This person was wholly correct on everything, and was for weeks. In her work, she has proven that accurate polling and modeling can be done, but is not, because it’s fundamentally propaganda and behavior modification tactics.

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Will be writing a few postmortems on the election, etc... but wanted to give a bit of backstory this morning.

I've always been fascinated with numbers. I can read them like people read words. It took me decades to figure out that most people see only gibberish when they look at numbers, and mine is not a common ability.

Temple Grandin said in one of her books - she isn't some sort of genius; she just "saw" things from cows' perspective. It's the same way with me. I don't feel like a genius. I look at a numbers dump, such as Clark County mail reports, and it just jumps out at me something's fundamentally changed.

That comes with a corresponding flaw - that I can't interpret or utilize subjective language very well. For example, I struggle when people ask "is Trump doing well?" because "doing well" is something that isn't quantifiable.

I also lack the ability to goal-seek and deduce what conclusions/bullet points people are wanting to draw from posts. "Just tell me what it means!" was a frequent feedback - but I was left wondering, "but I already did?"

But to me, the numbers are the conclusion. And when I read other peoples' more conventional analyses, I feel similarly lost in the weeds not understanding where the numbers come in the equation. It's an impedance mismatch.

To make it all worse - I have expressive dysphasia. It doesn't only affect my ability to be fluent verbally, it also manifests itself in writing as many have noticed - mixed up language, incorrect phrases, inability to maintain consistent grammatical structure, and so forth. And yes, having unusual vocabulary is part of it!

I can usually keep it somoewhat in check intellectually when writing, but I've written (and deleted) a few complete gibberish posts when extra tired - the numbers in them were good, the writing wasn't.

I guess the point of this is - it's been truly humbling that so many people pushed over that big communication barrier, and worked hard to see what I was trying to express, and valued what I've said. I've never experienced that. Ever.

And along the way - met so many genuinely good and helpful people. In no particular order - @requestanappeal , @realJeremyCarl , @charliekirk11 , @EaglesTTT , @earlyvotedata , @athein1 , @CATSFORTRUMP99 , @TonerousHyus , @ChristianHeiens , @watilo and countless others I know I'm forgetting.