Beer Monkey
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Does the Google shit use the Opinion Rewards app? Because I wouldn't trust that much.
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StopMakingSense
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Hired by a group of local TV news affiliates. You can see it on the report on their website. Polled president, senate, some house races, and propositions.
excelsiorlef
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Ha ha ha
StopMakingSense
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Oh god I read about the Pamela Anderson thing. Oh internet.
Insurance companies should be able to compete across state lines. With how consistent he has been with that specific stance, he must be poised to profit off such a change.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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What is the rate of return on battery R&D.
Like, if the government invests another $100B in battery research, how much (based on historical trends) more will battery capacity be expected to improve?
This is a very specific question, but it's important and I can't find any estimates....
Like, if the government invests another $100B in battery research, how much (based on historical trends) more will battery capacity be expected to improve?
This is a very specific question, but it's important and I can't find any estimates....
whyamihere
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Oh no, there's an NRO writer who just "leaked" that the GOP internals have 7 Senate GOP members up 1-3%.
This is sad for them.
This is sad for them.
neurosisxeno
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They brought this on themselves.
StopMakingSense
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Honesty, no way to know. Battery technology is hampered by the realities of chemistry and physics. Also a LOT of R&D is already being dumped into battery technology as is.
If someone knew the answer to that question they could probably attract private investment.
whyamihere
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He also bought it verbatim.
Also he unintentionally leaked that GOP internals only have Rubio up by 1-3%, which, uh oh.
Unfortunately that's not how it works, if it did work that way we'd all be better off.
Carpe Carnim
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You're jumping past the necessary step of either controlling the House, or having an Ammenable Speaker to bring those votes to the floor. I certainly see the Senate coming together on many of those proposals. Unfortunately for all the reasons you mentioned in your second paragraph, and more, GOP Senators have very little leverage to move their House counterparts.
As for the proto-Fascism, intransigence, and power-hoarding...yeah,there isn't much we can do to force change. They'll have to choose it on their own. But I didn't see you mention the GOP voters, who will still be the fearful pants-pissing know-nothings they are now, even if the GOP takes up fair redistricting. Gerrymandering only accounts for a small portion of GOP seats. The rest come by their hate, fair-and-square.
The real question is do you wait them out and hope for demographics to succeed, or do you support the relatively sane ones and hope they make it long enough to become Statesmen?
Probably no difference. Research is definitely not like Civilization where you just double the number of scientists to halve the time to breakthrough.
Sort of battery related but iirc Ernest Moniz said the doe only approves a tiny fraction of the projects they want for arpa-e. Like maybe 5 percent or less.
This Tesla conference call might be of interest where Elon talks about BS in the battery industry, starts about 17 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzquC0USTEA
This Tesla conference call might be of interest where Elon talks about BS in the battery industry, starts about 17 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzquC0USTEA
Carpe Carnim
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If only we could figure out how to capture carbon and turn it into pumpkin spice lattes, we could all have a deliciously sustainable future
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
... actually. You might be onto something. Part of the problem is getting people to care. Your scenario might have such an effect.
Beer Monkey
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Shame on the debate commission for allowing theatrics.
Oh, there's going to be foreign policy so, Benghazi is going to come up, yada, yada, yada, Trump thinks it will help him.
"Pat Smith is here in the audience, without her son Hillary, because you failed" and that sort of stuff. He's practically giving away his debate "strategy" to Hillary now, repeating the same tactics a third time. He still thinks he can reality TV his way to the White House, without it coming back and biting him in the ass.
Since Trump believes his winning, polls be damn, he thinks his previous debate tactics helped him. Again, only his base will love it.
Disgusting.
Googling to double-check that (sorry, but there was no source link 
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I think this'll backfire on Trump, btw. It gives Hillary an opportunity to express anger and sadness about the deaths of everyone involved in the attack. And she can direct it to the mother personally, which'll look very sympathetic if phrased right.
), I found something about Ambassador Stevens' mother "asking that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the GOP stop invoking her son's death". Interesting contrast, there.I think this'll backfire on Trump, btw. It gives Hillary an opportunity to express anger and sadness about the deaths of everyone involved in the attack. And she can direct it to the mother personally, which'll look very sympathetic if phrased right.
Googling to double-check that (sorry, but there was no source link
Yeah, Pat Smith (the mother's name) is the only relative of the four victims of the Benghazi attack to blame Hillary for it.
Carpe Carnim
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Is that the estranged step-mother, Patricia Smith?
