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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 09:14 AM) Has anyone done an analysis of the impact of GOTV efforts versus poll numbers? I'm thinking back to 2012, where Obama had a really well-run GOTV effort with significant data and tech behind it whereas the Romney campaign's Orca project was a complete disaster. This year, story after story has shown how Trump's campaign has little to no data efforts, shuttered state offices, and really no ground game to speak of in many states. Should we "expect" Clinton to overperform the polls based on GOTV disparities? http://ssir.org/increasing_voter_turnout/e..._than_you_think

It will have to be done after the fact because it will almost certainly instead be attributed to undecideds falling more to clinton than trump (or johnson).

Not difficult to follow this caulfield

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 02:01 AM) Bernie got screwed so badly the Democrats should be happy he wasn't on the attack during his speech. It's criminal what was done to him by his own party. Cruel. I have no idea why the DNC fixed it for Hillary. Every speaker at the Democratic convention gets high grades. It's the way the analysts roll. This is the time of year they amp it up to make sure Hillary wins in a landslide. OMG the reviews of her speech are going to be "Best speech ever." "Hillary Clinton is one of the finest speakers to ever grace a convention floor. What a speech! Historic (cue tears)." Did you watch her speech Greg? Tony was giving his own opinion, not regurgitating analysts. You too could watch it and form your own opinion.

He's having a great year

Saladino always has great walkup music

Bet that took a lot of effort, Law.

If we are that terrified of really talented single-A ball players we really should have a different front office.

If anyone listening can let us know that would be great.

Hue Jackson has to be pumped. Now they have 20 receivers.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 02:15 PM) Think the Mets would bite on Frazier for Conforto, or is that unrealistic? If it's Collins pulling the strings!

QUOTE (Sox Fan In Husker Land @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 01:54 PM) It's the Dodgers call. Do they want to win this year, and have another ace to go with Kershaw (who can opt out after 2018) for the future or do they try to hope to make the playoffs with their current rotation and hope Kershaw is able to pitch again this year? Here's a fun fact the Dodgers are 42-42 in games not started by Clayton Kershaw. They are 14-2 in Kershaw starts this year. They currently have a 2 game lead for the 1st WC, and a 2.5 game lead on the 2nd WC. Their current 4 man rotation is Maeda, McCarthy (coming off TJ surgery), Kazmir, and Norris. Urias, is back at AAA and on an innings limit. If they plan on making the postseason they need another quality starter point blank. Again looking at the free agent market available in the winter, there is nobody they can go out and buy remotely close to the caliber of Sale or Q for next year. If they want to win this year they better be prepared to dish out a lot of top prospects/young players for Sale or Q, and that includes Urias and De Leon. This is pitch perfect.

Tim Kaine deserves a chance to show off. He was a huge get in virginia, and was an attorney fighting against housing discrimination for 20 years. You couldn't pick a civil rights issue I think is more important than that. I love Liz Warren, but she is older and unlikely to be able to run after Clinton. She also could basically run the senate, which is way more powerful than VP (who technically does, but whatever). Kaine is not the most liberal choice ever, but at what point are things more about policy than about giving your the feels?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 10:28 AM) The price that pitchers are going for right now suggests the Sox should be able to completely stock their system in a Sale trade. No, it will be "Oh well we paid more for .5 year of a closer because it helps our flexibility. Getting 5 years of a cheap #1 starter is too expensive!"

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 10:27 AM) He's always been stateside. I thought last year was his first at Arizona?

I block images Clinton likely to nominate Julian Castro. Have to say, I don't know what the game plan is to get that guy to a senate seat, but running the DNC doesn't seem like the leg up to get there.

I was hoping this was a show me year for Micker Adolfo and boy is he not showing. He has always just been this unseen hype, he finally gets stateside and was mostly injured. Now his first full year and he's not hitting for power, obp or average. Have a hard time imagining someone can recover from a line that bad.

Considering the weird players Bean always wants that makes me nervous.

I'm surprised you aren't pissed at these emails, SS, given how much you also hated DWS. From the sounds of it, I put some of the blame on Obama as it seems DNC in both structure and leadership was lacking and a better structure existed in OFA. But yeah, I'm fine with people being pissed that the DNC had animosity with Sanders. But Sanders also spun any ruling that was not explicitly helping him as a sign of a corrupt organization. As if anything short of changing all rules to favor him was corrupt DNC. That said, weird that the CFO has basically been fine by just saying "Naw I wasn't talking about Sanders I was talking about the other possibly Atheist Jewish surrogate we cannot identify or remember".

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 10:02 AM) Trying to bring Russia into the DNC leaks is embarassing at this point. It was a last ditch effort to try and save face with no evidence of anything and even if there was, it doesn't change what was in those emails. At the time it happened it said it was by Russia, so this isn't "at this point". But, quick, go ask Manafort if Russia was involved. He'll get an honest answer from Putin.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 11:40 PM) Had an interesting conversation with cousin in Dallas today. Says the most logical way to get Mexico to help pay for the border wall would be to tax the remittances through Western Union, Pay Pal, Xoom back to their home country at 25-33%. This would push some illegal immigrants back to Mexico and/or open up more job opportunities for American unemployed workers....creating an eventual higher salary for American workers over time because of lower demand from illegal immigrants for those jobs. Just want to point out how impractical that is, the wide implications of it, and the dubious economics of that suddenly "rising" American wages. Best way to raise wages is not to decrease population. Cleveland's wages should be crazy high!

That reminds me of tweets from college recruits that are like "can't decide what I want" and people are like OH NO HES DECOMMITTING and he's talking about a drive thru.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/polit...rs-clinton.html This was best rundown of emails I found. I will say, while this shows a clear lack of control from DWS, who clearly didn't like Sanders operatives and possibly let more open s*** talking and postulating than should appear in a political operation that is not a campaign - the idea that this shows 'rigging' is pretty out there. This reminds me a hell of a lot of the leak of the CRU (Climategate), where out of thousands, a few inappropriate emails were found and claims of mass conspiracy were claimed. Think about any organization you are in and how hard it is to coordinate anything. That a few flip emails are signs of a mass conspiracy is a stretch. I'm pretty/very happy DWS is gone, she lead over two dramatic beatdowns during a mostly popular presidency But I'll give her some humanity, plus the staff. Part of the Bernie strategy was a lot of "THIS IS RIGGED, DNC IS CORRUPT". That you could get a trove of emails and find that yes, some employees took this personally is unexceptional to me. It doesn't mean you don't punish those that don't do their jobs. Part of their job was to be as neutral as possible. But there's no real clear cut sign that someone occassionally b****ing actually ever acting on it. The "Atheist" email seems like a group annoyed that Sanders was mostly treated uncritically, and if you were coordinating against him, why would you be shocked that he's being treated uncritically. But, the other side of this substance - it's possible we have Russia openly interfering with our election, and that is pretty incredible, not in the good way.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 10:02 PM) So she is staying on CNN. Alright then. You realize you said that because of the DNC dump she was ousted as DNC chair and we were on chair #3 today right?

Yeah, you know where you could have found out that news? Hillary Clinton's press release.