Back from the dead, only for a limited time, while supplies last... it's Phrigndumass!
Greetings fellow DUers,
It's been 10 years since I posted regularly here on DU! I hope some folks here will remember me. I posted "The Daily Widget" during the 2008 Presidential election, along with contributors grantcart and dbmk. I just retired about a month ago, so I'm back to hang witcha's.
For those of you who are saying "The Daily What-Who?"... The Daily Widget was a daily post that tracked the 2008 Presidential election polls and tied it all together with neat graphics and discussion, while predicting an electoral outcome based on the current data.
Wondering how we did? In the Daily Widget post of November 1, 2008, the Saturday before the 2008 Presidential election (November 4), I pegged the final outcome at 365-173 in that post. When I am able to locate the post, I'll be happy to share it. You may recall that the electoral college results in 2008 were exactly 365-Obama, 173-McCain.
I'm looking forward to hanging with y'all, discussing the re-election prospects of President Joe Biden, and possibly sharing some of the statistics with you fine folks! I tend to sprinkle posts with my brand of dark, twisted, "dumass" humor. Love me anyway, dammit!
- Phrig 
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A mix of data and dumass humor is right up my alley! 
Hi femmedem! Thanks! I have a bulldozer coming right up your alley then, driven by nerds. NERDS!!
Hey blm!! Wow, look at you, all those gobs of posts. I love how you expend your energy 
and I totally remember you! Re-Hi!
- Phrig 
Thanks yardwork!! Apologies for the Welcome Back Kotter lyrics. Now I can't get that phrign song outta my head! I remember hanging with ya back in the day 
Re-Hi!
- Phrig
... I missed you, too! Coming back and hanging witcha's was tops on my list to do after retiring (but I had to sleep for three weeks first, lol) 
Mary Ann and Ginger, Professor? Re-Hi my friend. Things are about to get all nerdy up in here with the math-geekery!
- Phrig 
I suppose Maryann was hot in a less draggy kind of way, lol (nothing against drag artists!).
I was a Professor guy 
Hi malaise! Great to see you again here on DU! Can't believe you were able to find one of the early "Daily Widget" posts, minus the graphs and charts, but still, I remember writing that post 
- Phrig
But only with celery, gotta have that crunch. Thanks 2na! 
And pickles are not a good substitute! But they'll do in a pinch. 
... doesn't sound like they would pass the taste test 
I'll ask my cat, Carrot (he's orange, like trump) -- he licks tuna raw!
Carrot says, "Less sausage, more taco" 
Great to see you here, Hekate!
Tell me aboat it, eh? Everything I know about Canada, I think I learned from South Park, lol...
- Phrig
And there it was. 
CAn you not? LOL 
-- it's an awesome coinkydink, I must say, and if you can bear some stats...
Population of Canada: 39,566,248
Population of California: 38,940,231
Canada surged by 1,050,110 in population during 2022, surpassing California's population for the first time in a century. Also, in the 2015-2019 period, the greatest concentration of Canuck immigrants to the USA lived in California (16%). Phnyuk! (snort snort) 
NERD alert! Love me dammit!
Clark says Hi 
(so sorry for the superman reference, you probably get that all the time)
- Phrig
Thanks pandr, and Hi backatcha!
- Phrig 
My views are quite the opposite of the maga-republican mainstay, "have someone kill them or find a reason to hate them" 
Thanks for the warm welcome!
- Phrig 
I remember someone posting something like that back then... was it you, BW? Anyhoo, I'm totally saving your reply! Thanks for sharing it, lol! For the Irish oozing out of it, here comes bouncy
No #1s evah! Thanks for your warm welcome, MiHale
Was your handle a little different back then? Anyhoo, thanks and re-hi!
... and it was wrapped in the murican flag, of course. Some folks believe the First Amendment stood for the Freedom to be Stupid, lol 
Speaking of COVID, I read somewhere a few days ago that many evangelicals believe a conspiracy theory that mean old Dr. Fauci adjusted all the COVID vaccines to cause Christians to stop believing in religion. If only!
Even in July, our projections weren't too far off the end result. I remember some DUers had a hard time trusting that Obama would win by such a large margin of EVs, so I tried to include the projections from fellow spazzy nerds as much as possible.
This makes me want to find all the PDFs I saved of the Daily Widget posts. I might have an idea which computer it is on (I'm a computer hoarder, lol) 
Great to see you here again, Bum!
(the last (D) who did so had been native southerner Clinton in 1996) or would win NC and IN (although I figured IN because it was an IL neighbor and IL was where Obama launched his campaign (in Springfield vs Chicago).
Hoping for a good pickup this coming election season.
Thanks tblue!
It's so cool that a few fine DU folks still remember those posts after 15 years! I'm deeply honored
Re-Hi, Your Excellence!
So good to see you again!
Thanks for your warm welcome, GOS! Warm fuzzies!
In addition to having advanced math skills and music skills one of the kindest souls to wander DU.
