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To: snarkybob
The polls are (not) written in stone tablets, they don’t predetermine anything, they just show snapshots of whenever the poll was taken.

this is all I've been saying. I'm not sure what you're arguing with me about :)

Look, I'm saying that the "trends" are inaccurate. I'm saying that if PEOPLE are reading the "trends" and then voting "with the trend" then the polls aren't ANYTHING, they are less than useless, and that is that. If the fact were that people weren't reading the polls first to "see who is electable".... then they might mean something.

All in all, they are meaningless, and so are all these little primaries taken individually. As a WHOLE they mean something. NH and Iowa are NOTHING.
79 posted on 01/08/2008 7:49:54 AM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: Rick.Donaldson

“Look, I’m saying that the “trends” are inaccurate. I’m saying that if PEOPLE are reading the “trends” and then voting “with the trend” then the polls aren’t ANYTHING, they are less than useless, and that is that. If the fact were that people weren’t reading the polls first to “see who is electable”.... then they might mean something.
All in all, they are meaningless, and so are all these little primaries taken individually. As a WHOLE they mean something. NH and Iowa are NOTHING.”

The trends so far are not inaccurate, and if it is like you say that the polls influence the outcome, then they can’t be as you go on to say useless. If people are seeing polls and then voting with the poll outcomes then the polls are dictating who gets the most votes, and that hardly makes them useless, also if a poll shows candidate A surging and people read that poll and vote for candidate A then the poll is in fact correct. The smaller primaries can determine momentum and fund raising opportunities. Iowa & NH won’t pick the nominee, but they can add momentum and fund raising opportunity to a candidate.


81 posted on 01/08/2008 8:02:09 AM PST by snarkybob (')
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