Reason #6—it’s 31 in Hell.
"Sheesh, I can only hope. Here in Wisconsin a millionaire yahoo who believes that sunspots caused global warming not humankind, is going to steal the Senate seat away from Feingold, one of the most independent progressive senators around. There's a slim chance Feingold might win but it's about as likely as them dang sunspots melting the icebergs."
The “Robopoll effect”
Ha!
I got a robopoll call recently. The first question was approval of King Baraq. Apparently, my answer wasn’t acceptable, so the bot hung up on me.
So, how accurate will that poll be?
Spread fear, hatred and act out violent attacks to prove just who is in charge. This is a sure sign that the Democrats are still in control by golly!
It's those cell phones that will rally the vote. Those “unpolled” voters who carry out a world of their own in secret. What they have not worked for or planned for, they steal. It's always the other guy who has more than he needs, so he owes them and will pay; One way or another! Especially cell phones and free high speed Internet access.
That is the key, according to the New York Times. Taking Society to a whole new level that others dare not go!
I'm well beyond 60, yet I don't have a landline; I use my cell phone exclusively. I know many folks of my age that are in exactly the same mode of operations.
It is both disturbing and distressing the old Razzzz hasn't figured that out yet.
His landline polls are - by definition - biased as hell. In an undergraduate marketing class, if he designed a poll with this kind of bias, he'd receive an "F".
Not buying it. The whole premise of their 5 reasons was, 1,2,3,4: the polls are wrong, and 5 was the Dems have a superior ground game, which might also be NYTimes doublespeak for voter fraud. I told myself in 2006, the GOP wouldn’t lose the House, the polls were wrong, because they always oversample Dems, etc, etc, and whadya know they were right.
I told myself in 2008, there wouldn’t be another blue flood, the polls are wrong, and whadya know, they were right. I think they’re right this time, too, so I would expect to take the House. I am hoping to get the Senate, too.
In the end Nate when you go to sleep Freddy Krueger will still be there!!!
Is this a retread from 2000? Back to the cell phone thing, really?
Brought to you by Nate Silver, member in good standing of the allegedly defunct Journolist.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda, mighta, oughta...sounds like a lot of wishful thinking, and I hope someone puts this guy on suicide watch sometime today before the results start coming in...
Voter fraud is evident more in some districts than in others..
"Some" of the elections WILL BE compromised..
It will be an interesting pursuit "to find them"..
And find the cards up "some" sleeves..
Can anyone say, "Congressional Investigations into voter fraud in Chicago?"..
I KNEW YOU COULD...
A quite reasonable conclusion, actually.
I do get extremely tired of all the arguing over the meaning of polls, though. Why is it so critical that we "know the results" now instead of in 12 hours?
Oh, dear God! They have gone beyond delusional into fantasy land.
I would believe few responsible voters have ditched their landline phones. The Dems would have to get an unbelievable percentage of cell-phone using Obamatons to win. Even so, I doubt that the polls that accurately predicted an Obama victory in 2008 would be bad now after only two years.
It always makes me ponder why supposedly credible main stream media outlets publish this kind of nonsense which they know will be proved completely wrong the next day. Why do they do this? Why do they deliberately and repeatedly go out of their way to absolutely prove how wrong they’re prognostications are?
Obviously, commercial polling outfits like Rasmussen couldn’t get away with these kind of ridiculous predictions, as they’d pretty much be out of business the next day. So why do newspapers do this?
Is it because they already know they have no credibility to lose anyway, so they might as well just go the all-propaganda route? Or do they believe we are so stupid and with such short memories that we’ll simply forget two days later how wrong they are, and continue to attribute them credibility the next time they pontificate their obviously false predictions?
Personally, I think it is the latter case: they think we’re stupid and have the attention spans of Tsetse flies. But there’s more to it than that. Media outlets still operate as if we have no other information sources than the three network channels and a local newspaper at out disposal. Fifteen years ago it wasn’t a big deal to be consistently wrong because, since they all deliberately make the same wrong predictions in lockstep, it somehow looked like everyone was trying their best but the job was just to difficult for anyone to get right, and there were no other information sources to invalidate this falsely presented world view anyway.
But now all of that has changed. With multiple cable news channels, multiple talk radio channels, and unlimited information on the Internet, the Big Few can no longer control the flow of information. They can no longer knowingly make false predictions that are proved to be wrong the next day and still maintain credibility. People have discovered more truthful and more accurate sources of information, analysis, and prognostication.
And yet the Big Few continue to plod along and spew out their propaganda as if the world has not changed. The big meteor has smashed into their world, and yet all they can do is still shuffle about, looking for that last particle of sustenance as the dimming sunlight snuffs out any chance of their continued existence.
At this point, democrat retention of the House could be a lot worse for their collective and individual futures than losing big would be. Tar and feathers are not far from becoming a reality already, if they retain the House ...
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