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The democrats have a better chance of taking back the Senate than winning the presidency according to 538 right now
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BiohazrD posted:Sure. They already do this when people were grabbing celeb names in the early days Cabbit posted:Can't Twitter just, like, ban people at their own discretion for attempting to defraud people of their vote? Do they have to rules lawyer it? I'm sure their TOS must have some 'we can ban you at any time at our own discretion' clause to cover their rear end.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:46
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sheri posted:I'm starting to think Trump is going to win and it terrifies me. https://twitter.com/JeffersonObama/status/793527485631598593
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sheri posted:I'm starting to think Trump is going to win and it terrifies me. nope. just hit yourself in the head with a hammer until you wake up next tuesday
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Nov 2, 2016 18:46
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iospace posted:https://twitter.com/MULawPoll/status/793868306373603328 I am very glad the election was not on Friday.
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sheri posted:I'm starting to think Trump is going to win and it terrifies me. hold on a second I think I can help you out
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Nov 2, 2016 18:46
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DaveWoo posted:Oh, and Trump's literally attacking reporters by name now If he names a journalist like this and a crazy supporter murders the journalist, could he be charged with anything?
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Nov 2, 2016 18:47
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rscott posted:The democrats have a better chance of taking back the Senate than winning the presidency according to 538 right now That scared me--"Have Clinton's chances on 538 dropped that low?"--but instead it looked like the Democrats' Senate chances actually got a little better since I last checked.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:47
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sheri posted:I'm starting to think Trump is going to win and it terrifies me. Two PA polls came out today showing Clinton with a 4-point lead. No MI poll has ever showed Trump ahead.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:48
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Apparently Obama has been trying to pass a law called the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation act for a while.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:48
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Even Fox has Clinton at +5. A side note, every time I try to type out Clinton I accidentally type out Clingon.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:48
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A lovely Reporter posted:Dude, Twitter isn't some sort of lawyer robot.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:48
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Spacebump posted:If he names a journalist like this and a crazy supporter murders the journalist, could he be charged with anything? Not unless he calls for her to be harmed.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:47
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My eyes habitually roll whenever I read about Assange or Wikileaks at this point. Have they completely given up the guise of objectivity yet?
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sheri posted:I'm starting to think Trump is going to win and it terrifies me. https://twitter.com/b_schaffner/status/793852628857942016 If you build a map based on all of Clinton's absolute worst polls, she still wins, at least as of right now.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:48
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FactsAreUseless posted:Okay, fair. But I would be concerned about whether Twitter has the resources to do something like that, and what ends up not getting attention because they divert resources to it. What resources? Someone saw those tweets, reported it, and they said "no that's totally cool". This has nothing to do with hiring more moderators/staff or whatever. Someone in the community did the work for them and they gave it a pass.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:49
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Alec Bald Snatch posted:yeah people will likely still be in line to vote at 11pm eastern in florida, as happened in 2012 People were still in line at 1 AM in 2012 in Miami-Dade.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:49
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Rabble posted:Even Fox has Clinton at +5. Uhhhhh...what did the ABC poll do?? Edit: the only poll showing a T lead in a sea of Clinton leads
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Nov 2, 2016 18:49
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Rabble posted:Even Fox has Clinton at +5. It is a good day to vote Democrat.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:49
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Here you go buddy in one convenient single easily quotable post    
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Nov 2, 2016 18:49
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M_Gargantua posted:Do phone banks regularly call cell phones? I've never gotten a poll or survey and no one I know has either, and we're all cell phone only sorts. Yes. Either you are fortunate/smart enough to have never put your cell phone number on voter registration information/other political forms, must have received a new number at some point, or don't vote much in the past. I'm guessing the first choice.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:49
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Real Republican = winner. Barrack Obama = The best Republican.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:50
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BiohazrD posted:What resources? Someone saw those tweets, reported it, and they said "no that's totally cool". This has nothing to do with hiring more moderators/staff or whatever. Someone in the community did the work for them and they gave it a pass. That doesn't really count, if you've ever been a CRM you would know that you have to sift through thousands of bogus reports to get to anything "important" or "good"
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Nov 2, 2016 18:50
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FactsAreUseless posted:and something like "attempting to defraud people of their vote" is way more vague and complex to enforce than something like harassment. Besides, how do you parse the people knowingly disseminating this stuff from the useful idiots who pick it up and retweet it without thinking? I can see banning those who attempt this stuff with malice and forethought, but punishing the ignorant seems like overkill.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:51
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WampaLord posted:A pollster in C-SPAM said their response rate was 1%. They have to call 100 people to get 1 response.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:51
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Isn't Trump supposed to maintain he has no connection with Wikileaks? Why is he going out and talking about their release schedule like he has some insider info.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:51
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rscott posted:The democrats have a better chance of taking back the Senate than winning the presidency according to 538 right now You had me freaked out for a moment like that other poster, but - the scenario of a Trump WH and a Dem senate is completely pants-on-head. I realize the models don't talk to each other, I guess some of the outlier polls and generally weird results are throwing everything off.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:52
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Spacebump posted:If he names a journalist like this and a crazy supporter murders the journalist, could he be charged with anything? Trump is a despicable piece of poo poo but I'm sure Katy Tur isn't all that upset about this. She's made her career covering him. I'm sure she's gonna end up on the Today show or something. Which is good since she's good at her job.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:52
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Covok posted:Are people really that wishy-washy? Part of it is that on Friday, Republicans were excited to answer polls and Democrats didn't want to.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:52
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So all of the 'murricans supporting Trump literally do not care that he's being fed intel by a foreign actor? And that the foreign actor is controlled by Putin? What in the everloving gently caress is wrong with these people?
