“and folks would take one of the two polls in 2004 out of 17 that actually showed Kerry leading at election day and tout that as proof that “in 2004 they were wrong to...see? see?””
The cherry picking was impressive. We also saw that with the one day Zogby sample from a three day poll. Never mind we’ve lost a hundred and fifty or so straight and most by 5+. Those don’t matter. This subset of a poll from one of the less accurate guys proves we must be winning!
Its started in fact already after this one. I saw some people using the fact that a couple polls were bad outliers as proof that the polls don’t matter. They ignored the fact that the averages were spot on. It was pretty mind-boggling to see it already starting a day after the disaster.
I can still remember at the end of September when the markets tanked and the bank crisis took off and watching Sean, Newt, Rassmussen, and Rove on H&C and seeing the dismay in their faces as we watched Mac’s post convention-Palin nomination lead fall of the cliff
Sean, Rove and Newt looked like someone had taken their toys and Rass looked dumbfounded
I knew then that things must be not so great and that sense I got everyday after that watching GOP pundits talk gave me the same bad feeling....they tried to rally everybody but even with Rush you could hear it in his voice.
Course, round here I was pilloried for even mentioning that GOP folks at ground zero of all this data looked worried.
But you know what? I still continued to give big bucks to National GOP Trust even though I was pessimistic....I felt i had to try.
Next time around these dreamers will have little credibility here but they will still try and shout everyone down..
It’s scary how the polls are, I wish they didn’t have the damned things.