tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post3729942179321193326..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: UPDATED: Support For Impeachment Flips, Especially Marked Among Independentsmark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-73164484524147652082019-11-22T12:13:51.586-06:002019-11-22T12:13:51.586-06:00My point is, taking your example, that you cannot ...My point is, taking your example, that you cannot tell whether the sample polled is truly random due to all the obstacles preventing randomness, i.e. how do you make contact with people so as to result in a representative sample of the population.<br /><br />E.g. "The data was weighted based on 2016 voter model of age, mode, party registration, ethnicity, and region." [From the press Forbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08397667344368400622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-1854097810149471392019-11-21T21:47:56.870-06:002019-11-21T21:47:56.870-06:00Trump is very very good at that.Trump is very very good at that.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-52187159034984512582019-11-21T21:40:26.866-06:002019-11-21T21:40:26.866-06:00Today I participated in a manager's meeting di...Today I participated in a manager's meeting discussing HR stuff. The recurring theme was how different people perceive the same events differently. Sometimes people carry baggage that distracts them from the scenery. My job, and Trump's, and all of us, is to continue to point out the scenery until people say - oh yeah, I see what you mean.dfp21https://www.blogger.com/profile/04224625591583911490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-44607735053451675142019-11-21T20:36:22.154-06:002019-11-21T20:36:22.154-06:00Here's the part that's so baffling. You...Here's the part that's so baffling. You've got guys like Ron Johnson who seem to mean well but can't understand why Trump isn't totally thrilled with Ukraine.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-39514752990382159402019-11-21T20:06:25.438-06:002019-11-21T20:06:25.438-06:00This train-wreck is presented to you, this morning...This train-wreck is presented to you, this morning, by my hero, Devin frickin' Nunes:<br /><br />"...<br />They got caught trying to obtain nude photos of President Trump from Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukrainians.<br />And they got caught covering up for Alexandria Chalupa, a Democratic National Committee operative who colluded with Ukrainian officials to smear the Trump dfp21https://www.blogger.com/profile/04224625591583911490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-34608520531700328622019-11-21T17:24:52.974-06:002019-11-21T17:24:52.974-06:00May be, Forbes, but the internals (in this case, a...May be, Forbes, but the internals (in this case, about news sources) may be still worth something.<br /><br />Where Mark bolded the 19% saying "somewhere else", I presume that this was taken by respondents to include PBS/NPR.<br />This "somewhere else" data would've been much more useful, if PBS/NPR had been lumped in with the Big Three, or had been made a separate aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-58829437267672902382019-11-21T16:42:00.697-06:002019-11-21T16:42:00.697-06:00No disrespect meant to Michael Barone, who has for...No disrespect meant to Michael Barone, who has forgotten more about voting patterns and demographics in 435 congressional districts than I'll ever know, but--polling has become a pseudo-event. The sole purpose of polling today is as a news-hook--something to wrap a story around. And the whole reason to report a story in the media is to further The Narrative.<br /><br />All one needs is a Forbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08397667344368400622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-50847437524692328712019-11-21T16:33:37.433-06:002019-11-21T16:33:37.433-06:00Looks like a trainwreck to me.Looks like a trainwreck to me.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-56010221032055158692019-11-21T16:13:05.956-06:002019-11-21T16:13:05.956-06:00With headlines like these, it can only get worse f...With headlines like these, it can only get worse for the Dems:<br /><br />https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/revealed-adam-schiff-connected-to-both-companies-named-in-7-4-billion-burisma-us-ukraine-corruption-case/<br /><br />and<br /><br />https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/21/david-holmes-did-not-take-notes-of-trump-sondland-conversation/Bebenoreply@blogger.com