Posted on 06/06/2012 4:34:25 AM PDT by iowamark
Why should we conclude this? Based on the results of exit polls that he just gone done saying were completely unreliable in recall elections?
Any mention of the amount of money Unions and Libs spent creating the recall in the first place?
Any mention of the massive vote fraud, perpetrated by the left?
Anybody out there REALLY think that our dear ‘ol GOP RINOS will actually:
Sprout a spine?
Grow a pair???
Yeah, me neither.
Another thing we know is that liberals never, ever give up. They’ll point fingers of blame, lick their wounds, then go to work figuring out how they can fool people better.
This was a decisive victory, but the battle will wage on.
Erik killed it with this comment. :)
The same think will happen in November in Philadelphia. The exit polls will favor Obama, but the actual vote numbers will be much closer.
In heated elections (especially in Wisconsin where people were reminded that their neighbors are watching) people will lie about their vote in public to avoid retribution.
This one battle that will never end. we should gear up to fight this battle from now on. There will be good times and bad but our goal should be to move the ball to the right at every opportunity. politicians will go where the votes are. Our job should be to change the discussion from cutting government increases to actually cutting the spending levels. Wisconsin is a good start but we have to start applying the pressure to the GOP now.
add to my above post...
or - like what was said on FOX - people will walk away without responding to the pollster.
The best defense is a good offense.
I watched a little CNN last night, and I thought John King actually made some good points about exit polling. Participants in exit polls are optional. Even applying margins for error, your sampling may be disproportionally affected.
He also mentioned (and I happen to agree), there is a "moral superiority" factor for some voters; i.e., Dems who believe they're smarter than the knuckle-dragging Republicans. These people are more apt to gravitate to someone with a clipboard, asking for their opinions.
Furthermore, Republicans--who are generally more distrustful about media and pollster types--may tend to avoid participating in such polls.
What I find interesting, is that on one hand, the media is saying that perhaps we shouldn't trust exit polls or read too much into them (after Walker's resounding win). On the other hand, those same media types are saying that the voters they measured in their exit polls are still inclined to support Obama in November, so Wisconsin shouldn't be in play. Hmmm.
“Walker winning big with a big union turnout means even private sector union members hate public sector unions.”
It might even mean that the public sector union members hate their own union. If Wisconsin is closed shop/membership required, I guarantee there are a large number of people who are members only because the job required it.
Exactly right!
The largess of the public sector unions is a WINNING issue for Republicans... and, they’d better realize it.
Private sector workers of ALL kinds have been taking major cuts for the past 4 years, while Democrats have been protecting their government union pals. That’s a crime.. and, it needs to be yelled from every mountaintop.
Eighth: The more you dismantle the Democrat infrastructure (unions), the more people will see a way to prosperity, and the more evidence that Obama will go down big in November. The Walker plan saved taxpayers money, lowered taxes, balanced the budget, and dramatically shrunk the union membership rolls. All wins. The only loss was the student vote for Barrett which says the education system is out of touch with the rest of society.
It’s amazing to listen to these so called experts. Even ones supposedly on our side.
Election after election since 2009 (not poll or exit polls), real elections where people vote... Every election where Obama’s chosen guy or policy has been on the ballot, he gets smoked. (Christie, McDonnell, Scott Brown, 2010 mid term landslide, Anthony Weiner seat, Gay Marriage NC, Scott Walker recall, etc)
Yet even to this day, they all say Obama is the favorite. It’s quite entertaining.
Is that “Ed Shultz medical episode” clip on you tube or anywhere?
and there is still ONE MORE great vote to be counted before the election.... the Supreme Court vote on Obamacare :)
which will be the cherry on the top of Obama’s sunday of fail :)
I’ve been thinking one of the things changing in the internet age, is that people are getting much more politically savvy.
Oh, there are still plenty of people who trust network news - enough to put in someone like O in the first place - but people are getting smarter and more partisan as they learn how much the MSM lies through the internet. And one of the things they are doing is lying to pollsters, just to mess them up. It’s pure contrariness.
People don’t like being predicted and “figured out” so they can be either targeted or taken for granted by political types.
I concluded that even liberals hate unions.
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