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Are Election Polls Accurate Indicators or Poor Predictors?
  • My thinking exactly as well.

    It's spin if they are not adjusting how and who they poll as technology advances and as new generations enter the voting pool.

    If they're only polling people who pick up an unknown phone call, they're going to get mainly boomers and geriatrics. Younger generations in general screen their phone calls and don't answer unknown numbers, and, let's face it, phone calls are a terrible engagement mechanism anymore.

    I'm a xennial and I have Google's call screening feature - I never answer unknown numbers, and look closely at the caller's intentions even before accepting any calls. I would love to participate in this unicorn that is a presidential poll, but I'm not doing it through an unsolicited phone call.

    Edit - then you have this use of polling also

  • Don't fall for it
  • As a cybersecurity professional, I appreciate that he says for security purposes to call him directly with the details.

    If he was really trolling though he should include a hyperlink to click.

  • Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler
  • I put funny tags on accounts like this so that I can easily identify them. I can't repeat this account's tag as I wouldn't want the operator to feel like I'm attacking their character, but your experience has been mine as well.

  • TIL about hair traps
  • They're fantastic! Ours is a tub shroom.

    They're fantastic until your 9 year old takes the rubber plug with hair in it and drops it down the drain.

    We're waiting on a plumber to come snake it out. However, that aside, they really are fantastic at catching the hair. 100% recommended.

    Also, talk to your kids about not dropping shit into the drains (hair, objects, and/or shit) and make sure they know it's not a bottomless void.

    Education is important 😂

  • Exploding pagers belonging to Hezbollah kill 8 and injure more than 2,700 in Lebanon
  • This was a clever supply chain attack. I say clever because I don't think anything like this and at this scale has happened before, but due to it being lethal it's crazy scary. I'm not condoning it or praising it. As a cybersecurity professional we usually see people infiltrate the supply chain of code to inject their own, not actually putting explosives into communication devices and then using the network to remotely detonate.

  • Weak polar vortex gives hints of what to expect this winter
  • Let me repeat that. There is no polar vortex in the northern hemisphere right now!

    Not with that attitude!

    /s

    Thanks for posting, I always find meteorology fascinating and hungrily read up info posted from people like yourself. Please keep doing it, us buffoons that aren't trained really rely on people like you helping to cut through misinformation when it comes to weather and climate.

  • Trump is 'hanging himself' with his own rope as campaign spirals out of control: analyst
  • I would agree with your thinking that it's probably too late - look at RFK, he narrowly got his name off of North Carolina ballots, they have to reprint a fuck ton of them.

    He wasn't so lucky in Michigan, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled he must stay on the ballot.

  • Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week
    www.telegraph.co.uk Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week

    Turnaround since vice-president took election frontrunner spot from Joe Biden described as ‘astounding’

    Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week
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    Activists sound alarm: 'Project 2025' bill suggests election threat 'already happening'
    www.rawstory.com Activists sound alarm: 'Project 2025' bill suggests election threat 'already happening'

    Climate and environmental defenders on this week implored U.S. senators to block a permitting reform bill introduced this week by Sens. Joe Manchin and John Barrasso that campaigners linked to Project 2025, a conservative coalition's agenda for a far-right overhaul of the federal government. Common...

    Activists sound alarm: 'Project 2025' bill suggests election threat 'already happening'
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    J.D. Vance Will Be a More Extremist Christian VP Than Mike Pence
    www.rollingstone.com J.D. Vance Will Be a More Extremist Christian VP Than Mike Pence

    J.D. Vance has deep ties to far-right Christian nationalists who want to impose a populist radicalism to the United States.

    J.D. Vance Will Be a More Extremist Christian VP Than Mike Pence
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    'Direct attack': Trump said to be prepping 'much bigger insurrection' after rally comments
    www.rawstory.com 'Direct attack': Trump said to be prepping 'much bigger insurrection' after rally comments

    Donald Trump's comments at a rally in Minnesota on Saturday led several prominent onlookers to label the former president a "very real threat to democracy" who is preparing another insurrection. Trump earlier in the day spoke at a Bitcoin conference, where the attendees said his speech was "ramb.....

    'Direct attack': Trump said to be prepping 'much bigger insurrection' after rally comments
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