Miscellaneous

Take Your Polls and Shove It

This late in the election cycle, it starts to feel like nobody is talking about anything else. Like many others of the leftward persuasion, I've felt really skittish about getting too comfortable with the lead Obama appears to have at this point -- while most polls since the final debate show a double-digit lead nationally, the last 2 elections (2000 & 2004) were so deeply bruising, I feel like the residual trauma isn't going to allow me to relax until Thanksgiving. And these polls are killing me:

From Zogby:

Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain has grown to 12 points in the U.S. presidential race, with crucial independent and women voters increasingly moving to his side, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.

Zogby said McCain, 72, appeared to have lost the traction he won after the third and final presidential debate last week.

From the AP Poll:

The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord.

What the fuck? Who to believe?

When you add in the issue of unacknowledged or implicit racism, then show some footage of the absolutely 100 percent completely maddening Sarah Palin, my blood pressure skyrockets. Needless to say, I'm not sleeping too well at the moment. And then today AP came out with a poll showing McCain pulling even with Obama. So here's the deal: fuck the polls. I'm going to go volunteer for the campaign. There's just a couple weeks left, folks. Lets make 'em count.

(Editor's Note: Woah, Molly. We know you're new around here, and that you're sleeping with one of the writers, but we don't advocate direct action around here. Our self-righteousness is lazy, thank you very much.)

Full post as published by Quiz Law on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).