tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5648360956885199404..comments2024-03-28T18:45:48.941-05:00Comments on Althouse: I'm collecting old headlines like "Biden Will Win. Republicans Should Understand Why."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82949352696123720102020-11-05T07:38:51.921-06:002020-11-05T07:38:51.921-06:00Hercules, not that one though said...
Not one of ...<i>Hercules, not that one though said...<br /><br />Not one of the Republicans fights back. 4 to 1. Won't fight.<br /><br />11/4/20, 8:33 PM</i><br /><br />Curious, what would you suggest they do? Should one of them have punched her in the face?<br /><br />Seriously, in the moment, what in the world could they do other than film it to be able to prove they did NOT strike her? That they did not resist. That they did not retaliate?<br /><br />Any/all of which would/could be accused by the instigator and they would be hung out to dry by the school, no "trial" (show or otherwise), no mediation, no justice.<br /><br />So, really, what would you suggest they do other than capture video of the incident?Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12837407567105543162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46567879107956539872020-11-04T20:33:11.692-06:002020-11-04T20:33:11.692-06:00What Nation on earth encourages their men to cry? ...What Nation on earth encourages their men to cry? Lesbian feminists in America does. What Nation on earth encourages their men to iDiot phone their humiliation. In the US, Republicans on College campuses have mastered the art. <br /><br />Imagine that. 4 Republicans have a table on a College campus. One dissenter walks up and turns over the table, and the 4 Republicans pull out their iDiot phones to record the humiliation. Not one of the Republicans fights back. 4 to 1. Won't fight. But...but...they have iDiot phones! A knight in shining armor will come to rescue them! <br /><br />Is it any wonder that women are dreaming about naming their 1st child, Mohammed? <br /><br /><br /><br /> Hercules, not that one thoughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13741704032573869808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63790925927468790522020-11-04T12:43:44.163-06:002020-11-04T12:43:44.163-06:00I have no doubt that Trump would have won a substa...I have no doubt that Trump would have won a substantial victory were the election held on Nov. 3.<br /><br />But it was held over a period of several weeks starting in early-to-mid October in most states, and will continue for another three days in Pennsylvania and maybe longer elsewhere. By Nov. 2, well over half as many early and mail-in ballots had come in as the total vote in 2016.<br /><br />It is not an election so much as a running daily polling average. Doubly the case this year with the strong emphasis on early voting and whole new procedures for mail-in, presenting unprecedented volumes in many states, without good procedures to ensure the integrity of the ballots or the honesty of the count.<br /><br />Talking about the polls on the day before the election is almost meaningless. It would be more approriate to quote the aphorism often attributed to Stalin, "It does not matter who votes, but who counts the votes."Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13617687006180956861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74962074817319296492020-11-04T11:56:31.549-06:002020-11-04T11:56:31.549-06:00“‘I'd rather wait until we know who won the el...“‘I'd rather wait until we know who won the election before doing a post-mortem on Bill Scher's analysis.”<br /><br />His “analysis” predicted a repudiation. It’s bullshit. This is a narrow loss best case, with the Democrats losing a lot of their buffer in the House. You should work on your ‘neutrality’ if you want to be a political blogger, as it is you are like “homer” broadcaster for a sports team who has no shot at the big time. Or like Nate Silver who can’t set aside his fervent political desires to dispassionately analyze numbers.<br /><br />Nate is really good at predicted Democrat wins. He’s like the day trader who can only make money in an up market. tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1009342560175567872020-11-04T11:10:05.446-06:002020-11-04T11:10:05.446-06:00
Trump did beat the point spread.
And the final r...<br />Trump did beat the point spread.<br /><br />And the final results - if we can speak of such a thing - will show that the election could have gone either way in the Electoral College.<br />Lurker21https://www.blogger.com/profile/05692740653467688670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33300459529337611862020-11-04T10:52:51.892-06:002020-11-04T10:52:51.892-06:00tim in vermont said...
