Posted on 05/26/2004 4:14:59 PM PDT by Dales
Since I posted the answer to your quiz on your blog, I'll let someone else take a stab at the Weekly Quiz here.
And are the pollsters ever going to realize that the state (commonwealth?) of Virginia is dying for a new poll?
Ping
How can you tell a Pole is at a cockfight? He'[s the one with the duck. How do you know an Italian's there. He bets on the duck. How do you know the Mafia's there? The duck wins".
Joke told by Reagan in the leadup to the 1980 NH primary. Okay. I cheated. I saw the answer in the comments section of your blog.:)
It seems like over the past week or so, American casualties in Iraq have been much reduced from previous weeks. The bad news from Fallujah and Najaf, and the Abu Ghraib prison (or whatever it's called) have been overblown in the sense that the news from Iraq has been tunnel vision, focused on the bad news, ignoring the good news in Iraq. Hence, Bush is weighted down, not by John Kerry, but by a concerted effort by the news media to spin the news from Iraq in the worst possible light.
Again, as odd as it may seem to contend, Kerry is almost a non-entity in this race. Right now, it's a race between Bush's goals in Iraq, and the public's perception of how well those goals are being met. Much can change in a week's time. And at some point, the voters may simply get weary of the news media lying about what is going on in Iraq.
It's amazing to me that Michigan and Oregon are a tossup right now...man it's be nice if Ahnold pulls something out of the hat in Ca.
If W finds a way to pull off those two, everything else will fall into place. If he can't, then I don't like his chances.
Before Nov 4th, WMD's will be located in big quantities, Bin Laden's will be a "certified" dead man, and the economy will be getting stronger and stronger.
new jersey spread reflects the fraud. newark, atlantic city, camden, perth amboy, just to make it look like blowout. when they start reporting those first, not last, there will be a more accurate tally.
From the look of this analysis - things have broke slighly Kerry's way - I mean look at PA,FL and CA - all have broke for Kerry (trending that is).
We need to keep working - Plenty of time to turn it around but this is going to a tight race I'm starting to feel.
Hey Dales - how about making the Bush states Red and the rat states Blue. Before 2000 it was all interchangeable but nowadays the terms "red states" and "blue states" are as much a part of the political lexicon as "bible belt" or "soccer mom." Everytime I see one of your maps it takes me a second to figure out why it seems odd, kind of like reading signs in the rear-view mirror.
Indiana is pro-Bush, and I think this will help us elect Mitch Daniels as governor this year.
MSNBC/NBC have Kerry winning with 313.
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NEVER FORGET
The morning after HILLARY's election as a U.S. Senator from New York in November 2000...
HILLARY publically announced that the 1st Bill she was going to introduce after sworn in...
was a Bill to ABOLISH our Republic-Saving ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
NEVER FORGET
Since I live in the People's Republik of Oregon, I can't believe it is a toss up either! WOW! No wonder Teresa's husband has been here twice in a week.
He's been there, done that.
When I teasingly recommended he reverse the columns by putting Bush on the right and Kerry on the Left, he did that, too.
Besides, it's the PURPLE states that matter anyway.
I reject the validity of the Zogby Battleground instrument until it has been shown valid by replication and predictive confirmation.
I do so because any poll that relies to any degree on self-selection has to have a built-in bias. It's the reverse-only-worse of the participation-rate problem.
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