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Don't believe polls - here is why
ELECTORAL VOTE (this very day in 2004) ^ | 10 09 2008 | drzz

Posted on 10/09/2008 11:03:17 AM PDT by drzz

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To: cherryade; All

If anybody needs to see what we’re talking about when we refer election season poll-troll posters, review cherryade’s posting history.


61 posted on 10/09/2008 12:10:42 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (youtube.com/wptg)
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To: Rebel Wolf

Hey, Rebel...

Doors open at 11am, so I’m guessing people will be lining up at least an hour earlier.

We usually pack our lunch and get on line well ahead of doors opening. From my experience they give out way more tickets than they have capacity, and people who come too close to rally time sometimes don’t get in. It just depends on the weather, I guess.


62 posted on 10/09/2008 12:12:54 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: drzz
Zogby says race is a tossup

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1124117&format=text

Rasmussen has Obama +5.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Yet only the Gallup Obama +11 poll is mention by the media, including FNC.

63 posted on 10/09/2008 12:19:08 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: pepsionice
What I see here....is a vast land of opportunity for lawsuits after this election. Ten college kids could dismantle an entire county listing of registered voters and within 30 days....show who actually exists and who doesn’t.

I did it in my New Hampshire town in about three days worth of part-time software development.

I ran the entire town's checklist against the property assessment database, searching for names of voters registered as prior owners of the property, as well as checking the whitepages.com listings and the US Postal Service address verification database.

The results were way far from perfect, but I found a total of 1,800 outdated or otherwise invalid registrations, about 10% of the entire checklist, including one fellow registered to vote at an address that corresponded to the wooded riverbank across from a shopping plaza in town.

I didn't have time to follow up to find out if any of the particularly fishy ones ever voted, though there is one that moved to Florida around 25 years ago, but made it through a couple of different voter registration purges which suggests that he cast a vote, because doing so eliminates the legal requirement to send a piece of mail to confirm the voter.

64 posted on 10/09/2008 12:24:30 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: CottonBall
Was it proven that many did? I thought it was just an MSM-tactic to make people stay home -and don't know if it actually worked.

Well, it certainly was a MSM tactic, same stuff they are pulling now. I have no way of knowing how effective it was, but there were reports of people getting out of line and going home when it happened. I suppose that could be a sort of urban legend, but knowing people, I believe that some did just that.

Whether it was 5 or 5,000, those that did are deserving of heaps of derision.

65 posted on 10/09/2008 12:24:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: chippewaman; drzz; Disco Dave; EDINVA; iceskater; xyz123; Corin Stormhands; jla; Flora McDonald; ...
They just said Obama up by 8 in Virginia. Sorry, don’t believe it. But McCain-Palin need to come to Virginia soon for a rally. Very soon.

As other posters have noted. Senator McCain and Governor Palin will be in Virginia Beach on Monday morning and Governor Palin will be in Richmond on Monday afternoon (I'll be there).

We're in a heck of a battle in Virginia. It doesn't help that Jim Gilmore is going to lose by at least 15 points. But Virginia has a history of splitting the ticket.

Mark Warner, Governor Hinky Eyebrow and The One have been battling for Virginia, emboldened by their wins in 2005 and 2006. But all is not lost...yet.

On Election Day in 2004 I was on here for two hours after the polls closed screaming about the "exit polling" that showed John Kerry "winning" by 5-10 pts. The Bush win was somewhere in the 8 pt. range.

This week the momentum is very slowly turning back to Senator McCain. If you heard any of the Wisconsin Rally today (Rush was playing clips) you know that not only is Governor Palin fired up, but Senator McCain was naming names and kicking butt.

Give us three more weeks of that, and we can still pull this off. But we can't give up.

66 posted on 10/09/2008 12:29:32 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (If Obama has nothing to hide, then why is he hiding?)
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To: uncbob

There are lots of voters who are not informed or are tired of the same old faces. They are simply not aware and not scared of the consequences of voting for the wrong person.
The majority will decide the outcome and maybe many in the majority are brainwashed by the left wing circus.


