Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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I don't want to be Negative Nancy - but DO NOT TRUST POLLS! No matter what they say! Repeat it like a mantra... do not trust them. Polls can be (and are, regularly) manipulated. They can say whatever the pollsters want them to say. And since we have no way of knowing where the pollsters heart and political leanings are - we cannot trust them. EVER!
Act as if we are behind by 10 points in an unweighted poll. Continue spreading the word. Continue talking to people, and searching for/posting on message boards and twitter. Don't get caught up in positivity. It's only 28 more days, and the end result is too darned important.
Just for grins and giggles, any one know what odds the bookies in Vegas are giving on Obumma?
I would feel those would be a better indication for the mood of the country than any poll. Man is it a shame when organized crime is more honest than the media.
Just looked this up.
Political Props All Times Eastern
Tue, Nov 6, 12 Spread Total
11:00p EST
2012 US Presidential Election - Winning Party
Democratic Party -230
Republican Party +190
Check back soon, these lines update often.
I hope I can be as delighted on the evening of November 6, 2012 as I was November 4, 1980.
As Yogi Berra said "It's not over until it's over." He was talking about baseball but it applies to politics too. I won't be feel safe and happy until all the votes are counted and Romney declared the winner.
Remember too, that 90% of the game is half mental.
It will be difficult to be that happy, even if Romney wins, but maybe if I was also winning the lottery and getting oral favors at the same time, it might help. ;-)
An attempt to set complacency in the hearts and minds of some of the people likely to vote for Romney? Sure could be. Everybody must never let up until this communist bastard and all his minions are strapped securely into their ejector seats.
Ummm...I think you forgot to capitalize the "b" there is Bastard. Just sayin...~ ;-)
Obama and his goons can keep trying new forms of subversion on us to the right. It will have no effect. He's a loser, we know it, and we're voting him out. For these reasons I continue to believe R&R will win by a comfortable margin, around 54 % to 46 %. The polling has been largely corrupted to favor dems. Some of this shift now IMO is the polling firms trying to move to a more realistic assessment so they have business chances beyond November. Some observational evidence; the same polls showing O with a large lead in Ohio, pre-debate, also showed the dem senate candidate in OH with a wide lead, in fact a bigger margin that reported for O/R. Now the big lead is gone for O and the senator, and both now poll around 46 %. Likely O the magnificent lost some steam after the debate, but hard to imagine this trickles down so effectively to a senate race. I conclude the big dem margins reported earlier were just BS/propaganda and a drug fix for the narcissist in chief.
Like this one from Sunday?
"Ohio now shifts back from Safe Democrat to a Toss-up in the Rasmussen Reports Senate Balance of Power rankings. With the addition of Ohio, seven Senate races nationwide are Toss-Ups, but at this point it still appears likely that Democrats will retain control of the Senate."
Brown's a hack and needs to go, I hope. But still, Kaine is going to win in VA, and that incredible ass Nelson will win in FL, don't see much changing in DC. This is fast & inter-active, drag over a state to see the latest %s.
I am really scared that jackass Nelson will win, but Connie Mack has name recognition, and ran a good series of positive ads about himself. while Nelson was running nasty ads about Mack.
Now, Mack is running ads critical of Nelson, but not nasty ads. I think people are tired of the nastyness, and it will hurt Nelson. I just don't know if it will hurt him enough.
DHM, that is an intriguing thought. Perhaps the left-pols have concluded that, "Depressing the right hasn't worked. Let's try fostering complacency."
One thing that it is not talked about in polite circles is the outright political hatred Obama has earned for himself with us on the right. It was evident in the midterm elections and is alive and well today. Left-Loons want to chalk the hatred up to racism but, for folks like me, the only color about him we hate is red communist.
I think the polls shifted this week (despite all the same variables being formulated) because Romney took The Bamster out behind the woodshed last week and soundly thrashed him. In actuality, those formulas are likely showing the race much tighter than it is, I believe. I'm betting the election will be 52% for Romney, 46% Obama with 1.9999999999999999% going to Ron Paul and .00000000000000001% of the vote going to jcrowley1985 on a write-in ballot.
Yanking workers means the trend was for Romney and they didn't want to report that.
I have a feeling that this election will not even be close. Obama is going down & he's going down hard. He will barely go down swinging.
The media darling won't be told he's losing until all the votes are in. The MSM is in denial, and those that have seen the trends are keeping the truth from The One because they don't want to see the temper tantrum he and the wookie will throw.
