Posted on 11/04/2002 4:39:48 AM PST by publius1
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Morris is a consultant. Most consultants get so sick of candidates that they really could give a rat's ass about political affiliations after a while. Trust me on this one. :-)
That's my motto.
I help myself recuperate from recent surgery by thinking:
"Oh, boy, on Wednesday Leahy and Jeffords can return to obscurity!"
1. He's a consultant.
2. He's not currently working for Bush.
3. When he goes on talk shows or writes columns, he needs something interesting to talk about.
4. Go back into his track record, if you really care, and see where he's ended up...he's no "whore for the Democrats". He's just a whore. There's a difference. ;-)
5. Maybe he's right -- you won't know until the numbers come in and someone picks up a mint copy of _How to Lie with Statistics_. :-)
6. This is NOT a dagger before you. :-) Calm down. Morris has no influence on anything -- he just wants to have something interesting to discuss when he goes on talk shows. :p
7. Nobody has a clue about anything with the races this tight until the 5th. So just vote, sheesh! ;-) If Dick is at the polls pointing you in the wrong direction, call me up and let me know, and I'll get in contact with the poll watchers. :-P
CALM DOWN AND VOTE! VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE! Hehe. :-)
--KL
Morris is whipping a dead horse. He's gone out on a limb and made his bet. People like me have gone out on a limb and made the opposite bet, with better information.
Republicans +2 in the Senate, with the Landrieu runoff in Louisiana to come. Morris is all wet.
Congressman Billybob
Zogby was the only pollster who had the 2000 Presidential race correctly called the Sunday before the election -- all the other pollsters had Bush with leads between 3 and 8 percent nationally and a decisive majority of electoral votes. Zogby called it dead even in the popular vote and a squeaker in the Electoral College, which in fact, it was.
Everybody hates the guy, and he's now completely outside the power structure of Washington. Dems & Repubs who know anything of significance won't talk to him anymore, and his value as insider has gone down the tubes.
If the Repubs are slaughtered on Tuesday, he looks like a genius, his stock goes up, etc.
If the Repubs win big, he slithers into history as a political has-been & hack, with this minor footnote - He got his toes sucked by a hooker while talking to his friend, the Pervert in Chief Bubba Clinton. Clinton was supposedly doing something with a cigar and a 21 year old intern at around the same time. Yuk!
Ridiculous to suggest Bush should have stopped campaigning. Political capital is useless unless one spends some occasionally.
Exactly. Zogby has a solid track record; when he talks we all would do well to listen.
True, but in the very same election he had Hillary losing to Lazio. We all know what happened there.
Like most pollsters, Zogby gets it right about 50% of the time. If I were to take all the contested races and flip a coin, I would have the same chance of being right as Zogby or any other Pollster.
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