Posted on 09/19/2012 5:03:33 PM PDT by Abiotic
Wow, I should have reviewed my post...
I think it has more to do with the “reality TV show” that news has become. I don’t watch the news as I am so pissed that our ambassador was killed and these “news” people report on all this drivel.
That is why every senate candidate is running and state polls are a whole lot of suck for us. You believe what you need to. I work on local campaigns so my allegiance is not in doubt. I am sorry I do not fall in line with your purity standards. Me? I am comfortable with who I am and my beliefs. Have a good day.
John Nolte corrected himself
You quoted David Frum and Peggy “The Dimwit” Noonan. That was the tipoff. If you WERE a conservative you would know that no conservative regards either of those poor simple frauds as one of them.
To give you a comparison you’ll understand better, it’s as if I went to troll on DailyKos by telling them that “even Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman say Obama is too far left!”
So it’s not just that you’re a lefty troll. It’s that you’re not a very good one.
Hank
LLS
The polls had shifted by late September to Obama's favor as McCain made an idiot out of himself during the financial meltdown.
As we're now at Sept. 21st, this is (IMO) late September. IIRC, by early October there wasn't a single poll that showed McCain ahead or even, Obama had taken the lead by more than the 'margin of error.'
I think alot of people are kidding themselves looking at the poll internals thinking somehow they indicate a huge Romney victory. Yes, I'm a political junkie too, I've looked at the internals and generally speaking if we level out the polling samples between R's and D's it would indicate a Romney victory is at hand. Problem is I can't find/remember a single election in the past where the general polling data indicated one direction, and the election turned out the other.
Many folks like to point to Reagan's victory over Carter, and use the polling data from Sept. 80 to compare to today. I don't believe that's an accurate comparison due to the advancements and maturity in how political polling is done today vs. 1980. If one looks at the polls from October of 1980, Reagan pulled even with Carter early in October and pulled ahead in the two weeks before the election.
There may be a pattern that Romney matches with 1980 but that's on the surface. Trying to use the internal data and sampling rates to match Romney to that pattern I believe is a mistake. Just my humble opinion.
This refers, I think, to his comment that Romney was down 1? And it was”among the most enthusiastic” right?
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