I’m pretty sure that in my eight years here that I had more invectives hurlked my way hourly by some freepers when I dared question the notions you just described.
don’t get me wrong, I thought the polls were probably off a bit too...maybe 3-5 points given the high Dem sampling but I never thought they were irrelevant or a grand conspiracy
and it turns out the Dem sampling was for a reason on likely voter polls, the friggin Dems did turnout much more in comparison to low GOP turnout
and folks would take one of the two polls in 2004 out of 17 that actually showed Kerry leading at election day and tout that as proof that “in 2004 they were wrong to...see? see?”
I was about ready to ask who took the damned strawberries around here..lol
but it’s all over now....and the nasty gnats will go back to being just a little snarly instead of nuts
i had one girl call me pissy when i said I was worried about the election....I have never been called pissy..lol...not in 50 years...it made me feel gay...lmao
in all seriousness though I saw some newbies come on and speak with trepedation about the election and get scalded so bad I bet they won’t ever be back
one hapless freeper claimed Mccain was in trouble about 7PM CST election nite and got slammed so hard you woulda thought he said Magnus really did dye his hair after all
yep....FR is pretty touchy feely around elections when it looks bad for us and the customary denial sets in
“and folks would take one of the two polls in 2004 out of 17 that actually showed Kerry leading at election day and tout that as proof that “in 2004 they were wrong to...see? see?””
The cherry picking was impressive. We also saw that with the one day Zogby sample from a three day poll. Never mind we’ve lost a hundred and fifty or so straight and most by 5+. Those don’t matter. This subset of a poll from one of the less accurate guys proves we must be winning!
Its started in fact already after this one. I saw some people using the fact that a couple polls were bad outliers as proof that the polls don’t matter. They ignored the fact that the averages were spot on. It was pretty mind-boggling to see it already starting a day after the disaster.