throwing a lot of stuff at the wall

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Does "throwing a lot of stuff at the wall" mean "trying anything possible"? The idiomatic phrase "throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick" mean almost the same with a slight difference.


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“It’s throwing a lot of stuff at the wall to see if anything sticks,” said Rachael Cobb, chair of Suffolk University’s Department of Government, told our reporters. “There is no clear indication of an egregious failure of election administrations. And why would we stop counting votes? We live in a democracy.”

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I think the meaning is the same.
 
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