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I also generally prefer a Condorcet Method (ranked choice, single winner) over mixed-member-proportional, but either one would be a massive improvement over our current system.

I'll take Approval voting, even.

/c/SuicideByWords ?

Isn't 1600 m/s greater than the speed of sound? That sonic boom is gonna mess up the kitchen, if not the hand.

I think the phase change costs of the water content will also be a significant factor that isn't included.

He read Maus but took the wrong lessons from it?

Maybe some investigative journalist should check with Stormy Daniels?

I do or at least I have in the past. If the caller will answer my Google call screening, I'll answer or call back.

There's always been a issue of sample not matching population, and a variety of methods to correct for that. But, I will admit there is some limitations to that, and I don't quite understand where the limitations are. (I love math, but I failed statistics once, and barely passed the second time. I prefer symbols and proofs and closed forms...)

While that is also my pet name for JD, keep in mind it is aspirational, not historic.

Nope. I don't know exactly what happened there, but after ABC bought it, Nate was gradually phased out. He found alternative funding.

Sssh, Top Sneaky.

There are still people that distrust government as a general principle AND still believe the GOP is the party of "small government" so they will vote for whatever name is next to the R.

He's not an idiot. He is funded by Thiel. He has been politically captured by authoritarian capitalism, so I'd be wary of any models he produced that aren't independently audited for bias.

I think polls are useful, and the monte carlo simulation approach for turning them into a electorial vote probability is good, but there "too much" magic sauce left over for me to trust the outputs from Silver or 538.