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Nov 2, 2016 18:52
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Rabble posted:Even Fox has Clinton at +5. FYI, Fox doesn't do the poll, they just commission it from a reputable pollster. There's no bias in there other than regular poll leanings.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Okay, fair. But I would be concerned about whether Twitter has the resources to do something like that, and what ends up not getting attention because they divert resources to it. The problem is that Twitter quite often doesn't do anything about not just grey-area cases but straight up rape and death threats. I'm sure given the number of reports going through every day and the number of users out there, it's hard to keep up, but Twitter very rarely responds to any harassment, ever. Milo only got the axe because he was gleefully and publicly leading a concentrated campaign. I know several people who have reported rape threats to Twitter and the police: Twitter would say it didn't violate guidelines, and the police would say "What's Twitter?"
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Nov 2, 2016 18:53
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comingafteryouall posted:Gotta agree with that Independence Day reference, but to make it more SA suitable: or to use an overwatch analogy: Trump's team has been holding the control point when Hillary's team was defending and about to run out the clock, and Trump's team all got wiped and and the overtime is quickly burning down, and in comes Comey as Mercy to pull a last second "Heroes never die!" and turn the match around. Only it turns out that none of the people on Trump's team were paying attention and died again almost right afterwards.
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FactsAreUseless posted:This is correct, and they do not have a lawyer robot. It's really difficult for Twitter even to enforce clear-cut violations of their TOS, and the company is basically hemorrhaging money as it is. I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to handle something as complicated as loosely-organized dishonesty.
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comingafteryouall posted:Isn't Trump supposed to maintain he has no connection with Wikileaks? Why is he going out and talking about their release schedule like he has some insider info. Because anyone who cares is already not voting for him. Anyone who votes Republican this year is someone who would vote Republican any year, no matter what. Those left are the true base, the lowest common denominator.
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Cthulhumatic posted:So all of the 'murricans supporting Trump literally do not care that he's being fed intel by a foreign actor? And that the foreign actor is controlled by Putin? They don't believe that Wikileaks is in the tank for Putin. They just think it's Clinton making excuses. It sorta sidesteps the whole question, really.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:54
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Cthulhumatic posted:So all of the 'murricans supporting Trump literally do not care that he's being fed intel by a foreign actor? And that the foreign actor is controlled by Putin? They believe Putin is a better leader. I'm not joking, they want a strongman as a leader, not someone who is willing to work together and compromise.
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Cthulhumatic posted:So all of the 'murricans supporting Trump literally do not care that he's being fed intel by a foreign actor? And that the foreign actor is controlled by Putin? It's simple. Does it help avoid a Dem president? Yes: good No: evil
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Nov 2, 2016 18:55
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Cthulhumatic posted:So all of the 'murricans supporting Trump literally do not care that he's being fed intel by a foreign actor? And that the foreign actor is controlled by Putin? The FBI assures me there are no connections between Trump and Russia.
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The problem with Twitter being neutral is that we live in the post-modern era in which there is no longer a mutually agreed upon concept of fact or reality. Reality has become political. You cannot stay neutral and claim all perspectives are equally reasonable. You have to firmly cull the herd and guide discourse towards its most reasonable outcome. the marketplace of ideas, just like the actual marketplace, still requires regulators. Without them, the same issues arise.
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