So, the famous battleground poll has finally succumbed to the allure of the dark side? I’m sorry, but my lying eyes tell me that things are far worse for liberals than they’ve been in twenty years.
“( - - - The Battleground poll, by the way, is the bipartisan poll, - - - )”
“Bi” means two. Partisan means party. The basic assumption is that there only two sides to a coin, aisle, issue, opinion, etc. This is two-dimentional thinking! The answer is rarely “either-or.” The answer is almost always NONE OF THE ABOVE !
Not counting the illegal aliens, there are 290 +/- legal Americans, including about 120 million who are of voter age. About half of them actually vote, so about 65 million vote.
Republicans and Democrats are about 20 % each of those voting or 13 Million voters for each party.
Independents are about 20 % also. That leaves 40 % or 26 million voters in the largest political party in America. The name of that party is The Disgusted Party.
Yep, some of The Disgusted Party members hold their noses when they vote for Candidate tweedle-dumb or tweedle-dumber, ( I did that in 2008 ).
Some of The Disgusted Party complete their ballot by leaving blank the candidates that are the most vile, ( I also did that in 2008 ).
These blanks are called ABSTAIN VOTES in the UN, “PRESENT” in the US House and Senate, and NONE OF THE ABOVE in some States.
In Texas, and many other States, the blank or legally cast ABSTAIN votes are never counted.
In fact, in Texas write in voting is not allowed if the name is not on the ballot, and thus illegally restricting our freedom of choice when we vote.
In reality, two dimensional polls are not realistic anymore.
It is time to demand polls that are multi-dimentional, and a vote count method that is similar to the method used by The US House and Senate.