# Andrew Yang updates

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-yang-updates/930019>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-yang-updates/930019 "2021-01-08T10:15:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-yang-updates/930019/61 "2021-10-15T02:33:07Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> The “importance” was precision, that’s all. If we’re going to quote numbers it helps to know what those numbers are. For example, when you said 10% of the population you misspoke, it was 10% of the voting population (which are different groups of people).

It’s one thing to satisfy your curiosity and another to create a post to correct me on an irrelevant point.

No, I didn’t misspeak. I was summarizing what Yang said in that interview. He was talking on a high level, big picture way. He wasn’t trying to delve into the details.

It has been frustrating talking about Yang’s policies because people like to take his facts and numbers, which he refers to often and then expect you to drill down into the detail at the same time as talking about the bigger picture. It’s possible to do both but not simultaneously for every single point all the time. Following people people down a rabbit hole while trying to talk about the big picture policies has made Yang threads here not as productive as I would have hoped.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-yang-updates/930019/62 "2021-10-15T03:09:33Z")

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> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
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> No, I didn’t misspeak. I was summarizing what Yang said in that interview. He was talking on a high level, big picture way. He wasn’t trying to delve into the details.

That’s fair.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-yang-updates/930019/63 "2021-10-15T13:17:27Z")

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> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
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> Well, maybe not _completely_ out of thin air. Here’s [some info](https://www.uniteamericainstitute.org/research/the-primary-problem).

Ignorance fought. Does not surprise me in the least; I have not heard the exact numbers, but the concept of “the real race is in the primaries” and primary voter turnout is much less than general election turnout makes a lot of sense to me.

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