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Lots of people think Clinton’s odds of winning the election are ‘nice’

Nice.

 

Aaron Sankin

Internet Culture

Posted on Aug 2, 2016   Updated on May 26, 2021, 8:37 am CDT

With a bump in the polls following the Democratic National Convention, the stats wizards at FiveThirtyEight have updated their predictive model for the 2016 election to give Democrat Hillary Clinton a 69 percent chance of beating Republican Donald Trump.

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A lot of people on Twitter thought that was nice.

Even more people felt it was incredibly, fantastically nice.

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It’s a good thing Merriam-Webster just added the word “hella” to the dictionary, because an even larger group of people thought the whole thing was hella nice.

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Rock icon Jenny Lewis recently released an album with her post-punk super-group Nice As Fuck, which is also a good way to describe this whole thing.

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One might think people were be talking about Nice, a city on the French Riviera. However, one would be wrong.

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“Noice!” is another acceptable way to articulate the feeling also expressed by the word “Nice.”

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Nice. Nice, indeed. 

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*First Published: Aug 2, 2016, 2:02 pm CDT
 

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