I’m an author, so people that are curious.

Stephen Collins on the US election – cartoon
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I’m an author, so people that are curious.
Durned if I know. I am not sure who is undecided at this point and what they are undecided between, which I why I asked who seriously is the only self-declared undecided person I have come across in real life or online.
There’s definitely fewer of them this time.
CNBC says they are voters who “dislike Trump but fear Biden’s policies”. The Economist agrees with you, an thinks they are more likely to swing to Biden than anything else.
But I’d love to hear the thought process from a real live endangered critter! Before we release him back into the wild.
People that are curious pay you to have over twenty accounts to up vote to try to create trends that don’t really exist?
Well I’m curious about that. But not gonna pay you.
I haven’t noticed ANY attention (as opposed to past years) about the Libertarian candidate, Green Party candidate (Howie Hawkins), etc etc… I just hope it’s not coercion, or simply a lack of attention, not to mention new rules to prevent 3rd parties, which seem to have disappeared after Perot. I know candidates need 5% to receive public funds… And I also think there are states with different requirements, which I think I’ve heard Kanye West’s name being mentioned, usually being disqualified.
I used the number twenty as an example… But even with less, it still forms a blueprint for new readers. If you’re curious, you should try it out. I’d love to see your results.
Years ago, I would call numbers starting with my area code of course, prefix (--1900, followed by 1901, 1902) to ask certain questions such as “What is your favorite movie?”, but I’d keep data to compare how much my approach would affect cooperation. When I said I was doing a study, I got answers from almost everyone.
So, click bait?
Gosh gee it is interesting that you get paid to create an impression of greater interest in certain themes by having multiple accounts and up-voting specific ones. And how you, by your description, post the same thing with different preambles
I’m going to name that action, but I don’t think pointing out your exact words is against any guidance.
I think the OP is normalizing trumps debate style, and therefore his whole presidency.
The reality that trump actually needed to be prodded to (finally at long last) provide real answers is not allowed by the OP. The OP is blaming the interviewer. This is only possible by portraying trumps world, of the last 4 years, which we have seen, as a baseline reality, and joining in the paranoia of it. It is paranoid to think trump was treated roughly.
We got to start thinking about post trump and this is not a good way to do it IMO.
When George W. Bush was doing the debates, pundits predicted that he would be outmatched and inarticulate. When it turned out that he didn’t completely suck, it came out looking like a victory. I think at some point Republican strategists started doing it on purpose; lowering the bar in advance so that it was easier for him to jump over it. It’s called “managing expectations”.
I think that’s what Republicans are trying to do with Trump now. Everybody tuned in to the town hall to see Trump spew a chopped salad of words, so if he does manage a coherent sentence he looks smart in comparison. The mere fact that the event is over doesn’t mean our expectations aren’t still being managed.
You just confirmed the suspicions of the many here who saw your OP for the obvious pose it was.
But you’ve narrowed it down to two, right? West is out of the picture for you?
Don’t have much to say about the thread otherwise but: Joe Biden isn’t “the left.” The OP here hasn’t made comments hostile to the left, except by implication in a sort of dramatically ironic sense. One of the super cool things about US politics in this particular moment is that both major parties are pretty hostile to the left, except one of them sometimes confuses references to the left with references to itself.
To quote Basil Fawlty, on the sighting of that rarest of creatures, a Satisfied Customer at Fawlty Towers, “we should have him stuffed.”
Undecided voters in the US election:
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Undecided voters in the US election:-
Love the cartoon. My favorite part: “I just can’t decide whether I prefer the human one or the reality-distorting vortex of chaos that wants me to die.”
That’s pretty much how I see it. I don’t understand what there is to be undecided ABOUT at this late stage. What more do the undecided need to see/hear??
Yahoo used to have a comment section, and I use others… I do little experiments. For example, I’ll say the same exact thing, but I’ll add something like, “As a Bernie Sanders fan” and I’ll paste the same exact thing with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and it’s funny how the up and down votes change because people pre-determine just on who they support, or the label they give themselves.
In the above quote, you mention that you are intentionally dishonest about your political affiliation to get a response from others.
That makes me wonder… in your OP, when you stated “I’m a left-winger”, was that sincere, or were you just reliving the glory days from being the shrewdest guy in the Yahoo comments section?
Yahoo used to have a comment section, and I use others… I do little experiments. For example, I’ll say the same exact thing, but I’ll add something like, “As a Bernie Sanders fan” and I’ll paste the same exact thing with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and it’s funny how the up and down votes change because people pre-determine just on who they support, or the label they give themselves. I also notice that most conform, even with opinion. If you load the sample, people follow the trend. For example, if I have 20 accounts, and I can up-vote people tend to follow that same trend with a few outliers, but then again, there are some like that on YouTube who can’t stand to see a 0 for down-votes. You can take the same comment, and do the opposite - 20 down votes, and many times people follow the trend.
Moderating:
IOW you are a professional troller. Suspended for two weeks.
Okay guys: I vote for ice cream!
Never cared for cyanide much.
How many scoops?
I don’t know. Have you REALLY weighed all the pros and cons of cyanide? I don’t know how someone could jump straight to “ice cream” without giving it any thought. I’m going to have to ponder this for awhile.