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Nate Silver: Donald Trump Is The World’s Greatest Troll
fivethirtyeight.com ^ | July 20, 2015 | Nate Silver

Posted on 07/21/2015 9:01:40 AM PDT by Drew68

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Nate Silver's take on Donald Trump. Links and footnotes at the source.
1 posted on 07/21/2015 9:01:40 AM PDT by Drew68
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Nate the liberal tells the GOP what candidates are acceptable.


2 posted on 07/21/2015 9:06:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Drew68

Pajama Boy is back, it appears.


3 posted on 07/21/2015 9:10:08 AM PDT by jimbo123
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The press thinks Trump is a troll in THEIR forum. They control the ‘public square’ absolutely. That’s their property. They don’t want him there!

Beautiful... true “peasants are revolting” arrogance.


4 posted on 07/21/2015 9:10:23 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Drew68

Hey, I love it. Every slur or attack by any of the liberal pansies just gives Trump more ammo and will bump his approval even higher!


5 posted on 07/21/2015 9:11:54 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Zhang Fei

6 posted on 07/21/2015 9:12:16 AM PDT by jimbo123
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I love the cranial explosions Trump is producing in the media. Superb. His candidacy is a separate issue, one which I can’t get exercised about as the election is 16 months away. I am of course skeptical he will last but the drama is on such a Kardashian level, it’s exactly what the empty-headed s**theads in the media deserve. I view Trump as “Occupy the Media Propaganda Space”. and I am absolutely in favor of it, I think it is literally one of the best things going on right now, even tho I am already sick of hearing about it. It’s a beautiful piece of distraction.


7 posted on 07/21/2015 9:12:41 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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Who is this faggot and why should I care what his opinion is?


8 posted on 07/21/2015 9:13:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people … with the deliberate intent of provoking

Sounds more like out current president


9 posted on 07/21/2015 9:14:38 AM PDT by jcon40
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Silver misses the most obvious reason for media coverage of Trump: he's an easy story -- lazy reporters can write about him from their bar stools and don't even have to think about it.
10 posted on 07/21/2015 9:16:43 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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He’s right, Trump is a political troll.


11 posted on 07/21/2015 9:18:00 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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Hey stupid Nate Silver!

Follow your own advice!

Don’t feed the troll.

The only way to kill a troll like Trump is to deprive him of attention.



NOT ANOTHER WORD FROM YOU ABOUT MR. TRUMP!

Make your pinkie promise right now!


12 posted on 07/21/2015 9:18:29 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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Surely Nate will be putting out a similar column on Paul Krugman.


13 posted on 07/21/2015 9:18:33 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: dfwgator
This one has called elections better than anyone since 2008.

Unfortunate, but his metrics and projections have been almost perfect.

The good news: I think he's more pissed off than analytical here. Projecting rather than analyzing is what gets these guys in trouble.

*Crossing fingers for good luck*

14 posted on 07/21/2015 9:21:49 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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I am of course skeptical he will last but the drama is on such a Kardashian level, it’s exactly what the empty-headed s**theads in the media deserve.

Honestly, I'm not quite sure what to make of Trump's candidacy yet. A month ago I saw him, at best, a 3rd-tier candidate who was using a presidential campaign to promote his own celebrity.

Now he's the front-runner in several polls. Who saw that coming? I sure didn't.

Driving home from work, I listened to his interview last night on the Dana Loesch show and it occurred to me that Trump appeals to people because he talks like a winner. He makes no apologies. He doesn't pander to anyone. He's really good at throwing red meat.

My biggest concern at this point is that we don't field a candidate who will lose to Hillary. This being said, I think I could live with Donald Trump as President.

15 posted on 07/21/2015 9:22:39 AM PDT by Drew68
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He call Trump a troll. I call him a patriot unafraid to speak the truth. To liars, deceivers and tyrants anyone whose voice opposes them is a troll.


16 posted on 07/21/2015 9:22:55 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Drew68
Have no idea who Nate Silver is; vaguely recall hearing the name in some context, before, but cannot remember where or when.

Calling some one a "troll," at least in major part because he knows how to get attention in the media, does not prove much of anything. Part of the art of politics--something that has been largely lost in Republican politics, since Ronald Reagan retired--is getting the media to notice you, and controlling the issues over which you are discussed.

The timid nellys, who are afraid to discuss immigration in terms of reality, are not the standard that should be followed. And speaking truth to bullies does not make one a troll, nor does it disqualify one from office.

Donald Trump, as Ted Cruz, has shown the ability that Reagan had, and a few others through the years, of arousing the ire of Leftists in the media, provoking them to come at you with their sloganized stupidity, and then using them for a foil to make your point. This does not make you a troll, it makes you a spokesman. I am not sure what Nate Silver is. He has amassed some statistics that really only prove themselves. They do not prove any point as to the merit of any person, other than that Trump knows how to get publicity--not a bad talent for a spokesman.

17 posted on 07/21/2015 9:23:35 AM PDT by Ohioan
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I just hope Trump is not another Ross Perot type. That is nagging in the back of my mind. Split the GOP vote and let Hillary in.


18 posted on 07/21/2015 9:27:18 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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A liberal homosexual Jew. He has all the qualifications to know about trolls, especially when he looks in the mirror.


19 posted on 07/21/2015 9:27:39 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Parley Baer
I just hope Trump is not another Ross Perot type. That is nagging in the back of my mind. Split the GOP vote and let Hillary in.

No doubt about that. An independent run by Trump would be '92 all over again: Clinton beats Bush after a wealthy businessman enters the race as a third party.

20 posted on 07/21/2015 9:29:26 AM PDT by Drew68
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