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PoliGAF 2015 |OT| Keep Calm and Diablos On

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benjipwns

benjipwns

Banned
2014.2
Code: 
User Name	Posts
benjipwns	758
NYCmetsfan	622
Aaron Strife	589
ivysaur12	588
Wilsongt	374
HylianTom	338
PhoenixDark	336
Oblivion	329

2014
Code: 
User Name	Posts
NYCmetsfan	1,861
benjipwns	1,233
Aaron Strife	1,044
speculawyer	1,018
PhoenixDark	829
Wilsongt	786
Oblivion	741
WayneMorse	645

2013.3
Code: 
User Name	Posts
NYCmetsfan	699
Oblivion	438
PhoenixDark	411
Diablos		411
Aaron Strife	288
B-Dubs		277
Black Mamba	274
speculawyer	241

2013.2
Code: 
User Name	Posts
B-Dubs		1,074
The Librarian	1,062
PhoenixDark	914
Black Mamba	779
Oblivion	743
NYCmetsfan	696
Diablos		606
Aaron Strife	564

2013
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	912
B-Dubs		798
The Librarian	748
Chichikov	675
Black Mamba	609
speculawyer	606
RDreamer	596
Oblivion	592

2012.4
Code: 
User Name	Posts
Loudninja	711
Black Mamba	522
Diablos		491
Cloudy		442
pigeon		422
Aaron Strife	417
Tim-E		407
PhoenixDark	394

2012.3
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	539
Aaron Strife	525
RDreamer	519
pigeon		460
Forever		418
speculawyer	402
codhand		391
Black Mamba	391

2012.2
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	686
eznark		612
Aaron Strife	612
codhand		569
RDreamer	549
cartoon_soldier	467
Oblivion	456
Cyan		450

2012
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	842
AlteredBeast	722
cartoon_soldier	688
Invisible_Insane651
Oblivion	576
GhaleonEB	552
speculawyer	540
RustyNails	482
 
N

NeoXChaos

Member
Coriolanus said:
The prize is usually an internal sense of shame.
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sad-clinton.jpg
 
B

B-Dubs

No Scrubs
benjipwns said:
2014.2
Code: 
User Name	Posts
benjipwns	758
NYCmetsfan	622
Aaron Strife	589
ivysaur12	588
Wilsongt	374
HylianTom	338
PhoenixDark	336
Oblivion	329

2014
Code: 
User Name	Posts
NYCmetsfan	1,861
benjipwns	1,233
Aaron Strife	1,044
speculawyer	1,018
PhoenixDark	829
Wilsongt	786
Oblivion	741
WayneMorse	645

2013.3
Code: 
User Name	Posts
NYCmetsfan	699
Oblivion	438
PhoenixDark	411
Diablos		411
Aaron Strife	288
B-Dubs		277
Black Mamba	274
speculawyer	241

2013.2
Code: 
User Name	Posts
B-Dubs		1,074
The Librarian	1,062
PhoenixDark	914
Black Mamba	779
Oblivion	743
NYCmetsfan	696
Diablos		606
Aaron Strife	564

2013
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	912
B-Dubs		798
The Librarian	748
Chichikov	675
Black Mamba	609
speculawyer	606
RDreamer	596
Oblivion	592

2012.4
Code: 
User Name	Posts
Loudninja	711
Black Mamba	522
Diablos	491
Cloudy	442
pigeon	422
Aaron Strife	417
Tim-E	407
PhoenixDark	394

2012.3
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	539
Aaron Strife	525
RDreamer	519
pigeon	460
Forever	418
speculawyer	402
codhand	391
Black Mamba	391

2012.2
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	686
eznark	612
Aaron Strife	612
codhand	569
RDreamer	549
cartoon_soldier	467
Oblivion	456
Cyan	450

2012
Code: 
User Name	Posts
PhoenixDark	842
AlteredBeast	722
cartoon_soldier	688
Invisible_Insane	651
Oblivion	576
GhaleonEB	552
speculawyer	540
RustyNails	482
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I had quite a bit of free time in 2013
 
