**** Elections thread *****

[wufwugy]

If anybody cares, this shows how Cruz can win if Trump takes both Florida and Ohio (and Rubio and Kasich drop out the next day). This mirrors my back of napkin assessment of who takes which states, except I think Cruz could possibly take Illinois. Also it is possible that when we're late in the game, some of the NE states will start going towards Cruz.

If Trump is viewed like he was yesterday and Cruz is too, heads up Cruz would stomp Trump in most of the NE. But we can't rely on Trump looking as utterly awful then as he did after Thursday's debate.

It ain't over yet. The worthless media convinced lots of people it was.

Edit: note that the Puerto Rico results are wrong. They don't change the equation though.

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The worthless media convinced lots of people it was.

I honestly mean this as a constructive critique and as evidence of that fact I point out that I agree with the sentiment in the quoted-- with that being said, as someone who often finds truth in the margins, avoid being written off as a conspiracy kook by avoiding phrases like this.

[wufwugy]

I honestly mean this as a constructive critique and as evidence of that fact I point out that I agree with the sentiment in the quoted-- with that being said, as someone who often finds truth in the margins, avoid being written off as a conspiracy kook by avoiding phrases like this.

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

[FeliciaLee]

I honestly mean this as a constructive critique and as evidence of that fact I point out that I agree with the sentiment in the quoted-- with that being said, as someone who often finds truth in the margins, avoid being written off as a conspiracy kook by avoiding phrases like this.

Just one small example, but you get the gist. This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's just a fact.

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[JKDS]

By alleging facts which you cannot possibly prove, and believing them wholeheartedly, you will sound like a kook who cannot be believed.

[wufwugy]

By alleging facts which you cannot possibly prove, and believing them wholeheartedly, you will sound like a kook who cannot be believed.

But the media is garbage and they did convince lots of people the race was over. This position is highly demonstrable. A friend wanting to look into the elections asked me for a good media source. Guess what my answer was. None. Even the main sources I consume right now are unapologetic biased trash. In order to parse your way through current events, you really have to consume a wide variety of media -- including opinion media and pure documentation of events -- and contrast them with each other. The context in which I called the media garbage this time is that if you pay attention to media treatment of the GOP race, it is hilariously bad. Like, way worse than one would think if just told about it in detail. These blowhards en masse are deliberately reporting the wrong things and rooting for their teams at all costs -- not to mention issue incompetency in many instances.

So I'm not really sure what you're getting at.