On election night, a reality check looms for someone
The multiplicity of modern media has made it possible to create worlds within worlds, realities within realities. You can, for example, choose a reality in which Barack Obama is up by 3.5 percentage points, with an 80 percent chance of being re-elected, or you can choose to live in a competing reality in which “unskewed” polling reports the happy news that Mitt Romney is actually up almost eight points in national polls.
However, a time will always arrive when your created reality must be “trued up” against actual reality. You can delay that moment, you can dodge that moment, but eventually it must come. Media technology, with all of its magic, has not yet created a work-around to that harsh exercise.
In the runup to the Iraq War, for example, the Bush administration created a reality in which Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, American forces would be greeted as liberators, ethnic differences in Iraq were of little consequence and the invasion would more or less pay for itself. Actual reality proved to be quite a bit different, but it took several agonizing years for our leaders to admit just how delusional their created reality had been, and to realign their policies accordingly.
Election days also have a way of realigning created realities to actual reality. On the evening of Nov. 6, we will not only have an answer to whether the polls or the “unskewed polls” had proved more accurate, we will learn a lot more about the American people as well. Each political party entered this campaign season confident that it had the backing of the majority of Americans; each believed that its message was more true to American values and more responsive to America’s needs.
The election is going to tell us which reality was correct, and which is in need of alteration.
In my own personal created reality — and given human limitations and our imperfect understanding of the world, we all live in created realities of varying accuracies — Barack Obama should and probably will be re-elected. In my reality, those conservatives who have been pouring into movie theaters to see “2016: Obama’s America” may have to come to grips on Election Night with the fact that a majority of their fellow Americans simply do not see the world as they do, that in fact they, not the president and his supporters, are the minority that is out of touch with the American mainstream.
I understand that would not be easy to accept, and that most will employ any means available to avoid doing so. The process is already underway and is easily observable. For example, the claim that current polls are biased against conservatives is at root a defense mechanism that allows them to deny in public, and for a while, an outcome that many of them in private now fear to be looming.
And should that argument fail, fear not, because this is a defense in layers. Conservatives are already preparing a fallback defense blaming their loss on the media. Beyond that they have prepared a defense in which they blame it on Mitt Romney, and beyond that on the Republican establishment that forced the selection of Romney on a party base that knew better.
All of those layers of psychic defense are designed to defend the inner sanctum, the holy of holies. Whatever happens, blame must not be allowed to fall on the conservative message. Blame it on those selected to spread the message, blame it on those who distorted the message, blame it on those too stupid to appreciate the message, but whatever happens, do not blame it on the message.
Because if the message is wrong, it forces a readjustment to reality that is too painful to be considered.
Read, for example, Erick Erickson, the CNN analyst and Redstate.com founder:
“There are a lot of elitist Republicans who have spent several years telling us Mitt Romney was the only electable Republican. Because the opinion makers and news media these elitists hang out with have concluded Romney will not win, the elitists are in full on panic mode. They conspired to shut out others, tear down others, and prop up Romney with the electability argument. He is now not winning against the second coming of Jimmy Carter. They know there will be many conservatives, should Mitt Romney lose, who will not be satisfied until every bridge is burned with these jerks, hopefully with the elitist jerks tied to the bridge as it burns.”
Read his conservative colleague, Ben Domenech:
“There will be very negative consequences for a Romney loss for the power of center-right elites who are largely viewed as foisting him on the base despite the latter’s objections. A Romney loss almost certainly pushes the 2016 nominee rightward, and I doubt the megaphones will be powerful enough to frame the 2012 contest, as they did in 2008, as one where the conservative Veep choice dragged down the ticket.
“Like it or not, the money and opinion elites on the center-right own Romney’s failure from the perspective of the base — they need him to win. And the reality is that if Romney loses, it will have little if anything to do with Paul Ryan’s big ideas, tactical choices, or elite misgivings — and far more to do with the simple fact that Romney is still disliked by most voters.”
