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Sherman A1

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3. I can only assume that you are watching way too much cable infotainment.
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 04:28 PM
Aug 2020

Understand that their job is not to provide news or anything that might resemble journalism. It is to fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed. In order to do that they invoke the "horse race" narrative which will have the polls they choose to show getting tighter and tighter in order to keep your eyes glued to the screen so that they can do their job which is noted above.

Best thing to do is turn off the TV and read a book or go for a walk.

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