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Question: What is the most time-honored Atlas election-year tradition?
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Unskewing polls		  
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Dismissing polls we don't like as "junk polls"		  
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MUH BLUE WALL		  
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Freaking out about polls months before an election		  
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Underestimating Trump		  
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Overestimating Clinton		  
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True Leftists saying Trump is better than Clinton		  
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Worshiping/Hating on Nate Silver		  
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Laughing about Clinton email issues		  
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Running for the Libertarian nomination		  
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« on: May 31, 2016, 04:48:20 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2016, 04:50:31 PM »
A combination of 1 and 2
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2016, 04:54:26 PM »
Junk poll!
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2016, 04:56:33 PM »
How is the Trump/Clinton specific stuff a tradition?
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2016, 04:57:27 PM »
Quote from: CrabCake on May 31, 2016, 04:56:33 PM
How is the Trump/Clinton specific stuff a tradition?
The beginning of an era, I presume.

EDIT: First four.
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2016, 05:04:09 PM »
And a lot of these are fairly standard to activists. Atlas specific ones might include:

- randomly focusing on one state's mysteriously projected 'trend'
- ridiculously fierce wars over bellwether counties
- harebrained theories and truisms
- but what if complete nonentities were given the vp?
- deciding that Atlas is overenthuastic about one argument, so immediately rushing to the other extreme
- Talleyrand coming in to say that whatever he wants to happen, the absolute opposite will occur.
- utterly deranged historical parallels

And the most important tradition of all

- the servers break down on election night
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2016, 05:07:40 PM »
1, 2, and 4.
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2016, 05:10:15 PM »
the last one
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2016, 05:11:15 PM »
Let's unskew this poll!
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« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2016, 06:05:07 PM »
Hillary will win Utah has to be meme of the year.
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« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2016, 06:08:38 PM »
Write-in: Election year trolls like AmericanNation and other horribles sharing their misery with us for ten months only to mysteriously vanish the day after the election
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« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2016, 06:13:37 PM »
I will now accept my accolades
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« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2016, 07:08:45 PM »

Came here to say this. Someone brings it up every election.
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« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2016, 07:15:12 PM »
"What if [random congresscritter] is chosen as a running-mate?"
"What if [random politician] runs third party?"
"What if [random safe state] flips?"
"Would [politician from said safe state] being on the ticket flip their home state?"

Also, options 1 and 2. I saw some people who had been dismissing Reuters as junk this entire primary season suddenly treating their Clinton +11 poll as the gospel truth.
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« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2016, 07:34:11 PM »
Quote from: IDS Ex-Speaker Ben Kenobi on May 31, 2016, 06:05:07 PM
Hillary will win Utah has to be meme of the year.

Forget that; Trump is making a play for New York and California!  Trickle down EVs!
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« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2016, 07:46:45 PM »
Quote from: Ebowed on May 31, 2016, 07:34:11 PM
Quote from: IDS Ex-Speaker Ben Kenobi on May 31, 2016, 06:05:07 PM
Hillary will win Utah has to be meme of the year.

Forget that; Trump is making a play for New York and California!  Trickle down EVs!

Don't dismiss the importance of mega coattails:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=162860.0
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« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2016, 07:55:25 PM »
Ironic support (for people like GARY JOHNSON) is the best Atlas tradition out there.
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« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2016, 08:07:31 PM »
Congrats, Phil
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« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2016, 10:35:30 PM »

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« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2016, 10:41:03 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Morden on May 31, 2016, 07:46:45 PM
Quote from: Ebowed on May 31, 2016, 07:34:11 PM
Quote from: IDS Ex-Speaker Ben Kenobi on May 31, 2016, 06:05:07 PM
Hillary will win Utah has to be meme of the year.

Forget that; Trump is making a play for New York and California!  Trickle down EVs!

Don't dismiss the importance of mega coattails:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=162860.0


roflmao, easily the best thread in Atlas history
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« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2016, 10:59:18 PM »
"Junk poll!" was basically a 2014 meme, though, and it hasn't reached anywhere near the same level this time around. Unskewing polls has always and will always be around, though. That.


This is the most time-honored Atlas-specific tradition, probably.
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« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2016, 04:04:00 AM »

There's a curious Atlas breed of them though. I can't say exactly what makes our pseudopsephological garbage smell nicer though.
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