11th June 2019, 10:36 AM
It's a false equivalence in the first place, so those numbers are basically irrelevant. That's what I'm saying. Pick your candidate based on policy, THEN check numbers. Don't pick candidates based on something as ethereal and undefined as "electability".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)