What I don't understand is why the most recent polls going into the primary were so far off from reality. My goodness, Quinnipiac polled Harris at 38% in the primary just the other day. How can the polls be so
wrong?
Oh--tonight was a great night for the Katherine Harris campaign. After standing at a major traffic intersection this afternoon waving signs with Katherine before the polls closed, we drove up to the Harris campaign HQ tonight. Here's a nice photo of her accepting the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Katherine's proud husband Anders is standing to her left. A good time was had by all. Tomorrow we get busy again because there are just over 60 days until the general election. Tonight was a good night to enjoy.
"How can the polls be so wrong?"
Polls are probably the last bastion of liberal manipulation left. Media reporting is now widely analyzed and verified by countless numbers of people on sites like this one. Stories like Dan Rather's forged documents and photoshopped Reuters photos don't survive long. But it is extremely difficult for the average person to verify or validate poll methodology or results. That is why the media produces so many of them and uses them to generate frontpage headlines. But they're all worthless. All of them. Just like everything else produced by our MSM.
The problem with polling today is lots of people refuse to participate in polls. Born again Christians especially refuse to participate. Plus when the media is so biased against a candidate many voters will tell pollsters one thing and then vote the opposite.
When my Dad was a member of the Ohio Central Committee of the Democratic party I was a very small boy. I know the media excuses its inaccuracy in the 1948 election by saying they stopped polling six weeks before the election, but that is not the reason.
My Dad was very worried that Truman would not win. It wasn't really polling but he did have Democrats canvased and kept track of the results. It looked terrible for Truman. On the Saturday before the election Dad had the members of a unionized factory canvased. Only about a third of the employees said they were going to vote for Truman.
But then elections night when the returns started coming in, the NBC anchor kept telling us that while the early returns showed Truman ahead, it could not last.
My Dad had me go to bed.. The next day was a school day. But when I woke up the next morning Truman was still ahead. Yet the polls had shown him 20 points behind.
When I left for school, Truman was holding on to a slight lead. About 10 O'Clock a man I had never met came to my school to see me. He worked for my Dad, and Dad had sent him to tell me that Truman had won. I don't know why I paid such attention to that election. I was just a young kid. Perhaps because my Dad cared enough to send someone to tell me Truman won. I certainly wanted to show that I was part of Dad's team.
There was a lot of research done after that election. Dad was at first puzzled about how hourly workers at a plant could tell a Democrat pollster that they were voting for Dewey when they were actually voting for Truman.
Dad decided that people did not want to tell people they were voting for Truman. It was not the thing to do.. People would make fun of you for planing to vote for Truman.
But in the privacy of the voting booth they did just that.
I think it is the same thing going on in Florida. Like Truman she is a plucky person... who does not give up.. no matter what the media and her own party leaders say.
I am not in Florida so I don't know, but if Truman is a guide, even centrists and moderates will look at her and say ... Way To Go Girl! Many of the voters do not have the guts to do what she has done. They don't even dare to tell the media what they are going to do. But they wish they did and they want a person like her in the political arena representing them.