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.
Democrat losses were greater ~ that's due to the higher mortality rates suffered by blacks (they are about 40% of the effective field strength of democrat voters).
By 2016 the Democrats will be weaker than the Republicans simply because so many more of them will have died, become disabled, or gotten felony convictions.
They’re really jumping the shark.
I think this just shows you can't trust the exit polls to the extent people seem to think you can. They're based on what someone says about their own views and what category they should be put in or they're based on whatever the survey taker wants to write down in spite of what they're told.
People like to roll up printouts of exit polls and smack one another around with them but as far as I can tell the exit polls are as much a part of the democrat fascist propaganda machinery as what they call "news" is.
Agreed.
The sample design was poor ~
I don't think exit polling is organized well enough to care about one way or the other.
Telling us about exit polls is about as scientific as waving a sacrificial chicken over your head.
I seen and heard this type my whole life. That is why it doesn’t surprise me. Don’t fret, it is actually a good sign. The larger a movement is, the more outliers like this you will have. It is proof that the movement is strong. Once you have attracted a small percent of morons to your movement, you know you are here to stay.
A lot of ‘em are likely incredibly uninformed folks who think they like Tea Party ideas… but don’t actually get it.
A few could be Ds playing games, but I doubt this is a huge number.
I’d bet there’s a contingent of ‘suicide cult’ Tea Partiers who deliberately voted for Ø due to being pissed off at the GOP for various reasons, with possible hopes of forcing the GOP to self-destruct into civil war, and/or clear the way for a takeover or emergence of a Conservative party.
That makes it even more interesting to see some people around FR who love to focus on them and whack others with the numbers from them. I guess they think that as long as they post some sort of numbers they’re proving their case even if the numbers themselves are actually worthless. Or, maybe they don’t realize how worthless the numbers are.
Regards
Total Horse Shit.
I just had dinner and endured a stoopit creative myth that a large swath of Latino’s in Florida, who are typically Republican, decided to go full tilt crazy and pulled the lever for Obama.
I call BS on both these stories.
BTW, swinging that chicken will get you better answers ~ so it's believed.
The practice is very ancient and reminds me of Roman Augury where birds are released.
The chicken sacrifice is more honest than exit polls though ~ it's certainly a case of random distribution of blood drops and plasma, like the bird droppings as they are let out of the cages ~ but with the exit polls there's no random selection since there's a background stratification of voters which is not accounted for very well.
Hog slaughter down on the farm is no good ~ they use bullets to the brain, and hogs just huff and the breath goes out of them and that's it. No idea how we could use that to illuminate exit polls ~
Since the “TEA” stands for “Taxed Enough Already,” it makes perfect sense for TEA Party folk to vote for the psychopath who has pulled out all stops in a concerted effort to raise their taxes.
With Romney it is the little things, like leaving the republican party and eventually coming to support democrats with donations, fundraising, and even voting democrat after rejecting Reagan and his conservatism, and the Reagan revolution.
“I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” Romney said when asked whom in his party he aligned with.
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush,”
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
Agree. A small percentage may have not voted but seriously doubt that any voted for 0.
May all of those who voted for Obama, or did nothing to stop him get exactly what they deserve. Too bad the rest of us have to go down with them, but that’s how great nations fall.
Barky is a paper tiger. He will disintegrate before our eyes. Just sit back and watch it happen my wonderful friends. The next four years belong to us.
any Republican who did not vote for Romney, even those who sat it out, cast a vote to help destroy the country.
The answer would be:
'Alex, what is BS...'
I was going to sit this one out but ended up voting after I saw the disgusting immoral goals of the democrat party at their convention It also helped me decide when I realized that if the One had 4 more years he could appoint more liberals to the Supreme Court. I do think some Evangelical Conservatives didn’t think it through and couldn’t vote for Romney. Another reason for the 11% could be just democrats saying they were in the Tea Party. I’ve been reading so much evidence of election fraud that I’m frightened for Democracy will we ever win another election with their vote stealing machine? I pray we can prove it somehow so we can put a stop to it. The only problem is who will report it? Not the media in this Country I felt sick when Fox called Ohio with only 15% of the vote in. I still wonder why they seemed so eager to call Ohio for Obama.
I don't believe any so called statistic that comes out of the media. Nothing can be believed anymore, nothing.
“Chill?” What did I say that was over the top? Two sentences which your post agreed with, except that you maintain a lot of answers are out of ignorance, rather than lying. I maintain that if one answers a “yes, I agree with...” and don’t know what is being agreed with, one is a liar. What’s so over the top about that?
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