"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Why Social Media Analysts Missed Trump Election Victory
I live in semi-rural Michigan and I noticed about six weeks ago a sudden and massive increase in Trump yard signs around here, many of them homemade. In the metro-Detroit area, same thing, only the signs were official GOP distributions. Clinton stuff tended to be paid commercial media like billboards, signs on buses, and such. Then, when Obama, and both Bill and Hilary Clinton all ended their campaigning in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Flint on election eve, I knew an upset in this very blue state was possible, maybe even likely. You could feel something was different
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