Both men insist — and on this they are correct — that the battle is not yet lost. There is still time — barely — to turn the race around, although at this point something major would have to happen to do so. I have yet to see such anguished handwringing from anyone on the left, which tells you something.
The thrust of the argument from Erickson, Domenech and many others is equally telling: Should we fail, our failure can be explained only by the fact that our movement has been insufficiently pure, that our message is insufficiently pure, and that we ourselves have been insufficiently pure. Move farther right, ever farther right, for there lies true salvation.
From my version of reality, that response dooms you to perpetual minority status. From theirs, it represents pursuit of the true faith. And one of those realities is very very wrong.
– Jay Bookman
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Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:16 am
America used to export tons of corn and help feed the world
Stupid Fed ethanol policy under Obama means we now have to import corn
Do you even read your own links before forming an opinion, or do you simply look for headline confirmation only?
The SECOND paragraph from your link:
The imports, made through agribusiness companies such as Bunge Ltd (BG.N) and Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM.N), are the largest on record and come after the worst drought in half a century rallied grain prices to all-time peaks this summer.
If you read the entire article, ethanol is not even mentioned.
Doggone/GA
September 27th, 2012
8:17 am
“Stupid Fed ethanol policy under Obama means we now have to import corn”
and I bet that record breaking droughts in the corn belt had NOTHING to do with it…right?
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:19 am
USinner @ 8:16
Guess I wasn’t the only one who read the article.
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
8:20 am
Bro – you owe me a coke
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
8:21 am
“Nothing but rainbows and unicorns here in obamaland”
clap your hands if you believe that trickle-down really DOES work!
Doggone/GA
September 27th, 2012
8:22 am
“Bro – you owe me a coke”
I think it’s Cokes all around this time!
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 27th, 2012
8:23 am
JKL2 sees rainbows and unicorns
and makes up quotes
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somebody IS back on their meds.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
8:23 am
Regardless of what Jay sez, there are two real issues that could make a difference..First, the polls can’t measure the turnout and most assume DEM turnout consistent with 2008…this is the key variable…if the enthusiam is off, even by 10-15%, it could push Romney past BO..
The second, and less discussed issue are the evangelicals…Depending on who you ask, as many as 20,000,000 did not vote last time because of McCain’s moderate position on religious issues..
If these folks are mobilized and the polls (I heard there have been some 56 seperate polls taken in the last month) are exagerated even by a smal margin…Jays horse may be moving to the speaking curcuit..
Unlike Jay, I see no reason why BO should be re-elected…Who knows what we’d get from Romney as that depends on the outcome of congressional control…
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:24 am
USinner
Isn’t it about time for the trip?
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
8:24 am
“Depending on who you ask, as many as 20,000,000 did not vote last time because of McCain’s moderate position on religious issues..”
oh, yeah … they’re REALLY ginned up by Romney
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:25 am
Who knows what we’d get from Romney as that depends on the outcome of congressional control…
And that is why some people see the need for Obama to get re-elected. You’ve gotta learn to look beyond your own perspective and personal biases.
Aces & 8's
September 27th, 2012
8:26 am
“In your version of reality, how is the budget brought into balance?
By spending cuts and tax increases.
And in yours?”
Oh Jay do you really want to know? You wouldn’t like the answer….
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
8:26 am
Brocephus – October 15th babbee … Heathrow to ATL !! you going to process my passport (talk about things that sound dirty but aren’t)
Peadawg
September 27th, 2012
8:27 am
Obama: “I want to see us export more jobs”
Moocher
September 27th, 2012
8:28 am
I don’t know about ya’ll but I’m excited for another 4 years of Obama mediocrity and more welfare spending and government dependency. I can hardly wait.
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:29 am
USinner
Based on the time that flight comes in, I probably won’t be the one to process you, but I’ll try to make sure I don’t have anything else to do so that I can hang around to meet you.
southpaw
September 27th, 2012
8:29 am
Can we hear some more giddiness over Paul Ryan’s supposed “Stench” comment?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html
Peadawg
September 27th, 2012
8:30 am
BTW…wonder how many Republicans will take Obama’s flub at 8:27 and run with it. Even though he corrected himself right after he said it.
