2020 US Election (Part Two)

[Edmund Ironside]

Does that factor in the fact that Democrats usually need a significant lead just to get close to a tie?

I wouldn't say a Dem has a fair shot at winning unless they were several points ahead. A dead heat equals a Republican advantage.

Maybe this is referencing that the Democrats did better than the polls predicted in the southwest in 2016. So if this trend continued, then the polls being a dead heat in Texas would be good news for a Democrat win in the state (as there was a 3% swing to the Democrats in Texas in 2016). In the same way that dead heats according to the polls in Ohio & Iowa (as there is currently), would likely still suggest a Trump win. Then again pollsters claim to have fixed the issues from 2016, so who knows. On the national level, yes, Biden will need to be up several percent to win, as has been shown multiple times in the past, a Democratic candidate winning the popular vote may not cut the mustard!

Using my highly scientific straw polling of rural, western PA yard signs I'd say Trump is drawing dead here.

Fingers crossed Biden can win in PA. Otherwise will likely need to win in Florida, and you never want to rely on Florida in a presidential elections, particularly not with the supreme courts the way they currently are!

I haven't seen many signs in West Michigan. In Grand Rapids there are slightly more Biden signs, and outside of it, slightly more Trump signs (so no change there from last time). I feel like there are less signs then in 2016, but that may be just due to the pandemic reducing events where signs are given out, rather then a decrease in enthusiasm. I've seen people point to the massive crowds that Trump drew in West Michigan when he visited recently, as well as some massive long Trump car rallies that have been held, as evidence that Trump may win in Michigan. However the west of Michigan is always going to vote heavily for the Republican candidate, but if the east side of the state comes out in force then that doesn't really matter. Since 2000 Republican presidential candidates in Michigan always gets around 2.2 million votes, what fluctuates is how many people turn out to vote for the Democrat candidate.

my midwestern family (Ohio) won't have anything to do with Indian food. I used to have a roommate from Ohio and anytime we would invite him out to go eat Indian or Thai or anything other than Americana, he'd say "Guys I'm from Ohio man... I like meat and potatoes, just plain meat and potatoes, that's it."

Me & my wife cooked her parents first a traditional Indian meal, and then a traditional English meal, they much preferred the latter! In fairness traditional Midwest food is much closer to the latter then the former.

 

[Sommerswerd]

A full English breakfast is wonderful.

This I will give you. Over-easy/Sunny-side-up eggs and baked beans were made for each other. Add some nice brats, hashbrowns, and tomato slices. Yeah, that's good eatin'

 

[AdrienIer]

I just like food.

You criticised french food, so you obviously don't.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Me & my wife cooked her parents first a traditional Indian meal, and then a traditional English meal, they much preferred the latter! In fairness traditional Midwest food is much closer to the latter then the former.

Well a traditional indian meal has no meat, so that's harder to pull off. Also, if the people you're cooking for don't care for spicy food, then the Indian meal is at a disadvantage.

 

[Farm Boy]

You criticised french food, so you obviously don't.

Shots fired!

 

[Sommerswerd]

You criticised french food, so you obviously don't.

Yep there you go, like I said.

"It insists upon itself."​

thanks for proving my point ​

And I said....

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Its good,sure, but to quote Peter Griffin...

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We were debating which foods were our favorites, that we'd want to eat everyday for the rest of our lives. Just because I didn't rank vive la France #1 doesn't mean I don't like it. Jeez... You French are almost as bad as us Muricans… almost.​

 

[Farm Boy]

Peas in a pod.

 

[Sommerswerd]

What France does about food, America does about everything.

 

[H4run]

This conversation remind me of something, just today, my wife gave me cookies dough or something along that name, she made it by herself.

I never fancy anything as much as I fancy heavy main-food-I am but a simple man, but that cookies dough, that taste of butter, chocolates, salt and other amazing thing that I cannot comprehend and analyze, it makes that cookie dough a piece of art in my mouth.

Now I'm sitting here in front of my laptop, 4 am, thinking about that cookies dough, I cannot wait until morning come and to try to eat it before I go to work.

 

[AdrienIer]

Not putting french food among the best foods in the world is blasphemous. I will never claim it is THE n°1.

 

[Sommerswerd]

"It insists upon itself"

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, it is an exceptional cuisine!

