You were required to report 8% of total sales volume to the state, or to pay 8%? There’s a big gulf between those claims.

I don’t understand what you think needs to be cited. You are wrong about it, but error-tracking can be educational.

“Starting next year, our sailors won’t be on their knees with their hands on their heads.”

Bernie Sanders fans think that all evidence is either poorly-done on-the-fly statistical analysis or valueless? Well, I’m shocked.

Most Americans aren’t this stupid. But maybe 30 million or so are. I like to think of it as America containing roughly a population the size of Canada of people who are not in touch with reality.

I’m amazed that they’ve now realized that his brother’s legacy of idiocy and incompetence is actually a better brand than Jeb! currently has.

I’m alone way too early in an airport, and now I’m laughing loudly to myself. Congrats. You made me look crazy.

I’m 26 and could also use the translation.

My claims here are based on by-now-ancient political science, because I took enough stats to know that in some situations it’s pretty much useless and you should use other tools.

No I’m a pretty consistent user of statistical analysis. I wouldn’t have used those polls as a meaningful measure of electability. It’s also not true that I claim that “only Hillary is electable” merely that her chances of beating any given Republican candidate are much higher than Bernie’s. If he gets the nomination…

Polls a year out from the election are not a good predictor of results.

I never thought Kerry was electable, so you don’t get to lump me in that group. Hillary is fine in the general. That “baggage” only hurts her with people who listen to talk radio (who are rabid R voters in any cycle anyway), and Bernie supporters who for some reason believe the far right about this.

Actually, we also both did our math wrong. HRC did not vote for Barry Goldwater, unless you’re alleging that she committed voter fraud to do so. She was 17 at the time.

Clinton is 6 years younger than Sanders. That doesn’t always matter, but in the context of the early 60s it does. Sanders was 21 when he marched with Dr. King in 1962. Clinton was 15. Her parents were Republicans, and she had just turned 18 in time to vote for Goldwater; I know many rabid progressives, and even a…

It’s not so much just that being a mayor is so dissimilar from being President (no military control, no foreign policy, and we could go on). It’s that being mayor of a town of 40,000 people (and that’s now; I’m sure it was smaller then) is dissimilar from executive experience at all. This really isn’t that dissimilar…

I think Sanders’ problem as a political leader is deeper than not being able to turn implacable Republican stalwarts into allies. He also can’t necessarily even get Democratic politicians from red states to vote with his agenda, and even if he did, they’d lose their re-election (they might become extinct just from…

Trump has been leading in polls among Republicans for almost half a year now. It’s not unlikely that he will win. And since the entire point of this discussion is about whether Sanders *should* be the Democratic nominee, I don’t understand the point of bringing up our subjective probabilities that he wins (mine is…

Sanders has been describing himself as a “[___] socialist” for his entire political career, and he’s running for President of the United States, not of France. He’d get destroyed.

He’s been supporting various forms of equal rights since the early ‘60s (so you’re giving him too little credit), when he was in his early 20s. Hillary Clinton has also been supporting various forms of equal rights since her early 20s. So, yeah, this is 100% about the age gap, whether you like it or not.

That “longer record of support” is literally only because Sanders is older than Clinton. He also has a longer record of support of heliocentrism.