dagblog - Comments for "What Is John Kasich Thinking?"

HaHaHa. The Republicans are

NCD — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:27:13 +0000

HaHaHa. The Republicans are all a bunch of 'preverts' idiots and liars.

Billo 'heard the shot' in the '77 suicide death of George DeMohrenschildt as he says over and over and in his 2012 JFK book......Even though Gaston Fonzi, who was there in Florida that day said in his 1993 book The Last Investigation, for which he was employed by the late 70s Congressional Assassinations Committee, that his friend Billo phoned him later that day FROM TEXAS to get the scoop.

The GOP is trying to make government so corrupt and perverted and fact free that no sane person would want to serve along side them.

Thanks for the comment, Mike.

Doctor Cleveland — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:53:16 +0000

In reply to It\s unlikely that any

Thanks for the comment, Mike. And that does seem plausible.

My caveat is that Kasich isn't doing particularly well. (Nor is Rubio, for that matter.) There's a real chance that they're building a track record that will keep people from rallying around them in 2020. It's unpredictable, because we haven't had a primary season like this in the modern era, but Kasich and Rubio may just get pigeonholed as Guys Who Couldn't Beat Trump.

From my reading it seems the

ocean-kat — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:51:48 +0000

In reply to Is this the year polls jumped

From my reading it seems the biggest problem with polling is less people having land lines. It's illegal to use automated calling to cell phones and expensive to have real humans to dial each number. A larger and larger portion of the electorate is mostly not being polled. The other problem is a growing number of people are refusing to be polled. Both of these problems are aged skewed toward the young. I suspected that this year's democratic primary polls would be more skewed than we've seen with Sanders supporters tending to be younger but mostly the polls have been relatively accurate, with rare exceptions like Michigan. I haven't seen a good analysis as to why yet but I suspect after this election we'll see some interesting articles about polling successes and failures this cycle.

OH MY PRECIOUS!

Richard Day — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:18:48 +0000

In reply to What Is John Kasich Thinking?

OH MY PRECIOUS!

First, if one listens to people like rush or levin or beck all day, O'Reilly might sound reasonable. hahahahah

If you listen to Cruz and T-Rump all fricken day, Kasich sounds sane.

It would be fun to hear Kasich go on an angry rant like Billo did the other day:

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/04/o-reilly-i-m-not-racist-saying-many

And we know Kasich gets mad. I mean only a couple of decades ago he voted to impeach my President. hahahah

I do not see what Kasich loses by staying 'in the race'. He will receive big fees next year to speak in front of idiots, he will receive big bucks writing books for other idiots, he might even end up with his own radio or tv show.

He has nothing to lose.

Is this the year polls jumped

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:13:31 +0000

In reply to The only thing that

Is this the year polls jumped the shark? Because in 2008/2012, I saw Nate Silver bring some new methodology in, but it was basically "average and weight", and now it seems everyone's too lazy to weight, so it's cram careful and misleading polls all in together, stir and shake and bring to a low boil. We've got millions of people online giving their opinions, but polls continue to be a safe "600 carefully randomly selected likely voters". Which if we look at caucuses as 1/10th the vote of primaries and how that selection changes things, a sample of 1/1000th or 1/10000th is still lost in the hope-and-prayer stage. If all the polls follow similar methodologies, it's also possible they all will suffer from similar skew or blindspots, but then again, except for the huge races, there simply aren't that many polls being done at all.

Strange, in an age when analytics is growing up fast, we don't have enough data to analyze. Too many cooks/analysts, not enough kitchen staff/street pollers.

;-) Got me chuckling out

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:05:35 +0000

In reply to I think the line from Bored

;-) Got me chuckling out loud.

This.

McKees Rocker — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 03:38:22 +0000

In reply to It\s unlikely that any

This.

Nobody knew who he was at the start of campaign season. Now he is discussed in the news every day. Tons of air time. People are hearing his name. He is getting endorsements that will be mentioned if he runs again in four years. Maybe things break for him at the convention, most likely not, but if he remains the "adult in the room" after the chaos, he has a jump on 2020.

I think the line from Bored

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 03:18:54 +0000

In reply to Ah, thought you were heading

I think the line from Bored of the Rings I most relate to these days is Frito's eye-rolling "It's gonna be a long epic."

The Garfield Monument is

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 03:13:10 +0000

In reply to Gotta love a city that has a

The Garfield Monument is right around the corner from Little Italy, so the indispensable lasagna supply is always close.

Gotta love a city that has a

ocean-kat — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:34:36 +0000

In reply to Actually, I propose rallying

Gotta love a city that has a monument to Garfield.