It’s a pyrrhic victory at b...<i>tim in vermont said...<br />It’s a pyrrhic victory at best. Biden is wounded, probably senile, and the R’s have kept the Senate so that laptop is going to be thoroughly examined, the Democrats have had their majority cut in the House severely. Harris, who will be POTUS by 2022, has shown herself to be a weak candidate, and she will find it very difficult to get much done. </i><br /><br />This is a fantasy. Dem institutional control was able to advance punitive leftism even under a Trump Presidency, why would a Biden Presidency be more difficult for them to manage?<br /><br />Just a few areas off the top of my head:<br /><br />Biden has already promised to roll back Devos' relatively weak attempts at sanity on Title IX, reinvigorating the campus Stasi Devos was never able to clear out.<br /><br />Far left control of the Attorney General's office means sue and settle environmental tactics will resume. Even if they don't get the Green New Deal passed as legislation they will enact much of it through this illegitimate means. Limitations on fracking which support Russia and Iran will be first up.<br /><br />Immigration law enforcement is effectively over. <br /><br />Critical Race Theory will form the basis of government training and hiring. Under Trump The Department of Labor is a potential ally of those seeking to prevent race from being used in private sector hiring to support for that purpose. Left wing control converts it to an ally of race discriminators.<br /><br />Government protection of violent left wingers will advance from limited leftist locations to the entire country through federal oversight of policing. <br /><br />Federal police oversight will also allow the left to enact much of their defund the police initiative. The goal seems to have settled on segregating police duties so much of them can be assigned to social workers (at least on paper). These funds will instead go to support left wing political activists. <br /><br />Any opposition to the 1619 Project which uses lies to convince young people (especially blacks) to hate America is over. <br /><br /><br />These are just a few impacts I can immediately think of. I'm sure there are dozens of others. Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159859859522615418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61821977863306811072020-11-04T10:45:08.663-06:002020-11-04T10:45:08.663-06:00My biggest disappointment in the now clear Trump d...My biggest disappointment in the now clear Trump defeat is that the coup perpetrators will never be brought to justice. Their guilt is manifest, but the new DOJ will drop the investigation. Too bad because the system itself needed to be cleansed by punishing a few people "pour encourager les autres"!minnesota farm guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09013935998029781790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72323191235720038692020-11-04T10:22:23.349-06:002020-11-04T10:22:23.349-06:00I was disgusted when I first looked online this mo...I was disgusted when I first looked online this morning. Disgusted, disgusted. Last night is proof that the media and their masters can succeed, at least with four straight years of propaganda, in mystifying and misleading the American citizenry. While it is a bit easier to view Mr Trump's loss, if that's what it proves to be, with a certain equanimity so long as the GOP holds the Senate (I haven't looked yet at the numbers, beyond the Times headline), that's not much of a consolation. <br /><br />Oregon the vanguard has decriminalized the possession of personal-use quantities of heroin, the oxys, mushrooms etc-- a $100 ticket, apparently, or a few hours of counselling. Pft. After 20 years here, it may be time to move back to Montana, South Dakota or Ohio.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73225526979422111042020-11-04T10:16:05.035-06:002020-11-04T10:16:05.035-06:00Chuck the new life long Democrat.
