Re: Cuomo Recants on Ivermectin

On 6/3/2024 1:06 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 12:02:22 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
 

I dunno - George Wallace got full coverage when he ran in 1968 though
everyone knew that even if he carried a few states in the DeepSouth
he'd never carry America (though Newsweek magazine DID publish their
Nixon, Humprey and Wallace covers they had made up in anticipation of
the result (including a "Deadlock" cover and their cover for their
International edition).
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I kept that issue for a lot of years but have probably ditched it by
now...

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That example argues for a "blind" numerical threshold of support.

 How so? I totally fail to see how taking 5 or 6 states all in the Deep
South gives one a snowflake's chance in hell of getting 270 electoral
votes (or whatever it is these days)
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election
 Just like I wonder why Nixon figured the Watergate break-in was a good
thing given that he surely must have known he was heading for an epic
win in 1972....(hint: he got them all except Mass.) and it is simply
not credible that a break-in would influence more than 3 or 4 states
at most.

There's no objective threshold for either inclusion or exclusion, so an arbitrary pre-established compromise may be the best that can be done.