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JonAndKatePlusABird

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Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #11)

Tue Jan 2, 2024, 09:36 AM

Jan 2024

Well stated. We might as well ask “what if 9/11 didn’t happen?” or “what if Jim Comey’s Aunt Meryl got horribly sick 3 weeks before the election and he was too distracted to give press conferences?”

While I’m all for reflection and lessons learned, time marches forward whether we like it or not.

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ChatGPT: What if John Kerry won the 2004 election? [View all] Polybius Dec 2023 OP

He did Botany Dec 2023 #1

Funny thing is, if he did win Ohio, then he would have lost the Popular Vote and won the EV Polybius Jan 2024 #5

Rove and company had the popular vote "handled" Botany Jan 2024 #7

I get that Ohio might have been manipulated Polybius Jan 2024 #9

I'l just go back to 2016... WarGamer Dec 2023 #2

I go back to Bush V Gore. Initech Jan 2024 #18

Sorry, I just find those answers formulaic. bluesbassman Dec 2023 #3

Yes, there is a lot of Disaffected Dec 2023 #4

Totally Agree ProfessorGAC Jan 2024 #6

It's just a flawed LLM following algorithms and not doing anything resembling real analysis. And it can highplainsdem Jan 2024 #8

I think I failed in my OP Polybius Jan 2024 #10

Understood ProfessorGAC Jan 2024 #11

Yes, but CTyankee Jan 2024 #14

+1 JonAndKatePlusABird Jan 2024 #24

Well, we wouldn't have had Alito so that's one huge plus. Elessar Zappa Jan 2024 #12

Even 2008 is uncertain Polybius Jan 2024 #15

It's tough to say. Elessar Zappa Jan 2024 #20

I remember how strongly I felt on Election Day. Everything I believed in was coming true! All my anti Vietnam War work CTyankee Jan 2024 #13

What were the polls saying the week of the election? Polybius Jan 2024 #16

I don't remember the polls but I was younger and more optimistic then than I am now. CTyankee Jan 2024 #17

Between Clinton and Trump? Dave says Jan 2024 #19

No, the 2004 polls Polybius Jan 2024 #21

2004 was the last time Republicans won a presidential plurality Bucky Jan 2024 #22

Kerry would have been a one-term president. MyNameIsJonas Jan 2024 #23