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.
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.
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.
I believe that some time ago “those in charge” decided the only way to elect an empty suit like nObama was through massive voter fraud.
A self-fulfilling prophecy.
I pray McCain wins by a margin large enough to discourage any recounts, challenges, etc.
I found this piece to be quite fascinating. The arcane historical references to “Clever Hans,” etc. were fun.
Bottom line: people are irrational and do things even thought they may know better. Examples everywhere from Plato's Republic to smoking cigarettes.
Not nearly so ugly as if The One prevails.
A couple problems with this:
- One of the major polling companies, SurveyUSA, does not human pollsters, it is completely automated so as to eliminate any pollster bias. In the 2004 elections SurveyUSA was the most accurate.
If pollster bias was driving the mainstream polls in favor of Obama, we would expect to see McCain do much better in the SurveyUSA poll. Instead, the SurveyUSA polls have been strong for Obama
-It’s true that in certain social circles(Liberal Elites in San Fran and the like), supporting McCain would be social suicide. But the same would hold true in very conservative communitiesin reverse- particularly if it is a religious social circle- if you belong to a Christian church which belives in the value of life and marriage, you probably wouldn’t want people to know it if you were supporting Obama.
McCain has always been an underdog; it’s always been the last 2-3 weeks he comes storming ahead. That’s what we’re seeing now.