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6 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Go to 270towin.com.  

Select the “2020 consensus” map.

Toggle all the toss ups light red.

Turn Wisconsin to a toss up.  That’s Trumps strategy and a very realistic outcome.
 

Fuck me.  I cannot believe this thing is still in question, but it most definitely is.

 

Yep. I think PA and MI are fairly solid Biden at this point. But WI is in play for sure. The bad news is that all of those swingy states they have labeled as tossups (OH, FL, NC, GA) are likely to go for the same candidate, whoever that is. They moved together last election and their polling seems to move together this time.

The good news is that Arizona seems to move independently of those. So in my very likely scenario, the Dems have two outs. WI and AZ, which have completely different demographics and aren't joined at the hip. Two distinct, separate chances, and they just need one of the two.

Purely opinion here but I think AZ is more likely to swing the election than OH/FL/GA/NC. If any of those states go blue, AZ already will have. And it could be our saving grace and firewall against the very possible Trump win in Wisconsin.

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9 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

 

Yep. I think PA and MI are fairly solid Biden at this point. But WI is in play for sure. The bad news is that all of those swingy states they have labeled as tossups (OH, FL, NC, GA) are likely to go for the same candidate, whoever that is. They moved together last election and their polling seems to move together this time.

The good news is that Arizona seems to move independently of those. So in my very likely scenario, the Dems have two outs. WI and AZ, which have completely different demographics and aren't joined at the hip. Two distinct, separate chances, and they just need one of the two.

Purely opinion here but I think AZ is more likely to swing the election than OH/FL/GA/NC. If any of those states go blue, AZ already will have. And it could be our saving grace and firewall against the very possible Trump win in Wisconsin.

I might be in the minority here, but I still think Florida is looking good for Biden. Heck..... Hilary didn’t do too bad in Florida and look at how awful of a candidate she was.

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3 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

I might be in the minority here, but I still think Florida is looking good for Biden. Heck..... Hilary didn’t do too bad in Florida and look at how awful of a candidate she was.

 

You are probably right. I think I have Battered Wife Syndrome when it comes to Florida. I'll never trust them not to hurt me. 

Sad Michael Scott GIF

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31 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Go to 270towin.com.  

Select the “2020 consensus” map.

Toggle all the toss ups light red.

Turn Wisconsin to a toss up.  That’s Trumps strategy and a very realistic outcome.
 

Fuck me.  I cannot believe this thing is still in question, but it most definitely is.

Well yeah if you give Trump a bunch of states he's currently getting crushed in. 

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27 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

 

You are probably right. I think I have Battered Wife Syndrome when it comes to Florida. I'll never trust them not to hurt me. 

Sad Michael Scott GIF

Normally, I’d agree and be skeptical but the federal government has given people many reasons to not vote gop this year ( as they’re in charge). Mishandling the pandemic, unemployment not being extended, and Florida has the worst unemployment system in the country. People are probably hurting and who is the easiest to blame?
 

the people in charge. Republicans.

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21 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

 

Yep. I think PA and MI are fairly solid Biden at this point. But WI is in play for sure. The bad news is that all of those swingy states they have labeled as tossups (OH, FL, NC, GA) are likely to go for the same candidate, whoever that is. They moved together last election and their polling seems to move together this time.

The good news is that Arizona seems to move independently of those. So in my very likely scenario, the Dems have two outs. WI and AZ, which have completely different demographics and aren't joined at the hip. Two distinct, separate chances, and they just need one of the two.

Purely opinion here but I think AZ is more likely to swing the election than OH/FL/GA/NC. If any of those states go blue, AZ already will have. And it could be our saving grace and firewall against the very possible Trump win in Wisconsin.

I will believe Trump loses PA when I see it. 

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3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

I tend to believe that’s more about 3.5 years of Trump actually doing all the awful shit that was just theoretical in August 2016. Normalcy bias caused people not to acknowledge the threat Trump posed at that time. It was frustrating as hell back then. 

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11 minutes ago, heso said:

I will believe Trump loses PA when I see it. 

Manafort and the Russians had to steal it for him with the worst dem candidate possible and Trump as a relative outsider/unknown.

He will lose Pennsylvania. Especially against Biden. It will look relatively close because it’s a divided rural/city state like Nevada but Trump will not win it.

Michigan will be a Democratic rout.

Wisconsin might be close, but only because its easier to steal. Trump losing Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and probably Florida will easily cancel that out if it does. 

I also think Trump loses Ohio, Iowa, Georgia and Texas. But those are not definitive that’s for sure.  They are the true toss ups. 

The media will keep the horse race going though for the next couple months. They need the ratings. 

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1 hour ago, BradInATX said:

 

Yep. I think PA and MI are fairly solid Biden at this point. But WI is in play for sure. The bad news is that all of those swingy states they have labeled as tossups (OH, FL, NC, GA) are likely to go for the same candidate, whoever that is. They moved together last election and their polling seems to move together this time.

The good news is that Arizona seems to move independently of those. So in my very likely scenario, the Dems have two outs. WI and AZ, which have completely different demographics and aren't joined at the hip. Two distinct, separate chances, and they just need one of the two.

