j reacts to wisconsin pre-polling

if you're still not following my reading of things, i'll reiterate.

that's two polls, now, with sanders up by 5 amongst democrats. wisconsin is an open primary. so, that would indicate he should win by about 10 points, if his support actually shows up to vote.

but, there are going to be dead people voting in the primary, and there are going to be suppression tactics for living people. that means you should see her start off with a big lead, and it should come down a little. or a lot - if turnout is high enough.

if you are in wisconsin, you'd better get out and vote. i believe that michigan demonstrated that you can overwhelm the process, if you do. but i think that ohio demonstrated that the party is just going to take it that extra mile if they think they're threatened.

given that the polling results are now clearly in sanders' favour, the lead that clinton takes in "initial results" should be absolutely obscene.

it may even be hard to deny.

see, they may also see this coming and blow the state. but, that's dangerous, going into new york, for her. if i was her? i may advise going ahead and rigging it and taking the chance on getting caught - because the truth is that everybody that cares already realizes it, anyways. and, so long as the media plays along, anybody that points out the inconsistencies is just going to get called a conspiracy theorist.

the pre-polling results suggested a virtual tie in both illinois & missouri simply amongst democrats. the results seem to suggest that independents in the open primary didn't affect the outcome. it's highly suspicious. but it may be the model that's repeated.

30-03-2016: new end-of-month recipe?

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shit hillary said vol 15

"I'm a heart liberal, but a mind conservative."

shit hillary said vol 14

"I have said many times that I am a praying person, and if I hadn't been, during the time I was in the White House, I would have become one, because it's very hard to imagine living under that kind of pressure without being able to fall back on prayer and on my faith."

j reacts to whether the "cultural appropriation" critique makes any sense from the left

indeed. to the young activist mindset, miscegenation is forbidden - we are to be kept separate, but treated equally. please understand your opponent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlQ4H0Kdg8

j reacts to the failure of television to define the narrative this cycle

as incompetent as trump will probably be, the status quo establishment is not doing a good job in differentiating itself. if trump wins, people are going to look back and blame it on the media for transparent hit job after transparent hit job. and, you know what? maybe, it's just the internet. maybe this would have worked twenty years ago, when we are at the whim of network television. and, maybe this inability for the establishment to get out of old media is the broader narrative for the election. it killed jeb. it might kill clinton, in the end. and, all the fox news style take downs of trump are blowing up in their faces, too. i had a similar analysis of the last election in canada, where the conservatives relied entirely on tv advertising and ended up unable to even get through to the old folks, in the end.

i need to be clear. i do not get cable. i don't watch network television at all. so, i have not seen a single report on this from cnn, nbc, cbs or whomever else. my coverage of this story has come to me exclusively via the internet. and, as such, it has been framed to me entirely in terms of it being a manufactured tempest in a teapot.

it's not even a question of the internet undoing the brainwashing. i literally have absolutely zero contact with the network tv narrative. and, all i'm seeing - as a consequence - is an entirely transparently bungled attempt at a smear job.

if even half of the under 40 demographic is equivalent, and i believe that's a conservative estimate, then it's only the networks that lose credibility here.

and, once again - that is dangerous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGz5DPqU-p0