Yesterday my phone rang around 2:00 p.m. and the caller ID said Yarmuth for Congress (D). They asked for my husband, and I yelled, “He’s not here; he’s at work like every other Republican.” She was stunned into silence. I then hung up. It felt soooo good!
In Oct. 2006, a pollster called me and asked whether I approved of President Bush. I said, “No, he’s too liberal.” She asked whether I approved of Congress. I said, “No, it’s too liberal.”
We shouldn’t use polls, to predict elections. Instead, we should use election results of two or four years ago. Usually polls consider the views of 300-500 people, which is a small number. In Nov. 2004, about 122 million Americans voted. I live in Illinois, and I think that Obama will easily win this state because of the 2006 & ‘04 results. In the 2006 governor race, the liberals received about 60%, 49% for the Democrat + 11% for the Green Party candidate. In 2004, when Obama ran for the U.S. Senate, against Alan Keyes, Obama got 73%.