damn_registrars's Journal: GOP operatives celebrating their own stupidity

Republican Operatives Try to Help Bernie Sanders

Apparently some of the GOP brass have drank enough Jesus Juice that they believe they can beat Sanders, in spite of

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds him leading Trump nationally by 15 points, while Clinton leads Trump by 10 points.

The GOP fail spin is indeed quite amusing to watch. It's unclear how they will ever make it back out of the woods a second time. If Sanders won the nomination, the GOP would need more than their usual strategy of voter obstruction to keep him out of the white house. If he won the white house, they would only make themselves look even more ridiculous and hypocritical to keep with their strategy of congressional obstruction as a platform.

Heh

[smittyoneeach]

the GOP would need more than their usual strategy of voter obstruction

I guess the real question is whether Laquan McDonald will break ranks when he votes.

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[damn_registrars]

At first I thought you were back to racism baiting (a favorite pastime of yours, for sure) then I remembered this is the name of the kid who was killed by Chicago PD. Apparently you are instead trying for the wholly unsubstantiated voter fraud card, which your team loves to play in hopes of gathering sympathy in support of your voter suppression efforts.

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[smittyoneeach]

Trolling your toll, boss.

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[damn_registrars]

Trolling you may be, but I was not trolling. I provided the sources for your party friends trying to build hype for Sanders' campaign. One poll after another shows Sanders crushing Trump at least as badly as Clinton crushes him.

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[smittyoneeach]

Promises to be interesting, as the economic collapse unfolds. I wish I could say this country is too smart for Sanders, but the last two Presidential elections refute that.

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[damn_registrars]

as the economic collapse unfolds

As the collapse unfolds your party will only become ever less appealing to the voters, and you will have to work even harder at voter suppression to hold on to power.

I wish I could say this country is too smart for Sanders

Too smart to pay less for health care? Too smart to have more people achieve their potential? Too smart to stop running around the world taking over foreign countries without provocation or exit plans?

The only downside of electing Sanders is that it is highly unlikely we would be able to elect enough like-minded people to congress to actu

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[fustakrakich]

as the economic collapse unfolds

You mean it's not all smoke and mirrors [slashdot.org] and a "pre-election scare"?

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[smittyoneeach]

You mean it's not the whole ball of idiocy eating itself?

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[fustakrakich]

I'm just curious. I don't have any bets placed one way or the other.

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[smittyoneeach]

"Human nature" is constant; technology disrupts; in decades out, I think civilization finds a less centralized operating point. Through much struggle.

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[mcgrew]

Well, Chicago is famous for both police brutality, police racism, and voter fraud.

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[damn_registrars]

Yet as much as Chicago is synonymous with voter fraud...

• There hasn't been a verified instance of it in decades
• • AND
• The GOP interestingly doesn't give a shit about trying to prevent it there (assuming it still exists)

Yet they put lots of effort into "preventing voter fraud" in red states and states that are transitioning from red to purple (or even worse purple to blue).

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[fustakrakich]

And I see no irony in the superlative political machinery that made it that way. Obama couldn't have picked a better place to start his career. Or did "they" pick him?

When the real voting starts, we'll know if the media polls are just being trolled. Republicans for Sanders, democrats for Trump.

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[mcgrew]

In 1952 the polls said that the election was "too close to call". A computer (with less power than a Hallmark card) pegged it as an Eisenhower landslide. The pollsters were very wrong then.

I don't get polled, because I don't answer unknown phone numbers. I wonder how many more like me there are?

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[damn_registrars]

I don't get polled, because I don't answer unknown phone numbers. I wonder how many more like me there are?

Indeed there can be large gaps between polls and reality. I have never been polled, and I answer almost every phone call on my phone (in fact I'm generally more likely to answer unknown numbers than certain known numbers as I never know what number might be calling me back about a job application). Polling certainly seems to be an inexact science, but often is pretty close to reality - especially when we look at multiple polls. The guys at 438, for example, have a pretty good track record of predicting