Not sure this is going to work. I think you're going to offer money

Depends on which ones you're talking about. But yeah, if they're on tv or writing articles like Silver, they don't have the $$ or resources to do real polling like internal campaign pollers. But everyone is flying blind now, so even the internal guys are kinda running on vibes

Yeah it was Robert Altman's best movie I think

Yeah that bugged me

Eh. I dunno, I just think most tv from that era was pretty bad. Now, MASH wasn't bad, mind you, but it *was* mediocre broadcast tv

I remember seeing an interview where he said he hated playing the part and was desperate to leave

No but yeah I remember that one, ugh. No this was one where Frank was gonna transfer but was fooled into thinking there was gold or something

By ideology, don't forget the ideology

Yeah. Kinda late to be able to measure scientifically, though. There's a commie on youtube who gets into some interesting research on parasocial studies... mentions one about Jennifer Anniston. If you ignore the UK commie stuff, he makes good points youtube.com/shorts/PXzaJNKml…

And by then the audience had serious parasocial relationships with the characters

IOW, it was kinda sloppy, not particularly good, not particularly funny.

Yes but it's the percentage that matters, I think

Don't give a damn who you are, what you do, how connected you are. Come at me rude, you get a curse out and a block. I don't need extras assholes in my universe, I see enough of 'em driving to the store once a week

I give people on this hellscape one shot at having a good faith conversation, and if they spit on it that's the end.

No, you need to go fuck yourself, you fucking dipshit

Just watched a M*A*S*H episode from back in the day and I'm convinced at least 50% of that show's popularity was parasocial in nature.

Yikes I just listened to the whole thing

That was Nate's prediction in 2016. It's a "deep cut" joke

Because it will be. Though it's not a movie it's a limited series

General polling by news organization are worthless and even political campaign polling, the stuff they do in secret, is desperately bad for everyone. Cell phones have made it near impossible. Everyone is flying blind and going on vibes