Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:The Apocalypse is going to be hilarious.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Self wrote:

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Simple Torture wrote:Nate Silver wrote a nice long piece about how he and other data-driven journalists got Trump wrong and how prognosticators and journalists can adjust for it in the future without over-adjusting (gets heady and theoretical, but I liked it): http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how ... ald-trump/

theplatypus wrote:

http://theresurgent.com/why-didnt-god-s ... s-clinton/

BurtReynolds wrote:Nothing says "inclusive and enlightened" like hiding behind gated communities to get away from "those people". welcome to the left Coast.

However, they [Sanders' supporters] were less likely than Mrs. Clinton's supporters to favor concrete policies that Mr. Sanders has offered as remedies for these ills, including a higher minimum wage, increasing government spending on health care and an expansion of government services financed by higher taxes. It is quite a stretch to view these people as the vanguard of a new, social-democratic-trending Democratic Party.

Mr. Sanders has drawn enthusiastic support from young people....For many of them, liberal ideology seems to have been a short-term byproduct of enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders rather than a stable political conviction.

Perhaps for that reason, the generational difference in ideology seems not to have translated into more liberal positions on concrete policy issues -- even on the specific issues championed by Mr. Sanders. For example, young Democrats were less likely than older Democrats to support increased government funding of health care, substantially less likely to favor a higher minimum wage and less likely to support expanding government services. Their distinctive liberalism is mostly a matter of adopting campaign labels, not policy preferences.

4/5 wrote:

Mr. Sanders has drawn enthusiastic support from young people....For many of them, liberal ideology seems to have been a short-term byproduct of enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders rather than a stable political conviction.

Perhaps for that reason, the generational difference in ideology seems not to have translated into more liberal positions on concrete policy issues -- even on the specific issues championed by Mr. Sanders. For example, young Democrats were less likely than older Democrats to support increased government funding of health care, substantially less likely to favor a higher minimum wage and less likely to support expanding government services. Their distinctive liberalism is mostly a matter of adopting campaign labels, not policy preferences.

4/5 wrote:

Mr. Sanders has drawn enthusiastic support from young people....For many of them, liberal ideology seems to have been a short-term byproduct of enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders rather than a stable political conviction.

Perhaps for that reason, the generational difference in ideology seems not to have translated into more liberal positions on concrete policy issues -- even on the specific issues championed by Mr. Sanders. For example, young Democrats were less likely than older Democrats to support increased government funding of health care, substantially less likely to favor a higher minimum wage and less likely to support expanding government services. Their distinctive liberalism is mostly a matter of adopting campaign labels, not policy preferences.