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Rich
@Peoples_Pundit
Mar 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Anyone else notice @nytimes made a monumental mistake in their report about Samuel and Felicity Taxpayer? As it turns out (We blame Turbo Tax!), the happy couple will pay LESS in taxes (like appx. 85% of the country), due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. NOT a $3,896 tax hike. #SMH
2. @nytimes excuse for flawed & failed analysis on impact of tax reform for Samuel and Felicity Taxpayer doesn't even make sense. You can't blame @turbotax “What-If Worksheet” for NY Times not claiming earned income credit. And they're corrected analysis is still wrong...
3. Even in @nytimes corrected "analysis," which now adds earned income credit, they STILL did not give Samuel & Felicity Taxpayer $1500.00 in credits for dependents! So, they are actually paying $1543 less in taxes due to #taxcutsforamerica, or #TCJA. Very sloppy partisan report.
4. The NY Times Samuel and Felicity Taxpayer story was so wrong, is still wrong, it requires an article response.
5. Since @nytimes refuses to update their article to correctly reflect the happy hypothetical couple's tax liability, we have done it for Samuel and Felicity Taxpayer. Don't worry guys, you saved $1543.00 as a result of the #TaxCutsandJobsAct. No increase. ppdnews.us/mgJoWRp

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Oct 6, 2018
1. This is not debatable. The Kavanaugh controversy has helped Republicans. There was no downside for the GOP. They needed enthusiasm. There was no upside for the Democrats. They needed to NOT derail their enthusiasm. What the media won't tell you, is that this mistake cost...
2. What the media hasn't explained, is that this mistake cost the Democrats already. Since the Kavanaugh controversy brought home GOP and GOP-leaning indie women, at least two "battleground" states are off the map. It's Oct. 6, and there are now just 2% undecided in North Dakota.
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Oct 3, 2018
While leading 43-41 isn't being down, the @foxnewspoll is not exactly good news for Joe Donnelly, either. For several reasons. First, and foremost, he is an incumbent generally stuck in the lows 40s. Mike Braun's range is wider and higher.
Secondly, Joe Donnelly has dominated the airwaves during the last few weeks, or another way to look at it, since the last @FoxNewsPoll. And all it did was swing the margin an almost insignificant 4 points, considering the margin. Meanwhile, his support remained flat.
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"NAFTA, as an example, has been a total disaster for the U.S. and has emptied our states of our manufacturing and our jobs. Never again. Only the reverse will happen. We will keep our jobs and bring in new ones."

Candidate @realDonaldTrump, The National Press Club, D.C., 4/27/16
“My plan also includes a total renegotiation of NAFTA so our jobs can come back. And if we can't make a much, much better deal than we have right now, we will walk.”

Candidate @realDonaldTrump, The Summit Sports And Ice Complex, Dimondale, Michigan, 8/19/16
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1. Look at response rates below each race being live-polled by @Nate_Cohn and @SienaCollege. It took 22K-36K calls to get 533 responses. So, when a poll claims to have 500 from a voter file/list of 5K, they're full of $#!t. That's what I'm talking about.
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2. That said, after a few attempts, you can assign certain variables to entries on voter files, something like "high connect" if a response is > average for a house/cell. So, your files get more productive. But because it still must be random, they never get that productive.
3. How does this play out in states, for instance? Take Florida. Every pollster will be different. But @BigDataPoll, we have higher minimum response standards. For Fla., it's about 900. So, out of the gate, the "first" list, which might take two days, is at least 50K. (cont.)
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Interrupting Chairman Grassley, Senator Blumenthal called the Kavanaugh confirmation "a charade" and "a mockery" before protestor started screaming. Democrats are taking turns interrupting the chairman.
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