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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  2592 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Overdoses in W. Va Drain Fund for Burials

I dunno, wait for goobster and his cronies to save the day or something.





goobster  ·  2592 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think Trae Crowder actually is making far more headway than I am.

OftenBen  ·  2592 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Look at it like this, in four years, Trump will likely get fewer votes for no reason other than a portion of his constituency will have died off because of his policies.

I wonder if there is a correlation between voting Republican and type 2 diabetes?

ButterflyEffect  ·  2592 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The survey says...

    The data suggest that the ill may have been particularly susceptible to Mr Trump’s message. According to our model, if diabetes were just 7% less prevalent in Michigan, Mr Trump would have gained 0.3 fewer percentage points there, enough to swing the state back to the Democrats. Similarly, if an additional 8% of people in Pennsylvania engaged in regular physical activity, and heavy drinking in Wisconsin were 5% lower, Mrs Clinton would be set to enter the White House. But such counter-factual predictions are always impossible to test. There is no way to rerun the election with healthier voters and compare the results.