Nicole
Mom, Crooks and Liars Emeritus, Freelance Editor, Austen Fanatic, Unapologetic Liberal (she/her) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
Aug 21, 2021 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 3 min read
Nov 6, 2020 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 2 min read
I've been a broken record about this, but I'm seeing WAY TOO MANY (mostly white male) Dems wailing and gnashing, "How did the pollsters get it so wrong this year???" I'm going to respectfully suggest that they need to take an epistemological step back from that assumption.

Pollsters got it right in 2012, 2014, and 2018.

They didn't get it right in 2016, and 2020.

What's the commonality? Trump was on the ballot.
Apr 23, 2019 β€’ 25 tweets β€’ 4 min read
THIS.

Okay, buckle up for a thread: I want all of you screaming "IMPEACH THE M-Fer!!!" to game this out.

Seriously, don't do the progressive magical unicorn thing where we don't calculate environmental conditions, assume things happen because we want them to and then VOILA! Progressive utopia. It never works.
Sep 21, 2018 β€’ 19 tweets β€’ 4 min read
THEY ALL KNEW.

And @OrrinHatch staff coordinated with Ed Whelan to find another way to discredit Dr. Blasey Ford. It wasn't their first attempt. They had to figure out a way to discredit her without saying she was a liar and repeating the whole Anita Hill debacle.

So the first defense was the "recovered memories are faulty". They sent Linda Chavez out to @chrislhayes show to float it. Ed Whelan tweeted it (now deleted)