Speaking as a Wisconsinite, Bernie was more likely to sway Wisconsinites to Hillary than Hillary herself would, and we got him a handful of times in the final few weeks (along with Tim Kaine, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren). In terms of campaigning, they played it correctly there.

Well, they’re about to learn.

The polls were off by an average of 2.3 points, and in some states as many as seven. Trump’s internal polling did not show him winning. Clinton’s did not show Trump winning, either.

Never forget where you were on the day that the first shots were fired in the Great Deadspin-Jezebel War of 2016.

All of those things help, but they’re still going to miss stuff that references things obliquely rather than using the flagged words. For example, one problem that cropped up during the original investigation is that state department employees in Afghanistan were trying to communicate re: drone strikes. The government…

Well, reading the emails wasn’t the problem. Analyzing them was. They were looking for the possibility of Clinton or someone else in her orbit passing on classified information, so any potentially troublesome email had to be analyzed for what was classified when, etc. And the government definition of classified is extr…

Not defending Comey here, because his decision was dumb, but realistically they had no idea that the investigation was going to finish up this quickly. It only did because almost all of the emails were duplicates of the ones they already had. Last week they were saying there was “no way” the investigation would be…

In theory FBI terms are ten years, but in reality they don’t ever really work out exactly like that. Clinton won’t fire the guy because the bad optics wouldn’t be worth it—but Obama could, or more likely, either Clinton or Obama could either sweet-talk him into resigning or make his life miserable enough that he’d…

Early voting is relatively new, so we don’t have any accurate way to predict how many people are going to do it this year.

How the fuck did we get to a place as a society where the Starbucks holiday cup reveal is a hotly anticipated leak?

Remember when Sarandon stumped for Nader in 2000, then regretted it so hard that she went out campaigning for Kerry in 2004 because we couldn’t afford four more years of Bush for any reason? Apparently neither does she, because she’s about to pull the exact same stunt (only this time with added threat of nuclear war…

Sorority membership is at the top of a boom cycle right now, and you don’t want to build too big because inevitably we’ll hit a point where membership drops again. (Sororities at Bama 15 years ago were almost half the size they are today; they will be again at some point.) Plus, realistically, most members only want…

The most recent high-profile UW-Madison rape case was a Football Recruit with a Bright Future Ahead of Him, and the jury decided to convict him even without video evidence or a written confession, so I’m tentatively optimistic.

Yeah, I’m watching the show on Netflix now and it’s simultaneously addictive and yet . . . really bad? I cut it some slack because it was obviously made in a pre-Netflix world and is not designed for binge-watching—but when you watch episodes in quick succession it becomes pretty clear that the main characters are…

Also, “NBA player Jrue Holiday” is a terrible name for a baby.

They do have fact-checkers. (Prior to this particular article, they were notorious for having some of the most stringent in the business, I think.) RS decided to deviate from protocol for this particular article because it was about rape and they didn’t want their reporting process to unduly traumatize the alleged…

She has been outed many, many places—her identity is not exactly a secret at this point.

I have no doubt that the majority of opposition to this bill is real, but I have an acquaintance who has done porn in California and said that there are actually plenty of (usually less famous/unknown/less frequently working) actors who support mandatory condoms, but feel like they can’t come out in favor of it…

Oh, I don’t blame her for not naming names. But I don’t think that not naming names is going to protect her from the consequences of saying this in any way. She’ll still be iced out by the Weinsteins, everyone who works with them, and everyone who wants to work with them just for saying this much.

But that’s the weird part—what she’s doing here seems to have all the negatives of actually naming names (she’s still going to lose parts etc.) with none of the benefits (that is, actually making the general public aware of who she’s talking about). Anybody who’s an abuser or siding with an abuser is already going to…