TaxPayer
September 27th, 2012
8:33 am
Can we hear some more giddiness over Paul Ryan’s supposed “Stench” comment?
I think you may be first on that one.
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:33 am
Peadawg
Do you need to ask that question? Once that flub makes the talk radio and blog circuit, you’re going to see that posted here at least once every 30 minutes.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
8:36 am
Sorry…I meant to say that a large % of evanglicals either stayed on the sidelines…the total voter base of evangelicals is 17 million and there is a material % that stayed home in 2008..
Its the economy stupid
September 27th, 2012
8:37 am
News just broke and the economy grew at just 1.3% growth rate last qtr. And people want 4 more years of this failure. Lotta stupid people out there. Amazing.
Peadawg
September 27th, 2012
8:38 am
Bro, funny thing is it’s be truth if Romney said it.
Peadawg
September 27th, 2012
8:38 am
“economy grew”
“failure”
huh?
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
8:39 am
Bro – I’m on an afternoonish flight, so should be in early evening – will look up the times and let you know
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:39 am
the polls can’t measure the turnout and most assume DEM turnout consistent with 2008…this is the key variable…if the enthusiam is off, even by 10-15%, it could push Romney past BO..
thank you for your concern.
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
8:40 am
Peadawg – as he said, there are lots of stupid people out there.
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:42 am
PD, Bros, countryment–
once again, I direct one and all to Item #5 in this seminal political science treatise…
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-spot-b.s.-political-story-in-under-10-seconds/
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:42 am
Countryment? oy.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 27th, 2012
8:43 am
Watch Spain.
Watch Greece.
Keep you eye – on – the – military.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
8:43 am
BRO,
My own perspective is that it doesn’t matter….I’m merely pointing out the from a calculation perspective, there is ever so much more likely variance IF BO doesn’t get the same turnout in 2008…that has nothing to do with bias…just matter of fact relative to which polls blend turnout (Rasmussen) and those that don’t…(a majority of the other dozens of polls)…my perspective is simply that this is the first year where flaws or favoratism in polling may have implications to a degree not seen…
I agree with an earlier post that regardless of who wins..(unless congress is controled by opposite party than president), compromise is likely not possible…and congress with remain at or below 9% favorability..
USMC
September 27th, 2012
8:43 am
JAY BOOKMAN and RUSH LIMBAUGH are now colleagues and working for the same company…. Two peas in a pod! LOL!
http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2012/09/26/wsb-picks-up-rush-limbaugh-adds-news-show-from-5-to-7-p-m/
Sometimes life just isn’t fair, is it Jay?
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 27th, 2012
8:43 am
Its the economy stupid – ” Lotta stupid people out there.”
Yes, and because they outnumber smarties like you, you’re going to be stuck with Obama for another 4 years.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 27th, 2012
8:44 am
Its the economy stupid
September 27th, 2012
8:37 am
News just broke and the economy grew at just 1.3% growth rate last qtr. And people want 4 more years of this failure. Lotta stupid people out there. Amazing.
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Mostly sock puppet posters
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:46 am
JAY BOOKMAN and RUSH LIMBAUGH are now colleagues and working for the same company….
Not really–Rush gets his checks from Clear Channel, not Cox.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
8:47 am
STANDS,
I have no concerns…people generally vascillate to data that offers their personal desired outcome..is human nature albeit not remotely objective..this is the tone of every partisan blog such as this or Kyles…we have in the past found objectivity in the polls but the discrepancies in calculation and the shear number of polls statistically suggests that a wider variance exists…it depends on voter turnout..last time, I suggest due to the disgust with Bush, the backlash was a significant factor…people don’t like Romney and it seems that most of GOP base may be more interested in getting rid of BO as opposed to supporting Romney..
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:48 am
I would be a little worried about WSB’s health, though, if they really think they need to bring in a syndicated show that can already be heard in the Atlanta metro area loud and clear.
