[FRIAM] election eve

[Roger Critchlow]

Oh, go ahead and relax, what can you do about it?

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:12 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick,
>
> See Glen's 270 to 267 estimate.  Biden may still win either Georgia or
> Pennsylvania or both because of the Democrat majority that is likely among
> the uncounted votes.  If any of that happens Biden wins with a margin.
>
> But it's too close for relaxation.
>
> Frank
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> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 11:05 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> If you want to live in the bubble for a few more hours, try
>>
>> https://abc.com/watch-live/abc-news
>>
>> Marcus,  The message I am getting from those folks is something like: "We
>> tried rationality for 50 years and look where it got us;  let's try crazy
>> for 4 more years."
>>
>> I know two trump supporters quite well.  Mind you, we don't talk politics
>> that much.  Both are owners of small businesses who have led the highly
>> regulated lives that folks must lead if they are going to make money in a
>> politically diverse community.  Both [thought they] saw gains from the Tax
>> Cuts.  I think both think the economic policies have been good for them and
>> they find the crazy stuff kinda fun.  Like a bit of a wild fling.  They
>> certainly don't take those things any more seriously than I took Clinton,
>> with whatsername under the Resolute Desk, while he was negotiating with the
>> Majority Leader.  Tsk Tsk, I say and them move on.  That's what they do,
>> and they cannot under stand why I am scared by Trump, any more than I could
>> understand why they were scared by Obama.  I once called one of my
>> relatives in Texas during the bush/Kerry election, because she had been
>> born in Massachusetts and I thought she could help me understand. "I think
>> that man is dangerous," she said.  I agreed, thinking she was talking about
>> Bush.  "Yes," she went on.  "No telling what he will do if he and the
>> democrats get in."
>>
>> Kerry, DANGEROUS?  My god that man was scared of getting tomato sauce on
>> his polo shirt.  But she really was quaking with fear..  Just like I am
>> now.
>>
>> The one I really am scared of is McConnell.  Hitler got in because the
>> cartels that dominated German politics thought they could "use" him. Look
>> how that turned out.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> Nicholas Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>> Clark University
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 11:24 AM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] election eve
>>
>> Yeah, the main take home to me is the same as before:  Almost half the
>> country is batshit crazy.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ???
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 9:22 AM
>> To: friam at redfish.com
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] election eve
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>> Right. So both the guardian and nyt show called Biden: 227, Trump: 213
>> with PA(20), NC(15), and GA(16) toward Trump and MI(16), WI(10), NV(6), and
>> AZ(11) toward Biden.
>>
>> 227+16+10+11+6 = 270
>> 213+3+15+20+16 = 267
>>
>> I don't think there's a reason to be optimistic ... cautiously or not.
>> Regardless of which value the artificially binary outcome lands on, it's
>> the closeness of it that causes the problems.
>>
>> On 11/4/20 9:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> > Biden has got a 270 vs. 267 last time I checked, assuming he can’t take
>> Pennsylvania.
>>
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