Nick -- Just joking that Libertarians (ie libbies) should refuse to take campaign funding from the government and refuse to participate in government run elections, or they're clearly acting as LINO's (Libertarians In Name Only). Sorry, it was an old joke the first time.
-- rec -- On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi Roger, > > > > Perhaps my humor and imagination have been totally destroyed by this > election (which somebody aptly described as a political dumpster fire), but > … I didn’t understand your comment, AND I want to. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger > Critchlow > *Sent:* Friday, November 04, 2016 1:04 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind > Clinton | FiveThirtyEight > > > > Aren't the libbies constitutionally required to disdain funding from the > government? Seems like they should disdain elections, too, hold out for > victory by acclamation? > > > > -- rec -- > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, ┣glen┫ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/04/2016 09:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > http://www.slate.com/features/pkremp_forecast/report.html > > Very nice presentation. Thanks, Marcus! > > On 11/04/2016 10:46 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > I was going to "scoff" at this number and analysis until I checked MY > favorite source and saw what people who were putting their money where > their mouths are were saying: > > > > https://tippie.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/ > > That's only 1 market. Predictwise (which I may have heard about on this > list?) aggregates some markets: > http://predictwise.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PredictWise_November4_ > ChartPres.png > > But, were I to play the market(s), I'd bet on both Clinton and Trump, of > course, in various amounts. So, it's not clear whether these markets are > predictive of the winner so much as they're predictive of strategies for > benefiting from the winner, who[m]ever it may be. > > > Is that chasm recently formed, the FBI's "October Surprise"? There > sure is a lot of volatility! > > My hypothesis is that Clinton's drop in the polls is a result of the > late-comers digging into the subject. Anyone who has been paying attention > to Trump and Clinton for more than a month or two, will have already formed > their opinion. More emails (or more sex harassment allegations) won't > affect that. But those who only started really paying attention last month > may just now be starting to dig in and think about the extent of Clinton's > and Trump's foibles and qualities. The falsifying question would be: What > % of pollees answered prematurely back before October? ... didn't answer > "undecided", but were likely to change their minds once they started > digging? > > I'm also fond of PollyVote: https://pollyvote.com/en/ ... though I also > forget where I learned about that one. [sigh] > > > Gary and Jill only need 5% of the vote to get their party's funding and > automatic ballot inclusion next round. > > It would be great to see the Green party get the funding. I wouldn't > celebrate the Libertarians getting it, though. > > -- > ␦glen? > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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