Shorter Chuck: ...<i>Chuck the new life long Democrat.</i><br /><br />Shorter Chuck: I'm a Lifelong Republican who just can't stand Trump, but I'm disappointed the Dems didn't take the Senate.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422170816604378287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1560230138979017372020-11-04T09:41:48.415-06:002020-11-04T09:41:48.415-06:00The big disappointment to me is that Trump-support...<i>The big disappointment to me is that Trump-supporting GOP Senators, who sided with Trump in impeachment votes, didn’t get widely defeated. I was hoping for broad punishment at the polls for that. State voters seemed to follow their Presidential votes with their Senate votes. That’s not unusual, and so I shouldn’t be too disappointed. But I confess that I am, in that.</i><br /><br />Chuck the new life long Democrat.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55208894349924693042020-11-04T09:40:02.210-06:002020-11-04T09:40:02.210-06:00You are looking at the Californication of our nati...You are looking at the Californication of our national politics. There will never be a Republican administration on a national level again. The Democrats have demonstrated that with disciplined fraud, ignored by a compliant media, they can manipulate any result they wish with total immunity. We will forever be a one party state on a national level, and the next step will be flipping as many red states blue on a permanent basis (Georgia, Arizona, perhaps Texas). It's over. There will never be a Republican politician on national level like Trump who can mobilize such a wildly varied group of American citizens. The Democrats, Big Media, and the Tech Masters of the Universe have achieved total domination of the political process, leaving the Republicans fighting for scraps on the local margins. Trump has been fighting this battle with very little support from Establishment Republicans or mainstream media. Now, the Democrats,when they assume totall control, will spend the next four years insuring that a charismatic outlier, not beholden to the Swamp, never occurs again. JMW Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09701389717024210449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48491661655695704552020-11-04T09:02:04.760-06:002020-11-04T09:02:04.760-06:00You are proud of what the Lincoln Project did with...You are proud of what the Lincoln Project did with Lindsey Graham? You think that's money well spent?MayBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966319657113124861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19221870688030368042020-11-04T08:52:51.399-06:002020-11-04T08:52:51.399-06:00Were the polls more wrong this time? With so much ...<i>Were the polls more wrong this time? With so much pressure to get it right after failing last time, the polls were even more wrong...</i><br /><br />2016 convinced me that very few polls are taken with a genuine interest in "taking the public pulse." It seems obvious to me that their true purpose is as yet another means of <i>shaping</i> public opinion. Just like journalism--rather, what passes for journalism nowadays--is not about reporting facts to the public, it's about crafting a "narrative" (I've come to loath that word) to shape public opinion.TrespassersW https://www.blogger.com/profile/03388679190741686543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72810215595714343212020-11-04T08:47:38.762-06:002020-11-04T08:47:38.762-06:00So we got chaos which will make the results suspec...So we got chaos which will make the results suspect no matter who wins. Fantastic.Static Pinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17083787604745437979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47492485234486671562020-11-04T08:42:06.680-06:002020-11-04T08:42:06.680-06:00Some polls were way off in the pro-Biden direction...Some polls were way off in the pro-Biden direction. One poll I've been following is Economist/Yougov. The reason I've followed is that they publish lengthy information about their poll (crosstabs). I've been troubled for at least a month about the fact that their sample is 39% Dem, and 28% Rep. THe 2016 exit polls showed nearly an even split between D and R. And I kept reading about the R get out the vote effort, and new registrants being more R than D. I think the results, even if BIden wins the electoral college will show a national Biden margin of 1-2 points, not 10-11 points as Economist/Yougov showed consistently over the last month of the campaign. This does make me wonder if the Economist/Yougov poll was done in good faith, or whether they deliberately oversampled D to provide evidence of a Biden landslide.hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683425888380610689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68626403956057449602020-11-04T08:41:08.119-06:002020-11-04T08:41:08.119-06:00Blogger MayBee said...
