Say Anything Blog

I call these articles, “wishful thinking”.  They have little effect on how people actually vote, but feed the desires of the party faithful to actually win for once.

I’d look at Rasmussen for more objective, balanced numbers.  Naturally the Democrats complain that Rasmussen skews the results towards the Republicans, but it’s a fact that Rasmussen falls the closest to correct as any of the pollsters.  They were one of the few polls that were projecting a Bush victory in 2004, and were bang-on in the final popular vote.

I also like Rasmussen

The art of the political poll used as a political tool was perfected during the Clinton administration.

Every day they repeated a new poll saying that support for Clinton was climbing higher and higher.  What was unsaid was “You think that too, don’t YOU!”

So that constant barrage reinforced their own polls driving a man who never came close to majority in an national election up to very high numbers.

It was a full court press to gain a short term political objective.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Any professional pollster will tell you that if you poll on the same issue too often, what you get is what people thought of the last poll, not anything real.

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

Or the way I would say it… the reporting influences their choices in polls (including whether they want to participate), but generally it has much less influence on how they vote.