I’m not sure what to do with national pollsters knowing that the establishment pollsters were giving good information and our trusted pollsters were feeding us pablum to keep us from giving up.
I want the unvarnished facts, and I don’t want “our side pollsters.” I want straight shooters unemotionally delivering facts. I think people are far more likely to roll of their sleeves and work harder than they are to turn defeatist and simply give up. Giving up is not a conservative value.
Who are these pollsters on our side lying to us?
I saw Gallup and Rasmussen within three points of the final, Dem cheating-boosted, results. I think they were both right that Romney was in the lead by a reasonable bit two to three weeks ago, and then it tightened again.
A pollster calls and you look to see who called before you answer or use the call back feature.
Response rates are down to 9%! That disaster is compounded by the fact that some select pressure groups are able to misrepresent their numbers disproportionately up to 11 times normal simply by responding to all polls!
None of the polls turned out correct, but some folks using outside information were able to deduce events without actually referring to the polls ~ they gave you numbers based on their educated guesses ~ not on their polls, or anyone else's polls.
This is called AUGURY, not POLLING.
The Romans used that practice effectively for several centuries ~ right down to the ruse of random events, to wit, turning a bunch of birds loose and watching how they flew off. Worked on the Goobers in ancient times; still works on the Goobers.
“I want straight shooters unemotionally delivering facts”
Could not agree more, I think part of it is the disdain which the establishment has for Conservatives, they think we are all a bunch of uneducated hicks who need to be feed lies to get us to vote..
OK, here's a fact:
No one who is identified primarily as a social conservative can win a statewide race anywhere in the United States.
The best cover for socon beliefs is liberty - i.e., what socon families need most right now is to be left alone by the state. But first we must come to terms with the no more Akins - no more Mourdocks issue, which I imagine will be very difficult.