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Re:The Facebook bubble just popped by DubiousPusher on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:23PM (#12922284)
Donald Trump barely won. They regularly gave him a %25+ chance of winning and regularly pointed out that that was a good chance.
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Re:The Facebook bubble just popped by pfortuny on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:32PM (#12922371)
The thing is, these surprising results tend to happen the first (and only) time... which is rather unforgiving with the percentages.
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Re:The Facebook bubble just popped by AznHisoka on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:34PM (#12922402)
he won 2 extra states he had no business winning. thats not barely winning.
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Re:The Facebook bubble just popped by DubiousPusher on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:38PM (#12922442)
In Michigan, a state where 41/2 million votes were cast, he won by ~10,000 votes. That's nearly the definition of barely winning.
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Re:The Facebook bubble just popped by rokosbasilisk on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:15PM (#12923280)
except he did it multiple times in the rust belt.
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