That they’re bumping the one not-totally-nuts daytime show voice on their payroll to taped-delayed mornings in order to accommodate the Excrement in Broadcasting, though, is really ridiculous
Joe Hussein Mama
September 27th, 2012
8:49 am
K71 — “Once again, I admire you for your honesty and integrity. We ought to have more like you.”
That’s very kind of you to say, sir. Thank you very much.
USMC
September 27th, 2012
8:49 am
“the polls can’t measure the turnout and most assume DEM turnout consistent with 2008…this is the key variable…if the enthusiam is off, even by 10-15%, it could push Romney past BO..”
Let’s not count on this because the Buffoons and Parasites come out of the woodwork to be bused in and “punch the “D” for a free meal and other FREE stuff.
Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3jI
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:49 am
they outnumber smarties like you
“Don’t be stupid, be a schmartie!
Come and join da Nazi pahty!”
–Mel Brooks
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:50 am
Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!
“they get bitter and they cling to guns, and religion, and cartoonish Negresses.”
–Thomas Jefferson
USMC
September 27th, 2012
8:50 am
“Not really–Rush gets his checks from Clear Channel, not Cox.”
…AND don’t forget the Republican Party!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
8:51 am
My thought is that whoever wins will ultimately be the loser..if BO wins and things don’t improve and he, as in 2008, makes a litany of promises unkept…he will likely have a backlash not unlike Bush/GOP in 2008…nothing will change regardless….the issues we face that are really material are generally not significantly impacted by WH…
Jm
September 27th, 2012
8:52 am
Sfd 8:10
Yes. R’s wouldn’t have increased the artificial demand for ethanol that Obama has
USMC
September 27th, 2012
8:54 am
“Not really–Rush gets his checks from Clear Channel, not Cox.”
They are still part of the same BRAND.
Maybe they converse trade ideas with each other in the break room while getting on a coffee or smoke break.
Jm
September 27th, 2012
8:54 am
And of course the droughts have something to do with it tards
You can’t control the weather
But you can eliminate wasteful uneconomic use of corn in ethanol
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:54 am
…AND don’t forget the Republican Party!
heck, I figured he actually pays THEM at this point.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 27th, 2012
8:56 am
News just broke and the economy grew at just 1.3% growth rate last qtr. And people want 4 more years of this failure.
Sock puppet or no, that’s somebody who deeply believes in this political system and its two-party principles. Otherwise, why would he immediately jump to the conclusion that the guy who’s running as the alternative is going to do any better than the current occupant? What if NEITHER candidate is really going to bring unemployment down substantially in the next several years?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 27th, 2012
8:56 am
USMC
I’m a moocher. You’re a moocher.
Everybody is a moocher too.
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Got mortgage interest deduction?
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:56 am
R’s wouldn’t have increased the artificial demand for ethanol that Obama has
Not that I want this to turn into a urination match, but how have Obama’s policy increased what is already a pretty serious demand for ethanol? I honestly wasn’t aware of any huge changes in the past few years–did the trendline turn way up?
(for what it’s worth, I pretty much hate using corn for ethanol, in principle, whether it’s Rs or Ds doing it.)
USMC
September 27th, 2012
8:57 am
“heck, I figured he actually pays THEM at this point.”
Based on Romneys lack of Campaign donations lately, now that Jay has called the election for Obama, you are probably more accurate!
(I am feeling all ginned up!)
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:58 am
Peadawg
As funny as that sounds, I’d agree with you.
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Stevie Ray
The only way I’d consider voting for Romney is if there was definitive proof that Congress was going back to complete control of the (D)’s. As it appears that it will be split, I see no need to replace Obama with Romney. From my viewpoint, that would be downgrading, and we should always strive to upgrade as we move forward.
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USinner
Once you know the flight number, I already know the basic schedule. It’s just a matter of which concourse the flight will arrive on that date.
stands for decibels
September 27th, 2012
8:58 am
For the record, we need more free stuff, not less.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-09-25/ben-bernake-inflation-money/57840674/1
USMC
September 27th, 2012
8:59 am
“I’m a moocher. You’re a moocher. Everybody is a moocher too. Got mortgage interest deduction?” –Granny
Get a hold of yourself Granny, there is a 12-step program in a neighborhood near you!
