Getting It Wrong (in the New Hampshire polls because of poor, less educated, racist rednecks!)

NY Times ^ | January 10, 2008 | ANDREW KOHUT

[neverdem]

Poor, less educated, racist rednecks, yeah, that's the ticket.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I’m more inclined to think vote fraud by Shrillery.

[truthluva]

Where do they get all of these numbers? The same place that got the poll numbers that were wring?

[DoughtyOne]

Why were they able to rather closely call the (R) side?

Me thinks the polls were probably rather accurate on the left too.

Is anyone checking into the possibility of voter fraud?

[KenHorse]

Polls are designed to steer public opinion not gauge it.

[Bon mots]

Sucker moms fell for the crying act.

[TexasNative2000]

Poor, less educated, racist rednecks

I didn't think the Democrats had any of those........... /s

[JennysCool]

Is anyone checking into the possibility of voter fraud?

Lots of folks. But it looks more like the Clintons took full advantage of the lax voting "regulations" in New Hampshire than committed any outright fraud.

[TheThinker]

Democrats don’t care about poor whites. So they pay the price and will continue to pay that price as long as they play favorties with respect to race and national origin. It’s very disinginuous and infantile to complain about it.

[tcrlaf]

This was noted by Real Clear Politics yesterday.

Hillary got MASSIVE support from the OLD, welfare recievers, and the uneducated...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2008/01/how_clinton_won.html

[KenHorse]

But it looks more like the Clintons took full advantage of the lax voting "regulations" in New Hampshire than committed any outright fraud.

True. They'll save that for other States...

[Kenny Bunk]

Is anyone checking into the possibility of voter fraud?

Wild-assed rumor that they bussed people in. More likely bussed'em around. Manchester a low-down dirty demo town, so it's possible ...

[Clemenza]

The Bradley effect in action. Iowa was not a secret ballot state. About 3-5% of voters can be expected to say they will vote for the “black guy” but do otherwise once in the booth.

[socialismisinsidious]

Wait a minute...they get all of this information regarding socioeconomic/education lines by polling SO why would I believe anything based on polls since polls have been shown to be inaccurate? This guy is writing an article about why the polls were wrong, based on poll data!

[sportutegrl]

A total of 33,937 New Hampshire men served in the Union army. This equals 10.4% of the 1860 state population of 326,073. Of that number, 14.4% died, or 4882. What is not reflected in these numbers are the hundred of thousands of veterans maimed and handicapped, many dying of their wounds years later. (I copied this from a Civil War website).

I myself am from the South, but the Times calling New Hampshire racist turns my stomach.

[Mrs.Z]

“Why were they able to rather closely call the (R) side?

Me thinks the polls were probably rather accurate on the left too”

I think Rush called it yesterday.

The problem with the dims is the “Bradley factor” (also goes by other names).

When a dim gets a call from a pollster, the answer will always be “I’m voting for the black guy” so the dim will appear to be politically correct.

Once the dim votes (without anyone checking for political correctness), the vote comes out the way he/she was really thinking.

Rush is pretty good at figuring out convoluted dim logic.

[neverdem]

Is anyone checking into the possibility of voter fraud in either Iowa or New Hampshire?

Someone check for voter fraud by the donkeys? Don't hold your breath, especially with a voter identification law being reviewed by the Supreme Court in 2008.

[chesley]

Or maybe it’s well-to-do, highly educated racists indulging in wishful thinking when conducting their polls.

Or maybe, the racists tend to vote Democratic. That is, after all, what he is saying, whether he realizes it or not.

[MAexile]

Wild-assed rumor that they bussed people in. More likely bussed’em around. Manchester a low-down dirty demo town, so it’s possible ...

Most of the sign holding supporters I saw always seemed to get into or out of a car with MA plates...

[snakechopper]

Me too.