Remember how data science convinced many key decision makers that campaigning against “the world-historical corruption of our opponent” would be an unsound political strategy?
Here’s my global pre-bedtime take: I still think Biden is favored to win. But this is a really shitty outcome against the most corrupt president in U.S. history, who presided over hundreds of thousands of unnecessary American deaths.
I’m less mad about any polling error than I am about a) the baleful effect pseudoscientific models have on voter behavior and b) two years of Dem decision-making on the basis of data pseudoscience that, among other things, convinced them “running against corruption” is bad.
Opposition parties shouldn’t need data science to make that call. People hate corruption because it’s awful; when we see it in our lives it makes us violently angry. Which Trump corruption scandal can you think of that Dems ran on more aggressively than the fake Hunter scandal?
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