Purely opinion here but I think AZ is more likely to swing the election than OH/FL/GA/NC. If any of those states go blue, AZ already will have. And it could be our saving grace and firewall against the very possible Trump win in Wisconsin.

Agreed with Arizona, but North Carolina is a blue state this election. It's fucking Virginia south. The research Triangle *has* to be about 70-30 Dem at this point. Fuck their gerrymandering bullshit

 

49 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

If Wisconsin goes Dotard again, they should forever be put in the same category as Alabama, Mississippi, and the rest of the shit south. 

Don't tell Wisconsin, but regardless of how they vote this election, there's really no path forward for them when we reform the union into closely aligned separate countries. They only have a red path. Basically the only Midwest entity that has a chance is Chicago, minus the rest of Illinois. Let me know if you are interested in how we are going to divide the states into new countries. 

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Higher education is rapidly becoming a crap shoot as it spreads into communities; it has an effect outside of the campuses because of the peripheral industries that support higher ed as well as K-12. That may come into play in Wisconsin which has a robust university system of satellite campuses. The economic fallout is going to be pretty sad. 

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I will believe Trump loses PA when I see it. 
PA is really hard to square. On the one hand, of the three critical rust belt states, it's the only one Trump actually really outperformed Romney and won as opposed to Clinton underperforming. There was definitely a MAGA white working class uprising there. It's really the only true example.

On the other hand, that's Biden's home turf. He is going to do well in the Philadelphia suburbs and the outlying cities of southern/eastern PA. Better than Hillary anyway. That alone is probably enoughb to flip it, then you consider higher Democratic enthusiasm. Biden's polling lead usually ranges from solid to ass kicking.

Weird state.
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I'm with @Doc Sam Beckett on NC. Popular Democratic governor walking away with it. Unpopular GOP incumbent senator underwater. Democratic control of supreme court and board of elections. Large black electorate. Large highly educated professional electorate.

I'm bullish on NC for Democrats. Biden's running behind Cooper and Cunningham right now but I like his odds of getting over the line. Trump has narrowed the gap in recent polling so if that lasts maybe I'll back off, but right now I think it's 3/3.

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8 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

PA is really hard to square. On the one hand, of the three critical rust belt states, it's the only one Trump actually really outperformed Romney and won as opposed to Clinton underperforming. There was definitely a MAGA white working class uprising there. It's really the only true example.

On the other hand, that's Biden's home turf. He is going to do well in the Philadelphia suburbs and the outlying cities of southern/eastern PA. Better than Hillary anyway. That alone is probably enoughb to flip it, then you consider higher Democratic enthusiasm. Biden's polling lead usually ranges from solid to ass kicking.

Weird state.

Philly burbs have gone Democratic.  (Delaware County.)  If that happens and Philly turns out, PA is in the bag.

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9 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

This got in my feelings.

 

F'n A, Bruce.  Nobody writes an anthem like he does.  

This needs to be half of Biden's message -- "we will fix it".  The other half needs to be "Trump fucked it up".  He must attack but offer hope.

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This smells wrong.  For one thing, he must be talking about hiring surveyors and draftsmen, because no degreed engineer would rather take shitty unemployment pay over an actual salary.  Beyond that, although rules vary state by state, in general when one is on unemployment, they are required to search for employment and document all inquiries and any offers.  As time marches on, the flexibility for turning down imperfect job offers fades.

It's one thing for a bartender to "look" for a job that doesn't exist.  It's another thing entirely for someone to not accept offers and continue to draw unemployment checks.  

Well actually, registered surveyors make considerably more than engineers here in Texas. Atleast the good ones do.

 

 

 

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Philly burbs have gone Democratic.  (Delaware County.)  If that happens and Philly turns out, PA is in the bag.
They went for Clinton and Philly didn't have the turnout drop Detroit and Milwaukee did. Running up the score there with higher turnout or bigger suburban margins could get the job done but he'll also need to to better in the Scrantons, Readings, Lancasters, etc. Preferably both so that there's breathing room.
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Biden leading in Wisconsin 49-43.

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  • Biden leads Trump 49% to 43% among likely voters in Wisconsin.

  • Trump has a 12-point advantage in the Badger State among white voters without a college degree, while Biden leads with the state’s college-educated voters by 23 points.

https://morningconsult.com/2020/08/17/wisconsin-dnc-biden-trump-polling/

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Biden leading in Wisconsin 49-43.
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  • Biden leads Trump 49% to 43% among likely voters in Wisconsin.

  • Trump has a 12-point advantage in the Badger State among white voters without a college degree, while Biden leads with the state’s college-educated voters by 23 points.

https://morningconsult.com/2020/08/17/wisconsin-dnc-biden-trump-polling/

15% undecided Independents is some scary shit.
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Biden leading in Wisconsin 49-43.
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  • Biden leads Trump 49% to 43% among likely voters in Wisconsin.