P

Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
benjipwns

benjipwns

Banned
Code: 
NeoXChaos	5.95%
ivysaur12	5.43%
benjipwns	5.37%
NYCmetsfan	4.68%
B-Dubs		3.91%
Aaron Strife	3.70%
PhoenixDark	3.25%
BertramCooper	2.65%
Coriolanus	2.64%
HylianTom	2.57%
Retromelon	2.32%
Metaphoreus	2.25%
Plinko		1.97%
thepotatoman	1.94%
Wilsongt	1.93%
speculawyer	1.86%
RustyNails	1.84%
Poodlestrike	1.83%
Black Mamba	1.70%
Oblivion	1.67%
Diablos		1.67%
Chichikov	1.23%
Fenderputty	1.16%
Trouble		1.15%
FiggyCal	1.14%
pigeon		1.10%
CrimzonSamurai	0.97%
Teggy		0.91%
ItWasMeantToBe	0.90%
Macho Madness	0.85%
Yellowtail	0.84%
Jooney		0.80%
Ecotic		0.77%
Jack Remington	0.76%
Cheebo		0.70%
ErasureAcer	0.66%
RDreamer	0.64%
Y2Kev		0.62%
Crisco		0.61%
eBay Huckster	0.58%
jamesinclair	0.58%
Roland_Gunner	0.50%
sc0la		0.49%
Mike M		0.48%
Ignatz Mouse	0.47%
Abinash117	0.46%
Avon Barksdale	0.45%
Samarecarm	0.44%
Bam Bam Baklava	0.44%
JesseEwiak	0.43%

The 95th percentile starts with Diablos. 90th with eBay Huckster.

The 99th percentile starts with Aaron Strife. The 99.5 percentile starts with ivysaur12.

The 50th percentile is 4.5 posts.

Exactly 100 posters have a single post in this thread.
 
E

eBay Huckster

Member
on a side note - I'm glad for pigeon's posts re: the Democratic primary because they tend to articulate how I actually feel about the race as it currently stands (and my issues with Bernie's policy positions in particular)
 
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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Macho Madness said:
I post too much in this thread.

Plinko, your constant Walker slams are a source of day brightening.
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Any chance I get to slam Walker or post a disapraging article about his terrible campaign, I take. The guy would easily be the most dangerous president of the bunch.

benjipwns said:
Code: 
NeoXChaos	5.95%
ivysaur12	5.43%
benjipwns	5.37%
NYCmetsfan	4.68%
B-Dubs		3.91%
Aaron Strife	3.70%
PhoenixDark	3.25%
BertramCooper	2.65%
Coriolanus	2.64%
HylianTom	2.57%
Retromelon	2.32%
Metaphoreus	2.25%
Plinko		1.97%
thepotatoman	1.94%
Wilsongt	1.93%
speculawyer	1.86%
RustyNails	1.84%
Poodlestrike	1.83%
Black Mamba	1.70%
Oblivion	1.67%
Diablos		1.67%
Chichikov	1.23%
Fenderputty	1.16%
Trouble		1.15%
FiggyCal	1.14%
pigeon		1.10%
CrimzonSamurai	0.97%
Teggy		0.91%
ItWasMeantToBe	0.90%
Macho Madness	0.85%
Yellowtail	0.84%
Jooney		0.80%
Ecotic		0.77%
Jack Remington	0.76%
Cheebo		0.70%
ErasureAcer	0.66%
RDreamer	0.64%
Y2Kev		0.62%
Crisco		0.61%
eBay Huckster	0.58%
jamesinclair	0.58%
Roland_Gunner	0.50%
sc0la		0.49%
Mike M		0.48%
Ignatz Mouse	0.47%
Abinash117	0.46%
Avon Barksdale	0.45%
Samarecarm	0.44%
Bam Bam Baklava	0.44%
JesseEwiak	0.43%
Bobby Jindal    0.41%

The 95th percentile starts with Diablos. 90th with eBay Huckster.

The 99th percentile starts with Aaron Strife. The 99.5 percentile starts with ivysaur12.

The 50th percentile is 4.5 posts.

Exactly 100 posters have a single post in this thread.
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Fixed for accuracy.
 
T

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
Plinko said:
Any chance I get to slam Walker or post a disapraging article about his terrible campaign, I take. The guy would easily be the most dangerous president of the bunch.



Fixed for accuracy.
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No you don't understand, Walker has to get the nomination

He needs to get his ass handed to him on a national stage
 
benjipwns

benjipwns

Banned
Who do you think you would outpoll the easiest if your name was randomly put into a poll.

Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham or Lincoln Chafee?

I think I could take Graham at least.

Who was that pollster that put fake candidates in a poll? I can't remember.
 
I

ItWasMeantToBe19

Banned
“White House officials insult the Prime Minister of Israel. Sadly, they never seem to criticize the Iranian Supreme Leader and the Revolutionary Guard commanders who have oppressed the people of Iran and helped kill thousands of our soldiers in Iraq.”



“Now is not the time for untested leadership. I have been tested like no other candidate in this race."


Islamic terrorists are "most likely" smuggling themselves across U.S.-Mexico border
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The world that Scott Walker is apparently living in is breath-taking.
 
benjipwns

benjipwns

Banned
It was PPP.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...y-farris-is-not-running-for-president/393443/
Pity Emily Farris. Republican primary voters just don’t like her very much.

