Posted on 05/10/2005 6:39:23 AM PDT by ChuckShick
The Biggest Story of Our Lives
At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Election Day, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and via the offshore bookmakers to see the odds as of that moment on the Presidential election. John Kerry was a two-to-one favorite. You can look it up.
People who have lived in the sports world as I have, bettors in particular, have a feel for what I am about to say about this: these people are extremely scientific in their assessments. These people understand which information to trust and which indicators to consult in determining where to place a dividing line to influence bets, and they are not in the business of being completely wrong. Oddsmakers consulted exit polling and knew what it meant and acknowledged in their oddsmaking at that moment that John Kerry was winning the election.
And he most certainly was, at least if the votes had been fairly and legally counted. What happened instead was the biggest crime in the history of the nation, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.
Many of the participants in this blog have graduate school educations. It is damned near impossible to go to graduate school in any but the most artistic disciplines without having to learn about the basics of social research and its uncanny accuracy and validity. We know that professionally conceived samples simply do not yield results which vary six, eight, ten points from eventual data returns, thaty's why there are identifiable margins for error. We know that margins for error are valid, and that results have fallen within the error range for every Presidential election for the past fifty years prior to last fall. NEVER have exit polls varied by beyond-error margins in a single state, not since 1948 when this kind of polling began. In this past election it happened in ten states, all of them swing states, all of them in Bush's favor. Coincidence? Of course not.
Karl Rove isn't capable of conceiving and executing such a grandiose crime? Wake up. They did it. The silence of traditional media on this subject is enough to establish their newfound bankruptcy. The revolution will have to start here. I challenge every other thinker at the Huffington Post: is there any greater imperative than to reverse this crime and reestablish democracy in America? Why the mass silence? Let's go to work with the circumstantial evidence, begin to narrow from the outside in, and find some witnesses who will turn. That's how they cracked Watergate. This is bigger, and I never dreamed I would say that in my baby boomer lifetime.
Posted at 02:32 AM | permalink
Soon to be on Dummie Funnies?
Joe Namath beat Baltimore. The Dodgers beat the heavily favored Oakland A's years ago. And then there was the MIRACLE ON ICE. Sometimes bookies get it wrong.
I suppose there's no reward offered. Too bad.
More than one have written to comment on the biased sample that over-represented democrat.
Therefore, the "con" game was the opposite direction, Mr Lampley...have you thought of that.
Who can argue against such unassailable logic?
I can't decide whether to fall on the floor laughing or call 911 for poor Mr. Lampley.
Too funny for words.
Well, the odds makers were wrong, so the election was stolen! LOL. I needed a good laugh.
All the swing states went for Bush? I think not. If Rove was fixing the election I'd think he would have turned it into an electoral college rout while he was at it. Bush/Cheney would also have won MN, WI, and maybe PA and MI too.
Why does anyone care what Lampley thinks anyway?
“Rove Steals Jim Lampley’s Brain, Inserts Boiled Cauliflower”
The 2 to 1 odds thing got me... I can't believe it EVER got to that, did it?
And also, didn't you date Lacey Underall??
I feel dumber after having read that.
Me thinks Jim Lapley has been channelling Michael Moore and needs to seek therapy quickly.
And how stupid are these people, that they believe the garbage that is being spewed here, and yet are too stupid to locate any actual "proof"?
If the 'fix' is so obvious, can't they find any lawyers who will take the issue to court for them?
Still waiting for proof - getting older while waiting - haven't seen a bit - for such a huge conspiracy, surely someone would spill the beans.
Boy, we members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy certainly are a tight group, aren't we? Probably has something to do with Rove's paying us all off - from his inexhaustable supply of money -
See you all at the meeting on night of the Next Full Moon. Don't forget your black cats and broomsticks.
give me a break.
Let's see. So the bookies and poll takers can't possibly be mistaken so the election must have been fixed.
He could be a certifiable member of DU's Conspiracy Theory Club.
Well I can now sleep at night. At last I know what some ex-jock thinks about the 2004 election. If only I knew what Donald Rumsfeld thought about Terrel Owens, I could die a happy man.
Actually the oddsmakers had Bush WINNING right up into election day, then when the FAUX exit polls came out the odds went wild. So go suck an egg.
Huffington's website might be a huge success after all.
These things have been some of the very best (unintentional) humor pieces I've read in a long time.
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