Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid...
by selllikesybok on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:51AM
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What, do we use the Electoral Popularity College now, too?
And Trump actually got amazing positive opinion polling 6 months ago. Now that it's not in his favor, though, ignore?
And you can absolutely win an election with both minority vote share and a lack of popularity.
Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid...
by Chris2048 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:33AM
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> Now that it's not in his favor, though, ignore?
I've never payed attention to them. They seem to be used more for the political purpose of manipulation, than for producing an innocent, yet unnecessary, prediction of results
> And you can absolutely win an election with both minority vote share and a lack of popularity.
No, you still need a certain amount of voter popularity, with the right distribution; unless you are talking about something else.
Maybe if it mattered he would have campaigned differently. You can't judge on a metric that isn't the target.
> His disapproval rating
opinion polls?
> I can't find any evidence that there is some silent majority supporting him
He won the election...