Because the support is soft! I don’t know how to explain it any more simply than I am. The data I’ve been watching for months does not show signs of solidified sorting yet.

Whether they are cowards or not, that’s the system we live in. You can demand they act the way they should until you’re blue in the face, but it’s just wasted energy. You’ve gotta plan with the hand you’re dealt.

No, it’s not, but little fluctuation in numbers over a period of time suggests he’s hit his floor. I’m not conflating the two. I haven’t seen movement on that front in awhile. Is it possible there is some when we’re closer to election day and more of the public tunes in? Definitely. But if that’s the case there’s no…

That entire fiasco was a particular display of incompetence. Google should recognize their cultural and corporate cache is at risk the more they behave like that. Sure, their bottom-line will be fine and legal action is a remote risk, but a company like Google needs their reputation as being quirky and better than…

If you make them mad today, and tomorrow, and the next day, for the next 6 months, people will just tune out. I keep using the phrase “diminishing returns” for a reason. If you want to leverage the emotional angle Democrats are absolutely right not to take their shot now, other than some vague statements of how it’s…

None of the data I’ve seen suggest there’s “a lot more room”. Views of Trump are solidified. There’s a reason he’s hit his floor of support. Impeachment on the other hand is still fluctuating.

Sexual assault by Trump has been a story since the campaign. The story that just broke popped into headlines and is already receding. If it was different enough to catch public attention I’m not seeing the evidence yet. It could pop back up, the news cycle is unpredictable, but that seems unlikely unless something new…

Emotion has already been generated on the issue. The electorate has already sorted on the issue. If you’re using this purely to generate excitement, you’re not doing it right now you’re doing it much later. The utility to do it right now, outside of symbolic moral messaging, is weak to nil. No one, out of the many…

But where is the evidence this is something that will “get bodies to the polls”? I get that people want to believe we’re good enough, as a country and as the voting public, to be motivated by awful things like this. But I’ve spent too much time looking at data and polls to believe that. The voting public is fickle,…

On the very slight chance this is a good faith comment, I explain that in another comment below. 

You’ve made multiple comments using cliched Republican or even far-right talking points. You earlier responded favorably to a racist troll while talking about how you’re a liberal.

Message discipline. The naked realpolitik reality is every second spent on one thing is a second taken from another thing. If you know this issue isn’t moving the needle, or has hit diminishing returns (it’s probably the latter here), then time spent on it has an opportunity cost. That’s particularly true for the 2020…

Dismiss the racist troll “Max Contrarian” and his far-right bullshit.

GOP base, I’m fairly certain. “Women are attacking men with false accusations” is an old hit from Fox to the sewers of the neo-Nazi forums. I can’t count how many Republican women I’ve seen say it. It’s one of those lines that has been repeated so long it’s second nature for those in the bubble to listen.

But would Democrats making an issue make them matter? The past examples don’t really give me a lot of confidence there. If Congressional Democrats and candidates hammer more on “Trump is a sexual predator” stuff will it move the needle in any appreciable way? We know there won’t be legal consequences, and I’m not…

Morally fucked up, but politically they’re probably right. The issue gets no traction, Trump voters don’t care and anti-Trump voters already know. So I’m torn here. On one hand this is awful because it does minimize the issue and the victims. On the other hand...is there any utility to spending political capital on…

You chose it because you’re a cliched far-right troll. Even you aren’t dumb enough to think that’s insightful critique are you? There are tens of thousands of your ideological kin using the same 14 year old “I’m so smart” usernames.

Note, when the spineless far-right sack of shit is incapable of making any substantive rebuttal it will often post a response like this. No doubt most of you have seen it before. It postures, pretending it’s simply too good to respond and that by insulting the spineless cunt you’ve breached the boundaries of…

*Fragile state. The former “Failed States index” changed their name precisely because of bigoted asshats like you misusing the terminology.

Fucking sockpuppets. Hey Splinter staff, please clean house. I’m begging you. We all deserve better here. I’ll click your articles a dozen times each to make up for these useless trolls.