(It’s okay, I like strong coffee, too)
Brosephus™
September 27th, 2012
8:59 am
dB
Thanks for reposting that news story link. I forgot to bookmark it last time it was posted.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 27th, 2012
8:59 am
A Sock puppet is somebody who deeply believes in this political system and its two-party principles
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Welcome to the Occupation
You ARE being snarky right?
Joe Hussein Mama
September 27th, 2012
9:00 am
0311 — “Joe Hussein Mama:”
You claimed a large amount of fraud was present in the VA. I’m willing to hear you out on that, but I’m not willing to do your research. If you know WHERE that alleged fraud is documented in those thousands of pages of VA IG data you linked me to, then I’d appreciate it if you’d point me to it.
Otherwise, I’m beginning to conclude that you haven’t really researched it yourself and that you’re trying to pull some kind of delaying action on me.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 27th, 2012
9:01 am
USMC
Fact remains….you’re a moocher too.
USMC
September 27th, 2012
9:02 am
“I’m a moocher. You’re a moocher. Everybody is a moocher too. Got mortgage interest deduction?” –Granny
“Wouldn’t you like to be a Moocher, too. Dr. Pepper”
USMC
September 27th, 2012
9:03 am
“Fact remains….you’re a moocher too.”–Granny
Whatever you say, Granny. As long as it makes you feel good and artificially boosts your self esteem. “It’s all good!”
Welcome to the Occupation
September 27th, 2012
9:05 am
decibels: Funny, Friedman talked about dropping money out of helicopters. Here’s what Keynes said:
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/keynes/john_maynard/k44g/chapter10.html
Williebkind
September 27th, 2012
9:07 am
“that a majority of their fellow Americans simply do not see the world as they do”
They see is as CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC poisons the air ways for Romney those few times they present his side and continuously mislead the American people about Obama. They got Obamoa elected the first time and now they are going for two.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 27th, 2012
9:07 am
cc — “Bingo! Answered like a true lib. You’re dismissed . . .”
If someone ASKS a ‘have you stopped beating your wife’ question, then that’s all the response they deserve.
And as far as “dismissed” goes, if you’re not Jay, then you, your dismissal and the horses you both rode in can go take a flying leap.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
9:09 am
USMC,
The DEM parties MO has always been to buy votes via government spending an promotion of these programs…IMO most of these programs do much more harm than good by creating such low expectations of those with a tradition of usage…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 27th, 2012
9:11 am
USMoocherC
Heavens above! Need YOU to boost my self esteem?
A comic moocher is that one.
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Blessedly independent, leaning democratic and yes it is all good.
USinUK - hi dee hi dee hi dee ho (and former Girl Scout)
September 27th, 2012
9:11 am
““Wouldn’t you like to be a Moocher, too. Dr. Pepper”
”
Welcome to the Occupation
September 27th, 2012
9:12 am
Granny Godzilla: “Welcome to the Occupation /You ARE being snarky right?”
Hm, me snarky? Naaaah!
USMC
September 27th, 2012
9:16 am
“Heavens above! Need YOU to boost my self esteem?
A comic moocher is that one.”–Granny YODA Godzilla
God bless you Granny. I applaud your creative mind especially at your ripe old age. To play the parts of Godzilla and Master Yoda in one blog takes a creative, if not delusional, imagination. But you you seem to pull it off Flawlessly.
(I am totally kidding with you)
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
September 27th, 2012
9:16 am
BRO,
There is no certainty about upgrade or downgrade..on one hand we have a known quanity that is, by most material measures, a bust..on the other hand, we have an unknown…do we continue with more of the same…or try a fresh approach? People have already made up their minds and I doubt “undecided” voters are really undecided except about whether or not they actually vote..