In a survey released on Wednesday, Public Policy Polling found that Farris near the bottom of the GOP field. She polled well behind fellow Texans Rick Perry and Ted Cruz. Just 3 percent of voters had formed a favorable opinion of her, while 20 percent reported unfavorable views. Only embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faced a wider gap.

And Farris isn’t even running. She’s a political science professor at Texas Christian University, whose name was included within the enormous field of Republican hopefuls as a statistical control. “It’s a little surreal to think that 20 percent of Republican primary voters have a negative opinion of you, when they most likely don’t know you,” she told me.

Farris’s unlikely journey from scholar to subject of political polling began with a PPP poll of Iowa voters, in April, that included Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. Paul Egan, a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, called up PPP director Tom Jensen to make sense of the results. Snyder, Jensen told him, was effectively unknown. “If I had polled you for favorability with Iowa Republicans, you would come out with the same number he did,” Jensen said.

He put that proposition to the test in PPP’s next poll, of Arizona Republicans. It turned out that Jensen had been mistaken. Snyder was viewed favorably by 5 percent of respondents; Egan, the reporter, actually outpolled him with 6 percent support.

Farris, who teaches an upper-level class on polling, was puzzled by the inclusion of an unfamiliar name. PPP explained its logic. “Well, next time throw my name in the poll as someone with no national profile,” she tweeted to PPP. “It'll amuse my Survey Research students.” And then, on Thursday, she spotted reporters trying to figure out why a quarter of Republican voters had opinions about “Emily Farris,” when they’d never heard of her.

It’s well-established that voters will volunteer views concerning wholly fictitious issues or candidates. One landmark study asking voters for their opinions on the Public Affairs Act of 1975 found a third of them willing to voice opinions on the non-existent statute. Subsequent surveys have replicated that result. Voters can be reluctant to confess ignorance, or conflate invented laws or candidates with real ones.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/survey-questions-fiction_n_2994363.html
As they do on many obscure policy issues, Americans polarize sharply along partisan lines when they learn that President Barack Obama supports a repeal of the 1975 Public Affairs Act. Republicans are over 10 times more likely to disagree with the president on this issue than are Democrats.

..

In answer to the initial question, 15 percent offered an opinion -- 9 percent agreed that the fictitious law should be repealed and 6 percent disagreed -- while 85 percent chose "unsure."

That question, which began by informing respondents that "some people say the 1975 Public Affairs Act should be repealed," produced just a hint of partisanship. Democrats were only slightly less likely to agree than independents or Republicans that the law should be repealed, although given the sample size of 334 respondents, the differences between the subgroups were far too small to be considered statistically significant.

But the two alternative questions, each asked of separate samples of more than 600 respondents, made the partisan connection more explicit. When informed that "President Obama says" the 1975 Public Affairs Act should be repealed, 39 percent of Republicans expressed disagreement, compared to just 3 percent of Democrats. When informed that "the Republicans in Congress" want to repeal the act, 28 percent of Democrats disagreed compared to just 4 percent of Republicans.

Finally, we asked all of our respondents what they thought the Public Affairs Act was about. Far more thought it was "an attempt to reduce lavish fundraisers by elected officials" (11 percent) than believed it to be "a requirement that all members of Congress hire public affairs firms" (3 percent) or "a ban on extramarital affairs by members of Congress" (3 percent). The rest either opted for "none of the above" (20 percent) or were uncertain (64 percent).
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/04/should-the-public-affairs-act-1975-be-repealed/
9 per cent of Brits say the Public Affairs Act 1975 should be repealed, and 9 per cent say it shouldn’t, according to a new poll by YouGov.

UK-Public-Affairs-Act1.png
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E

ErasureAcer

Banned
Only a few more weeks of the Summer of Sanders guys. Did you all have fun? Cuz things are just getting started.

Up next:

Fall of Clinton. Hillary Clinton loses front-runner status to Bernie.
Winter of Warren. Elizabeth Warren endorses Bernie and starts to campaign with him.
Lord of the Spring: Bernie secures enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination.
Summer of Sanity: Bernie leads the national polls by 20 percent over his Republican opponent.
Fall of the Wall: The electorate tears down the Republican wall by flipping both chambers of congress.
Winter of Winning: Bernie and Elizabeth take the keys to the White House and save our planet.
 
C

Cheebo

Banned
ErasureAcer said:
Only a few more weeks of the Summer of Sanders guys. Did you all have fun? Cuz things are just getting started.

