Posted on 07/05/2011 11:51:09 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Andrea Vasquez
July 5, 2011
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A forecasting model called PollyVote combines several index models for a well-rounded approach to predicting the next U.S. president. One of the models used in PollyVote is a biographical index, called PollyBio, that ranks candidates based on 59 biographical characteristics such as age, home state and athleticism.
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When they tested PollyBio on the past 29 presidential elections – from 1896 to 2008 – the forecast matched the actual outcome 27 times. The two it missed: Jimmy Carter’s 1976 election and Bill Clinton’s 1992 election.
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Perry was the only one among 14 GOP candidates to come out ahead of Obama. Compared side-by-side on the PollyVote bio index, Perry came out with 21 points to Obama’s 20, translating to 50.3 percent of votes for Perry...
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I like Santorum and I think he would make a good president but why did he lose his last election so badly?
Michele Bachmann
Sarah Palin (if she runs)
Herman Cain
ALL perfectly capable and a ten fold improvement from what we have presently.
If you think any of these people are not worth the title of POTUS, you can blame everyone who cast a vote dead or alive for the worst POTUS we have ever had, Barack Hussein Obama (Mmmm...Mmmm...Mmmm) and distorting the standards required for the position.
When are people going to wake up and realize that career politicians like Perry are sociopaths who will say anything to get elected? Let’s back someone who was conservative when (and where) “conservative” wasn’t cool, like Palin (Alaska), Bachmann (MN), and Cain (the black community). Reagan had a successful private career long before he went into politics, and never was active on behalf of Leftists. In contrast, Perry was a career political hack who turned Republican only when it served his career interests. Even then, he supported “liberal” (RINO) Republicans. Forget this guy! We don’t need him!
What do you do with the fact that Palin herself said that Perry would make a great candidate she could support for President?
Supporting open borders and being the campaign chairman for Armand "Lenin is my best pal" Hammer's protege, Al Gore, aren't "flaws" or "mistakes".
What year was that? Was this when algore was running against W? You have any hard details into what you claim?
Um, No.
There’s an old concept with computers known as Garbage In, Garbage Out. Put in crap data, you get crap results.
Someone needs to disconnect the scanner from the toilet.
2006 was a horrible year for Republicans if you recall, they lost the House and Senate, many incumbent Republicans lost there races, and we got the nightmare of Pelosi and Reid.
Santorum got caught in that chaos, but he didn’t help himself either. He was blasted by the dems and the media for not paying school taxes in PA. He paid them late, but he couldn’t shake the charge. I think he would have lost anyway quite frankly, PA is a “purple” state because of it’s liberal albatross Philadelphia, otherwise it’s almost solid red. In a big dem year like 2006, Santorum was already doomed, IMO.
Would that be one of those magic black balls you ask questions?
Computers cannot compute anything without code written to perform in a certain way. Therein lies the bias.
LLS
Carter - the anti-Nixon
Clinton - Perot
LOL! I’d almost forgotten about those! They’re still around!
http://animation.about.com/library/tutorials/bl8ball1.htm
It definitely predates disco and pacman. :)
The first time I heard about GIGO was in the 60's when I was learning about FORTRAN and COBOL.
OK, and then he got shot.
bfl
This sounds like the computer from Wargames (1983). The Wopper I believe it’s name was.
A good flick except the communist Matthew Broder*ick was in it.
Palin also supported awful RINO John McCain against a primary challenge in his own state of AZ. People make mistakes, and they take stands for purely political reasons. But no one seems to be asking Perry why he has a habit, a repeated pattern, of supporting scum for the Presidency again and again (Al Gore, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain...). Clearly this man’s stance as a social and fiscal conservative is just a pose.
Rick Perry was a Texas Democrat long before he became a Republican 1990, or thereabouts.
Per Wikipedia:
“In 1984, Perry was elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat from a district (64) that included his home county of Haskell. He served on the House Appropriations and Calendars committees during his three two-year terms in office. He befriended fellow freshman state representative Lena Guerrero of Austin, a staunch liberal Democrat who endorsed Perry’s reelection bid in 2006 on personal, rather than philosophical, grounds. Perry was part of the “Pit Bulls”, a group of Appropriations members who sat on the lower dais in the committee room (or “pit”) who pushed for austere state budgets during the 1980s.”
“Perry supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries and was chairman of the Gore campaign in Texas.”
“In 1989, The Dallas Morning News named him one of the most effective legislators in the 71st Legislature. That same year, Perry announced that he was joining the Republican Party.”
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Now, I’m not a Texan and couldn’t care less who Texans choose for governor. Evidently, he is popular or he wouldn’t keep being re-elected.
But I consider a person’s past political service when they run for President or Vice President. A lack of political service I don’t consider a minus; if our founders didn’t make it a requirement in the Article II, Section 1, eligibility requirements, they no doubt had a reason for considering it unimportant.
I am looking over Perry’s past political history. What I’m seeing is a political wheeler-dealer with Globalist ties, such as attending Bilderberger meetings, which results in Gov.Perry getting a thumbs down from me.
I won’t vote for him if he is the Republican candidate. He is NOT a Conservative.
Guessin you would also not have voted for Reagan. PDS! Obviously you all see Perry as being a viable threat to one of the other wannabes you prefer.
So you think his endorsements are a more important indicator than his governing record?
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