Nate Silver calls 2016 for Jeb Bush

[Scuba]

By a 5-4 vote. Actually he only polled Justice Scalia.

[11 Bravo]

1. DUzy!

Well played!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Ha ! Wonder if Jeb's got some programmers working on

a fraud software upgrade for FL?

[KaryninMiami]

9. Good point

The machine rigging programming while still effective (that's how Rick Scott won), has to be a bit out of date by now...

[NCcoast]

14. Now, now...

You know there's no election tampering in America. We would have heard about it in the press.

[valerief]

16. Yeah, like we hear about all the massive progressive marches. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. Yup. Think I'll download some precinct totals before they disappear. nt

[panader0]

3. I was prepared to be disgusted when I opened this thread,

but got a big laugh instead.

[el_bryanto]

4. I would have thought Kennedy

Lets face it - we know how Scalia is going to vote; but Kennedy kind of goes back and forth.

Bryant

[msanthrope]

5. Nicely played. nt

[Algernon Moncrieff]

6. I know Nate is smarter than that

He called 2016 for the Cubs.

[Dawgs]

7. Actually, Silver relies on the work that other pollsters do.

And even then he just takes the average and makes a prediction.

Anyone that knows Excel can do the same thing..never been impressed.

[Scuba]

8. OMG, that means my post is SATIRE!!!

[Dawgs]

10. Your post was a way for me to make a point.

It really had nothing to do with what you wrote.

[msanthrope]

21. There's one in every thread.....nt

[msanthrope]

20. Whoooosh!!! nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. A) it's a little more complicated than that.

And b) he's never really claimed any different, afaik.

[blm]

11. LOL.

Good one.

[L0oniX]

12. Yer bad.

[riqster]

13. Drunk already?

[olddots]

15. Jeb Bush 2016

"I haven't lost yet " if he wins the world looses .

[world wide wally]

17. That's a large enough sampling for this Supreme Court

[90-percent]

18. Well played indeed

Reminds of of two women the BFEE tricked into triggering big acts of treason

April Glaspie - The U.N. Ambassador that implied to Saddam that it would be perfectly fine with the USA if he invaded Kuwait in the early 90's, triggering the first Gulf War, and

Katherine Harris, The Florida Attorney General in 2000 and a key part of the sad outcome of Bush v. Gore.

I wonder why neither of these women decided to earn a living post career as a Fox News pundit? I also wonder if they are living their lives in hiding just hoping everybody forgets they ever existed?

-90% Jimmy

[csziggy]

23. Katherine Harris ran for Congress and got in for two terms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Harris

She never had to worry about supporting herself - her maternal grandfather, Ben Hill Griffin Jr, was at one point one of the wealthiest men in Florida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hill_Griffin,_Jr.

Katherine Harris graduated in the same high school class as my little sister - but only technically. Harris attended finishing schools in Europe and only returned to Florida for her senior year of high school, maybe so she'd have it on her resume when she went into politics. My sister, on the other hand, skipped her senior year, fast tracked junior college and received her high school diploma at the same time she recieved her AA degree. So they were never in the school at the same time even if they are on the list for the same graduating class.

[90-percent]

24. Thank you

Thanks for the accurate info and I did not know she went into Congress after that. I thought the BFEE discarded her after she was no longer useful and I was flat out wrong.

-90% Jimmy

[csziggy]

25. Now the GOP has dropped her - she embarrassed them and turned on them

After her campaign people couldn't contain themselves or her by accepting what amounted to bribes. There is a lot of info in the Wikipedia article and in links from there.

There were some rumors around Tallahassee in 2000 that she had an affair with Jeb - it would be so nice if that came out with his new campaign!

[ReRe]

19. I'm going to spank you for that.

You sucked me right in. I was ready to say "Fuck Nate Silver!"

[Jamastiene]

22. I wonder if Jeb has his cousin at the ready to call it too for Faux News.

And Katherine Harris and that rag tag excuse for "protestors" (all those angry white guys they showed on MSM as protestors and were later identified as mostly Republican operatives and staffers)? Nothing like a clown show for the masses watching national news to see the outcome, as if 2016 hasn't already been decided.

[Blanks]

27. The Brooks Brothers Riot...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

[Donald Ian Rankin]

26. Surely it would be Kennedy you'd need to poll? N.T.

[Kennah]

28. You, mutha, fucka! Very well played.

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. LOL! Awesome.

I don't know if you'll take this as a compliment, but I could totally see that as a Borowitz column. Well done. Well done.

[Logical]

32. Why post this? nt

[Scuba]

34. Why not?

[spanone]

33. bwahahahhaaaa...got me