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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:
What tangible results have we seen for this money? Because I've noticed when trying to defend the test and trace system these days even Hancock barely tries to make out that it's any good, he just blathers on about how quickly it was set up and how big it is.
It isn't even all that big, some figures I saw earlier said tests carried out had only gone up 12% since August while positive cases had tripled.

I may not have got the details quite right but that's the gist of it.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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@Sky'sGoneOut

When they ask for payment they obviously adopt the right tone.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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Brian Klaas
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Total votes already cast in 2020 as a % of the total number of 2016 votes by state (a rough proxy of what % of voters have already voted)

FL: 20%
WI: 25.4%
MI: 24.5%
MN: 21.4%
GA: 17.8%
IA: 20.6%

A huge chunk of people have already voted in key states. Via
@ElectProject
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Two problems for Trump with these numbers:

1) With Biden winning in the polls now, these voters are a buffer for Biden. If the race changes, these are already in the bank.

2) If these numbers are so big because turnout is going to be up significantly vs. 2016, Trump is screwed.
Let's hope so.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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Anyone seen Froggy recently?
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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Anyone seen Froggy recently?
No, I haven't. Probably not since about the end of September now that you come to mention it.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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I read that the last time anyone was so far behind in the polls to his opponent before winning the Presidential election was George H. W. Bush to Michael Dukakis and that poll was in June giving Bush months to catch up.

The New York Times had quotes over the weekend from pro-Trump Republican strategists saying he was screwed but let's face it, we've been shat on so many times lately that I don't think any of us are going to be even remotely optimistic until the fucker is actually gone.
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September 25th was the last date that I can track down an appearance here on The Daily Politics. I haven't checked anywhere else.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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Thanks PF. So nearly three weeks.

Hmmm...I can't remember Froggy saying he was going on a cruise or anything.
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You may well hate this, but I think it's great. Heaped with opprobrium at the time, they were often known as Ocean Duller Scene.

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You rolled the dice and got snake eyes.

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Time to wheel this one out again, I feel -

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She blows it out of the park once again.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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Night night.
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It does seem to be getting on a bit.
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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:It does seem to be getting on a bit.
Joy Division will have that effect. Although you seem to have thought better of it .. .
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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We can both get up to that kind of thing.

Goodnight.
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Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:[youtube]2_IfVGyAwJ0[/youtube]
I rather appreciated that one, actually.
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