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I think we're saying the same thing-- that was my point too-- a lot of self-proclaimed independents aren't independents at all-- and they almost always "swing" Republican. Being outwardly independent is just their plausible deniability for answering to anything Republicans actually does. The Republican party absolutely needs these "independent" voters, and if 60% of them think the charges against Trump are legitimate, the Republican party has a major problem.

LOL, this reminds of a story from a friend-- he's of South Asian descent and happened to fly back to the US from an international trip the day the visa ban started in 2017. He gets through immigration with no issues (he's a US citizen) and when he comes out the double-doors, there are a couple hundred protesters wildly cheering every non-white person they see walk out of the customs hall.

Based on my experience, a large portion of "Independents" are people who don't want to admit they're Republican when you call out the fact that none of the Republican party's policies are conservative in nature or actually address their issues with our country. When you consider the fact that a lot "Independents," are really Republicans in hiding, that's a pretty big deal IMO. Also, 60-40 is a bigger split than every presidential election in the last 50 years. If that ends up being the boundary between Democratic votes and Republican votes amongst independent voters, that's not a good sign for Republicans.

It's funny I grew up romanticizing the 1989 team-- I literally came home from school on opening day that year, and Channel 20 was showing the Orioles instead of the Jetsons. I watched, and I kept watching after that. In hindsight, that team, was a solid above-.500 team, but they were so awesome in my memory. About halfway through the 2014 season, I realized that the 2014 is still the most magical team in my fanhood, which is weird when you're 33. This team might go beyond. 1997 was still the best team overall, but we knew they'd be good all along- there were no surprises with that team, except that they clammed up in September and couldn't get to 100 wins.

For the younger ES members out there, just remember that once you go pro, you lose your amateur status, which might affect your eligibility to have sex at the college level.

Every time I hear people rationalizing slavery with statements about free housing or getting fed, I want to ask them whether they’d agree to let themselves be kept as slaves, or let a 55-year-old Thomas Jefferson move to Paris and take their 14-year-old daughter with him.

Given how close Jerruh is to Snyder, I actually doubt that. If the NFL owners were a high school lunch room, I doubt either one of them was sitting at the cool kids’ table. Jerruh’s got his own history of sexual misconduct within the Cowboys organization too— just not as egregious as what happened in DC.

I was in college at the University of Illinois for the season the Bears played there. It was... interesting. Pros: - Being bored on a Sunday morning and grabbing a $20 ticket from a scalper 5 minutes after kickoff Cons: - Random 50-year-old men roaming campus drunk. Although I'm at an age that this could actually be me now, so maybe I should revisit. - The Bears didn't play us that year - Campus life sucked on Bears' home weekends

<while brushing off the single tear rolling down my cheek> Jerry Springer would've been proud... *sniff*

They used to only have that rule of alternating AFC/NFC opponents because it satisfied the TV contracts of CBS/Fox (i.e. they each got a game, and they got Dallas/Detroit in alternating years). The NFL has been loosening the AFC/NFC split of the contracts for a while now-- I think a 49ers-Cowboys game was on CBS in the past few years, and the announcer even made a joke about sticking around for "Murder She Wrote," after the game. That AFC/NFC split is completely gone this season-- any game can be on any network, so the NFL is no longer beholden to forcing certain matchups on Thanksgiving.

+1 on this; supposedly they were targeting a May 11 announcement, but the Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson threw everything into chaos. Now they're reworking everything to get the Jets and Ravens into more primetime games.

No matter how/when the suite revenue is booked, the problem is that even if Dan never sees the money, it indirectly props up the value of the franchise-- imagine buying a team that's projected for have $Y revenue next year versus a number less than $Y. The seller will never see that revenue but it'll encourage buyers to place more competitive bids.

Dude was driving down Clopper Road near Gaihersburg when he came up with that song. Granted- Gaithersburg and and the area around Clopper Road looked very different in 1970. Real story behind ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’; debut 50 years ago in DC club - WTOP News

I took a marketing course on research methods way back once and we learned that a significant number of people really just like to complete surveys but they don't really even pay attention to the questions. If there was a prize for completing the survey we'd all understand why this was the case, but as it turns out, this is true even if there is no incentive to take/finish the survey. In the marketing world, you combat this by throwing in some control questions that you can use later to filter out nonsense (e.g.: ask the same question twice but reword and reorder the answers to see if people are really paying attention), but in the polling world, it's not as easy to throw out nonsensical responses because you're then applying your own biases to the results. I could totally believe there are 20% of the population that didn't really understand the question, didn't pay attention to the words they were reading, or just didn't care.

During the short time I lived in Michigan (~15 years ago) I befriended a guy who worked for the Michigan GOP. He seemed like a normal decent dude from everything I knew about him. I often wonder about him when I read articles about the current Republican party in Michigan. According to LinkedIn he still works for the party.

On the Chicago radio shows this morning, this was bigger news than the results of any of the three games this weekend. No Orioles jerseys in this video thankfully.

This is right up there with that fact about Gwen Stefani being older than Ted Cruz. It turns out that being a terrible human being speeds up the aging process.

Yeah, he was definitely on his receiver. My point was that I was the only one streaming but could only do one stream, and everything about it was generally awful (the constant logins, the app UI, etc.). I'm not an advocate of the 2 stream limit, but its actually better than what DirecTV used to offer for its streaming members.