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  1. One thing that’s incredible is that the avowedly DSA guy is weakest versus the “establishment” D candidate among people in public or subsidized housing. Many such cases.
  2. With DJ Durkin now interim HC, the SEC has reached natural stasis of number of head coaches who killed a kid: 1.
  3. Interesting stuff and goes back to my point that one place of difference between teams at the 10 or below spot is mostly just noise. I don’t have the energy to count but Texas may lead OU on more ballots than not. A quick scan says that the Kentucky and LSU voters have Texas farthest behind OU. The A&M voter has Texas at 11 and ahead of OU.
  4. The problem with populism is that populists of any stripe are objectively terrible at governing. Across time and space, I struggle to think of a populist who did a good job anywhere at scale, which is a function of populist rhetoric invariably offering simplistic and unrealistic solutions and promises against real, complex problems. There’s always the old “lie about being a populist” trick but you can’t pull the football forever and eventually someone will come along who actually does the stupid shit and either makes a hash of things or just overturns democracy to avoid consequences. This basically happened with the republicans. We got here because most of America treats real elections like student council elections: vote for the stupidest and most unreal shit because deep down you believe adults will remain in control. Only that’s not how it works in real life.
  5. This was the Barrack Obama formula. Difference being that Obama honed his rhetoric, skills, positions very early in a statewide race.
  6. This only works in a closed system. Because now add to the discussion team 13, who only played nine of the top 12 and wins seven (one more than your fictional team. The rest of their schedule is between 15-20, and they win all of those convincingly. And maybe some of the top 15-20 would match up really well with your fictional team and could knock them off. There will always be some eye test and human judgment in an NCAA playoff.
  7. Every internal D debate boils down to: ”Wow, this democratic socialist is really mobilizing the base in this D +42, 38 percent foreign born major metropolitan district! We need to replicate this energy nationally and push out the centrists!” “Noooo, you can’t do that! This kind of rhetoric hurts the D candidates in this rust belt, R +1.5 race! You need them in Congress and their voters in national elections. The radicals need to tone it down.” Then in national and most statewide races voters pick someone in between the two in primaries and the two poles lob bombs, bicker, and dont vote for the candidate in the general. Rinse, wash, repeat!
  8. One spot in the rankings as tabulated is basically noise once you get past the top five or so. One or two outlier ballots can put a team over another one. It’s not worth going on tilt over and happens every year to different teams. The only way to correct it, ironically, is to implement an actual media conspiracy via expert or editorial correction to weight or throw out ballots.
  9. FBI director doing long vague-booking posts about his girlfriend.
  10. Yeah, he’s not. But that’s the theory, though. It will be interesting to see what Chinese and Russian backing really means. That is another message the admin wants to send: it’s not worth anything in this hemisphere.
  11. MFW “something” warns me not to get the extra hot Vindaloo buy I do anyway.
  12. Looks like the UMD news was bad info (and the Terps would be foolish to jump into this). So Tech looks more likely and I think he’ll do very well there.
  13. I agree and will die on this hill: Franklin is in the top tier of coaches actually available to hire and is better than several hot names.
  14. Heupel at Tennessee is the James Franklin of Matt Rhules.
  15. This year a lot of coaches are gonna get hired a level or two above where they belong.
  16. Pureeing the rehydrated peppers also gives some built in thickener that I sometimes struggle to get without masa harina in powder based chili. I still add a bit because I like the flavor it adds, though.
  17. Time to implement an NFL rule of no skin between the belt and shoes. It’s ridiculous, I’m waiting for some dude to visit the volleyball equipment manager.
  18. UVa scheduled its series with NCSU outside the ACC scheduling system to preserve its rivalry after expansion. I didn’t even know it was much of a rivalry but you learn new things all the time.
  19. Texas isn’t getting dinged. OU’s just capturing the coveted “best legs” voter demographic.
  20. Franklin hasn’t signed at VaTech yet. He’d be a great choice there or at Maryland.
  21. Maryland is a P5 job, sort of. No clue what they are thinking jumping in this cycle.
  22. Auburn is going to bigly disappoint fans with their eventual hire.
  23. I’m bullish on ND. I’m open to dropping them but you’ve got to show me who behind them is better. Healthy OU and Texas playing well give them a game. ND is much better than Virginia. They’re better coached and have a better roster than BYU or Tech. Miami isn’t a shitty team: Carson Beck is a streaky and inconsistent QB. When he plays well they are good enough to stay on the field with the entire top ten. That loss to Miami breaking in a new QB on the road wasn’t a bad one.
  24. Iowa is ranked, @The Dog. I’d have dropped GaTech a bit further. Louisville is a better team. Healthy and on a neutral field, I like Texas and OU over Tech and BYU both. Virgina is in no way a top ten team but has a gaudy record. The SEC really is that much deeper than every other league. Every ranked SEC team is likely boat racing the ACC and Big XII.
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