Nate isn’t getting my vote.

Thanks for the thread melman.

I use the term residuals rather than residue, but do recall colleagues using the latter.

Good. The sooner he's out of the race, the sooner DEMOCRATS can unite around OUR party's nominee.

Woo hoo! I'm in!

But one thing that's easy to predict: BS will NOT be the DEMOCRATIC party's nominee.

... shock and outrage over nothing is pretty much all that's left. Sigh.

In math, residue and residual are technical terms for "remainder."


Much ado about nothing

... but what else have they got?

"In mathematics, more specifically complex analysis, the residue is a complex number proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities. (More generally, residues can be calculated for any function f : C ∖ { a k } k ? C {displaystyle f:mathbb {C} setminus {a_{k}}_{k}rightarrow mathbb {C} } f:mathbb {C} setminus {a_{k}}_{k}rightarrow mathbb {C} that is holomorphic except at the discrete points {ak}k, even if some of them are essential singularities.)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue_(complex_analysis)

You made a "rofl" point of emphasizing the definition of residue by highlighting one of the less negative examples. As if to make light of the racial equation Nate Silver inadvertently made in his tweet. Read his tweet again.

Residue is more frequently discarded or called disgusting than it is eaten. Coffee grounds are residue, and so are dog poop, plastic collected for recycling, and mine tailing ponds.

People of colour are sick and tired of being equated with unwanted trash. For you to make light of that with rofl emoticons and uncomprehending posts ("I don't get it" ) is actually an opportunity for you to get a bit more "woke".

....after many of them switch to Warren. He did NOT specify race, religion, sexual orientation, or anything else, just that they are more "diverse" (that's the word he used)

"Diverse" means white, black, brown, Asian (btw, Nina Turner used the offensive word "yellow" to referr to Asians a couple of weeks ago, with no uproar from BS' supporters!), all religions, all sexual orientations, etc.

Seems like the OP, Ms. Gray, and some of the posters here immediately jumped to the (incorrect) conclusion that he was only referring to people of color.

Why is that? Seems to me that those outraged have some explaining to do.

I did ask you to read his tweet again. I repeat that request.

His equation: Sanders_supporters = prev_Sanders_supporters minus "white liberals"

He called the Sanders_supporters (after subtracting the "white liberals" ) the "residue". At best (and also most likely) it was a clumsy choice of words by a nerd.

People of colour (non-whites) do not like to be called "residue" or lumped in a bin called residue, whether or not it was merely clumsy. I would have thought you would understand that.

...would have remaining when the "white liberals" leave is people of color?

People are making much more of this than they really should, I suspect because their preferred candidate is dropping in the polls and they're looking for any reason they can come up with to explain it.

Nate Silver's comment was NOT racially motivated, and most people did not see it that way - mostly because his "residue" included supporters of ALL races and demographics.

Finally, were you or any others equally "appalled" when it came out that Sanders blatantly spoke about blacks using the "N" word or Nina Turner referred to Asians a few weeks ago as "yellow people"?

Doubtful.

“Residue” clearly refers to all of his residual supporters. If anything he was insulting all Bernie voters, not attacking minorities.

Seems like a very poor attitude if that's his goal.

Link to tweet

Assuming that tweet is even real to begin with.


Sanders has the most working class support. This is indisputable.

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An OpenSecrets review of campaign contributions — including those giving small amounts through the fundraising service ActBlue — reveals that among the 2020 Democrats, Sanders gets the most support from Americans in typically working-class jobs — and it isn’t close.

The Vermont senator is the top recipient among farmers, servers, social workers, retail workers, photographers, construction workers, truckers, nurses and drivers, among several other groups. Each of those professions — which don’t typically provide much campaign cash — earn near or below the median income, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/09/sanders-vs-warren-who-has-more-working-class-donors/





And btw. are you really trying to suggest 'least working class' would be a bad thing to you? lol


You do realize you have a rather lengthy post history that suggests otherwise, no?

...she should be fired.

Are you really trying to suggest you know what you think I'm trying to suggest?

By the way, from the FEC filings for the campaign, the highest numbers of contributions from those working came from (1-12 in order):

Software Engineer
Teacher
Engineer
Physician
Attorney
Professor
Sales
Consultant
Software Developer
RN
Financial Director
Lawyer

Not many "working class" occupations in that list.

On the other hand, for the occupations you provided, here are their ranks:

farmers - 97
servers - 53 ("server&quot , 575 ("food server&quot
social workers - 25
retail workers - 51
photographers - 62
construction workers - 132
truckers - 751
nurses - 10
drivers - 765

The devil is in the details!

...on BS' opponents, mostly Biden and BS' greatest threat - Elizabeth Warren.

She changed her screen name yesterday: “Residue” for Bernie @briebriejoy

This is the woman who is the National Press Secretary of a major national political campaign. SMH.

...he's used over the years.

...just a week or two after they were excusing Sanders for using the n-word in one his many books.

Is this their new strategy to salvage his floundering campaign? Is going after Nate freaking Silver going to win over many voters? LOL

" res·i·due

/ˈrezəˌd(y)o͞o/

noun

noun: residue; plural noun: residues

a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used.
"the fine residue left after the sorting of tea" "


...yep, that's me, residue...

...but residue can build and grow, strengthen and thicken with time...

...residues can cover unclean circumstances with change and alter the course of events...


...residues vote...

I'm just not gonna do it.

Well played!

redundant. Silver should have just written "the residue" rather than "the residue of what's left".

Oh melman, stop trying to make residues racist. It's not going to happen. This is not JPR.

After this has had some time to sit. Possibly a small amount of outrage at the bottom of the barrel but not enough to try to reason with.

reminiscent of the racist PUMA thugs

I won't be voting for Nate Silver in the primary.

Link to tweet

Another nothing-burger with weak-sauce for added flavor.

But I get it... find the worst meaning of all presented definitions, ignore the rest (context is often a truly inconvenient thing) and raise the fist righteously in the air.

Link to tweet

...they don't whine when people point it out.

That's an interesting interpretation.