no excuse for dooming:
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This is just shamefully pathetic reasoning. “Trump claims everyone is out to get him. It turns out one 20 year old republican was. So, he was clearly correct.”
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Bad news everyone, the NYT found 5 ppl in OH who are fed up w Biden. Stop the presses.
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Just an APPALLINGLY misleading gloss being applied here. First, there have been SOME other polls showing trump increasing his lead, but some others have also shown no change. Second, even sone of the other polls showing movement toward trump have also been within the MoE. This is pathetic.
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I’m not giving you a hard time, Aaron, I’m just venting, but here for instance is Levitz going off on Biden after the Stephanopoulos interview:
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Max from NM says something reasonable:
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Gossiper Neil Vigdor of the New York Times, in what purports to be straight reporting but is not, offered another unsupported opinion in an update about a democratic senator.
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Here’s someone claiming earlier that 3 points in the PA polling average (PA is what would put trump over 270 in the scenario in this map) is a “massive lead” for trump and I just don’t find that claim remotely plausible.
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One group that DID predict the 2022 midterms pretty well was 538. Pic unrelated.
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There has been a lot of talk on this website about polls (generally not good for Biden, but not, like, something a candidate can’t recover from) and also about other factors favoring Biden, eg fundraising, economic fundamentals. Not as much talk about the 538 model that says it’s a complete tie:
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Sushi eaters react with pleasure, and disgust, to trying new food.
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Absolutely insane levels of guy in hotdog suit here. Fuck the NYT.
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I think centrist libs get the stakes of this election quite well, but I KNOW that Kate Willett does not get that Biden’s loss could be the end of Kate Willett’s entire ideology.
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Schumer, you’re up next. We want to hear the same message and we want to hear it today.
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Genuinely do not understand what has to be wrong with you to think this is funny or productive.
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Wow so you’re telling me a white boomer who voted for trump last time might vote for trump this time? That’s totally insane, just shatters everything we thought we knew about American politics.
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Alayna Treene of CNN notes that Alito was missing from the bench today and yesterday and that the press office hasn't responded to questions about his absence
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The first claim is completely false, but if it were true it would still be more likable traits than are possessed by people like this guy who are trying to get Trump elected, but for leftism (don’t ask how that is supposed to work). Second post included for context on the latter.