Posted on 11/14/2004 1:43:21 PM PST by jim_trent
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DemRat meltdown.
Either prove some fraud, or shut the hell up, looser.
No way is Bush gonna carry New Mexico! It's in the bag for Kerry. A done deal! Put it in the lockbox.
I dont go to Zogby's site so I dont know what he allows....but if he wants credibility, how can he post this kind of crap?
Is this the same Colin Shea who runs something called Newtopia out of Prague and appears to be a Communist fanatic?
Here's a quote from one of his articles, attacking Vaclav Havel: "The simple, incorrigible fact of Castro's regime is that every citizen of Cuba has access to sufficient food, medical care, and education to support a life of basic human dignity. The logic of political necessity which leads to aerial slaughter is markedly absent. I wonder if Havel has seen the thousands of families burrowing for shelter in the massive trash heaps outside of Caracas. I have, and I do not dismiss Castro's achievements so lightly."
For the rest of the article, see here:
http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue14/features/powerlessness.php
Why did the same trend show in other states, both red and blue, like Kentucky, Massachusetts, etc.? What an idiot.
"In one county where 88% of voters are registered Democrats, Bush got nearly two thirds of the vote--three times more than predicted by my model."
Another lib elite who doesn't understand the concept of a Dixiecrat. Moral conservative Dems delivered the south to the GOP.
I wonder why Zogby didn't just tattoo the word "JOKE" on his forehead.
By publishing this nonsense on his website, he's guaranteed that he can never be taken seriously again.
During the 2000 election, Janet Reno was the Head of the Justice Department, yet she failed to uncover any voting fraud. Remember, this is a person used to getting her own way, a la Waco. So her party had even more voting fraud detection means and methods instituted, and the President Bush wins his second term by an even greater margin?
REMEMBER THIS, FREEPERLAND for future elections - Zogby is clearly a member of the enemy. He ignores a MONTH of stable polling results and claims that the Exit Polls PROVE fraud.
No, not all. If you choose to follow pollsters that confirm your biases then expect to be disappointed often. We even saw it here on FR where freepers would cheer a pollster that showed Bush ahead one week only to jeer him the next week when the numbers didn't work their way.
My college statistics teacher told the class that the worst data you can get is free data offered up by people, and that's the data most pollsters are using. About the best polling I've seen is that that doesn't require an opinion. The best polls were those that had a monetary component to them, i.e. those being polled were putting their money where their mouths were--online betting, 7-11 coffee cups and other such polling methods.
He doesn't know as much as he think he does. There are a lot of ways his reasoning doesn't work.
For instance, here in the South, many people who are registered Democrat vote strict Republican. An anachronism left over from days when the South was Demo.
ACtually he is right. Those Rascally Republicans have done it again! And the Dimocrats are just too stupid to figure it out. Come on guys, keep it up. Before long we can take every state and election with those illegal tactics! :)
I'm not buyin' this bs. The scope of the alleged fraud would have involved at least 20-30 people, probably more. At least one of them would have had a guilt attack and called the nyt to confess. But, uh, that hasn't happened yet, has it? Those are my statistics. Next!
Now, you can speculate whatever reason you want why those early results were so wrong. I, myself, see it as yet another attempt to throw the election to Kerry by discouraging Republican turnout. It is hard to postulate any reason for the 'Pubbies to put out false data showing a large margin for Kerry early on election day. The principle of cui bono points straight at the Donks, or a Donk proxy (such as Zogby).
Of course, it could have been an accident. Some accident, though.
I think that Zogby spent the political capital accumulated over decades in a brazen attempt to push this election the way he wanted it to go. The 5:00 call for Kerry was blatantly a fabrication. If he is ever again taken seriously, we have only ourselves to blame.
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