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Dog Botherer

Dog Botherer wrote: »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/us/politics/howard-schultz-drops-out-2020.amp.html

summary there of his disastrous campaign attempt. i suppose the gritting is implied. no serious person could think Howard Schultz had any chance of making a successful bid, but a cynical person would definitely see it as an easy way to pick up some fat consulting fees.

i had also forgotten this very funny related story until i was googling there.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c6121a0e4b0eec79b254c37

Ehr - Schmidt isn't mentioned at all in the first link and the huffington post is pretty partisan even by my standards. I'll have a wee google myself to see what his involvement was !

Dog Botherer

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ehr - Schmidt isn't mentioned at all in the first link and the huffington post is pretty partisan even by my standards. I'll have a wee google myself to see what his involvement was !

fair enough, it’s not exactly a secret that he was a senior consultant.

kuang1

Slightly worrying stuff there shortly after 10.00 on CNN.
“Slight pessimism from Biden camp about daytime turnout in Florida...“ i.e. The turnout has been high today and it is expected that trump voters were in the main going to vote in person.

And this beaute... 48% think Coronavirus is being handled well???

Neil3030

Blurring together the actions of an administration, the actions of local election boards, and the actions of campaign management, is wholly disingenuous.

Stheno

kuang1 wrote: »

Slightly worrying stuff there shortly after 10.00 on CNN.
“Slight pessimism from Biden camp about daytime turnout in Florida...“ i.e. The turnout has been high today and it is expected that trump voters were in the main going to vote in person.

And this beaute... 48% think Coronavirus is being handled well???

Filler while waiting for exit polls?

kuang1

Stheno wrote: »

Filler while waiting for exit polls?

Totally!
I'm flicking between fox and CNN.

Jesus they talk very loudly on fox!

Stheno

kuang1 wrote: »

Totally!
I'm flicking between fox and CNN.

Jesus they talk very loudly on fox!

Yep can't cope with the yelling on Fox

Neil3030

kuang1 wrote: »

Totally!
I'm flicking between fox and CNN.

Jesus they talk very loudly on fox!

Makes sense - isn't their audience median age like 81 or something?

Zzippy

kuang1 wrote: »

Slightly worrying stuff there shortly after 10.00 on CNN.
“Slight pessimism from Biden camp about daytime turnout in Florida...“ i.e. The turnout has been high today and it is expected that trump voters were in the main going to vote in person.

And this beaute... 48% think Coronavirus is being handled well???

That's from exit poll interviews with in-person voters today. Will be dominated by Repubkicans, who tend to vote more in person. Won't be representative as it doesn't capture the views of the early/absentee voters.

kuang1

More mentions of Biden camp pessimism about Florida on CNN.

Stheno

kuang1 wrote: »

More mentions of Biden camp pessimism about Florida on CNN.

Go have a beer

There was a consistent polling lead in Florida and if that is not reflective of the actual vote then it might suggest a disconnect between polling and voting.

At the same time, Biden doesn't need to win Florida and it's more an early plus for him rather than an election decider.

But if he doesn't win Florida then it suggests that Trump has maintained a base popularity that indicates a genuinely unhealthy and polarised country.

Don't we have a discord for this sort of thing?

Dave_The_Sheep

Deleted User wrote: »

... that indicates a genuinely unhealthy and polarised country.

I think we've passed that point a long, long time ago.

Neil3030

Venjur are any of these based on actual counts, or party affiliation?

Neil3030

First Guinness opened.

Neil3030

Neil3030 wrote: »

Venjur are any of these based on actual counts, or party affiliation?

There is no good information right now at all - there is background noise but until we hear vote counts there is nothing reliable.

The camps might be trying to get last minute voters out and nothing more.

In around 3 hours we may have one or two states called. How reflective they are of the polling will either give validation or throw it all open.

I can only say that I hope Trump is completely and utterly crushed.

Podge_irl

Right, I'm off to bed. Hoping to wake up to some good news...

Dave_The_Sheep

Podge_irl wrote: »

Right, I'm off to bed. Hoping to wake up to some good news...

Ditto. Going to be rather depressing if it's not ...

Paul Smeenus

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Ditto. Going to be rather depressing if it's not ...

"Rather depressing" is somewhat of an understatement in terms of the fallout globally, and the next four years, I'd say.

Neil3030

Markets were up today... hopefully a signal they expect a definitive result...

Stheno

Results filtering in......

Neil3030

To quote Jimmy Kimmel, this feels like a mix of Christmas Eve, and the night before a liver transplant.

Neil3030

Neil3030 wrote: »

To quote Jimmy Kimmel, this feels like a mix of Christmas Eve, and the night before a liver transplant.

Yeah I thought that was spot on.

errlloyd

Have Fox and CNN on split screen. Feels important to me to experience this how actual Americans do!

Neil3030

errlloyd wrote: »

Have Fox and CNN on split screen. Feels important to me to experience this how actual Americans do!

Presume you also got your cholesterol up to life threatening levels?

Stheno

Jesus this is fast paces

Florida is fascinating

Synode

errlloyd wrote: »

Have Fox and CNN on split screen. Feels important to me to experience this how actual Americans do!

They watch 2 channels at the same time?

Zzippy

Watching Florida is like watching a horse race, the lead is changing hands so often...

Stheno

Zzippy wrote: »

Watching Florida is like watching a horse race, the lead is changing hands so often...

Its insane