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mandown

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Jun 1, 2004
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So, what does the larger turnout really tell us? Doesn’t the law of large numbers say that after a certain point, additional data simply supports the average that has already appeared? How many votes do you need to really need to know which way the cookie crumbles?
 

Adventurous

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Mar 19, 2014
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So, what does the larger turnout really tell us? Doesn’t the law of large numbers say that after a certain point, additional data simply supports the average that has already appeared? How many votes do you need to really need to know which way the cookie crumbles?
Larger turnout, at least at a national level, helps support the argument that the Electoral College is an antiquated system that continues providing an outsized influence to a shrinking minority.
 

Adventurous

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the "owning 100 guns as a personality" crowd?
My friend, who works in Grand Junction and is most certainly right of center, expressed his dismay while describing the people out there as the type who live in mobile homes, adorn themselves in flag and MAGA apparel while motoring their morbidly obese selves around in scooters and bloviating about Qanon conspiracies.

Real salt of the earth types.
 

Pesqueeb

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So, what does the larger turnout really tell us? Doesn’t the law of large numbers say that after a certain point, additional data simply supports the average that has already appeared? How many votes do you need to really need to know which way the cookie crumbles?
Well, nothing until they start counting them. Though it does not bode well for a party whose main election strategy has been to prevent as many people as possible from voting.

But historically, the larger a turnout, the better Dems do, and Republicans know it. Hence the voter suppression tactics. I've knocked doors in years past as a purely non-paritsan "Get out the vote" volunteer because of this. Statistically, I don't care who you vote for, so long as I can get as many people to do it as possible.
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
42,370
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Riding past the morgue.
My friend, who works in Grand Junction and is most certainly right of center, expressed his dismay while describing the people out there as the type who live in mobile homes, adorn themselves in flag and MAGA apparel while motoring their morbidly obese selves around in scooters and bloviating about Qanon conspiracies.

Real salt of the earth types.
Probably drinking fracking water.
 

JohnE

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May 13, 2005
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Front Range, dude...
I have been on the wagon for months now. At this moment, I sit quarantined in Germany...4 beers into a long night. I cnat think of a better night to be fuckerd the fuck oup.
 

ALEXIS_DH

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Jan 30, 2003
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Larger turnout, at least at a national level, helps support the argument that the Electoral College is an antiquated system that continues providing an outsized influence to a shrinking minority.
Now that Texas appears to be a battleground state, where hispanics (democrats) will surpass whites as the largest ethnic group in the near future making texas consistently blue within 2 elections... I think republicans will want to change the electoral college concept.
 

Full Trucker

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Feb 26, 2003
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So I’ve just been watching Google for results. What’s the hot tip? Anything live I can turn on this Apple TV box I’ve got?