President Trump

BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Try disguising yourself as non-white - my father was white-as-chalk but my mother was a native from Guam; as a result I look off-white, something other, maybe Mexican. My lifelong experience with midwestern and southern states is that they all have significant racial bias against nonwhites. And that explains a lot of Trump's popularity.

Interestingly enough, in spite of Trump's rhetoric against immigrants - especially any immigrant who doesn't look flour-white - some non-caucasians nonetheless support Trump. There was a recent poll/survey to explore this unintuitive phenomenon - and it found that Blacks, Hispanics, etc., supported Trump in spite of his rhetoric b/c they thought that Trump's anti-black, anti-hispanic, anti-non-white rhetoric was directed at someone other than themselves. OK in their minds that Trump is engaging in such hate speech - b/c it's not me - the Black, Hispanic, non-Caucasian, that Trump is referring to.
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Oh i've seen the racism.
In Flagstaff i got thrown out of a bar after sticking up for a native Indian who was getting shit. Spent a day on the lash with a black cop who was the only one attending a police conference in Florida.
 
stonerblue said:
This is why i'm astounded at the support trump gets.
I've been around the States a few times and met lots of sound , rational people. But the fact is millions will vote for a complete dickhead.
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what is the appeal tho? dont follow US elections close enough, but how does he manage to gain the support he gets?

I heard something or read somewhere about him wanting to launch digital currency ventures, esp if he wins he will push it more. Meaning for the crypto lot, it's advantageous - profits etc. Might be wrong on that.
 

Vantage Data House

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This makes for a very interesting read, and it highlights something that even I have overlooked despite my slightly obsessive tea leaf reading.

The poll aggregators (538/RCP) are currently predicting something which seems functionally impossible. Split ticket races in the majority of swing states. Split ticket races are exceedingly rare - and becoming rarer with time due to tribalism. In fact over the last two elections there has only been one single instance where a Senate seat went one way and the Presidency went the other. Simultaneous Senatorial races and Presidency races historically correlate to 95% accuracy in terms of outcomes. So about a 5% chance of a split ticket happening.

Yet… both of the main poll aggregators are showing this happening this year in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania. All of the Republican senators are polling way worse than Trump. Even Cruz is sweating about his seat. This really does make zero sense. Based on historical averages there’s about a 0.6% chance of that actually happening.

Some might be thinking - “well Trump is a bit of an outlier and tends to outperform GOP Senators”. But this isn’t accurate, in the 4 swing states that had senatorial races in 2020, he outperformed the Senator in 2 and underperformed in 2 and the average difference between the GOP Senator’s vote share and Trump’s vote share was less than 1%.

So with this in mind how is it possible that 538/RCP are predicting 5-7 point losses for GOP Senators but wins for Trump?

The answer is that the poll populations are different. And the methodologies behind those polls are different. And what we’re seeing is the prediction of two very different sets of results. One where it’s not even close and Harris wins comfortably and another where Trump wins by a hair.

It also highlights the huge swing in the gender gap which has already been mentioned. Women are turning out both in polling and in early voting.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:

Vantage Data House

app.vantagedatahouse.com app.vantagedatahouse.com

This makes for a very interesting read, and it highlights something that even I have overlooked despite my slightly obsessive tea leaf reading.

The poll aggregators (538/RCP) are currently predicting something which seems functionally impossible. Split ticket races in the majority of swing states. Split ticket races are exceedingly rare - and becoming rarer with time due to tribalism. In fact over the last two elections there has only been one single instance where a Senate seat went one way and the Presidency went the other. Simultaneous Senatorial races and Presidency races historically correlate to 95% accuracy in terms of outcomes. So about a 5% chance of a split ticket happening.

Yet… both of the main poll aggregators are showing this happening this year in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania. All of the Republican senators are polling way worse than Trump. Even Cruz is sweating about his seat. This really does make zero sense. Based on historical averages there’s about a 0.6% chance of that actually happening.

Some might be thinking - “well Trump is a bit of an outlier and tends to outperform GOP Senators”. But this isn’t accurate, in the 4 swing states that had senatorial races in 2020, he outperformed the Senator in 2 and underperformed in 2 and the average difference between the GOP Senator’s vote share and Trump’s vote share was less than 1%.

So with this in mind how is it possible that 538/RCP are predicting 5-7 point losses for GOP Senators but wins for Trump?

The answer is that the poll populations are different. And the methodologies behind those polls are different. And what we’re seeing is the prediction of two very different sets of results. One where it’s not even close and Harris wins comfortably and another where Trump wins by a hair.

It also highlights the huge swing in the gender gap which has already been mentioned. Women are turning out both in polling and in early voting.
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Great find though you’re right, they won’t be split.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
And with respect...
You (and I too) are very anti-Trump.
The tendency is to view evidence in support of ones convictions in a favorable light; and those in opposition to ones views, as suspect.
The truth is - there are numerous credible arguments about why the polls are off, inflating the support for Trump; and an equal number of salient counter-arguments about why the polls are far too favorable for Harris. In the past 4 years or so we've seen polls at variance with results swinging widely either way - either far too or less favorable for either Democrats or Republicans.

My sense is that this race is too close to call either way, although I think that Harris has a slight advantage. I would not however be surprised to see Trump win by a slight margin, or Harris win by a slight or better-than slight margin.

Complicating matters enormously is the Electoral College effect - where the popular vote (which I'm 90% certain will go for Harris) doesn't matter - instead it's the EC that counts - likely down to a very few voters in a very few states. Who-the-fuck knows how that will go?

We'll see.
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The best non biassed pollster/predictor is 338 Canada where highly sophisticated statistical methods are used. It has done some work on US election and currently has Harris 8 points ahead nationally. It is suggesting that EC vote will be close but with a win for Harris 272 votes.
PS EDIT. Incidently, my prediction a long time ago that TEXAS maybe in play is now looking not so outrageous.
VOTE BLUE.
 
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KS55 said:
The best non biassed pollster/predictor is 338 Canada where highly sophisticated statistical methods are used. It has done some work on US election and currently has Harris 8 points ahead nationally. It is suggesting that EC vote will be close but with a win for Harris 272 votes.
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Cheers.
338 on my Christmas Card list if Harris wins :-).
 
Forget everything you heard from a Trumper media source..

Here are Donnie's VP's own words in which Vance manages to admit that they plan to use the military against American citizens who do not share their political values amidst trying to say it's not true.

Just sick fucking people.



It's sad.. the only choice to stopping fascists and going full fascist is Kamala.

Might not agree with her on everything but I sure don't wanna live in a fascist country!
 
KS55 said:
The best non biassed pollster/predictor is 338 Canada where highly sophisticated statistical methods are used. It has done some work on US election and currently has Harris 8 points ahead nationally. It is suggesting that EC vote will be close but with a win for Harris 272 votes.
PS EDIT. Incidently, my prediction a long time ago that TEXAS maybe in play is now looking not so outrageous.
VOTE BLUE.
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Certainly the Harris camp seems to think so. The leverage there makes it a chance worth taking — hard to see a path for Trump without it.
 
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