gehringer_2

So much for Iowa

long spell with not much coming in.

if the votes in are from the wrong place that can happen....

Doesn't Atl always come in last? I thought I remember Warnock coming from behind for his win in 22

Could have used a Wings game to stay distracted till about 10p. I blame Denise.

last cycle I liked the web tracker at the NYT. Had every race down to the state legislatures - assuming they run it the same way again....

they can try, but the 'in line' rule has been upheld by the courts many times.

This stuff has already been traced back to Putin. I hope Biden has the energy to generate a worthwhile response to this. Giving the Ukrainians a free hand with their arsenal would be a good start.

'Melania' apparently won't take her big sunglasses off while inside as she appears with Trump today. You can't make it up....

I think/hope that is something everyone underestimates. Americans get bored with everything pretty quickly.

I suppose it wasn't that big a deal, but it can't have helped Cleveland's bargaining position that Smith was already all go to make the move. 🏃‍♂️💭

well played.

I've lost track. Are PA and MI enough?

and let's be real, most of that was probably laundered from russian oil proceeds.

Still, helping a GOP or Libertarian get on the board who only wants to be there to create disruption is pretty much cutting off your nose to spite your face if you support the University. Most of the non-Dems who have run for Regents seats in recent years have been wack jobs.

What leads you to believe Denise has any input to what Chris does with the Wings or Tigers? Not being facetious - serious question.

well, that is the thing. If they could draw a random sample, it wouldn't matter if the population has changed because all that would show up in any truly random sample. But they can't get a random sample in the US anymore (they could come pretty close in the post WWII period using landlines and fixed geography area codes), but that's completely gone now.....) so they have to use a model, and the model has to be constructed from the past, so if the population changes, the model can't possibly be adjusted for it with any certainty until after the next election - at least other than by pure guess work. What the pollsters are doing that is dishonest, is to continue to claim their polls have the same validity/accuracy level when they no longer do. Some of them will make the right guesses on their model and get the result, and then claim they are good pollsters, but in most cases that will be a fallacy. They simply made luckier assumptions about how to massage their model - i.e they have a certain expertise, but not necessarily as survey takers.

the good news is 25% of Haley's GOP primary support went to Harris. The bad news is Harris underperformed Biden by 40%.

if the Dems take the House things will certainly be less at play and that should put an end to it. If a suit went to SCOTUS I imagine Harris and Jeffries would call Roberts in for a little chat and ask him if he really thinks a bad ruling or even the future of his court could stand if both the other branches utterly reject it. Roberts and probably Barrett, are not that crazy. If there is a GOP House I wouldn't have the same level of confidence.

The US is not a banana republic quite yet. Trump doesn't control enough of the media. If he starts claiming victory before any non-Fox media call it it's not going to be taken seriously He'd literally have to come out and incite to riot to try to stop the counting to make a impact, and I don't see that working even if he tried. And if he did Biden would be glad to have him arrested. Plus the group of hard core dead enders that were most likely to have responded are still in jail over 1/6.

If Harris wins this election I'll wager an internet beer that X is up for sale by inaugauration day

I think it means you have to take three steps and then you become eligible again, but don't quote me, reception rules change faster than I keep up.

OTOH, they were a better team in the second half with Maeda dropped from the rotation, Meadow and Torkelson back, Sweeney having replaced Javy's black hole in the lineup and Keith having come out of his initial slump. Some of that is real, some is certainly still questionable - esp Sweeney and Tork, so HA is still spot on they can't stand still. Even if Torkelson is better next season that still is not enough offense from the left side of the plate so a RH hitter is a must. We'd all love a signing like bringing Flaherty back, but with so many arms in the system I fear they may not make a major starting pitching move. Do expect to see at least one reliever signed or traded for. but that's sort of standard for any year.

I think the ego stroke on that one isn't so hard to see, how it turned into such a fiasco is a different question altogether! I'm with you on having no clue about the fix on NC. If you think you are in trouble, you don't put all your eggs in one basket - you spend 'em around because once you go somewhere the marginal value of another event in close succession in the same place can only fall. If you think you are winning, go where you can pick up some additional margin? So he's convinced himself he owns the upper midwest and NC would be the cherry on top? I suppose that's a possible take.

And Gore also never learned how to take credit without sounding the the kid in class everyone hated. There is an art to it. Listen to Obama 'take credit' for leaving Trump a great economy and compare it to Gore trying to get credit for being a big technology backer with the faux pas "I invented the internet". All that and he still should have been elected.