Posted on 10/21/2008 8:09:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Prescient ping.
Don’t be a POLLer Bear!........
That's My American Prayer.
“Does this man ever write a bad column”?
...don’t think so.
Ha!
Dr. Sowell bump.
Printable version with photo:
http://www.creators.com/print/opinion/thomas-sowell/polls-and-pols.html
Another good one, thanks
If so, I've never read it. Anyone?
Thank you for posting this.
I only wish some pollster would call me and ask who I’m voting for. When asked why I’m not voting for BHO, I’d beat him to the punch and confirm his already blatant but false assumptions by just saying because he’s a n***o.
Polls are worthless. Liberal media polls have always been off by large margins. I keep mentioning 1996... this is looking like 1996 again. Back then, the polls were off the mark in double digits. Polls can be used as propaganda tools.
I took statistics in college. One of the main rules in statistics is accuracy depends heavily on the size of the sample. You can't poll 1,000 people in a country of millions and realistically expect to get an accurate measure weeks away from an election.
4% margin of error? How do they figure that margin of error? In 1996 election alone, 90% of the polls were OUTSIDE their margins of error. I post this again... what good is a margin of error if it can be exceeded?
We must guard ourselves against propaganda, and polls are a powerful propaganda tool. They have been used that way before, and they are being used that way again.
All these problems for Obama they keep talking about... They say 30% of DNC will not vote for him because of his color, admitting DNC has a racism problem. How can he lose 30% of his own base and still win by 10%? How can he win by 10% if the leaders of NOW are standing on the stage with Governor Sarah Palin making speeches? How can he win by 10% if he depends heavily on a youth vote that has been promised in every election but has never shown up? With all these negatives he has, the bloom is off the rose... they ain't gonna show. Remember 2000? Vote or Die? They were supposed to have the youth vote FIRED UP! Here they come! (Nope!)
With two weeks to go, the college age population will have some time to think things over. Do they really want an untested socialist? This racism cloud is going to pass. They can't sustain it for two weeks. They can't make this election a mandate for racial harmony.
What we need is for J.C. Watts and others to come forward and loudly support McCain right now. They cannot sit on their hands and let this honorable man John McCain get slandered as a racist like this. Right when we needed his help, Powell has stabbed us in the back. It is time for all good black men and women of the conservative persuasion to stand up for our Republic!
Thomas Sowell does it again. There’s a bumper sticker somewhere — “The MSM is giving you the bum’s rush into voting for Obama.”
“Does this man ever write a bad column?
If so, I’ve never read it. Anyone?”
No. And the man is 78!
Give the pollster a heart attack - use the N word.
Then say you’re voting FOR Palin “cuz she’s so HOT”.
“In other words, the media helped create the charged atmosphere in which some people give misleading answers to pollsters to avoid being stigmatized.”
And it only takes one easily-intimidated voter out of 20 to throw the entire poll into the dumpster.
I only wish some pollster would call me and ask who Im voting for. When asked why Im not voting for BHO, Id beat him to the punch and confirm his already blatant but false assumptions by just saying because hes a n***o.Better yet, tell them "Look, I am a Democrat. My family has been Democrat for generations. I am disappointed in my party. We didn't start the KKK for nothing! Where are our leaders like Sen Byrd?"
Bet that would freak 'em out!
Libs should be forced to read Dr. Sowell every day as a cure for their mental disorder, though I doubt they would have to be forced to read his stuff after a couple of weeks or so.
“Some of these polls seem like they are not trying to report facts but to create an impression.”
Bingo!
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