Picking apart the minds of guys like Axelrod is a lot of fun. Each lie they tell about how they are ahead is like a little game show you can play with yourself about what externally verifiable factoid they’ve left out in the lie, which, had they included it, would turn their argument against themselves.
A famous Axelrod one this season is “Don’t look at the polls! Look at the early voting!”
Last time I heard this one, he didn’t even say ‘we’re WAY ahead’ ... he said something like ‘we’re holding our own and have the edge’
This is, of course, a total disaster for them - and turns him into a Republican cheerleader.
There are about 5 of these ‘we’re killing them!’ talking points which would depress you if you didn’t have the missing fact.
So you don’t win money for your knowledge on these morning game shows.
If you don’t know the answer to ‘what’s the missing fact!’, your punishment is depression. But if you do answer every challenge, you get to enjoy each democrat appearing on the talk shows as actually a Republican operative, secretly passing you data.
It is fun.
It is fun.
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I really have guests like Axelrod on as background noise, but one comment jumped out this morning:
There will be fewer exit polls this year. Don’t count on them to forecast the election results.