The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

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many American jews wouldn't care if every single Jew in Israel was killed.

but remember the exit polls were clearly wrong (and jews voted more for McCain) which is why this thread exists.

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I hate these shows. They try and make drug users and drug dealers as the protagonists, when infact, they're the antagonists.

A husband dies so a woman starts a drug business? A guy is ill so he starts selling meth?

Ridiculous. Drug users are the enemy. Period. If I had my way, they would vanish. J. Edgar style.

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Given that I'm a gayer and stridently anti-clerical I think the Nazi's would have repulsed me.

The statement might be true because of the first bit but the bold part is rather absurd considering how many Nazis that also applied to (including Hitler).

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Space Exploration: Scrap all further space exploration.

This isn't quite the only position on that particular issue that wouldn't qualify for inclusion, but it's close.

Newt Gingrich's comes to mind.

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Despite the complaints from some people, before this thread and during the brief period when it was locked, any time someone made a particularly absurd, ignorant or bad post, it would either get posted in the Comedy Goldmine instead (resulting in other complaints) or someone would make a poll about that post saying something like "Is this one of the stupidest things you've ever read on the forum?" and a lot more bickering and flooding would result. The most notable example I can remember is when Harry made a poll just to point out that South Park Conservative claimed that oil is not a fossil fuel.

So it serves a purpose. Something even Inks seemed to have learned due to his unlocking of it.

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https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=7903;sa=showPosts

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and than there's this
http://www.examiner.com/article/liberals-on-twitter-curse-archbishop-dolan-for-pro-life-prayer-at-dnc-convention

Democrats curse the American Pope.  Nice job guys.

LOL. There's an American Pope now.

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Even by NY Jew standards this is...

For whatever reason the GOP is mostly white in an America that is increasingly less so. And that's a huge problem for them. So they have to find minorities to fight the perception that they are anti-minority. But, again, there aren'tthat many minority GOPers to choose from. So we get a strong de facto affirmative action policy within the GOP. Does anybody really think that Michael Steele or Herman Cain would have had their 15 minutes of fame otherwise? It's super hilarious within the context of an otherwise fiercely conservative party.

Alan West would be popular no matter what his color is.

He is arguably the most popular person by the base of the party.

but because the GOP is the stupidest party politically (the dems might not know math but they know politics) the elite hate him and tried to gerrymander him out.

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What I find most amazing is clicking that link and finding out that...Dave Leip actually posted a poll.

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Probably the same thing I'd say.

I hope your proud of yourself.

God Bless this country

That map is outdated anyway, with it now legal in Iowa and performed in New York as well as New Hampshire and Vermont.

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Naso's sig deserves an entry here too:

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Two from the same thread:

First, I think was a Bradley Effect, i.e. people lying to pollster because of race, in the 1980's and 1990's, but it was dwindling over time.  It arguably was there in some statewide races in the 2000's but it was not strong.

Second, the states where I though it would be pronounced, PA, OH, it was not there.  The PA numbers were right on.

Third, there were states where it looked like it happened, IA, where I never would have expected it.  There also seem to be cases where voters lied to the pollsters, but they said they were voting for McCain and voted for Obama.  That seemed to be in AZ and NM, and may be tied to voters of Mexican ancestry.  (A study from Harvard indicated that during the primaries, Obama underpolled with African-American voters.  Basically, they didn't want to look like they were voting for Obama just because he was black.)

Fourth, in trying to see if there were more states where Obama underpolled, there is the problem that a several large states were not polled.  I had found one poll within a month of the election in NY.  Obama overpolled and overpolled outside of the MOE.  The poll was not in a week of the election, and it was not a major polling firm.  Was that because of the electorate shifting toward the end?  Was it because the methodology of poll was bad?  Was it because a significant number of people didn't want the pollster to think they were voting for McCain because Obama was black?

The only thing that we can say is that Obama overpolled on some normally good nation polls, like Gallup, but didn't on some others, Rasmussen and PPP.  (And 2008 made PPP.)

Liberals have been saying for months that Romney should be beating Obama because the "economy sucks"  

The Liberals are right, Romney should be winning.  

Romney's losing because he's a Mormon and the liberal media hates Mormons.  

Obama's winning because he has the "stature of the presidency" and voters will tell pollsters they lean support towards the President.  Voters also don't want to "give up on the PResident" or appear racist, just because he is black.  

Carter was completely inept with disasters in both foreign policy and national economic policy.  
GHWB was a terrible politician/campaigner who couldn't communicate with voters or appear responsive to the national economic recession.  

Obama is a good speaker who connects with voters, and he staved off a Depression, but can't deliver a recovery.  Voters just have not been quick enough to bail on him yet.  The Liberal Media is helping to keep Obama up in the polls (because he's black superman!), lol.  

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The first part is not absurd per se but once he gives examples you can probably see the big issue:

Romney is a nerd, but so what? He'll get the job done right, unlike the current office holder...

Plus, Obama really isn't that cool. He's a 50 yr old college professor-type. Clinton and GWB got coolness on both Obama and Romney.

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wow:

There were some questions if Obama was a covert agent for the CIA after college

Excellent. Simply excellent.

Has J.J. pre-ordered his copy of 2016 yet?

He did say it was a positive. I'd take it as a positive.

Doesn't mean it's not completely absurd. I can't say I've ever seen these "questions" raised. Anyone else?

It's a standard J. J. tactic to say something ridiculous like that and then say "Oh but I'm not necessarily saying this is a bad thing." And yeah this is the first I've ever heard of that too.

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Let's see. Vote for the pro abortion pro gay marriage Muslim or for the pro abortion pro gay marriage Mormon?

What a thrilling election.

We've been having this discussion at my workplace - lots of conservative Catholics there. We all feel that our last chance for a decent candidate was Santorum, and since he's out - lots of folks choosing to stay home.

Everyone is hunkering down for the next 4 years because we know it's going to suck, but Texas should weather the storm.

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The Muslim part is the one that warrants its inclusion here though.

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"Subprime mortgages would have never existed if not for Carter's meddling." What the....

Actually that's not even the most absurd thing in that post...

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This entire thread, especially the fact that this is even considered news to begin with: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=161197.0

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It's certainly the dumbest map posted in this forum's history.

Whether whoever made it is more ignorant of Canada or the US is very hard to pin down. North Dakota is downright hilarious too.

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OK it doesn't top the previous entry, but still needs to be mentioned:

Good to see Heller will break the vicious gerrymander

...in reference to a Senate race.

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Well it appears to be from 2007. But it would be just as absurd then as it is today.

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So krazen is a white supremacist now?

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Well he was always an annoying hack but that doesn't make one a white supremacist. But "war on whites", that's basically straight from Stormfront.

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King you left out probably the "best" part.

Because you seem really knowledgeable about trends and numbers.