**** Elections thread *****

[Savy]

...only because they set their expectations too high. It worked out pretty much as I figured it would. R senate, D congress, Rs win red states' gubers. Maybe the only disappointment was Gilliam losing in Florida but meh Florida is fucked. Anyone thinking Cruz would lose in Texas was ignoring the polls. It was close anyways. So unless they thought they would win every tossup and a few things that weren't tossups it went about as expected.

Why even use polls if you can just predict it?

If you set your sights too high and then fail to deliver that's disappointing. I'm under the impression it was a fairly worse swing in comparison to swings usually seen in these elections and considering Trump is meant to be evil incarnate and millions more voters turned out nothing happened.

It did make me laugh that the BBC headlines in the early hours (i.e. as results were coming in) were talking about how the dems had under-performed and were only likely to take the house and not the senate then this afternoon it was DEMS TAKE THE HOUSE!!!!!

[Poopadoop]

Why even use polls if you can just predict it?

Huh? You use the polls to predict it, within some margin of uncertainty. That's like saying why even look at a thermometer when you know what temperature it is already by looking at the thermometer.

If you set your sights too high and then fail to deliver that's disappointing. I'm under the impression it was a fairly worse swing in comparison to swings usually seen in these elections and considering Trump is meant to be evil incarnate and millions more voters turned out nothing happened.

It doesn't matter really. Ds got the House, and the Senate was never realistically within reach. Same for a lot of those guber races. If you were listening to Trumptards you were expecting everything to go even further in his direction, a "red Tsunami." So both sides typically overestimate their chances. It's like sports that way.

It did make me laugh that the BBC headlines in the early hours (i.e. as results were coming in) were talking about how the dems had under-performed and were only likely to take the house and not the senate then this afternoon it was DEMS TAKE THE HOUSE!!!!!

I saw a similar reaction on CNN. First they were like "zomg D's aren't going to win everything and then some, what a disappointment." And then later it's like "oh wait this isn't so bad." Really I don't understand how the feeling changed so much over a few hours when the outcome was basically the same at both times.

[Jack Sawyer]

After he won the candidacy. Boom, headshot

And he was leading De Santis.

LOL.

[Poopadoop]

After he won the candidacy. Boom, headshot

And he was leading De Santis.

LOL.

Sometimes you can't help but wonder if certain people actually want to win.

[Poopadoop]

In other news, Sessions just resigned. Hmmm.

[Jack Sawyer]

In other news, Sessions just resigned. Hmmm.

[Jack Sawyer]

Sometimes you can't help but wonder if certain people actually want to win.

The people want left. They actually want real left policies. He ran left and won.

The politicians want center or right. They want nothing to do with left. He ran center-right and lost.

The democrats literally prefer to lose rather than go anywhere near actual left. This is why Bernie was fucked left, right and center by the party he was running for.

Right now, USA has Republicans and Diet Republicans. And no one wants diet anything. But the Republicans moved so much right that they are crazy right now. Like, past the right scale.

[Poopadoop]

This is what happens when corporations run the government I suppose. Hard to exploit poor people in a socialist state; there's not enough of 'em.

[OngBonga]

Hard to exploit poor people in a socialist state; there's not enough of 'em.

Is this a joke? Or is the idea of "poor" redundant when everyone has fuck all?