How the New York Times Turns on a Dime

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Monday September 19, 2016 · 11:15 PM PDT

2016/09/19 · 23:15

I love a good transitional sentence!

Since July we have asked more than 30,000 Americans to say exactly what it was they read, saw or heard about the two major party candidates over the past several days. The type of information getting through to Americans varies significantly depending on whether the candidate in question is Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton. Americans’ daily reports about Mr. Trump are directly tied to what he is doing and saying. If Mr. Trump talks about Muslim parents and their son who was killed in action, that’s what the public remembers. If he goes to Mexico or Louisiana, that’s what they recall reading or hearing about him. If Mr. Trump calls President Obama the founder of the Islamic State, “ISIS” moves to the top of the list of what Americans tell us they are hearing about the Republican candidate.

What Americans recall hearing about Mrs. Clinton is significantly less varied. Specifically — and to an extraordinary degree — Americans have consistently told us that they are reading and hearing about her handling of emails while she was secretary of state during President Obama’s first term. In eight of the past 10 weeks, “emails” has been the most frequently recalled word in Americans’ reports of news about Mrs. Clinton — the exceptions being the week of the Democratic convention, when emails fell to second place, and this past week when “pneumonia” and “health” eclipsed emails.

When Matt Lauer of NBC News questioned Clinton about her emails for a third of the allotted time during the commander-in-chief forum on MSNBC earlier this month, he was criticized for focusing on an irrelevant issue. But the research shows that the relevance of Mrs. Clinton’s emails is very real in the minds of average Americans.

I am not quite sure how they got from “they are reading and hearing about her handling of emails...” to “But the research shows that the relevance of Mrs. Clinton’s emails is very real in the minds of average Americans.” I thought they were just reading and hearing about the email brouhaha, I do not recall the research stating: “...the relevance…is very real...”. According to the interwebs, “Relevance is simply the noun form of the adjective ‘relevant,’ which means ‘important to the matter at hand.’” How the Times makes its transition from “reading and hearing” to “relevance...in the minds of average Americans” I am not sure. They did not ask, “How important to you are the things that you read and hear about the candidates in the task at hand (electing a president)”. Ah yes, journalism.

Electoral Doomsday Scenario

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Saturday March 19, 2016 · 2:30 PM PDT

2016/03/19 · 14:30

I am sure it has been noted before, but as my Daily Kos Search Skills are limited, and I could not find a similar note, I am posting this information.

Most important fact that needs to be remembered about how the electoral college works and if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes:

The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes (currently 270) for the office of president or of vice president is elected to that office. The Twelfth Amendment provides for what happens if the Electoral College fails to elect a president or vice president. If no candidate receives a majority for president, then the House of Representatives will select the president, with each state delegation (instead of each representative) having only one vote. If no candidate receives a majority for vice president, then the Senate will select the vice president, with each senator having one vote.

So if Mitt steps in as a third party candidate and Clinton/Sanders, Trump, and Romney split the electoral college with no majority, Mitt becomes President, and the republican candidate for Vice President takes office as well.

Now then I learned this on the web/wikipedia...so prove me wrong please.

Pete Seeger has died.

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Monday January 27, 2014 · 11:03 PM PST

2014/01/27 · 23:03

Nothing to add but many many thanks to him and his songs and his very long life. I remember a hillside folk festival somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area when I was a child in the sixties and that he was there. I can feel his voice in my mind. Something gorgeous and intelligent and delightful and truthful.
Rest in peace fine man.

BREAKING: ROV CATCHES SEA MONSTER

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Saturday November 16, 2013 · 6:00 AM PST

2013/11/16 · 06:00

In other news, Gulf Watchers veteran ROV reporter someTV comes across a fabulous video. Further reportage beyond the orange vine.

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 2:33 PM PDT

2009/03/25 · 14:33

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledges our "insatiable appetite" for illegal drugs and porous borders which allow weapons to move freely across them are responsible for rampant violence in Mexico.

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Tuesday February 17, 2009 · 12:00 PM PST

2009/02/17 · 12:00

Actually made me smile this photo album...

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 8:13 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 08:13

I live comfortably, own a home, work reasonably steady (freelance television work), have my fair share of debt (home loan, revolving credit (ick), lines of credit, one car bought on time, health insurance for a family of four (kaiser, which I like, but not at over $850 a month). On the other hand, approaching 50 I have no real retirement plan, no life insurance, in general, no plan except for the social security fund that I have been contributing to for nearly 35 years...

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Sunday September 14, 2008 · 2:50 PM PDT

2008/09/14 · 14:50

In 2006 I made several political ads that I posted to youtube in the hope of adding to the talk that is made that changes the way our political landscape is seen. Now I invite you all to take a look at my first of this campaign season.

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 9:29 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 09:29

Our dear governor from Alaska is about to get another dap from Charlie Gibson and friends, but I'm not sure if she will think its a hand shake or finishing putty. However there are some in the press with a handful of questions that seem apropos.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 12:30 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 12:30

Bumping around the web bumped into a piece that went here. There are a lot ways to go after Palin but she is not the one that needs to be vetted. It seems to me we should be vetting McCain.

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Thursday April 12, 2007 · 1:12 AM PDT

2007/04/12 · 01:12

Yes, we have made a grave and terrible mistake that cannot be quickly swept under the carpet. And if there was a carpet, would we even be willing to sit down with its merchant and haggle over tea?

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 11:49 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 23:49

My first diary Why we can't leave Iraq caused a tiny tremor among some members of the KOS community because I had the temerity to suggest that we could not leave Iraq. To this day I am not convinced we should leave at the moment, but an editorial "How to cut and run" by LT. Gen. William E. Odom (Ret.) in Wednesday's edition of the LA Times has me leaning closer to a withdrawal. Read More

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