Posted on 11/10/2012 6:45:45 PM PST by chessplayer
A footnote from the national exit poll that I missed earlier this week. Note to the 11 percent: You’re doing it wrong.
Reuters/Ipsos conducted its own exit poll, based on a massive sample of 40,000 people, and got basically the same result — 12 percent of those who “identify strongly” with the tea party pulled the lever for four more years.
I keep reading this claim. Could you please provide the data that demonstrates your claim is correct?
Blacks may be dying faster, but they comprise a much smaller percentage of the 60-80 age group than of the 20-40 age group.
And gays (despite fake media efforts to make them larger) represent trivial numbers.
I do not believe that for a minute. I know people who could not bring themselves to vote for Romney, but not one of them would have voted for Obama instead. They said they would vote for a 3rd-party candidate rather than violate their conscience. Many of those people were pro-lifers who could NEVER vote for Obama.
The people who are reporting the exit polling stuff have no concern for telling the truth even when the truth can be easily documented, and in an instance like this where there’s no way to prove them wrong they can make up whatever they darn well please. I don’t believe a word of it.
Liberals playing mind games.
book mark
Two reasons:
1. I’m sure some were tea-party haters who just lied to the pollsters. I sure would feed some BS to a pollster if I thought it would make the other side look bad.
2. The other part of it is poorly informed voters. I heard another exit poll question that asked if people agreed that expansion of government was bad because it increased the chance of corruption. 71% of those polled agreed - yet a majority of them voted for Obama anyway.
Unionized schools don’t teach American History and Civics like most of us learned, the family conversation over the dinner table has been replaced by texting from the shared data plan, and how many kids nowadays are learning traditional values from Boy or Girl Scouts, 4H, or at Sunday School? They plug in earbuds and listen to rap songs filled with four-letter words instead of paying attention in class and far to many just drop out before graduation and join gangs or the welfare rolls.
Yes I’m broad-brushing and we have some outstanding young people but we also - without any doubt - have a deteriorating culture and a disheartening number of people who haven’t got a clue about much of anything (besides whose winning on Idol and DWTS).
Who cares... voting does not count...
or have you been asleep?...
Don’t be silly. There were fake Tea Parties all over the place in the 2008 elections, and I’m sure that’s still the case, if not worse. And anyone can claim to be Tea Party members, just in order to confuse things. Like the trolls that come here and insist they are conservatives, but. . . .
I would imagine that a few Tea Party people may have decided to vote third party or abstain, since Romney was the RINO candidate, but no real Tea Partyer would vote for Obama.
I think Reuters created these “voters” just like they created the Iraq bombing images by C&P-ing the same small image over and over on the same “photo” to make it look bigger than it was.
They think we’re idiots. First we’re told that conservatives stayed home in droves, and now they want us to believe that the avid Tea Partiers who were motivated to show up voted for OBAMA?
Gosh, they think we’re morons.
I believe it. There is a small minority of Tea Partiers who are phonys, 11% sounds right. The type who bitch and moan about big government, except for the handouts they get. They are all for cutting the other guy. For them, you would have to pry their government entitlement checks out of their cold dead fingers.
Wasn’t me with the claim, but I’ll chime in:
2008: McCain/Palin 61.2 Million votes
2012: Romney/Ryan 58.2 Million votes
So, that’s about 2 million less votes. This still leaves the question of where they went - dead, escaped to foreign lands, or stayed at home. Factor in that effectively, more than 2 million less voted, in the sense that the population grew by a few percent over 4 years.
Romney treated Palin like she didn’t exist, I wonder how many Palin supporters refused to vote for Romney because of that. I also wonder how many Ron Paul supporters refused to vote for Romney.
archives.gov has the prior election totals. McCain got 59.6 million roughly, Romney got 58.5 million roughly.
Some suggest that this is due to old Republicans dying off means that they aren’t being replaced by younger Republicans entering the ranks of registered voters.
My real fear is that some stayed home because they didn’t like Romney. Staying home is always a vote for the incumbent effectively.
"Hatred", eh? Like his running mate, I suppose, and going into Indiana to stump for Mourdock even though it didn't personally benefit him (as Indiana was a lock) other than wanting to keep the Senate seat.
So I take it from this response you are considering the numbers accurate and defending so-called "tea partiers" for voting for Obama. Wouldn't surprse me in the least to learn that you voted for Obama yourself.
You continue to make one remark after another that has no basis in fact...the classic being the one where you claimed Mourdock was not polling better because Romney was "dragging him down" even though in the same data Romney was up double digits.
Well, one way to look at this election: The US is like an alcoholic that just needs to hit bottom before deciding to go into recovery. Not that that will work.
If Palin’s supporters loyalty was to her and not to the issues, that would be pretty sad. Palin wasn’t running this year. And Ron Paul didn’t win the nomination.
Do Palin and Paul supporters think a second Obama term is better than a Romney term? If they do, that’s very sad.
Obamacare will be fully implemented and unable to be dismantled by 2016.
Obama may get a few more Supreme Court Justices, not to mention the lower federal courts.
Who knows what will happen to Israel.
National debt will be 20 Trillion. Worse, Amerika will be more dependent on government, which will make it even harder to reduce spending.
Anything about that appealing to Palin or Paul supporters? I don’t think so.
A careful examination of things would reveal he thinks all you need to do to run as a Republican is wave money around.
How do you know this?
There have been people who pretend to be Tea Partiers in order to make the Tea Party look bad - people who carry racist signs, for instance - but they are quickly identified by other Tea Partiers because they just don’t fit the OVERWHELMING pro-America, pro-Constitution profile of the other Tea Partiers. I don’t think you’d be able to find 1 in 10 of those people voting for Obama after they took the time to attend rallies and publicly subjected themselves to the libel as well as the threat of Homeland Security considering them potential terrorists.
At best, there might be fakers who told exit pollsters they were Tea Party people who voted for Obama, but that would only be an illusion and wouldn’t explain the numbers that contradict what people observed regarding early voter turnout and polls taken in the run-up to the election.
Do some of you people STILL not understand that the cumulative vote total hasn’t been counted yet…? Lots of absentee and provisional ballots out there yet to be tallied, and so on.
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