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Nov 1, 2016 17:45
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I have a question. Have any studies shown that the advent of DVR's has made an impact on the effectiveness of tv ads in political races? I have no idea what the uptake is on DVR's and even the usage rate of them. I've had one since 2010 and I just take it for granted that I can skip ads now, but my parents recently got one and don't even use it, so I'm not sure how you measure usage rates.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:45
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Lightning Knight posted:Yeah, poorly. While their military rusts and their economy collapses. Exactly. They've given us cause and now is a great time to do it
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Nov 1, 2016 17:45
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Covok posted:Is Russian's military even a threat to the U.S. sans nuclear weapons? No, though that's a bit of 'That aside, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?'
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Nov 1, 2016 17:45
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Bip Roberts posted:Hmm yeah good thing we're voting to go to war with Russia. Mulva posted:We aren't going to go with war with Russia. We are going to put the screws to them diplomatically and economically. It's far more effective, and there's sweet gently caress all they can do about it. I'm responding to people who said we should go to war with Russia. Read, please. The Russian government will have enough on its plate when Hillary buries them in sanctions. Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. The one that's threatening war with Russia? hosed up Lybia, hosed up Iraq, hosed up Syria, And now Obama is bombing and supplying munitions to Saudis to bomb Yemen, And Im insane? You're gonna be real disappointed in a week.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:46
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Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. The one that's threatening war with Russia? hosed up Lybia, hosed up Iraq, hosed up Syria, And now Obama is bombing and supplying munitions to Saudis to bomb Yemen, And Im insane? Please be less coherent in your argument
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Nov 1, 2016 17:46
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Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. The one that's threatening war with Russia? hosed up Lybia, hosed up Iraq, hosed up Syria, And now Obama is bombing and supplying munitions to Saudis to bomb Yemen, And Im insane? Trump wants to bomb the families of suspected terrorists and questioned why we don't use nukes in Syria. Hillary does not want to go to war Russia. Trump is not the anti-war candidate.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:46
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Crowsbeak posted:Oligarchs should have no means of moving their money.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:47
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FactsAreUseless posted:Good plan. Russian dissenters should have no means to contact anyone, such as human rights organizations. That way they can't threaten Superman's Pal Vladdy Putin. Christ. Cutting of Russian's internet access is idiotic and borders on the fascist. Mel Mudkiper posted:It could also, like Sam Wang has argued, be a sign of a relatively stable election. IF the swings are all still strongly correlated to a medium it may just be statistical noise obfuscating an obvious outcome
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Nov 1, 2016 17:47
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Lightning Knight posted:I'm responding to people who said we should go to war with Russia. Read, please. The Russian government will have enough on its plate when Hillary buries them in sanctions. Who wants to go to war with Russia?
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Nov 1, 2016 17:47
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Covok posted:Is Russian's military even a threat to the U.S. sans nuclear weapons? No. Not even in a dick waving nationalistic sense we're literally just that powerful. Guy Goodbody posted:Exactly. They've given us cause and now is a great time to do it Anybody who actually wants a war with Russia is a sociopath. We don't need to declare war on them to strike back for election interference. quote:Who wants to go to war with Russia? It's almost like I quoted them or something.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:47
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Covok posted:Is Russian's military even a threat to the U.S. sans nuclear weapons? I bet hitler was asking the same question before his eastern forces got their asses handed to them.
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Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. The one that's threatening war with Russia? hosed up Lybia, hosed up Iraq, hosed up Syria, And now Obama is bombing and supplying munitions to Saudis to bomb Yemen, And Im insane? I am unironically pro-war with russia
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Nov 1, 2016 17:47
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Tricky D posted:I'd like to point out that with NC and VA seemingly in the bag for Hillary, FL going red will not do much to sink her campaign. Part of the issue in Florida is counties are able to limit early voting days. For example in my county, Pasco, early voting didn't start until the 29th so a full five after a lot of the state. Guy Goodbody posted:I am unironically pro-war with russia Same, at least in Syria. Bullies don't understand anything but getting hit in the nose.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:48
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FactsAreUseless posted:The entire population of Russia are oligarchs? The Oligarchs own everything in Russia and Putin uses them to shift assets all over the place. If you don't play nice you'll end up like Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:48
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Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. The one that's threatening war with Russia? hosed up Lybia, hosed up Iraq, hosed up Syria, And now Obama is bombing and supplying munitions to Saudis to bomb Yemen, And Im insane? Nice meltdown. E: Holy poo poo what an av I've been gifted.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:48
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Guy Goodbody posted:I am unironically pro-war with russia You're an idiot. A crazy, crazy idiot. Reality check: The Russian Federation still possesses nuclear weapons and the conventional force to make the EU have a real bad day. The last thing the world needs is a loving ground war in Eastern Europe. You're mad.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:49
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Agrajag posted:The Oligarchs own everything in Russia.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:49
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Still, NC is in the bag at the moment and without NC, Trump basically has no plausible path. We're going to win, just a matter of how much.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:49
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Covok posted:Is Russian's military even a threat to the U.S. sans nuclear weapons? They can threaten enough to cause casualties, never win, and NATO would crush them during the counter invasion and russia would no longer exist as we knew it. Nuclear is the only option Russia has besides losing.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:49
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Peechka posted:I bet hitler was asking the same question before his eastern forces got their asses handed to them. this is the most historically illiterate thing I've read in quite some time, thanks.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:50