  • Trump has a 12-point advantage in the Badger State among white voters without a college degree, while Biden leads with the state’s college-educated voters by 23 points.

https://morningconsult.com/2020/08/17/wisconsin-dnc-biden-trump-polling/

15% undecided Independents is some scary shit.
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11 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

https://morningconsult.com/2020/08/17/wisconsin-dnc-biden-trump-polling/

15% undecided Independents is some scary shit.

Anyone who is saying Undecided is a Trump voter ashamed to say it on the phone. So it's even scarier than you think. 

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12 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

Manafort and the Russians had to steal it for him with the worst dem candidate possible and Trump as a relative outsider/unknown.

He will lose Pennsylvania. Especially against Biden. It will look relatively close because it’s a divided rural/city state like Nevada but Trump will not win it.

Michigan will be a Democratic rout.

Wisconsin might be close, but only because its easier to steal. Trump losing Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and probably Florida will easily cancel that out if it does. 

I also think Trump loses Ohio, Iowa, Georgia and Texas. But those are not definitive that’s for sure.  They are the true toss ups. 

The media will keep the horse race going though for the next couple months. They need the ratings. 

If Trump loses NE-2, which I feel fairly confident he will, it would bring the total back to 269 to 269, with the House deciding the Presidency.  Biden wouldn't need Arizona, NC, or Florida (Nevada is already in Biden's column on the count.) 

 

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2 minutes ago, Tuco said:

If Trump loses NE-2, which I feel fairly confident he will, it would bring the total back to 269 to 269, with the House deciding the Presidency.  Biden wouldn't need Arizona, NC, or Florida (Nevada is already in Biden's column on the count.) 

 

This would be a nightmare scenario. Each State’s delegation in the House gets 1 vote in an electoral college tie.  

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well, if you are undecided...you're really not gonna like the flareup coming in about 4 weeks.  It's gonna be insane.  Luckily, for Trump, October should be a nice curve back downwards for the Pandemic.  

But yeah, that UAE deal is really gonna title the undecideds.  I know they were really sweating whether or not the Dubai all-inclusive resorts could finally cut a deal with Tel Aviv.  

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And there are more states with Republican House delegations than there are with Democrat House delegations.  Trump would win in that scenario, comfortably.  

The real worry is not a tie, that is so statistically far fetched.  Nevermind a Pence tie-breaker.  But that a few key states would be too close to call, fraud would be claimed, and their EC voters would just not be seated by the December deadline.  Then the House vote comes into play, and of course-----it swings to Trump.  

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What’s insane to me is that despite having a 61-26 lead with moderates, he only leads all likely voters by 6.  People have just been pushed to the fringes like never before.
If there were a perfectly symmetrical split of one third each liberal, moderate, and conservative the gap would only be 52.6 to 40.3 with those results, so only about 3.5 points wider. I wouldn't say that's evidence people have moved to the fringes in some extreme way.

It shows you the existing skew is rightward, not to both fringes, as Biden does better with liberals than Trump does with conservatives, yet Trump still outperforms that theoretical split above.
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Imagine being undecided in August of 2020. "Yeah I don't know. Gonna have to see more before I can decide."
What I really can't imagine is being one of the four percent that voted Clinton in 16, but watched the past four years and said "Damn I fucked up, I'm on the Trump train now!"
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20 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

If there were a perfectly symmetrical split of one third each liberal, moderate, and conservative the gap would only be 52.6 to 40.3 with those results, so only about 3.5 points wider. I wouldn't say that's evidence people have moved to the fringes in some extreme way.

It shows you the existing skew is rightward, not to both fringes, as Biden does better with liberals than Trump does with conservatives, yet Trump still outperforms that theoretical split above.

That's why that graphic sucks. If you only show the % but not the N value for each subgroup it's sort of worthless.

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2 hours ago, Buck Strickland said:

Not to derail thread but yes its true. It is a good time to be a surveyor in Texas due to the fact there are more dying than becoming registered each year creating a shortage.

So what is the upper end of surveyor salaries?  Google seems to indicate $90K, which most engineers top not very long out of school.

This is very important information.  The thread depends on it.

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3 hours ago, Buck Strickland said:

Not to derail thread but yes its true. It is a good time to be a surveyor in Texas due to the fact there are more dying than becoming registered each year creating a shortage.

 

 

 

 

 

Surveyors make like 22 bucks an hour in Virginia. That's insane.

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5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Anyone who is saying Undecided is a Trump voter ashamed to say it on the phone. So it's even scarier than you think. 

This is the assumption I have been operating under the entire time and will be until November. I need to see Biden around 52-53% in national polling averages before I'm comfortable (he's around 50% right now). Hillary got 48% and lost, and I think we're going to see fewer third party votes. Biden is going to need to win it by 4-5% nationally to be safe in winning the EC. That means 52-53%. And when I see polls like Biden 50%, Trump 43%, I'm assuming almost the entire 7% undecided are pussies who don't want to admit they're going to vote for Trump to another human being, but will.

Same thing to the discussion above about 15% undecided in Wisconsin. Most of those people are not undecided, they are ashamed. 

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