Man I could go for some fresh peas. Like 8 months on the garden being ready with them, I suppose.

I think you could pull off cookie dough, H. I can't cook for a damn, but cookies, now those I can bake. Sugar/egg/butter/flour, additionals to taste. I like raisins and oatmeal, but chocolate is the classic. If you like Thai, peanut butter cookies, maybe?

 

[innonimatu]

and this guy is literally the great filter in my mind. the dust that only can be witness to its own demise.

I didn't get that. But anyway what I was saying is that the strategy for democracy to win is going smaller.

 

[H4run]

Well, it is an exceptional cuisine!

Man I could go for some fresh peas. Like 8 months on the garden being ready with them, I suppose.

I think you could pull off cookie dough, H. I can't cook for a damn, but cookies, now those I can bake. Sugar/egg/butter/flour, additionals to taste. I like raisins and oatmeal, but chocolate is the classic. If you like Thai, peanut butter cookies, maybe?

We don't really have a bake culture in Indonesia hence people are rarely own an oven, because we naturally don't need it. Of course we eat cookies, bread and cakes but we buy them, we don't make them usually.

I got an aunt who have/had an oven but that's because she's half Dutch. While in Turkey culturally people used oven a lot, not only to bake cookies but also to cook. My wife made everything from home: from bread, cookies, cake, even gems you name it, she even made her own yoghurt, she's able to make her own mayo if she wanted to. While my cooking ability compare to her is quite primitive (while my baking ability is minus), I'm only a mere food appreciator, I tried to cook but I got no talent, I can only cook egg and instant noodle, and I can boil water also.

So for me, an oven is like an alien, a complex machine sitting elegantly on my kitchen, like it's strange for a house-hold to have that yet we have it. It's out of my league.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, the best thing about cookies, as you've already discovered, is that for most of the types you don't really need to bake them. Though I suppose Americans might freak out about raw eggs. Most of them pretend have a blind spot on that specifically for cookie dough though. I'd leave the oatmeal and raisins out and stick with butterscotch or chocolate chip, if aiming specifically for the dough.

 

[H4run]

Well, the best thing about cookies, as you've already discovered, is that for most of the types you don't really need to bake them. Though I suppose Americans might freak out about raw eggs. Most of them pretend have a blind spot on that specifically for cookie dough though. I'd leave the oatmeal and raisins out and stick with butterscotch or chocolate chip, if aiming specifically for the dough.

I think we also among people who believe raw egg is dangerous due to salmonella and other factors (well for me until someone able to convinced me otherwise), I don't think she used a raw egg in her cookie dough. while actually I like my egg lean to the raw side, cooked egg is really boring, the best thing about egg is the melted yolk, dang, it has no cure, put it on any dishes I don't care it would taste amazing; rice, bread, noodle, corn or whatever it's. So when it's said that raw egg is kind a dangerous we kind a stop that tradition.

 

[Gorbles]

I used to be deadly afraid of raw eggs until I had one on top of raw meat in a steak tartare. The funny thing is I'm still not a huge fan of cooked eggs.

Also I'm now reminded that it's been a long time since I've had steak tartare. Not that it's exactly affordable, either.

English, Irish, Scottish... oof… they certainly don't make it easy on you with all the boiling and deep frying. I mean like anything, if its cooked to perfection, its going to be nice anyway... but its an uphill battle with that cuisine.

My wife recently slow-cooked mince for most of a day, let it rest in the fridge overnight, baked it with mashed potato on top and finished it under the grill with a bit of grated cheese. Possibly the best shepard's pie (I think it was lamb mince) I've ever had.

It doesn't have to be boiled or deep fried

 

[Ajidica]

Um, did this thread get merged with the cooking threat without my knowledge?
Or did a Farmboy allusion achieve sentience and is now making us all speak in code?

 

[H4run]

Um, did this thread get merged with the cooking threat without my knowledge?
Or did a Farmboy allusion achieve sentience and is now making us all speak in code?

This topic is related to the election, actually it's very pivotal, you would find the significant and the relation later, I ask you to trust me this time.

Btw man, do you like your egg half-cooked or cooked?

 

[Ajidica]

Btw man, do you like your egg half-cooked or cooked?

Over easy.