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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I apologize. You are absolutely right, and I was wrong. The polls are always correct. We shouldn't even bother with elections.

Wow! Congratulations! You only had to go back 63 years, before Rick Perry was born, to the infancy of the art of polling, to get a poll that wrong.

Hate to break the news to you but this ain't Great-Grandpa's America any more.

The 1948 polls, conducted at the infancy of polling, were telephone polls. One problem: More Republicans than Democrats had telephone service way back then so the Republican Dewey voters were markedly over-represented.

That was a lifetime ago and progress has been made to correct 63 year old mistakes.

When modern poll after modern poll after modern poll shows that Sarah Palin's Negatives run from the high 60% range to the low 70% range, only somebody delusional enough to have believed that Christine O'Donnell was going to kick butt is delusional enough to still believe that it is 1948 again.

The Palin polls, like the O'Donnell polls, are not even in the same zip code as her opponents. O'Donnell was absolutely slaughterd in 2008 and, again, in 2010, exactly as predicted by such horrendously lopsided polls.

How did the Christine O'Donnell self-delusion work out for you, E. Pluribus Unum?

Congratulations again. Your self-delusion helped elect a self-described "bearded Marxist" to the U.S. Senate.


215 posted on 09/23/2011 6:57:34 PM PDT by Polybius (Defeating Obama is Priority Number One)
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To: Polybius
It's going to be so much fun contacting you the day after the election.

Bookmarked.

220 posted on 09/23/2011 7:13:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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