State polling analysis: Comey flipped the election from Clinton to Trump

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 2:03 PM PST

2016/11/09 · 14:03

Let’s compare 538.com state polling averages for a number of key states on October 28th (the day of the Comey press conference) and November 7th (just prior to the election) to test the hypothesis that the Comey press conference threw the election to Trump.

State	PRE-COMEY (OCT. 28)	POST COMEY (NOV. 7)	Change	FINAL MARGIN	# ELECTORAL VOTES
FL	+2.3%	+0.6%	-1.7%	-1.3%	29
MI	+6.5%	+4.2%	-2.3%	-0.3%	16
PA	+6.1%	+3.7%	-2.4%	-1.2%	20
WI	+6.3%	+5.3%	-1.0%	-1.0%	10

It appears that Comey cost us at least FL, MI, and PA (65 Electoral votes) and WI would have been a tossup.

We would be looking at a 307-231 Clinton victory rather than a 306-232 Trump win.

While there may have been other factors in play, this basic analysis supports the hypothesis that James Comey’s decision to politicize the FBI 11 days before the election flipped the final result of the election from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump.

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Tuesday November 01, 2016 · 10:18 PM PDT

2016/11/01 · 22:18

I lurk often here but haven’t commented regularly for years and haven’t seen this posted here yet.

Anyhow, it looks like Donald had a change of heart since 2008 as he is positively gushing about Hillary Clinton in this video. It would be funny to see this go viral. If you have Republican relatives please feel free to share this with them, if only to see what kind of reaction you get...

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 5:55 PM PDT

2010/08/26 · 17:55

Some good news for a change:

More major U.S. corporations join boycott of Alberta oil sands fuels

EDMONTON - Another four major U.S. companies are joining the move to either avoid or completely boycott fuel produced from Alberta's oilsands.

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Thursday May 20, 2010 · 9:00 PM PDT

2010/05/20 · 21:00

Crossposted at Earth Alternatives

I'll go out on a limb here and ask you to recommend this diary, since it took 16 hours for me to research and format. I posted it earlier today and it was well-received, but it scrolled off the diary list fairly quickly and did not quite get the visibility I was hoping for.

I have scoured the MMS website for publicly available information about offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and what follows is the fruit of my labor, provided to you, dear Kossacks, as a public service. So without further ado, here we go...

Offshore Continental Shelf Spill Incidents ≥ 50 Barrels in the Gulf of Mexico that were reported from 1964-2009:

Note the spike in spills during Bush's presidency.

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Tuesday May 18, 2010 · 2:25 AM PDT

2010/05/18 · 02:25

Tar balls are landing in Key West.

Oil Spill: Tar balls reported on Key West shores

Key West, Florida -- About 20 tar balls have washed ashore in Key West, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday night.

They ranged in size from about three inches to about 8 inches.

They were found on beaches of the Fort Zachary Taylor and the adjacent Navy beach at Truman Annex.

The Coast Guard said they were recovered at a rate of about three tar balls an hour throughout the day. The heaviest concentration was found at high tide, shortly after noon.

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Saturday May 08, 2010 · 5:54 PM PDT

2010/05/08 · 17:54

It certainly looks that way, and no one in the traditional media has said a word about it.

First, have a look at section 7.1 of the Initial Exploration Plan Mississippi Canyon Block 252 for lease OCS-G 32306 (heavy PDF), submitted by BP Exploration and Production Inc. to the government's Mineral Management Service:

162,000 is the number of barrels of oil per day that BP stated could result from an uncontrolled blowout.

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Friday April 16, 2010 · 7:37 PM PDT

2010/04/16 · 19:37

Our oceans are in a sorry state, and they just can't seem to catch a break. Floating pieces of plastic, some of them large, others just specks or chunks the size of an eraser, have been accumulating in ocean currents referred to as gyres for many years. Because plastic takes so long to photodegrade, it stays in the environment for long periods of time. The plastic is often eaten by birds or fed to chicks at breeding grounds, and the results are devastating.

The problem of floating plastic garbage first became known in the Pacific Ocean, and the "Pacific garbage patch" has gained notoriety in recent years. Unfortunately, researchers have now discovered an "Atlantic garbage patch."

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Wednesday January 13, 2010 · 12:58 PM PST

2010/01/13 · 12:58

From the Telegraph in the UK:

The presidential palace, Haiti's grandest building, was substantially destroyed and its incumbent, Rene Preval, described the scene in his capital as "unimaginable".

His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, said the government believed the death toll in the city of two million people was "well over 100,000" while Youri Latortue, a senior senator, said it could be 500,000.

Both admitted they had no way of knowing but aid workers on the scene reported widespread destruction and suffering as severely injured people lay in the streets, unable to get medical assistance.

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 11:13 AM PST

2009/12/22 · 11:13

This is a new concept I had, so let's give it a go. Maybe I'll do this weekly if my fellow environmentalists here think it is important to keep some of these stories in the spotlight.

Our lead story:

California county considers toxic waste dump expansion

Officials overseeing a tiny farming community in central California are expected to make a decision Tuesday on the proposed expansion of the largest toxic waste dump in the West amid growing concerns about a spike in the town's number of birth defects...

Of 20 children known born in Kettleman City between September 2007 and November 2008, five had a cleft in their palate or lips, according to a health survey by activists. Three of those children have since died. Statewide, clefts of the lip or palate routinely occur in fewer than one in 800 births, according to California health statistics.

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 10:21 AM PST

2009/12/15 · 10:21

Hello? Harry Reid? Rahm Emmanuel? Barack Obama?

I won't flatter myself into thinking that you're actually reading this, but your messaging is tone-deaf and you appear to have all the instincts of political ostriches these days, so somebody has to lay it out in clear language.

I'll be blunt. I couldn't give half a crap about your 60th vote. I care about 50-50 plus Joe Biden, if that's what it takes to get decent legislation passed. If Republicans and conservative Democrats want to filibuster good healthcare legislation, so be it. Let them explain themselves to the American people.

Let them explain why a public option that works for veterans and people over 65 can't work for everybody else.

Let them explain why all those people between 55 and 64 years old just saw the door slam shut thanks to one Senator from Connecticut.

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 5:51 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 17:51

The production of crude oil from Canada's tar sands is arguably the dirtiest business in the world. While most people have heard of Canada's tar sands, what I hope to accomplish with this diary is to explain some of the lesser-known aspects of producing crude oil from bitumen. I will address how massive inputs of natural gas and water are required to extract bitumen and explain why even more natural gas is then needed to synthesize crude oil that can be transported via pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to refineries in the United States. I would then like to address several historical facts, current environmental realities, and political challenges associated with the present policy of laissez-faire economic development of the Canadian tar sands embraced by Stephen Harper's minority government.

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Friday June 05, 2009 · 5:31 PM PDT

2009/06/05 · 17:31

This will be a short diary, but I figured I'd give everyone a brief heads-up. In response to Jill Richardson's rec list diary yesterday entitled Monsanto Gives New Movie "Food Inc" Two Thumbs Down, Monsanto felt compelled to create a UID named Monsanto Company and posted a comment in her diary.

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