2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It really pisses me off that Bernie [View all]ancianita
(36,352 posts)woman" wing, alone, could never have attracted, and probably still doesn't care about.
Polls are pulses. Trends are as reflective of combined media and audience as of polls, and thus more or less credible.
Of course it's possible that you're more knowledgeable statistically, I don't know you. Anything can possibly be true of anyone around here.
I myself took stats in grad school forty years ago, used them in a Master's thesis, etc., etc., had to apply them with some regularity on my job. One thing this primary is showing by numbers, is that we don't yet have a handle on the General. Nor should we, given how competing kingmaker entities crush democratic efforts.
That said, even as media amplify every fart of a strong man fascist, or black out every speech of a committed democratic socialist, your attempt here to judge anyone's mention of history or numbers in the context of the presumptuous nyah nyah crowd is weirdly friendly.
If you think Hillers have a better corner on statistical knowledge than Berners, after they've quoted popularity votes, as if primary votes and caucus numbers reflect equal meaning, then it's equally possible that your Hillers need attention.
The machinery bought, paid for and programmed really are the story of the end of democracy that Powell, in his famous memo, said we had too much of.
Here's some numbers from all that machinery.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6mLpCEIGEYGYl9RZWFRcmpsZk0/view?pref=2&pli=1