Archive for September 30th, 2016

Debate Commission: “Yep, there was a problem with Trump’s audio”

September 30, 2016

This election campaign gets wackier by the day.

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After the debate, Trump complained  that his microphone wasn’t functioning properly at the debate.

“And they also had, gave me a defective mic … My mic was defective within the room.”

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Of course, Team Clinton jumped on that:

According to CNN: Trump’s Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, mocked Trump the day after the debate for complaining about his mic:

“Anybody who complains about the microphone is not having a good night.”

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I agree that it was a bad nite for the Trumpster, but …

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Polls: Total garbage … or, canaries in the coal mine?

September 30, 2016

Pundits are trashing online polls and praising “scientific” ones.

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Let’s take some risk today …

As I write this, the expected flurry of so-called scientific post-debate polls haven’t hit the airwaves yet.

Early on Tuesday, we posted about the online polls that showed Trump to have won the debate.

I pointed out that I thought Trump got crushed so I was surprised … especially since the polls were from a range of sites from far-right Drudge to far-left CBS-NY.

I doubted that the shaky Trump organization has a system in place to troll all those sites and stuff all those ballot boxes.

Well, the mass media went nuts … disparaging those polls and putting their golden eggs in the basket of the scientific polls.

Case in point the newspaper of record: the NY Times.

 

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The media and professional pollster (who get paid a lot to be about as accurate as weather forecasters) may be right, but here are a couple of angles for you to consider …

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I do my best thinking when I’m sleeping … say, what?

September 30, 2016

Discussing creativity in class, I casually mentioned that I seem to do my best thinking when I’m asleep.

Specifically, I reported that I like to get to work as soon as I jump out of bed (literally) … and that I often find myself doing a brain dump of thoughts that weren’t top of mind before I’d gone nite-nite.

The revelation initially got some chuckles … then some folks started nodding and chiming in with “me, too” variants on the story.

Of course, some remained unconvinced.

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For the skeptics, here some science …

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