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To: wideawake

“Brzezinski realizes how much the Palin Derangement Syndrome being exhibited by the media is energizing the GOP base,”

The guy that runs 538.com may be a Lib, but even HE is beginning to see the light:

“I am reminded of something called the Shy Tory Factor, a phenomenon observed in the early 1990s in British elections in which conservative voters (Tories) had tended to be underrepresented in pre-election polling, perhaps owing to response bias.

It seems plausible to me that some segment of conservative Republican voters had effectively been in hiding from the pollsters, either embarrassed by the performance of George W. Bush (and therefore disengaged from politics), or embarrassed to disclose to pollsters that they support him.

Suddenly, with the selection of Palin, there has been a jolt of energy within this group, a release of pent-up frustrations, and they are coming out of the woodwork. If this is the case, then perhaps the partisan composition of the electorate had never shifted as much from 2004 as it has appeared to;

rather, the conservatives were either reluctant to identify themselves as Republican, or reluctant to take a pollster’s calls in the first place.”

Now, we aren’t just energized, we are pi**ed off about how the obviously Messiah-biased media has been treating her!


9 posted on 09/08/2008 7:39:52 AM PDT by tcrlaf (SARAH PALIN-The American Everywoman (Yes, You Really CAN!))
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To: tcrlaf

I thank a lot of people are reluctant to identify as Republican because liberals are so nasty and vindictive. If you’re a known Republican, you can expect to lose friends, get your car keyed, possibly even lose your job.

This can be seen when Republicans get their lawn signs pulled up and stolen, houses egged, etc.


24 posted on 09/08/2008 7:49:33 AM PDT by Pete98 (After his defeat by the Son of God, Satan changed his name to Allah and started over.)
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To: tcrlaf
...either embarrassed by the performance of George W. Bush (and therefore disengaged from politics), or embarrassed to disclose to pollsters that they support him.

His bias severely limits his imagination.

67 posted on 09/08/2008 8:26:46 AM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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