Posted on 10/21/2008 6:55:07 AM PDT by bailmeout
Two campaigns are being waged right now for the presidency of the United States. No, I'm not talking about the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign. I'm talking about the real-world campaign and the meta-campaign.
The real-world campaign involves speeches and proposals and facts and scandals and political positions and news events. These details, however, are becoming increasingly irrelevant, and have become subsumed by the meta-campaign, which consists of perceptions, polls, reactions, analyses and summations. Until very recently, elections were decided by real-world facts -- but not anymore. Facts and events in and of themselves are no longer important; what's important is how everyone reacts to them. And how do we find out the public's mood concerning this or that incident? Why, the media tells us, that's how.
Or so we've been led to believe ...
(Excerpt) Read more at zombietime.com ...
IMO, barring a major surprise the last two weeks of the campaign, McCain is going to win this thing and the aftermath will be ugly.
Wow!
Question is, can the MSM be held liable for instigating the coming riots?
Nope.
However...we could point the mob to the MSM buildings and help direct the hate and anger at the apropiate people. Which wouldn’t really be instigating on our part...more like directing traffic.
Maybe Rush should move into Operation Directing Traffic, post election!
Yes...and yes.
buy your ammunition now.
Not near as ugly, for the country, as a McCain loss would be.
The bigger question is how many other Democrats are doing the same thing? To whatever extent this is true on a national scale, the polls are biased towards Obama. Given that some Democrats won't even disclose their feelings to friends, they could be in for a shock in Nov. Because of this bias, we will start hearing the same “Bush-stole-the-election” BS we heard after the last Presidential election. Since the Left has a tendency to burn things when they don't get their own way, if McCain wins, ACORN et al are going to be extremely PO’ed. I'd expect some places to go up in smoke.
I hope I'm wrong...
If McCain wins, I’ll be making about a half dozen suicide prevention calls. :-)
I submit that this assumption is a catastrophic blunder. To the extent that there is any conformist behavior being exhibited by McCain supporters and undecided voters, it is much more likely to be normative conformity. In other words, people who are confronted with apparent overwhelming support for Obama may indeed announce that they too support Obama, but do so only in order to avoid ostracism or accusations of racism. Inside, however, they have not changed their minds. On November 4, they will go into that voting booth, and in total privacy and anonymity, they are free to vote for whomever they want, without fear of social condemnation for doing so. And in such a setting, normative conformity disintegrates, because there is no "norm" to conform to when your vote is anonymous.
Go, Go, Go Go McCain...... Win, win, win one for the GIPPER!
They've been working on this for a long time, and I don't see them trying to blow it.
If Obama steals it, they will make sure all channels of opposition and opinion are shut down, e.g., talk radio, internet. They've already done it the radicalization centers, er, I mean the colleges and universities.
If ACORN has planted their seeds for years and years, we need not just an army of squirrels - we need Americans with chainsaws to buzz through that oak tree. Don't let them steal the franchise!!!
I know a few people like that. One acquaintance always refered to Teresa HK as “that poor woman attacked by the right wing nuts”. She ranted and raved about the evil Bush. She hasn’t said a word, not a the first about this election.
I think the msm will scream about racism in America instead of the O being a socialist.
I live in a small community in Oklahoma. This is normally democratic territory. Everyone in my social network with the exception of my mother, thick headed woman, is voting for McCain.
I know of at least 3 Democrat friends who intend to vote Republican for the first time. So that makes 5
There’s another problem for Obama with the inflated polls. It energizes wavering Republican voters.
I voted early a few days ago. I had planned to vote for Bob Barr, but from the polls I’d seen it looked like Obama had a shot at carrying North Carolina. I decided I couldn’t chance helping him get NC’s electoral votes, so I held my nose and voted for McCain.
Thanks.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
“And how do we find out the public’s mood concerning this or that incident? Why, the media tells us, that’s how.”....
And that’s exactly why Obama will lose.....Americans will give the media the middle finger in the voting booth.....
I can personally testify to the fact that I tend to pull my punches a bit if I sense that a statement I make may be perceived as racist, ------whether it is or not.
And there are lots of paranois people out there who fear to give their opinion.
---And all of this rolls back into the Rahn Emanuel Strategy: Dishearten and discourage your opponent at every opportunity. If such opportunities are not there, create them.
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