I’ll never understand how polls can change so quickly. Do millions of people really change their minds so fast, for no discernable reason?
Polls are based on a small statistical sample. It doesn’t take a lot of people changing their minds to affect the poll results.
And if McCain loses, it will be because of economic conditions.
People are not happy their investments are dropping.
McCain has an opportunity. Many people are now listening to the candidates because of the crisis. He has to contrast his record of reform, to Obama’s record of doing nothing. That is why they got a massive bounce at the convention. It is a time of crisis, and now is not the time for someone who has no experience and a extremely thin record.
Good point. I agree. I think most people have already decided and Palin has added to our advantage.
I think most “ordinary” people in this country don’t want to vote for a leftist/socialist/radical and possible Muslim and his nasty witch wife.
Maybe that’s just me.
“I’ll never understand how polls can change so quickly. Do millions of people really change their minds so fast, for no discernable reason?”
No. It’s more likely that polls are manipulated so that the MSM can play out their (leftist) narrative and have something to write about.
“I’ll never understand how polls can change so quickly. Do millions of people really change their minds so fast, for no discernable reason?”
I’ve come to the conclusion that a sizable portion of the electorate really IS like this.
I call them the “waving wheat” voters (and I take credit for coining that phrase).
Like the wheatfields of Kansas, they tend to tilt en masse towards whichever way the “prevailing political winds” of the moment happen to be blowing.
I sense a large part of the waving wheats is comprised of so-called “independent” voters who are too wishy-washy or afraid to “make up their minds”. They’ll _tell you_ they are “independent” and not committed to either party or to any particular ideology. Perhaps they “don’t want to offend anyone” with their opinions (if they even HAVE political opinions). Perhaps they are so noncomittal, they don’t want to offend _themselves_ by _forming_ an opinion.
Another contingent of the waving wheats are those who are essentially “non-political” in nature, and who vote only because they’ve been told that they’re supposed to do that in a democracy. Otherwise, they wouldn’t even bother.
- John