How Partisan is Atlas?

[Kingpoleon]

I bet Runeghost & Fuzzy would do well here.

For BRTD, can we have a “nonsense posts” category?

[Kingpoleon]

Feel free to try me!

(I don’t know how this will go)

[Kingpoleon]

Updated chart:



A few things of note:

1) For those of you asking how to score certain posts... it's hard to say. You'd be the best judge of what your intent was, so I'd leave that up to you. Some of this is hard to score-- for instance, Lyndon spends a lot of time crapping on Tulsi Gabbard, but he's attacking her from a left-wing perspective, so how should I count that? I ultimately decided to count it as "right-wing" even though it isn't technically, because it shows that he's willing to go after people on "his side."

2) Kingpoleon is now rated as the least extreme person on this site, and Nathan is the least partisan overall.

3) A cluster is forming in the upper left hand corner, with three of the most obscenely obnoxious posters on the site all grouped together (as I've indicated). My suspicion is that if/when I add GeneralMacArthur's scores, he'll be within about 5% of those guys.

I have to say, I thought a random selection of my posts would tilt one way or the other more. But yes, I’m the only self-identified centrist with as many posts as I have. In fact, I think I’m probably the only very active centrist poster excluding bronz (the troll).

[Kingpoleon]

I have to say, I thought a random selection of my posts would tilt one way or the other more. But yes, I’m the only self-identified centrist with as many posts as I have. In fact, I think I’m probably the only very active centrist poster excluding bronz (the troll).

Some of this is very unscientific, but the fact that we're basically getting the results we expect indicates to me that we're on to something.

I’d agree, but isn’t it very concerning that I alone cover almost 40% of the political axis? Maybe we just need a larger sample size, but that seems kind of off.

[Kingpoleon]

A number of my last 100 posts are "strategy" posts about the science of politics and the "horse race" aspects of 2020.

I'm not right wing on that aspect; at least not FAR right.  My basic beliefs about the 2020 election is that the Democrats have strategic advantages that they seem to be squandering with their impeachment pipe dreams and a somewhat flawed field of candidates. 

I've believed (and posted) that the Democrats were looking for a candidate to be airlifted into the race and present a coherent, broad-based challenge to Trump.  Bloomberg is the kind of candidate I had in mind for this (although I think Al Gore would have been the best pick here).  If the issue in 2020 is the unsavory character of Trump, a guy like Bloomberg is the sort of person that can build a WIDE (if not deep) coalition and can self-fund.

Atlas is not a partisan forum; it's just that it is currently populated with a leftist majority.  It's not an echo chamber like Daily Kos or Free Republic, however.  There are those here that would make it an echo chamber, but there are enough to keep it honest in that regard.

Ok Boomer.

[Kingpoleon]

Gonna keep FF/HP threads here too, I would wait a week from initial post date. Btw if you don't mind John maybe you could place the FF score next to each user we collect data from?
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=342845.0
Kingpoleon.(55,45)
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=344821.0
JDB(73,27)
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=342653.0
Higgins (18,82)
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=303620.0
NYC MM(26,74)

Or you could use this one:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=238151.0