These pollsters have embarrassed themselves yet again. We're gonna vote. The base is fired up like it hasn't been in years. The choice is too clear. But this sets the stage for something we finally need to do: take the polls out of our politics. For too long they have been slanted, purposely or not doesn't even matter, they just need to be banned.
Because polls can be used to suppress voters they present a dangerous inteference in the American Electoral process. Only once in four years do we have the opportunity to choose our President. This should not be encumbered by extraneous numerology or any other source. If it is illegal to discourage people from voting by means of threats, it should be illegal to discourage people from voting with these inaccurate polls. Simply because polls do not involve violence does not make them any better.
Lets push to get polls out of our politics once and for all. They were wrong by as much as 21% in 1996. They were wrong again in 2000. In 2004, they were more or less close, but here we go again in 2008 with wild scattered polls discouraging the conservative voters. Over 700 polls conducted in the month of October, and these skewed up, weighted numbers are printed in bold print on the top fold of newspapers as if they were fact. When proven wrong by the electorate, there is no retraction, no apology, no fine, not even a slap on the wrist. Instead, the media gorge themselves on explaining the results telling us why we voted as if they know that, and what it means, as if they have any clue and completely ignore the incompetent polls that were outside their margins of error, as if that event never happened.
In 1996, around 90% of polls were outside their margins of error. What good is a margin of error if it does not guarantee accuracy? NONE AT ALL.
I'm done with polls. We have seen reforms tried after the 1996 election with new legislation to force them to publish demographics and stop the blatantly slanted process of using calling lists. ITS TIME FOR POLLS TO GO.
Pollsters have become the cancer of our electoral process. They have been caught red-handed taking bribes, instructing callers to "call your dog". If polls were accurate, why would they need to be "weighted?"
"The first thing we do, we ban all the polls" - Shakespeare (updated)
We need 65,000,000-68,000,000 votes to have a realistic chance to win the White House. Make sure that everyone you know or even sort of know is voting. We have to saturate the the dem turnout. We need to turn out conservatives like never before.
If a single soul you know that is not a raging liberal does not vote then you may play a role in the dramatic change that obama talks about. Please do everything you can to get out the votes.
“Lets push to get polls out of our politics once and for all.”
We can’t ban them but we could neutralize them with a public strategy destined to render them moot. I will discuss a strategy on Free Republic several days after the election.