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Does Anyone Believe These Polls???
September 7, 2008 |
I haven’t believed the polls that put Obama in the lead, and I don’t have much faith in the ones that recently show McCain in the lead:
Gallup Daily: McCain Moves Ahead, 48% to 45%.
I think that polling is the farting of politics. Yeah, there is a certain amount of info to be gleaned if you get your nose right up in there and sniff around for the freshest flatch, but who in their right mind would want to take the time? Especially when it doesn’t tell you much about what tastes good, just what digests well.
Plus, when the occasional pollster calls, shoving his nose right in my privates for a sample of how I am digesting the politics being fed to me, the maniacal part of me wants to drop a SBD one, (email me if you need a translation), just to mix it up a little.
No, for the most part I see polling as a big business with its own special interests. A big business whose principal client is a media behemoth that consumes and reprocesses the polling it purchases, regurgitating a news story which it can sell to me and you. The whole process renders most of it meaningless to me.
Please forgive the mixed metaphors.
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The polls that matter are the ones taken November 4, 2008.
More precisely, what matters is the results that are posted from those polls.
I see that we have a 3500-ballot dry run for the paper ballots in Florida, and I guess the computer vote discarders are being fine-tuned all of the place.
I am very worried about the polling process and I am most worried mthat the election fraud will need to be so blatant that we may see insurrection as a result.
Isn’t it a shame that that is even a possibility.?
The formulas used by pollsters are insane. They simply do not reflect real world opinions or voting trends.
The Democrat is almost always ahead in the polls in every presidential election in my lifetime.
It’s not about who makes the biggest paper mache heads and shows up to protest… It’s about who shows up on election day and votes.
McCain will win in a landslide.
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Like most folks I’ll focus more on polls where my candidate is winning and downplay the ones where my candidate is losing.
I will say though that the polls right before the 2006 congressional election were extremely accurate. Still too far out to get excited one way or the other though.
“Dewey Wins”