# Don't close the \[blank's\] Presidential Campaign threads

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**Created:** [September 26, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-close-the-blanks-presidential-campaign-threads/766953 "2016-09-26T14:37:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-close-the-blanks-presidential-campaign-threads/766953/28 "2016-09-27T14:21:50Z")

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Well if you expect a shiny new thread to create a influx of new posters, I think you’re likely to be disappointed. But the reasoning tomndebb gave in the Trump thread:

> [@Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/7295):
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> The overworked Mods who need to try to figure out when a slap at one candidate in the other candidate’s thread is appropriate have decided that having a single thread without hundreds of earlier posts to track will permit us to continue to have family lives. It will also make it easier on the TM who will not have to guess which snarky comment will be more appropriate in which thread.

Could be accomplished by simply announcing you weren’t going to moderate conflation of the two campaigns for the remainder of the election. But I guess that if there is even a small chance that a new thread will cease the hostile shouting and welcome in a golden age of being welcoming to newcomers I suppose we need to try it. Good luck with that.

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