‘Operation Demoralize Is Working Just as Planned’

PJ Media ^ | September 9, 2012 | Ed Driscoll

[SumProVita]

To place the weekend’s polls into perspective, Matt Drudge offers some historic flashbacks:

● POLL: O 49% R 45%… ● FLASHBACK: CARTER +4 OVER REAGAN IN SEPT 1980 [+8 IN OCT]… ● FLASHBACK: DUKAKIS +17 OVER BUSH AFTER DNC 1988…

As William A. Jacobson writes at his Legal Insurrection blog, “Operation Demoralize is Working Just as Planned”:

It’s November 7. Barack Obama has won. The Republican presidential strategy has failed. The media is jubilant. The right-blogosphere is going through a serious introspection. The left-blogosphere is dancing on our graves and shoving it down our throats. Four years of fighting the Obama agenda was for nothing.

Oh, I’m sorry. Let me correct that. It’s September 9, not November 7. The rest of the paragraph above can remain as originally written.

Oh, and as a reminder that snap poll numbers immediately after a convention can be rather deceiving, particularly when there’s nearly two months of a campaign — and the debates — and shifting world events — left to go, here’s USA Today on September 8th of 2008:

WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an “enthusiasm gap” that has dogged the GOP all year.

McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, the Republican’s biggest advantage since January and a turnaround from the USA TODAY poll taken just before the convention opened in St. Paul. Then, he lagged by 7 percentage points.

[SumProVita]

"So if you’re feeling nervy, irritable, depressed and/or tired of life by the polls this weekend, well, that’s just how the MSM wants you to feel right now."

AND....many people are praying daily for a GOOD leadership....and I highly doubt that many are praying for Obama to win. The majority of his fans don't really believe in prayer.

Shake it off...and let's PRAY and WORK. ;-)

[OKSooner]

Mittster playin’ right into it with yesterday’s remarks about zerocare.

[teletech]

THANK YOU!!!

[Salamander]

I pray as if my life depends on it.

And it probably will.

[skeeter]

This year the Obama Surges Ahead headline just doesn’t pass the giggle test.

[SumProVita]

I pray as if my life depends on it.

And it probably will.

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It always does. ;-)

[BobL]

Lots of people on this site seem to take the bait from the media...rather than have confidence to know that we’ll win, when the votes are counted.

[jsanders2001]

Sort of reminds you of the Dewey / Truman election doesn’t it?

[dforest]

It is pretty obvious that the demoralize campaign was ready to kick off after the dem convention ended.

In a way, it worries me more when people become overconfident and complacent.

This tactic could also backfire on the dems because of the above mentioned.

Just go vote election day. Put on those horse blinders and ignore the MSM, or do like Obama, go play golf until election day...then vote out Obama.

[Salamander]

Touche’.

;]

[dforest]

It is pretty obvious that the demoralize campaign was ready to kick off after the dem convention ended.

In a way, it worries me more when people become overconfident and complacent.

This tactic could also backfire on the dems because of the above mentioned.

Just go vote election day. Put on those horse blinders and ignore the MSM, or do like Obama, go play golf until election day...then vote out Obama.

[txrefugee]

The Dems and their enablers in the msm do this every election. Reagan and Carter were “neck and neck.” Go and vote and bring everyone over 18 in your family with you. The turnout of actual citizens and non-felons needs to be great to counter the voter fraud that Democrats rely on.

[delcopatriot]

† ora et labora †

[SECURE AMERICA]

This is nonsense.
The people have been demoralized for over 3 years now.
The media can work 24/7 to blame Bush, blame the people, blame global warming or a bad alignment of the stars.. Doesn’t matter.
Blacks will vote for Obama out of pure racism.
The vast majority of others will vote for their wallet. Is it better today then 4 years ago and regardless of the media everyone knows who has been President for those 4 years.

[grumpygresh]

If the current polls are correct and the public is really that foolish to vote for 0bama this time, then maybe investors are equally as foolish.
We all know that if 0bama is elected, we will have an economic contraction that could be even worse than 2008. Why aren’t investors pulling out now if 0bama is favored to win?
There is a disconnect here.

[SumProVita]

I think you might be surprised at the growing number of Blacks who will not vote to reelect Obama. His immoral push to redefine marriage has opened their eyes...among other things. As for the rest....with prayer and hard work, many can become much happier with the truth.

Our entire system needs to be renewed.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

No. We need to do this back to them, only much more aggressively and effectively. They start rumors about Romney being insensitive to minorities, then we start rumors that Obama resents his white side and opposes mixed dating and mixed marriages. They try to paint the momentum as going toward Obama, and we start rumors that Illinois is leaning Romney and that many within the Obama camp are worried about losing in a landslide. They start rumors that Romney/Ryan are going to gut medicare, and we start rumors that the Obama wants all of the elderly on Medicaid, wants to cut treatment for metastatic cancer, and wants the costs of all employer provided benefits - such as private health insurance - to be counted as direct income that is taxable. And so on..

[SumProVita]

Good grief...it’s September. History tells us that this will probably change.

In the meantime....pray and work! ;-)

[Liberty Valance]

What could possibly be more demoralizing than the last 4 years of the Obama administration? Media polls? Hardly.

Here's Tony Snow's take on polls ...

"The third news-cycle pox: Polls. Polls provide a ripe source for conflict because pollsters regularly reduce complex questions to queries of mind-numbing simplicity: Do you want America out of the war? Would you like it if the government guaranteed health care? Should the government guarantee full employment? Should we spend more on education? Should we cut your taxes? The answer to each of the above is, “Well, sure!” But note that the questions are asked in a vacuum, as if the object of a respondent’s desire could be had for free, without consequences. Pollsters routinely ask if people would like something unobtainable - guaranteed employment, for example - and politicians take the wistful answers as holy writ. Someone opposed to a guaranteed employment scheme can expect to be accused of supporting joblessness or hating the poor, at which point the mud would fly on both sides - all because of a poll question based on an idiotic assumption. Dumb questions beget dumb debate. In short, media organizations have been seduced by process, conflict and polling stories, and along the way have sacrificed the tradition of looking for creative ways to understand and explain the world. They have become hostages to the easy and shallow stuff and strangers to stories that touch people’s hearts and characterize their actual lives. Indeed, journalists seem to have developed an elitist contempt for the daily concerns of viewers, listeners and readers - and the public has noticed. This explains the across-the-board slippage in newspaper circulation, and viewership of broadcast and cable news." --Tony Snow

[SumProVita]

We work honorably and effectively tell the TRUTH. THAT is best...and God will honor it as well.

;-)