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Comment State dependent (Score 1) 135

I was in California on vacation and I heard it much more frequently. I imagine that's a testing ground since it's close to home. I immediately refused to go to any location that they mentioned to punish them for advertising to me like that. Also, they told me to turn at some fast food place that was tucked behind other buildings so I would have missed my turn if it wasn't for their more conventional reminders like distance or street names. Boo...

Comment That's it? (Score 1) 220

So 300K people saw the events, 62,500 people said they would attend, and 25,800 said maybe? What % of that 300K people didn't give it a second thought? And what % of the 62,500 and 25,800 were the oh-so-powerful Russian trolls? This seems to be one of those scenarios that, if we were rational, would tell us how absolutely overblown this has been. Show of hands for how many people thought Russia stood by and didn't try to do anything in any of our elections before today? I would have thought the "eyeball number" was much higher. But even if they swayed the votes on 50% of these people, that's a remarkably small number. Wonder what the numbers are from the last couple elections...

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