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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Cuomo Recants on Ivermectin
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 12:02:22 -0400
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On 6/1/2024 2:47 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2024 16:15:17 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> "Bad for Biden" is not a reason to exclude a candidate from a debate.
>>
>> Maybe not.  But "no chance of winning" is.
> 
> I dunno - George Wallace got full coverage when he ran in 1968 though
> everyone knew that even if he carried a few states in the DeepSouth
> he'd never carry America (though Newsweek magazine DID publish their
> Nixon, Humprey and Wallace covers they had made up in anticipation of
> the result (including a "Deadlock" cover and their cover for their
> International edition).
> 
> I kept that issue for a lot of years but have probably ditched it by
> now...

That example argues for a "blind" numerical threshold of support.