Move On: Full Page Ad in NYT Slamming Gallup

NY Times | Sept 28 | MoveOn.org

[Mr. Jazzy]

To quote one of my favorite lines from the movie, "Gone With The Wind", Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Scarlett in the burning city of Atlanta ...


"Panic is such a pretty sight."

[EggsAckley]

I can't answer your question. I generally don't follow the polls.

[Lou L]

Democratic voter fraud and other shennanigans "turnout" exceeded Republican by four to five points.

I wonder if they'd be so concerned if Kerry were up by 5-8 points?

[Legion04]

LOL!!
"Move on's" denial mode!
Gallup had consistantly pulled in kerry's favor, but even THEY can't hide the real truth anymore!

[Ptarmigan]

MoveOn is just mad that that Bush won the 2000 Elections. What a bunch of whiny crybabies!

[abb]

"Turn those machines back on!!!.....Turn those machines back on!!!!" Don Ameche in "Trading Places"...
ROTFLMAO!!!

[r9etb]

What a weird-ass thing to do.... What is their point in attacking the Gallup poll? Whack-jobs, yes, but they must think they have a good reason for attacking Gallup....

[Zeppelin]

***FROM GALLUP: Results based on likely voters are based on the subsample of 758 survey respondents deemed most likely to vote in the November 2004 general election, according to a series of questions measuring current voting intentions and past voting behavior.***

Now, if I'm reading this right, and I'd like to think I am, Gallup doesn't simply determine for themselves who they think is going to vote and who is not. Nobody would see that as fair or factual. They actually ASK the respondents about the likelihood they will be voting in November.

[pbear8]

Full-page ads in the NYT are not cheap. That they would spend that kind of money on such a peripheral issue suggests to me that they have tons of it to spend. I wonder where it comes from?

George Soros is their Sugar Daddy.

[KC_Conspirator]

Gallup, who is a devout evangelical Christian, has been quoted as calling his polling “a kind of ministry.”

I find this anti-religion bigotry as offensive as I find someone using the "n"-bomb.

[mlbford2]

This is by far the most desperate move I have ever seen. These folks are freaking out. What they don't realize is that all they are doing is bringing more attention to the poll #s. Smart move dumbasses.

[PilloryHillary]

Looks like MoveOn has started their election meltdown. Don't like the polls? Just take out an ad in the paper denouncing the pollsters! Yea, that's the ticket. That'll change some more minds. /sarcasm

[mlbford2]

"Turn those machines back on!!!.....Turn those machines back on!!!!" Don Ameche in "Trading Places"...
ROTFLMAO!!!


Mortimer turn those machines back on.

[IamConservative]

"Don Ameche in "Trading Places"..."

Precisely the mental image I had when I wrote that. This same den of kooks blamed the Hurricanes on Bush last week.

It is sad indeed that these kooks think people are this stupid (based upon the people they associate with.)

[GSWarrior]

Sounds to me like the losers are getting their excuses in line. You know, the mean-spirited and totally unfair SwiftBoat Vet ads that originated of course from the Bush camp.

Now you've got the pollsters colluding against Kerry. And the media's, CBS notwithstanding, failure to expose Bush's faults. They are all in Rove's pocket, you know.

The Bush Regime has its hands in everything. It's no wonder Kerry's campaign is in tatters. The Republican Smear Machine has made it impossible for the Dems candidate to have a fair shake.

Losers!

[uncitizen]

I love the way that guy says "HA ha"!

[weegee]

The polling services had been oversampling Democrats and nobody had an issue with it.

The only poll that counts is the one on election day.

[Freemyland]

"Mortimer, your brother"

[jern]

Is what MoveOn claiming correct? That Gallup is basing their polls on Rep. turnout of 40%? If that is the case, I can see where MoveOn would have a point.

[satchmodog9]

I think this is part of a coordinated effort to cast doubt on the outcome of the election. We have heard about the Orangeman organizing his legal teams across the country to file suits after the election. Gore is still running around whining about the election that was stolen from him. Black rat groups are going with the disenfranchisement thing again and Michael Moore is still an idiot. Now you will see how polling data that was pro- Bush helped influence the election. You know, people saw W ahead and decided to back the front runner.