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Pakled posted:So it's comparing one week of early voting to the whole early voting season four years ago? As far as I can tell it's a summary of all 2016 early voting in Florida up till now. Granted as other posters say it's possible there's other factors at work that are inhibiting the black vote, but either way it seems like they got only this last week to catch up to 2012 numbers, whereas everybody else seems to be on track to readily beat their 2012 numbers in the next couple of days.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:50
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Lightning Knight posted:You're an idiot. A crazy, crazy idiot. I never said it would be fun. But when a country threatens our sovereignty, they don't get to keep theirs
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Nov 1, 2016 17:50
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Agrajag posted:i 100% guarantee that Putin will not devote any effort into accomplishing anything of the kind Probably not, but annoying the UK and the USA together would amuse him. Russia is already devoting considerable resources to hacking and propaganda directed at the West.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:51
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Obviously, preventing Trump from winning the Presidency generally also prevents the Republicans from passing legislature and confirming SCOTUS judges that willfully turn this country into a third-world cesspool. That's a good thing. But it's not good enough, in my opinion. I don't think any of the Democrats in here should be happy unless the Democrats also take the Senate. The past 6 years with Obama and a Republican-controlled Congress have led to the least productive legislature ever and nothing but stagnation and political games. The Republicans have also made clear their intent to stall the SCOTUS nominations throughout her entire Presidency, on more than one occasion, so I doubt it's just words. If we want anything done, let alone anything good done, we need to have the Senate as well, or it will just be the last 6 years all over again. The Democrats are going to get clobbered in 2018 in the Senate and House races, so really, the next 2 years in the Senate is their only chance for a while. And I know people say "most people don't agree with the Republicans stalling the SCOTUS nominations, so there will be consequences if they do that any longer." I completely disagree, as they've been doing it for 7 months now and people don't really seem to be punishing them much if they're still likely to prevent the Democrats from winning a Senate majority.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:51
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Fangz posted:Like I said earlier, my conclusion on Assange is that he's mostly an useful idiot to the Russians. I think it's the Gamergate/Anti-feminism angle that is the original connection. I am really going to need you to explain, right now, in full explicit detail, how the collusion between the Russian government and Wikileaks was caused by gamergate.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:51
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FactsAreUseless posted:And the solution to that is to prevent Russian citizens from having contact with the outside world? Crowsbeak posted:Oligarchs should have no means of moving their money. I thought this is about blocking the oligarchs from moving their assets outside of Russia?
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Nov 1, 2016 17:51
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Tom Guycot posted:Holy poo poo, was Tashan Dorrsett former insane poster Tweak all this time? That would explain so much... More, it looks like I got off a believable "I'm male, married, and bisexual" all of which is a barefaced lie
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Nov 1, 2016 17:51
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Guy Goodbody posted:I never said it would be fun. But when a country threatens our sovereignty, they don't get to keep theirs
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Nov 1, 2016 17:51
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Guy Goodbody posted:I never said it would be fun. But when a country threatens our sovereignty, they don't get to keep theirs You are bafflingly historically illiterate. Also: M_Gargantua posted:They can threaten enough to cause casualties, never win, and NATO would crush them during the counter invasion and russia would no longer exist as we knew it. Nuclear is the only option Russia has besides losing. This. There's no scenario where a ground war against the Russian Federation doesn't go nuclear. We should not go to war with Russia Jesus Christ.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:52
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Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. The one that's threatening war with Russia? hosed up Lybia, hosed up Iraq, hosed up Syria, And now Obama is bombing and supplying munitions to Saudis to bomb Yemen, And Im insane? 
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Nov 1, 2016 17:52
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I'm going to be happy even if we lose the senate just because we didn't elect an honest to god Fascist. Like, I obviously really, really want us to win the senate too. But I will take basically any outcome without Trump without going insane, even as we get to watch the legacy of 2010 grind our system of governance to dust.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:52
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Agrajag posted:I thought this is about blocking the oligarchs from moving their assets outside of Russia?
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Nov 1, 2016 17:52
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BarbarianElephant posted:Probably not, but annoying the UK and the USA together would amuse him. Russia is already devoting considerable resources to hacking and propaganda directed at the West. that is relatively low cost, low risk, and high payoff.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:53
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Guy Goodbody posted:I am unironically pro-war with russia Why? What have the russians done aside hillarys blatant lies that hes somehow haxxoring the election? Because they took back crimean peninsula once US sank its dirty hands in there and hosed that one up as well? Tell me whose got the 150+ military bases around the world? who has caused irreparable damage in the middle east, including Russian ally Syria? US or Russia? Now who is threatening whom? Wake the gently caress up. Now back to your commie circlejerk. Maybe you guys will get free college and free healthcare and free money too. Roffles.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:53
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If someone is proposing banking sanctions or whatever, fine, I have no opinion on that.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:53
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Peechka posted:Im insane? Yorue voting for the most corrupt, most vile, worst lying sociopath to ever run for president. We're not voting for Trump though?
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Nov 1, 2016 17:54
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FactsAreUseless posted:It was not. The proposal was to block all Russian IPs from accessing Western sites. Oh, well that's stupid and wouldn't work any way.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:54
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Cingulate posted:What? Not sure about the exact statistical terminology but if you look at the frequent swings between Clinton and Trump since June you will see that throughout the whole thing the median has been more or less stable. Like, look at this chart  If you notice the bumps for Clinton and Trump more or less have a median consistent with where the election was months ago.
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Peechka posted:Why? FactsAreUseless posted:We've found him... the dumbest man alive! The legends were true, it's Jumpin' Jingo Jones the big stupid loving idiot! Huzzah for today!
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