I wrote to Isakson’s office, even though I despise him, during the fight to save net neutrality. He replied with this inane bullshit that utterly ignored the points I made.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Literally the core of Ford’s allegation is that she was assaulted at a gathering where a drunk Kavanaugh was with Mark Judge, a guy named PJ, and at least one other guy whose name she couldn’t remember. Literally the main prong of Kavanaugh’s defense was “I was never at a gathering…

Also: Ford testified that she remembers at least four people at that gathering—Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, a boy named PJ, and at least one other boy whose name she doesn’t remember. Kavanaugh’s response wasn’t to deny that a sexual assault occurred at that gathering. Instead, his response was “none of the gatherings [I…

“Racially-biased personal assumptions?” Those precinct results are how people ACTUALLY voted. Exit polls are intended to be an *estimate*, cobbled together from random samples, and we know they aren’t necessarily representative of the actual votes.

If you look at a precinct map of the 2016 election and scroll through areas that, demographically, we know are overwhelmingly African-American, it’s pretty hard to believe that he really got 8-9% of the black vote, for instance. Also unlikely that he did better than Romney among Latino voters in Arizona when…

Never cite exit polls as definitive evidence of what share of people voted for someone/something.

What the fuck? Yes, of course his sexual assault of Ford should disqualify him from the court even if it happened so long ago.

The part when he lied to Congress about the positions he holds and lied about having been a virtuous choir boy was only in the recent past, and those lies are disqualifying.

A plausible explanation? Okay. He got drunk, did bad things to her, and had no memory of it later because he was drunk at the time. And instead of considering this possibility, he’s lied about and misrepresented the type of person he was, he’s lied or remained deliberately vague about the stances he has on various…

Uh, because

But it was the support of the middle and upper-class North Carolinians—people like the man you just met—that were the decisive vote. These were the suburbanites that the DNC believed would be turned off by Drumpf’s oafish bigotry and crass idiocy. They weren’t.

It’s like our nation made a...compromise...in which he could have the presidency, but...three-fifths...of the nation will hate him. Weird.

Counterpoint: Rick Scott is *evil*. Please get all your Gillum-supporting friends to vote for Nelson. Seriously, all they have to do is check Nelson’s name on the same ballot as the one on which they check Gillum’s name!

His velocity on several passes looked alarmingly slow, too. Didn’t look like he was driving it through the air at all, but floating it. Maybe his knee was bothering him and he wasn’t planting enough?

In all seriousness, I know Clinton’s loss was due primarily to NEPA flipping hard against her and getting crushed in Pennsyltucky. But, I mean, she did do better in the Philly suburbs than Obama had done four years ago, while doing worse in Philadelphia itself than 2012 Obama. What were the projections? 

Given the bodily girth of the typical Eagles fan, I understand that having trouble moving isn’t uncommon among that fanbase.

Holy shit, they actually managed to find six of the most insufferable people on Earth and cram them into one room.

Jesus, can Eagles fans read? Do they spell out their team name in that stupid omnipresent chant because it’s the only word they know how to spell? I said that it slid redder by 17,000 votes, which it did—Hillary carried the city by about 475,000 votes, while Obama had carried it in 2012 by 492,000 votes. Obviously I’m…

Okay, David Booth.

Which has nothing to do with the city of Philadelphia, which I clearly specified in my post, but thank you.