11-09-2016, 05:01 AM
(11-09-2016, 04:09 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-09-2016, 03:18 AM)Galen Wrote: So much for Astrology as good predictor of anything.
I dunno; I wonder who had the better record: astrologers or pundits/polls. I suspect the former. I was wrong on this one, and it's a big one.
If you had bothered to read the Podesta e-mails released by Wikileaks then you would have known that the polls were deliberately over-sampled in demographics that favored Clinton. Come to think of it, you also would have been aware of the collusion between the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign. It was so heavy handed that even the average person figured it out with easily predictable consequences.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises