These pollsters hired to give everyone an idea of how the political races are going in this country take their jobs very, very seriously. With that in mind, if all goes according to the polls, if indeed states like Montana and Arizona are now in play (not a good thing if you are John McCain), then it’s going to be a big night for Barack Obama Tuesday.
But we all know what happened in 2004, when the pollsters were made to look bad.
We’ll see what happens Tuesday, but if Obama/Biden do not win handily, there should be some major investigations launched. The 2000 Presidential race was bad enough, but 2004 was an absolute screwing, imo, and if it happens again in 2008, there will be hell to pay.
Forgive me for being a little skeptical, but I have been ever since the guy who manufactured a majority of the electronic voting machines used in 2004 committed himself to bringing a victory in Ohio to George W. Bush, I’ve been a little iffy on the issue of fair elections. Not to mention that Diebold couldn’t produce a “paper trail” for their voting machines that year…despite the fact that they CAN produce paper trail anytime I withdraw money from my bank, no matter how far I am away from home.
Look at it realistically, people, 8 years of terrible leadership has just happened. On that subject, John McCain, in 2003, referenced in one of his own speeches about the fact he “supported Bush over 90% of the time”, and then Congressional Quarterly actually showed him voting with the Resident 95% of the time. Because of these truths…this Tuesday’s election should be an absolute WALK for the Democratic candidate, even if that candidate wasn’t a good one (like, for instance, John Kerry). But lo and behold, this year’s candidate IS a good one, and shouldn’t even have a worry in the world heading into Tuesday.
Let’s just hope that the race isn’t really as close as Faux News or CNN claims it to be. Let’s hope that the national news networks are keeping it falsely close so people will keep watching. Let’s hope that most Americans (there’s 25% or so we just can’t help, no matter what) are smart enough to know what’s better for them this time around.
And if it IS a close race, then we need to find out why, and more importantly in this case, how.
4 responses so far ↓
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ollie
// Nov 2, 2008 at 8:36 pm
CNN doesn’t have this race as being “close”:
They have Obama with 210 safe EV, 81 leaning while McSame has 121 safe and 36 leaning. McSame has to win ALL 90 “toss up” EVs and win over 20 of the Obama leaners while holding on to his leaners and he has to do with with almost no ground game to speak of.
Even Faux has Obama with 281, not counting toss-ups.
In one article, Faux openly accused McCain advisers of cherry picking favorable polls that show McCain not being that far behind.
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BJ Stone
// Nov 2, 2008 at 9:23 pm
CNN still has it, then, where McCain can win. Right?
That’s too close, Ollie.
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ollie
// Nov 3, 2008 at 11:27 am
Intrade markets this morning: an Obama contract costs 90+ dollars (pays out 100 if Obama wins); a McCain contract can be purchased for less than 10.
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postsimian
// Nov 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm
if only the vote tally reflected this.
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