A think most Americans are looking at the election like a left turn signal, it says to turn left but it all depends on the driver.
Posted on 10/17/2008 1:34:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In recent weeks I have spent a good amount of time crisscrossing the country.
Something very unusual is taking place.
From Seattle to San Diego, from Burlington, Vermont to New York City, from New Orleans to Texas and Midwest towns like Cleveland, I am hearing hushed admissions of a terrible sin: “Father, I’m not going to vote for Obama.”
Then I look at the polls. Nationally and in battleground States, Senator Obama is thrashing Senator McCain.
So what gives?
Pollsters would tell me it’s all very simple. Anecdotal evidence, like my experience on the road, isn’t really evidence at all. It is not trustworthy because it is not scientific. The divergence between what people are telling me and the polling data must be that I run in closed circles. People of like minds talk to me; the others don’t.
Very logical…unless…unless people don’t want their neighbors (or pollsters) to know they aren’t voting for Obama.
So, are we talking here about the “Bradley Effect”, that well-documented racist phenomenon of people telling pollsters one thing and then doing the opposite in the voting booth simply because the candidate is black?
No. I am referring to something else — the fear of talking to pollsters, or to your neighbor, or to anyone else about not wanting to vote for Barack Obama because of what he stands for.
Do you have doubts? How would you like to get up in front of a crowded theater in a mixed neighborhood and say you are going to vote for McCain? What respectable person wants to risk being considered a racist or a war monger or a fan of President Bush or an enemy of change?
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“It is not trustworthy because it is not scientific.”
And yet professor obvious — I present to you as exhibits “A” and “B” polling data from October in both the 2000 and 2004 campaigns (both of the candidates on the left were white) — notice the similarities between the democrats being farther ahead in the polls at the same time during those two campaigns just as the candidate on left is in the 2008 election...odd, the data reflects similar results all in favor of the candidate on the left...”in all three campaign’s.”
Hhhhhhuuuuummmm, gee professor, one might actually deduct from this polling data — “that your “F’n” polls are BS and they are skewed in favor the left to try and get the folks on the right to stay home.”
But, I digress — my conclusion is not scientific — my conclusion is actually based on reality.
The United States will have a black President someday, but he’ll be an American and a conservative Republican.
I am quite sure most of America is not totally brain dead, many have connected the dots about who the real Obama is and also many actually do realize that they could be victims of violence if they openly support McCain/Palin.
As I see it WE The People have the power to fool the left up until it comes time to vote especially the polls.
A think most Americans are looking at the election like a left turn signal, it says to turn left but it all depends on the driver.
I'll take that bullet.
***That’s exactly what I thought in 1992. **
I was more worried about a military coup but that didn’t happen. Now I can worry about it again if Obama gets in.
My college freshman son is coming home today, and he is very excited to cast his first ever vote for a Presidential candidate.
He will be voting John McCain!!!!!! via the absentee ballot.
In Wisconsin, we don't have early voting, but you can cast your absentee in person at the court house.
My son is in the navy - stationed in Japan. He’s sending in his absentee ballot as well - and I’m happy to say that it will be for McCain.
We got smart kids! :-)
Oh, incidentally, I’m predicting “McCain/Palin in a landslide”. Don’t have any data to back it up. I’m just an optimist!
I wholeheartedly agree with you. We will not be able to do that this election, an if this one is stolen as ACORN is trying to do, it may not matter in future elections.
Consider working as a poll worker or as a poll watcher in this election. As a poll worker you cannot turn away voters, but you can vote them provisionally. This means that the board of elections will have to verify questionable voters before their vote is counted. As a poll watcher you can report to the Secretary of State or the local board of elections if you see suspected voter fraud.
Most polling places are begging for workers and most campaigns are looking for poll watchers. It's not too late to work the election either for early voting or for election day. I've done it for years!
Not racism. I didn’t serve in the AF at the end of the Cold War to elect a Marxist 20 years later. That’s always been my reason.
My son will be at P.I. on election day. He cast his absentee vote this week
I’ve seen more flags in front of home than usual in recent weeks. I’ve taken that as a subtle sign of McCain support, since we never see Obama signs in front of homes flying the flag.
I’d like to agree with you, but in the privacy of your home, why not tell the truth that you’re voting for McCAin.
Secondly,I own a cell phone. I’ve never been called on my cell phone by a pollster.
He is the type of young man that makes America Proud!
I have friends who are democrats who feel as you do, but I don’t know. If you told me that you are a democrat at heart, then I would cheer, as it’s these people whom I wish to have feel as you do.
I hope you are right.
“Very well my son... then reread the Communist Manifesto, watch MSNBC, perform several acts of blasphemy and stay home on election day.”
How can you be up in Tennesee and down, way down in VA? How can you go before screaming and cheering crowds of 20,000 in Norfolk and elsewhere in the state and be so far down in the polls? How is that possible?
Let’s face it, there were alot of people, and still some, on this forum who trashed McCAin from the beginning.
I’d like to think that Romney/Palin would have been the better combo, but I don’t know.
When one considers what Mac has been through, he frankly deserves our vote, esp those of us who though student deferrments and luck of the lottery we did go to Viet Nam.
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