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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
But I think there may be votes lost by faked stories. Doesn’t mean much as we can’t stop it.
How many votes are at issue? I feel a lot, as I think we have lots of people who know in their heart he is bad but might not want to believe it, but will unless they can lie to themselves it isn’t true.
I feel there may be a lot of such people. You and Thurgreed think there are few. Just not sure why you two have the chops to know that answer. Seems a bit pompous. Hope you are right, don’t misunderstand, just not a fan of you all dismissing arguments because “you know.”
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You guys aren't even that far apart. You include in the universe of people those who may vote for him because even though they may have heard a bunch of awful, terrible shit about Trump, an inaccurate (or not completely substantiated news report) negative piece on Trump may influence them. You think that number of people may be significant or maybe just not
de minimis.
Ty and I are saying, (i) people--even low-information ones--who can be influenced to believe that everything negative (and actually substantiated) about Trump is made up because Lawrence O'Donnell may have jumped the gun on something are looking for
anything to justify that vote and (ii) there is no way to avoid making
any kind of mistake in a world of 24 hour-constant, unending news.
Ty and I are saying that you can't include the people who fall into my first point in your calculation. As to the second point, yes. I wish all journalists would be extra careful in their reporting. But acting like that's even possible and whining about how sloppy reporting is going to give this lunatic another term is just stupid, homie.
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