Curmudgeon's Corner

2016-11-11: Under the Thumb

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Recorded 2016-11-11
Length this week - 2:24:32
  • (0:00:10-1:05:00) Polling Post Mortem
    • Surprise!
    • Darryl's Final Projections
    • Suspicious Polls
    • Where polls went wrong
    • Sources of poll uncertainty
    • Last minute Trump surge?
    • Actually very very close
    • National polls
    • Sam's post mortem
    • Problems with the odds
    • Turnout
    • (1:06:10-2:24:12) The Aftermath
      • Our reactions
      • Reactions from the right
      • Trump's appeal to the white working class
      • Clinton's weaknesses
      • Republican Obstruction strategy
      • Would Sanders have won?
      • Should Democrats obstruct?
      • The Republican agenda
      • Anti-Trump protests
      • Which Trump do we get?
      • Future of the parties
      • Bold Predictions
      • Calling Trump voters racist
      • Radicalization
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        Our outro is "Celestial Soda Pop" (Amazon MP3 link)
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