View Comments (15)
I don't want to be Negative Nancy - but DO NOT TRUST POLLS! No matter what they say! Repeat it like a mantra... do not trust them. Polls can be (and are, regularly) manipulated. They can say whatever the pollsters want them to say. And since we have no way of knowing where the pollsters heart and political leanings are - we cannot trust them. EVER!
Act as if we are behind by 10 points in an unweighted poll. Continue spreading the word. Continue talking to people, and searching for/posting on message boards and twitter. Don't get caught up in positivity. It's only 28 more days, and the end result is too darned important.
Just for grins and giggles, any one know what odds the bookies in Vegas are giving on Obumma?
I would feel those would be a better indication for the mood of the country than any poll. Man is it a shame when organized crime is more honest than the media.
Just looked this up.
Political Props All Times Eastern
Tue, Nov 6, 12 Spread Total
11:00p EST
2012 US Presidential Election - Winning Party
Democratic Party -230
Republican Party +190
Check back soon, these lines update often.
I hope I can be as delighted on the evening of November 6, 2012 as I was November 4, 1980.
As Yogi Berra said "It's not over until it's over." He was talking about baseball but it applies to politics too. I won't be feel safe and happy until all the votes are counted and Romney declared the winner.
Remember too, that 90% of the game is half mental.
It will be difficult to be that happy, even if Romney wins, but maybe if I was also winning the lottery and getting oral favors at the same time, it might help. ;-)
An attempt to set complacency in the hearts and minds of some of the people likely to vote for Romney? Sure could be. Everybody must never let up until this communist bastard and all his minions are strapped securely into their ejector seats.
Ummm...I think you forgot to capitalize the "b" there is Bastard. Just sayin...~ ;-)
Obama and his goons can keep trying new forms of subversion on us to the right. It will have no effect. He's a loser, we know it, and we're voting him out. For these reasons I continue to believe R&R will win by a comfortable margin, around 54 % to 46 %. The polling has been largely corrupted to favor dems. Some of this shift now IMO is the polling firms trying to move to a more realistic assessment so they have business chances beyond November. Some observational evidence; the same polls showing O with a large lead in Ohio, pre-debate, also showed the dem senate candidate in OH with a wide lead, in fact a bigger margin that reported for O/R. Now the big lead is gone for O and the senator, and both now poll around 46 %. Likely O the magnificent lost some steam after the debate, but hard to imagine this trickles down so effectively to a senate race. I conclude the big dem margins reported earlier were just BS/propaganda and a drug fix for the narcissist in chief.
Like this one from Sunday?
"Ohio now shifts back from Safe Democrat to a Toss-up in the Rasmussen Reports Senate Balance of Power rankings. With the addition of Ohio, seven Senate races nationwide are Toss-Ups, but at this point it still appears likely that Democrats will retain control of the Senate."
Brown's a hack and needs to go, I hope. But still, Kaine is going to win in VA, and that incredible ass Nelson will win in FL, don't see much changing in DC. This is fast & inter-active, drag over a state to see the latest %s.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/archive/2012_senate_balance_of_power
I am really scared that jackass Nelson will win, but Connie Mack has name recognition, and ran a good series of positive ads about himself. while Nelson was running nasty ads about Mack.
Now, Mack is running ads critical of Nelson, but not nasty ads. I think people are tired of the nastyness, and it will hurt Nelson. I just don't know if it will hurt him enough.
DHM, that is an intriguing thought. Perhaps the left-pols have concluded that, "Depressing the right hasn't worked. Let's try fostering complacency."
One thing that it is not talked about in polite circles is the outright political hatred Obama has earned for himself with us on the right. It was evident in the midterm elections and is alive and well today. Left-Loons want to chalk the hatred up to racism but, for folks like me, the only color about him we hate is red communist.
I think the polls shifted this week (despite all the same variables being formulated) because Romney took The Bamster out behind the woodshed last week and soundly thrashed him. In actuality, those formulas are likely showing the race much tighter than it is, I believe. I'm betting the election will be 52% for Romney, 46% Obama with 1.9999999999999999% going to Ron Paul and .00000000000000001% of the vote going to jcrowley1985 on a write-in ballot.
Yanking workers means the trend was for Romney and they didn't want to report that.
I have a feeling that this election will not even be close. Obama is going down & he's going down hard. He will barely go down swinging.
The media darling won't be told he's losing until all the votes are in. The MSM is in denial, and those that have seen the trends are keeping the truth from The One because they don't want to see the temper tantrum he and the wookie will throw.