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Old 03-04-2016, 02:21 PM   #3751
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by BishopMVP View Post
I'm shocked no one's mentioned this guy as a potential Trump VP pick yet... He's AMAZING. (PS what is it with Princeton producing nut jobs from Texas these days?)

Erm, can't really knock his theory about that particular race however.

First-listing bias is a long known phenomenon, and the effect is more pronounced in primaries and also stronger in down ballot races.

Now if Texas shuffles the ballot order randomly or something and he wasn't aware of that then, yeah, he looks like an idiot for not knowing. But he's got a pretty reasonable point about a campaign for such a position not being brain surgery.
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