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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 09:38 PM
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why all the polls so close when we see the pictures and people say other
wise?

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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 09:42 PM
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1. Because they are corporate owned
and the looove *. I know 9 people who voted for * in 2000 - only 1 will now. When you ask friends and family in other states, they are saying the same thing. We are in 1984.
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 09:42 PM
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2. they aren't polling people who will vote??? they are lying ??
they don't know how to poll??? look at what they did in IOWA????

The only ones who don't know what kerry stands for are the media????
They have only asked the media???
the media interviews itself a lot on tv ????

lots of reasons to believe they are BS
and that is the way I look at all of them

I have seen the media on election day - sway the election - they say who is winning and people go vote that way - because they want to be on the winning team -

well this time - people are leanrning to ignore the media

so the polls will be wrong and they are wrong
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 09:43 PM
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3. I like that answer
my tin foil hat says


they are riggin the polls so they can rig the election
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 09:58 PM
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4. Bingo!!!!!!
The repubs can't steal it if it isn't close.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 11:33 PM
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10. They Own the Tabulators - They Can Make Them Say Whatever They Want
but they need at least a couple of "respectable" polls showing Boosh winning
to make the theft credible.

They can turn a landslide for Kerry into a landslide for Boosh
if Gallup and a couple of the network polls cooperate.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 10:00 PM
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5. AND YOU ARE CORRECT. The number one trick this group has/does...
...is repeat the bullshit often enough so that even if they don't really believe, the sheeple begin to expect or anticipate the result. Look at 2000 and the coup that took place. It looked so natural.

The Polls are shit. They only measure likely, registered voters. The polls do not take into account the MASSIVE amount of 18-25 year olds and the equally massive amount of single women, who traditionally do not vote and are registering in droves. Trust me. $hrubco knows in a free, fair election they loose, HANDS DOWN.
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Doohickie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 10:03 PM
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7. Yeah, THE BIG LIE.
Hitler used it well...
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cheshire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 10:01 PM
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6. The better question is why are you fixated on polls and are you getting
out the vote?
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friesianrider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 10:10 PM
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8. DITTO!! Ignore the polls and register someone new today...
We're two months from the election - even if the polls are accurate (which I doubt very seriously) it's too far to mean anything. At this point before Iowa, Kerry was polling behind Sharpton...and we all know where Kerry ended up in Iowa ;)

Ignore the ridiculous polls that mean nothing and get out there and register someone new, and keep their info so you can pester them on election day.

Votes, not polls, determine elections!
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 11:50 PM
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11. BINGO!
As they used to say back when Kerry became a hero and Bush* became a deserter, if you aren't a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem.


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liskddksil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 10:27 PM
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9. Its the students that will win it for us
At my school in Pennsylvania. Hundreds of people have newly registered or transfered there rgistration from non swing states. Apparenty only 15 of the 115 registrations turned in so far were registered as republican.
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tedoll78 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 11:56 PM
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12. I'm wondering..
Are Kerry voters out working their second and third jobs while Chimp voters are sitting at home, sipping their non-French wines while waiting for the phone to call?

Are Kerry voters less able to afford a phone line? Or perhaps, since one of his cores is young voters, do they even have land lines?

I used to work for the Gallup Poll as a caller. You wouldn't believe the number of hang-ups, refusals, outright liars, answering machines, call screening services, etc that we got. Add the fact that they don't properly weigh their samples, and you can see why I don't trust them. A properly-weighted poll at least has something going for it..
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