I would have called it steel blue...for that shade the difference between grey and blue is just level of saturation.

What else would you expect. He also took war crimes prosecutions against the Bush administration off the table, in the interest of a smooth transition.

The problem is that there is no way to get the evidence unless we do a recount.

It doesn’t even take Putin. With the margins we are talking about, the election could have been flipped by simple programming errors with the tabulating machines.

The problem is that the machinery of our elections is so shoddy that we *can’t* trust the election results. We need to start paying attention to that, but as long as it is looked at as a partisan reaction we won’t ever fix anything.

Brad Friedman at the BradBlog (or his podcast at BradCast) is also very good.

Yes it was. And when those precincts adjusted those totals later, almost all of the votes that they removed were Trump votes.

Why is Michigan not in the call outs?

I have no problem with a NC governor’s race recount. But then I also think we should be recounting the President’s race.

The reason why the election is characterized as “low turnout” is because the media wants to have instant impressions about “what happened” and so insisted on comparing the number of votes counted on Election Day to the total number of votes cast in 2012...even though it took weeks to get to that vote count in 2012.…

If you’re talking about during the Democratic primaries, that was real voter suppression, and it was being carried out by Republicans in order to normalize it before the general election, not by Clinton. But I agree that it was really annoying to keep pointing it out during the primaries, trying to warn people that it…

Me too.

There’s also the Heinlein throughline.

Anything better than zero would have helped.

The thing to concentrate on in 2018 is governors. Anything we can do to have control in more states for 2020 redistricting.

Archetype is a close fit. I would say that archetype refers specifically to characters, whereas a trope could refer to character, plot, or setting.

No, I mean that if Ubisoft insiders are selling shares, that their ownership percentage is falling. You would expect that they would be fighting this by buying shares, rather than selling them.

Insiders typically have to schedule their stock trades way in advance, and there are often only a few windows during the year during which they can sell. So assuming they followed all the procedures and have their paperwork in order, they’ll be fine.

You don’t remember Hillary hitting Bernie for saying that we needed to slow down immigration because it depresses wages? He wasn’t going to talk about it during the primaries, when it hurt him, but he had both some votes and speeches on record which would have allowed him to pivot there in the general.

I don’t know if Sanders would have won the election. But I am certain that he would have won Michigan.