Chuck- were you paid by Pro...<i>Blogger MayBee said...<br />Chuck- were you paid by Project Lincoln, or did you just volunteer for them? How are you feeling about their results?<br /></i><br /><br />A donor; certainly not paid by them. Maybe Jeff Timmer was paid; that’s his business (political strategy and consulting). Jeff is the former Executive Director of the MI GOP. I’m extremely pleased with what the LP did. Money very well spent as far as I am concerned.<br /><br />Feeling generally very good so far about the results. It may just be that anti-Trump Republicans in Michigan were the national cornerstone of this possible Trump defeat. Remember that personally, I did not vote for Gary Peters but I also refused to give John James my vote as well. He was too tied to Trump. <br /><br /><br /><br />The big disappointment to me is that Trump-supporting GOP Senators, who sided with Trump in impeachment votes, didn’t get widely defeated. I was hoping for broad punishment at the polls for that. State voters seemed to follow their Presidential votes with their Senate votes. That’s not unusual, and so I shouldn’t be too disappointed. But I confess that I am, in that.Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07676108366725199186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17063630764214211942020-11-04T08:39:54.816-06:002020-11-04T08:39:54.816-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76035743820271357422020-11-04T08:38:07.778-06:002020-11-04T08:38:07.778-06:00I find it odd that in MI, they stopped counting in...<i>I find it odd that in MI, they stopped counting in Wayne County but nowhere else. Now, this morning, with all counties in MI completed BUT Wayne, they have started back up. I'm sure it wasn't so they would know how many votes Biden needed to win MI. Nothing shady about that.</i><br /><br />+ 1Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57522083742753468222020-11-04T08:35:51.738-06:002020-11-04T08:35:51.738-06:00We'll see if Democrats set aside their refusal...<i>We'll see if Democrats set aside their refusal to respect (what looks like) a second victory for Trump</i><br /><br />Really, it looks like a victory for Trump? Based on what?<br /><br />I'd rather wait until we know who won the election before doing a post-mortem on Bill Scher's analysis.John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34993027805757189052020-11-04T08:31:02.533-06:002020-11-04T08:31:02.533-06:00If Republicans "accept" the last 4 years...If Republicans "accept" the last 4 years of psyops, collusion, projection, sabotage of the economy and outright voter fraud, we will deserve the chains that will rest on us forever.Qwinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09750599555423278972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73022163456474970962020-11-04T08:20:06.156-06:002020-11-04T08:20:06.156-06:00You saw how they suppressed the story how they wen...You saw how they suppressed the story how they went after bannon with a phony indictment.narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72150689585214793262020-11-04T08:15:43.327-06:002020-11-04T08:15:43.327-06:00I think Biden will win and Kamalalala will be our ...<i>I think Biden will win and Kamalalala will be our first laughing President. Very disappointed. But I'm not going to riot, loot, or threaten people while wearing black things on my body.</i><br /><br />Why not?<br /><br /><i>I'm prepared to graciously accept defeat.</i><br /><br />Why?<br /><br /><i>I won't even claim that the election was stolen</i> ...<br /><br />Why not? You don’t think the Democrats are counting on people like you to get away with it?Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51231096135421383222020-11-04T08:14:32.214-06:002020-11-04T08:14:32.214-06:00Sure, sure. Everything is predictable.
Until it ...Sure, sure. Everything is predictable.<br /><br />Until it isn't.Lurker21https://www.blogger.com/profile/05692740653467688670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52067169294188300912020-11-04T08:06:03.126-06:002020-11-04T08:06:03.126-06:00The media, acting as a state censor, can have a hu...<i>The media, acting as a state censor, can have a huge effect on an election by hiding a major story of corruption</i><br /><br />I guess if you sit on a story of major corruption until October, you take the risk that the story won't gain traction in time. I have *no* sympathy for Trump and Guilliani. <br /><br />Hell if they could have blown the whistle early enough they maybe could have spared our country the embarrassment of the Biden candidacy. But, they kept it close to the chest (like the Dems did with the Billy Bush tape) because they wanted to face Biden in the general election and save the story for "maximum impact." Whoops!<br /><br />Maybe these guys should start to think about cleaning up corruption as the ends in and of itself instead of reserving allegations of corruption to use as a political weapon.<br />D.D. Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08652277556374392962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34156079131860358162020-11-04T08:00:54.301-06:002020-11-04T08:00:54.301-06:00You see a big future for yourself in the Repubican...You see a big future for yourself in the Repubican Party that you were hoping would be a smoldering ruin after last night, Chuck? Or are you hoping for a job in the Harris Administration?tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.com