Up next:

Fall of Clinton. Hillary Clinton loses front-runner status to Bernie.
Winter of Warren. Elizabeth Warren endorses Bernie and starts to campaign with him.
Lord of the Spring: Bernie secures enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination.
Summer of Sanity: Bernie leads the national polls by 20 percent over his Republican opponent.
Fall of the Wall: The electorate tears down the Republican wall by flipping both chambers of congress.
Winter of Winning: Bernie and Elizabeth take the keys to the White House and save our planet.
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20 points? Conservatives still outnumber liberals here buddy. We don't live in Sweeden.
 
B

BertramCooper

Banned
ErasureAcer said:
Only a few more weeks of the Summer of Sanders guys. Did you all have fun? Cuz things are just getting started.

Up next:

Fall of Clinton. Hillary Clinton loses front-runner status to Bernie.
Winter of Warren. Elizabeth Warren endorses Bernie and starts to campaign with him.
Lord of the Spring: Bernie secures enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination.
Summer of Sanity: Bernie leads the national polls by 20 percent over his Republican opponent.
Fall of the Wall: The electorate tears down the Republican wall by flipping both chambers of congress.
Winter of Winning: Bernie and Elizabeth take the keys to the White House and save our planet.
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Troll.

Just a really dumb one.
 
B

BertramCooper

Banned
To clarify, I do genuinely believe that Erasure thinks that Bernie Sanders is Jesus.

But it's pretty clear that he's now just saying increasingly stupid shit purely for attention.
 
C

Cheebo

Banned
EraceeAcer at this point is clearly a cult follower of Bernie, it seems to barely even be about politics anymore. If Bernie asked him personally to leap off a building I am confident he would.
 
T

Third Strike

Member
SourShoes said:
Trump is gaining ground with black voters. Former NFL running back and darling of GA football fans, Herschel Walker has voiced his support for the Republican frontrunner.
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An old associate of my mother, who is black, has stated that she will be voting for Trump. Simply because of his stance of immigration. It was during this revelation that she stated she hated illegal immigrants, and hopes President Trump will deport them on his first day of the job...
 
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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Scott Walker said today, repeatedly, that he will use ground troops against ISIS.

Why is everyone in the GOP going in on this.
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This campaign point makes absolutely no sense. I mean, maybe GOP voters are dumb enough to buy it, but it makes no sense.

All Trump will have to do is point out that ground troops would benefit almost nothing during the debate and Walker will look like an idiot.
 
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ItWasMeantToBe19

Banned
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), a staunch advocate of beefing up security on the southern border, said Sunday he is open to building a wall on the U.S. border with Canada as well.

The Republican presidential candidate said the idea of building a northern wall was brought up to him during a recent town hall in New Hampshire.

"That is a legitimate issue for us to look at," Walker said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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Well, I mean, I guess this ridiculous isolationism is less directly racist?
 
M

Macho Madness

Member
It's not a legitimate issue because it's stupid, and a "fiscal conservative" should be ashamed they wish to waste tax payer dollars this way. Do we want to become North Korea? Do they not realize that's how they sound?
 
I

ItWasMeantToBe19

Banned
Macho Madness said:
It's not a legitimate issue because it's stupid, and a "fiscal conservative" should be ashamed they wish to waste tax payer dollars this way. Do we want to become North Korea? Do they not realize that's how they sound?
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Spending $20 billion to $60 billion to look like the country version of the weird dude who hoards guns and ammo in his basement is totally worth it tho.
 
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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Well, I mean, I guess this ridiculous isolationism is less directly racist?
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Trump is basically making everyone else say crazier and crazier things. It's amazing to watch.

"Small government and saving taxpayer money" sounds hilarious as a GOP talking point when I read stuff like this.
 
I

ItWasMeantToBe19

Banned
PhoenixDark said:
We can use all the infrastructure jobs we can find, in this shitty economy especially. Building a wall would create jobs.
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Hiring people to dig holes and then fill in those same holes would also create as many jobs and provide more benefit to the United States.

We should hire people to break and then repair windows also.
 
C

Cheebo

Banned
BertramCooper said:
It's about video games, man.

Hillary gonna take his games, man!
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It makes sense, when I found his old obsessed with Kucinich threads I discovered he is obsessed with all those weird animeish Japanese rpgs no one knows exists, like he claimed Xenogears is a work of art and the like. Seemed really fitting actually.
 
P

Poodlestrike

Banned
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Hiring people to dig holes and then fill in those same holes would also create as many jobs and provide more benefit to the United States.

We should hire people to break and then repair windows also.
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The trick is to tell people that the holes they're filling in were dug by some idiots who couldn't follow instructions properly. Set up enough hole digging/filling spots around the country, and rotate work crews around. Creates a positive psychological effect!
 
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