Win or lose they'll double down. Anything to prevent introspection.

I don't know about 'solidly leading'. Trusting polls at this point is risky at best.

^^^^^

I think you guys are making excuses and living in a bubble.

But it doesn't really matter for the conversation.

>polls were wrong for Hillary
>but we need to trust the polls

I think the "blue wave" is going to be underwhelming at best

And if they do manage to gain ground they'll just be giving the Trump admin excuses

I'm definitely in a bubble. I just got burned really badly in 2016 by believing the polls and convincing myself that we were facing eminent civil war.

So I'm not going to ruin my state of mind this time.

I don't feel like fighting this again. You two can keep your heads in the mud for all I care.

But it's likely that this recent ban might actually be because Twitter expected worse than they got.

And the Dems clearly are providing cover.

That seems reasonable.

I'm not seeing enough of a change in contributing factors so far, but I'm not opposed to being wrong

>if you don't agree with me you're blind
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I think the Repubs in the hearing were scared of social media giant's influence.

I'm just looking at the actual numbers.

So they softballed them. Or maybe they're just out-of-touch.

That's highly plausible. I think it's both.

I think you're looking at the same narrow polling as last time

The one guy who has attacked them is Cruz and look and behold, he's struggling in what should be a safe seat.

We might already be living in the oligarchy of propaganda and not even notice it.

I'm actually really bothered by Cruz. If he loses, the social media giants will take it as a blank slate to go way off the far end.

Also pratel, you're in academia right? Maybe being immersed in all that concentrated leftism is making you more pessimistic.

Yeah I am actually a little concerned about the Zodiac Killer

Reddit in particular, hates him with a passion.

Cruz is suffering because of residual damage from the thrashing Trump gave him in 2016.

Reddit wouldn't survive the media purge tbh

I don't think that's it.

No I mean the lefty one

I think it's more the fact the Democrats are targeting his seat with all their money and influence.

They think they're safer than they are

Well, from what I've read from Texans on gun forums they lost a lot of respect for him at the end of the campaign.

Perhaps. But are they still planning to vote for him?

I wouldn't exactly call Beto gun-friendly.

And that vote is what matters at the end of the day.

@Beemann I think it's already undergone that purge and has been growing.

If they aren't enthusiastic about voting for him, and think he's going to win anyway because it's Texas, then they might stay home assuming the seat is safe.

Which is how you lose.

But the reason they're not enthusiastic about voting for him has nothing to do with Beto spamming ads.