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Re:Facebook Must Really Suck At Machine Learning by sndean on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:10PM (#12991385)
> instead she delivered the worst Democratic performance in 20 years.

Elections don't happen that often... so it's just a comparison against fellow losers Gore and Kerry.

And Kerry lost by both the popular vote and the electoral vote.

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Re:Facebook Must Really Suck At Machine Learning by rdtsc on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:57PM (#12991565)
Bill Clinton and Obama, they had a better numbers. Dukakis only was worst and was early 90 or so. And that is despite her having such a well funded campaign.
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Re:Facebook Must Really Suck At Machine Learning by hga on Saturday November 19, 2016 @07:12AM (#12993133)
And anyone who knew Dukakis and Flyover country, as I did having been raised in the latter and then moving to Massachusetts for college in 1979, knew it was very likely Dukakis was going to lose.

Oh, wow, here's a Wikipedia article worth looking at, "Historical polling for U.S. Presidential elections": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_polling_for_U.S._Pr...

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