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Booger says

Limbaugh to Hannity: I Don't Trust Polls, GOP Will Hold House, Increase Senate Majority

I don't think those two are much better than MSNBC or CNNPC, in some ways they also exude NPC-type qualities

Florida Republicans mailing in more ballots than Democrats.

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/10/17/republicans-mailing-in-more-ballots-than-democrats-lee-county-is-no-1/

https://county10.com/over-12000-wyoming-voters-changed-party-affiliations-between-july-and-september-2018/

Over 12,000 Wyoming voters changed party affiliations between July and September 2018.

12,509 persons in total changed their party affiliation between July 6th and September 20th:

6,057 Democrats changed and registered as Republicans;
4,355 Unaffiliated persons changed and registered as Republicans;
744 Unaffiliated persons changed and registered as Democrats;
477 members of the Constitution and Libertarian parties changed and registered as Republicans;
430 Republicans changed and registered as Democrats; and
296 persons of various parties changed and registered as Unaffiliated.

Aphroman says

You should hire a few Right wing moderators.

Perhaps it would be reasonable to have two moderators agree if a comment has to be whacked, one moderator on left and one on right. I have noticed that a few comments that are quite personal do not disappear after being flagged.

Thanks to Democrats, Republicans now have a winning slogan:

Aphroman says

For awhile i would flag personal attacks because @Patrick asked us to, i was helping him out. Until they were repeatedly put back up i figured whats the point. Patrick obviously doesn’t care and isn’t even attempting for a level playing field

I flag very, very rarely as often comments are in "gray zone". Most of my flagged comments do disappear, but there were 2-3 cases where blatantly personal attacks re-appeared.

If it’s in the mod queue and I agree it’s an ad hom, I’ll nuke it as such. If it’s 50/50 I let another mod decide. I never override another mods ad hom marking.

dr6B says

I flag very, very rarely as often comments are in "gray zone". Most of my flagged comments do disappear, but there were 2-3 cases where blatantly personal attacks re-appeared.

I do need to keep better records. At least now personal attacks are not completely deleted, but just covered, so I do have a record of those and can see that they are all indeed personal attacks and not just differences in politics.

Heraclitusstudent says

zzyzzx says

Scott Adams Predicts ‘Greatest Turnout by Republicans, Maybe Ever’ in Midterms

Partisan people are known to be the worst forecasters.
Motivated reasoning is killing them.

Yeah but he was right predicting Trump a good chance to win. Let's see how he does this time. Also Adams is not very partisan, he was never a staunch Republican. I suspect he move that way since he makes satirical cartoons and is a somewhat public figure. So in his best self interest he'd be a fool to embrace any of the leftoids identity politics as it may harm or end his career.