Posted on 11/10/2016 11:44:38 AM PST by Strac6
He is wrong about one thing.
I have always voted. I have never said/thought i was going to vote, and didnt do it.
I dont think nearly everyone says this, he is wrong about that.
Give me Dr Norpoth over Nate Silver any day
Havent people said nixon may have actually won in 1960?
I’d guess that if you took fraud out of the picture, the good professors projected percentages would be darned close.
He probably wasn’t wrong about the voting percentages, given the level of voter fraud perpetrated by the Dims.
The size and enthusiasm of Trump’s rallies said it all, to me, and the fact that they never petered out like Cankles’ did.
Vote fraud in the vote-rich, Dem-controlled big cities could account for the near tie in popular vote.
Dark helmut rules the universe.
Don't put words into his mouth - his words were "nearly all of us" and it may be an over-generalization but not by much.
His reasoning stood up. That is, the party primaries predict the actual election in terms of turnout.
The Dems has several million fewer votes 2016 compared to 2008, 2012. The Dem primary turnout predicted this. The Republican had about the same number of votes in 2016, so any gloating is at our peril.
Well, it may have been right that time, too, save for some shenanigans.
My brother in law wrote a small book last December saying why Trump would be elected.
His reasoning back then was exactly how it happened!
Nixon absolutely did win in 1960.
In early December 1960, FBI Special Agents brought VP Nixon proof that Mayor Daley had stuffed the Chicago ballot boxes with enough bogus votes to steal the Illinois victory, and the UAW had done the same with the Michigan vote, which gave the election to Kennedy. Hoover hated Bobby Kennedy and wanted to go public with the data and indictments.
Nixon said no, the nation thought it has elected the Bold and Beautiful Kennedy. Such disclosure would make Nixon president of an ungovernable country... and the Electoral Collage might still have gone for JFK.
I know this because, after retiring from the Bureau, two of the SAs involved became lecturers at my law school.
It could be a circumstance thing.
When I was living on a shoe string as a contractor in Maryland (but still a legal resident of Illinois) in November 2012, I wanted to vote (Mitt) but ended up not bothering to get the absentee ballot.
Since I first became eligible to vote I've never missed an election held in November of an even year.I've either gone to a polling place or have cast an absentee ballot.My attitude is that if I fail to vote I relinquish my right to criticize office holders.
You are right. See # 15
Nearly all of us, means nearly ALL of us.
That is a gross over estimate. That is the phrase people use when rationalizing something, hey we all do it. Mthey dont mean literally everyone, but when pressed, say ok, almost or nearly everyone.
Reminds me of Rather's "Fake but true" spin.
If it makes you feel better - you're right and I'm wrong ;-)
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