67 posted on 10/09/2008 12:34:19 PM PDT by FreedBird (t)
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To: All

This is something I have been trying to figure out for a while now; how and from where, if at all, can we get accurate information? I am in CT at Quinnipiac U., you know, the place that keeps polling Obama way ahead of McCain practically everywhere. And even here, I have noticed the last few weeks I see McCain yard signs but no Obamas and about the same amount of Obama and McCain bumper stickers with the McCain number surprisingly increasing if I had to guess.... so if this is happening in ultra-blue new england, what is happening in the rest of the country?


68 posted on 10/09/2008 12:36:40 PM PDT by wrhssaxensemble
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To: bayliving; chippewaman; Dream Warrior

Richmond alone isn’t going to cut it. He needs to go to Roanoke, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Fredricksburg, Norfolk, and Wytheville as well.


69 posted on 10/09/2008 12:37:01 PM PDT by Hoodat (Obama's only connection to the descendants of American Slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

It had the same effect in California and it isn’t urban legend.

I have a very good friend there who was in a fairly long line to vote when someone came and announced that Florida had cinched it for Gore and it was all over. When someone else with a radio confirmed it, my friend left w/o voting and he said that quite a few others left the line also...


70 posted on 10/09/2008 12:38:36 PM PDT by Sal (Sarah Palin is a living, breathing rebuke to phony feminists everywhere in every party.)
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To: GLDNGUN
Only those people won’t be showing up to vote,...

They're all voting absentee. They're absent from the whole dang planet, because they're ghost voters, but rest assured they're going to vote.

71 posted on 10/09/2008 12:40:47 PM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: Corin Stormhands

My family and I will also be in Richmond. The Victory Center said wear red....a red state reference.


72 posted on 10/09/2008 12:49:09 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: chippewaman

They were here last week.


73 posted on 10/09/2008 12:49:16 PM PDT by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be)
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To: wrhssaxensemble

Everyone who believes in polls is daft or is soon go’na be.

Look for encouragement folks.
Don’t tread down in the gutter with all the negative talk...

One reason why...

http://www.hispanicdemocratsformccain.com/

And this....

http://www.democratsformccain.com/

And this...

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=34831

I am pumped and excited for our country!

The msm and polls are being used as propaganda.
DON’T believe them...........they are lying!

McCain/Palin 2008

God bless America!!!


74 posted on 10/09/2008 12:49:25 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: KansasGirl

Thanks for the link!


75 posted on 10/09/2008 1:03:04 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: drzz
Does anyone remember the Kerry's landslide that came afterwards ?

Yes, I do remember the JFK landslide. Can still hear to this day all the whiners on Errhead Amerika screaming about how JFK had won because the exit polls said so. The actual election results be damned - Rove had fiddled with the Diebold machines. I have acquaintances that believe that horsesh$t to this day. We will see more than just yelling after McCain/Palin take the WH after the Nov 4 exit polls will show Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful won by a landslide.
76 posted on 10/09/2008 1:11:49 PM PDT by Cheerio
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To: GingisK

Boy Howdy. I am praying for snow , rain and earthquakes on Nov. 4. I want only the really patriotic vote to turn out. Perhaps Global Warming will keep the homeless, felons and traitors from voting that day!


77 posted on 10/09/2008 4:54:27 PM PDT by phillyfanatic ( iT)
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To: KansasGirl

Yep. I’ve got my tickets for the Baracuda rally in Richmond.


78 posted on 10/09/2008 6:33:12 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Watching H&C and Colmes and Beckel just accused John Fund of crying fraud to set up for when “his” candidate fails!

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!!!! Amazing!


79 posted on 10/09/2008 6:40:51 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Election 2008--It's all about the judges!!)
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To: CottonBall

They absolutely should not have called FL before the polls closed! Some anecdotes say this happened because people could have been driving to the polls and became despondent when they heard. I would hope that they would still go and vote for the other races on the ticket, but whatever.

Florida contains two time zones and the Panhandle is very conservative. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t by design....


80 posted on 10/09/2008 6:43:24 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Election 2008--It's all about the judges!!)
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