I know it may not be the smart political move, but I want Hillary to absolutely destroy Trump at the debate. I want her to vocalize all the anger myself and millions of citizens feel. Make him look small. Call him out on his lies and call them what they are...lies. It's risky but it could really fire up the base.
Would be interesting to see how they process location data; I remember reading on their Missouri senate race survey that they were picking up a not-insignifant number of Illinois and Kansas voters (that they did not screen out) and were unsure about how that would factor into the poll results vs. how that translates to actual election results.
Also, how the hell do they have a B rating on 538 lol
they are, literally, a national embarrassment.
also, the endless fetishizing of the mythical undecided voter means the topics that are covered are rarely any of the ones that are actually of any importance to the future of the country.
To be fair, companies also waste a shitload of money because they're secretive and refuse to share any data. Meaning they all get to enjoy making the same mistakes 100 times before they make a marginal improvement. They also tend to lack a lot of formality (because they don't have to publish) so its a lot of random guess-and-check work. Often they have no idea why an idea worked in the end. Just "its better, ship it".
I gave my Ph.D. dissertation talk at a company once and the first interview after I finished the guy said, "You kinda already fucked yourself today. No one wants an egghead here. You should have just shown pictures of lab-equipment and talked about how cool it was."
Correct, the one from the convention.
aspiegamer
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No good can come from this. You know Hillary has a good answer, though! We just haven't heard it since the last congressional hearing because it wasn't a thing in the primaries. Vaguely, it's "I knew the ambassador... I did everything I could... Wish I could have done more..." So, you know, an answer that's truthful. If Trump tries to pull a "Hillary killed this mother's son" it's a massive opening for, uh, reality to step in.
The average voter has no freaking clue what this supposed conspiracy is, either! If this is his closing argument, it's DOA. Since he's kept it out of his stump speech and has even been disciplined enough to keep Benghazi out of his open rants, this is obviously a thing they've been waiting months to use. It's the only thing he doesn't actually talk about at length. So wow, his campaign has kept him in check for one whole talking point!
Tranqueris
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I think they're fine, they just need to enforce the damn rules about kicking people out if they start making noise. Take a couple minutes if they have to and just get it over with.
titiklabingapat
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Today I didn't watch any cable news and I now remember why I stopped watching them outside of election years. feelsgoodman.gif
shinra-bansho
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The Benjamin Ghazi mother isn't going to faze her anyway. Bill's mistresses didn't either. He seems to think that because he can't even handle Mark Cuban that these stunts are effective.
cartoon_soldier
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If no new oppo drops today we can be pretty sure nothing else exists then.
3rd debate will be interesting, Hillary can definitely have some issues defending Syria/Libya. But considering how much she is preparing expect her to do good.
3rd debate will be interesting, Hillary can definitely have some issues defending Syria/Libya. But considering how much she is preparing expect her to do good.
Rockin' Ranger
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Don't know if more oppo does exist, but that's flawed thinking. 21 days left til the election, with the debate tomorrow - why drop oppo today if there's a chance it'll be drowned-out by the debate tomorrow? Better to leave it til next week/week after, surely, where it can just be picked-up by the media without it being left in the dust by debate-talk. And, in fact, if it dropped now, it would look like a desperate attempt to draw attention away from Benghazi Mom. Not a good look.
best part of that sketch
makingmusic476
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There better be more oppo. >=(((
ErasureAcer
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I really dislike the political scientist Schier they quote in the story. For this MN-2 story he talks about how both candidates are below 50%. That's the same for MN-3 where the dude says nothing about how the 4-term Republican incumbent is also below 50 percent(49).
KSTP is a ridiculous station. They accused Minneapolis' Mayor of using gang signs when she was just pointing at someone. They're locally owned by a Republican so no surprise.
As for my prediction on MN-2, MN-3 and MN-8 as of today.
Craig defeats Lewis 55 to 42, 3 for the independent.
Bonoff and Paulsen go to a recount. Bonoff wins.
Nolan defeats Mills III 58 to 42.
+2 Dem seats.
StopMakingSense
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This is how we learn Hillary was The Mitanni all along.
Dominican Power
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This Melania interview is so bad.
titiklabingapat
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The great thing about yesterday polls is that they are starting to show Clinton approaching the magical 50% mark. I'm sure there will be some tightening but it won't be as drastic as those in September. It took about 5 weeks for the convention gains to finally fade and polls from three weeks out are usually really good predictors of where we will end up come election day. Hillary is already banking these leads on early voting as well. I
shinra-bansho
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Errrr... how does the campaign reconcile trotting Melania out to call these women liars... with attacking Hillary Clinton for her response to Bill's affairs.
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