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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058380)	3/2/2018 10:36:54 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573413

Mindmeld, I felt the same way about Romney's chances of winning. But I think you neglected to answer my question. How come the polls didn't forsee Obama's margin of victory? It was supposed to be a lot closer than it actually turned out to me. To me, polls are inherently unreliable. That's why they come with a margin of +/- four points or whatever. And even then, when you look at the results of several different pollsters, they vary more than what that margin would suggest. It's like one thermometer saying, "It's 40 degrees outside," and another saying, "It's 32 degrees," and yet another saying, "It's 53 degrees." What do you do, average out the results and say, "It's 41.67 degrees"? Or do you look at the reason why all three thermometers can't come up with repeatable results? Yet the media has relied heavily on polls to drive their narrative, because that's what the public buys into. Even you and I get sucked into this, and we should know better. Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058380)	3/3/2018 6:48:08 AM
From: Bill	1 Recommendation Recommended By RetiredNow Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573413

People forget that comment was said, out of context, at a private dinner secretly recorded by a Democrat. It was an illegal act that had more to do with influencing an election than anything the Russians ever did.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058380)	3/3/2018 8:44:34 AM
From: locogringo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573413

his ill-fated 47% comment. I think he turned off a lot of people with that comment. Especially when the rabid liberal press repeated it every half hour on the radio and all day long on cable TV and on every evening newscast for a week to 10 days. Almost nobody heard that comment until they did the broadcasting of it, and in this case the liberal press selected the winner of the election. They failed (and still are failing) with Trump and they despise that and can't handle it.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058380)	3/3/2018 9:04:21 AM
From: locogringo	1 Recommendation Recommended By RetiredNow Respond to of 1573413

Compare the constant Romney 47% news to this: Establishment Press Ignoring Schumer's Race-Based Objection to Trump Judicial Nominee Original Article

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058380)

3/3/2018 2:59:56 PM

From: koan

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Trump has spent an absurd amount of time not working

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Per pool, Trump has arrived at Trump International Golf Club.

This is Trump’s 100th day at a Trump golf club as president.

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058380)

3/3/2018 3:23:21 PM

From: koan

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This is what you deny.

"The admiral in charge of both the nation's top electronic spying agency and the Pentagon's cybersecurity operations would seem a logical point man for countering Russia's digital intrusions in U.S. election campaigns. But National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday there is only so much he can do. That is because, according to Rogers, President Trump has not ordered him to go after the Russian attacks at their origin. Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the committee's ranking Democrat, asked Rogers, "Have you been directed to do so, given this strategic threat that faces the United States and the significant consequences you recognize already?" "No, I have not," Rogers replied. But the spy chief pushed back on suggestions that he should seek a presidential signoff. "I am not going to tell the president what he should or should not do," Rogers said when Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal pressed him on whether Trump should approve that authority.

"I'm an operational commander, not a policymaker," he added. "That's the challenge for me as a military commander." Rogers agreed with Blumenthal's estimation that Russian cyber operatives continue to attack the U.S. with impunity and that Washington's response has fallen short. "It hasn't changed the calculus, is my sense," the spy chief told Blumenthal. "It certainly hasn't generated the change in behavior that I think we all know we need."