{"id":9703,"date":"2012-11-05T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2012-11-06T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:18:04","slug":"republicans-hate-math-elections-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/republicans-hate-math-elections-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican’s Hate Math, & Elections End"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an ICP<\/a> “fucking magnets, how do they work?” moment<\/p>\n

\"\"(Like, shit, how???)<\/p>\n

Joe Scarborough, David Brooks, and Politico dink Dylan Byers<\/p>\n

All hate Nate Silver. But why<\/em>? Oh, because mathematical facts<\/p>\n

tend to not “lean” one way or the other. It’s like a dice roll or a<\/p>\n

probability in a statistics class. But not according to Old Joe S:<\/p>\n

“Anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a tossup right now is <\/em>
\nsuch an ideologue…they should be kept away from typewriters, computers, <\/em>
\nlaptops, and microphones for the next ten days, because they’re jokes.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Such a classy guy using projection here. Seems like he’s just so<\/p>\n

\"\"(“I drink your milkshake”)<\/p>\n

butthurt if facts or reality slap him hard. What did Brooks say?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The pollsters tell us what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening now, when they start projecting, <\/em>
\nthey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting into silly land. If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing we know, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that even <\/em>
\nexperts w\/fancy computer models are terrible at predicting human behavior\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

The war on Nate Silver is very real. And it is very very very sad<\/p>\n

They don’t hate him as much as they clearly hate science & #’s<\/p>\n

Nate can handle himself very well. He bet old Joe $2,000 to a<\/p>\n

charity. It was for the Red Cross. Joe hasn’t taken him up at all<\/p>\n

See, math, facts, policy, polls, & statistics aren’t partisan. BUT<\/p>\n

every current Republican talking head in the media doesn’t like<\/p>\n

\"\"(FOX noise)<\/p>\n

that<\/em> one bit. They seek to reject any data that is harmful to any<\/p>\n

Republican, while magnifying any data that is helpful. The rest<\/p>\n

of society calls it “partisan”. They call it “just being a journalist”<\/p>\n

No, no it’s not. Being a journalist is taking data, facts, & reality<\/p>\n

wherever it leads, to tell us the truth. If that hurts your political<\/p>\n

views or party narrative, well, so be it. But they refuse. For them<\/p>\n

\"\"(Kapow!)<\/p>\n

it’s only about accepting the data they<\/em> personally like. Well, that<\/p>\n

mean’s they’ll disagree with about 99% of reality then. THAT’S<\/p>\n

the main problem. If it was Obama trailing in swing states by 2,<\/p>\n

3, or even 5+; that’d be cause for BIG ALARM. In fact, for any of<\/p>\n

the Obama supporters, it’d be almost be “game over”. He’d have<\/p>\n

no clear electoral college path, and be in dire straights with tiny<\/p>\n

hopes of winning the election. That means Obama would surely<\/p>\n

be on the canvas at #8 in a 10 count. You should accept “reality”<\/p>\n

\"\"(Such love)<\/p>\n

But this is not about “facts”, “early election returns”, or “reality”<\/p>\n

to some. They make a living spewing “My gut tells me X”. Well<\/p>\n

that makes you no more accurate than the person who’s sitting<\/p>\n

at home then, now doesn’t it? Then why are you getting paid to<\/p>\n

just spew total partisan non-sense BS? Because being a big blow<\/p>\n

hard with “hunches” is much easier than offering facts, or reality<\/p>\n

See, that shit takes serious rigor, time, thoughtful reflection, and<\/p>\n

then giving specific results totally devoid of what your personal<\/p>\n

\"\"(Sure it happened)<\/p>\n

political views are. In a battle between the bully right wingers & a<\/p>\n

baseball math nerd. I’ll take a nerd 10 out of 10 times; every time<\/p>\n

Obama currently has a 86.3%<\/a> chance of winning; & Mitt is 13.7%<\/p>\n

Obama is surging into election day, while Mitt’s sinking so badly<\/p>\n

Shhhhh, don’t tell Toe Licking Dick Morris, FOX, or virtually any<\/p>\n

Republican’s. They think Mitt will win by a landslide. In fairness<\/p>\n

they also think the Electoral College has a football team & books<\/p>\n

My prediction is 313 or better for Obama. It’s pretty conservative<\/p>\n

Remember, it all means nothing unless you VOTE VOTE VOTE!<\/p>\n

F-I-N-I-A-L-L-Y Fucking Over Tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n

No more screwed up TV ads raping our eye sockets; no more hate,<\/p>\n

lies, BS, & chest puffing insane claims. No more listening to crazy<\/p>\n

delusional talking heads screaming “but it is tied, tied, tied I say”<\/p>\n

\"\"(“This is my Oh<\/em> face”)<\/p>\n

Obama’s final words appear to be: we still have work to do, we’ve<\/em><\/p>\n

made real progress, things are getting better each day, but we still <\/em><\/p>\n

have to keep on moving forward, together, and we see better days<\/em><\/p>\n

Mitten’s & Ryan final argument is this: Pssssssssssst, he’s still black<\/em><\/p>\n

And we don’t like that. Let’s fire the black guy tomorrow, & let’s put<\/em><\/p>\n

the “white” back in the White House. Oh, and he’s failed everything<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"(“I hate most of you”) <\/em><\/p>\n

he’s tried, he sucks, you hate him, he’s “not like us”, & he’s Muslim<\/em><\/p>\n

This black guy wants to get revenge on all of you white people. Oh<\/em><\/p>\n

& he ruined the Auto Industry, killed our economy, & hates you all<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, & all the polls are wrong. We are totally winning this election<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, like I’ve always said. He’s sure got the “racist vote” locked up<\/p>\n

Not a single truthful thing has uttered from his lips. It’s lies & hate<\/p>\n

But now all that is over, it’s time to vote, & be done with all this shit<\/p>\n

Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an ICP “fucking magnets, how do they work?” moment (Like, shit, how???) Joe Scarborough, David Brooks, and Politico dink Dylan Byers All hate Nate Silver. But why? Oh, because mathematical facts tend to not “lean” one way or the other. It’s like a dice roll or a probability in a statistics class. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9731,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions\/9731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}