tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494384.post6548493469841145076..comments2024-03-04T04:09:01.839-06:00Comments on And Doctor Biobrain's Response Is...: Norris-Huckabee 2008Doctor Biobrainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641661532899934766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494384.post-57065389358020532192007-11-20T21:22:00.000-06:002007-11-20T21:22:00.000-06:00Ah, I think I get it --It strikes me that Paul's s...Ah, I think I get it --<BR/><BR/>It strikes me that Paul's supporters misunderstand just how much expectations predetermine performance; I can't see any other rationale for flooding online polls to generate numbers that aren't just distorted but patently ridiculous.<BR/><BR/>I mean, at the end of the day, if every online poll in the world says that 90% of the electorate supports Paul, and 3% actually vote for him, Paul gets 3% of the vote and loses. If the media anoints him as a top-tier candidate but he has the support base of a third-tier candidate, Paul loses. You win by getting votes, not by arguing on blogs.<BR/><BR/>Even more bizarre is that these weird screeds <I>don't make a consistent differentiation between public perceptions, shaping of public perceptions, actual results, or indeed reality at all</I>.<BR/><BR/>The only explanation I've come up with is that the whole Paul weirdness is a result of a collective <I>reductio ad absurdum</I> of the Dean internet hype ("Dean is using the internet in novel ways to generate grassroots something something" etc.) -- but in this case, the "online movement" isn't a driver of the candidacy, it <I>is</I> the candidacy. It's a simulacra campaign.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15572454480940962027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494384.post-90689117873985229052007-11-20T20:21:00.000-06:002007-11-20T20:21:00.000-06:00one Paul supporter, who seems to think it's a medi...<I>one Paul supporter, who seems to think it's a media conspiracy that got Dean labeled a "front-runner," while Paul continues to be ignored. Somehow, he fails to appreciate that the reason Dean was labeled a "front-runner" was because he was</I><BR/><BR/>This baffles me. Even if there was a "media conspiracy" to name Dean the front-runner, <B>it obviously didn't work</B>. Wahhhhh, they're not artificially inflating our numbers and creating false expectations!Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15572454480940962027noreply@blogger.com