If the congress remains split..we can expect four more years of nothingness on the economy..we know know we can’t spend our way out under any circumstances..much less objectively measure the efficacy of same…only hope is that the outcome forces compromise…BO may say he will have more control if re-elected, I don’t see that happening because he has to keep support for his party up.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 27th, 2012
9:18 am
RB — “I wonder if the few Christians left in the party will ever wake up and figure out the others actually hate their religion and their God??”
If atheists don’t believe there’s a god, then how, exactly, would they hate on it?
USMC
September 27th, 2012
9:18 am
“Blessedly independent, leaning democratic and yes it is all good.”–GRANNY
correction: “Blessedly DEPENDENT, leaning democratic and yes it is all good.”
(your welcome)
Joe Hussein Mama
September 27th, 2012
9:20 am
RB — “And I’d bet my dad who served and my son who is currently serving would disagree with you, Jammie. I know that’s not good enough to meet the stupid “I served and you didn’t” routine you toss at every person in this country on an almost daily basis”
You’re right. If you didn’t serve, then you didn’t serve.
“Your schtick is demeaning to everyone who has worn the uniform.”
Those of us who actually served don’t need you to defend us, Cowboy. We’re perfectly capable of thinking and speaking for ourselves.
barking frog
September 27th, 2012
9:21 am
Romney has conceded 47%
of the vote to the President.
3% plus one more should not be difficult, so i guess
it is over.
St Simons
September 27th, 2012
9:29 am
a reality check looms, alright.
as I’ve said since January, Money-boo-boo will not win Florida.
or Ohio. or Virginia.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 27th, 2012
9:29 am
S. Ray — “…just matter of fact relative to which polls blend turnout (Rasmussen) and those that don’t…(a majority of the other dozens of polls)…”
Rasmussen’s ‘turnout’ number is nothing more than a guess about what actual turnout will be on Election Day. They’ve got no way to accurately predict it, yet they crow and make a big noise about the fine-tuning and adjustments they’re constantly making to that number.
But it’s all a bl*wj*b. It’s completely meaningless and serves as nothing more than Rasmussen’s attempt to legitimize the ‘fudge factor’ he’s applying to his numbers.
Skip
September 27th, 2012
9:47 am
Shame Mitt didn’t run as Mitt, could of been an interesting race.
Rightwing Troll
September 27th, 2012
9:49 am
I got together with family over the weekend, had this conversation with my brother-in-law:
him: I’m voting for Romney, that #$^%&$ Obama has done so many illegal things he should be impeached…
me: oh really?, I was unaware you were so into politics. What exactly has Obama done that warrants impeachment?
him: turned this country into socialism.
me: how?
him: by lying and cheating.
me: ooookayyyyy….
My brother-in-law (god love him) is a blue collar guy who lost his fulltime job in 2007, went on unemployment for 96 weeks, and now refuses to look for a real job because he’s perfectly happy doing odd jobs for 15.00/hr (he started doing odd jobs on a cash basis, while on unemployment). He’s had a hip replacement at the age of 36 (10 years ago), and he and none of his family have insurance. His children are adopted (god love him… again) and he gets a stipend from the state for that, actually I believe the children are insured by the state until the age of 18.
There, ladies and gentlemen is your typical Romney voter…. Unabashedly on gubbimint cheese, certain that Obama is doing illegal “stuff” and is making us all socialists, but devoid of any facts or details.
I was just flabbergasted… I didn’t know he was political, and I didn’t know he was a Pillbo fan…
Rightwing Troll
September 27th, 2012
9:57 am
Money boo-boo… heh… that’s good.
getalife
September 27th, 2012
10:54 am
It would help if romney could tell the truth like money boo boo care did show empathy.
getalife
September 27th, 2012
11:07 am
Of course the cons will attack him for showing empathy with money boo boo care or telling the truth about our President so add that to another reason he will lose.
Sophie's Choice
September 27th, 2012
11:09 am
Oh, my. We’re experiencing the quadrennial “foaming at the mouth” amongst the right-wing Reichheads. Sad & funny all at once.