I spent the whole day today working for McCain/Palin in Indiana. Yes, I am from Kentucky. But I am an American before a Kentuckian, and Indiana needs me. We have to win Indiana, so I went to Indiana. I woke up at 3am, unable to sleep. I was like a kid on Christmas Eve. I fell back to sleep for a little while and then woke up again at 6. I got my shower, got dressed, and headed to Republican Headquarters in Jeffersonville. I wasn't due there until 9, but I couldn't stop myself from showing up at 8.
I helped set the phones up around the room, then distributed a huge stack of telephone numbers among the 21 T-Mobile phones in the room, in a place that USED TO BE what could best be described as a "wannabe Chuck E. Cheeses." An old go-cart track with a bunch of free standing video games inside. The video games and go-carts were now gone. Apparently repossessed by the bank. The company went out of business, but as I stood outside and enjoyed a cigarette I stared at the track, reflecting back on the days my son and I would race around that very track, which wasn't far from our home at the time, thinking of how he would grit his teeth and try his best to beat his dad, and how he would pout if I bumped him too much, or God forbid beat him! Soon I heard the sound of hammering, and found myself helping nail red, white, and blue banners and Mike Sodrel for Congress signs to the outside of the building. GOP headquarters had moved. It had been in a much smaller building down the street, but now the troops were gearing up, election day was nearing, and they just had to have more room for "the surge." Obama was against it. Haha.
Around 9am I sat down to start to make calls. It was just me. As the next hour quickly slipped by, a few more volunteers trickled in. By noon it was 8 or 9 volunteers. But by 4 O'clock every phone was up to an ear, and the sound of a nearly a couple dozen McCainiacs talking to voters was music to my ears. People came in and out, in three hour shifts, but I couldn't make myself put that phone down and go home. I had to seize the moment, and seize it I did.
I guess over the twelve hours I sat and called voters, I had two hang-ups, three Obama supporters, and countless voice mails. One guy was deceased but his wife promised to carry the torch and vote for McCain. Another woman, the most interesting of the day, vowed "NEVER to vote again for anybody." Why? "In 2003 I was being evicted from my apartment and I called every politician to help me that I could find, and nobody helped me. So I'm not voting for anybody ever again." Yeah, that made sense. I am sure Obama would have helped her. There is absolutely NO REASON not to prevent any and all foreclosures, any and all collection efforts . . . we should just take more money from the rich, give it to the poor, so they can pay their rent with it, right?
But time and again, almost every time I actually spoke with someone, as soon as they heard I was with the Indiana Republican Party, volunteered that they WERE voting, and they were voting for McCain. So much for the polls. I'll tell you THIS right now. I know what the "polls" say, but I know what I heard from INDIANA VOTERS, from ALL OVER THE STATE . . . and this was the easiest sell I have ever had to make. I KNOW that voter turnout is going to be absolutely phenomenal this year across the country.
The race is between, on the one hand . . . people who just want "change," whatever that means, people who have no interest in considering character, experience, and voting record . . . people who have either CHOSEN to believe what the "networks" have told them, or who have chosen to NOT be educated on the issues that matter, or SHOULD matter . . . . and on the other side people who value experience, judgment, a candidate's record, and national security. Believe me. I talked to these people. These McCain supporters KNOW why they are supporting McCain, and it's not because Obama is black. McCain supporters CHOOSE to know the candidates and choose among them, being informed. Obama supporters want "change," and don't care about anything else. That's just a FACT, like it or not. The laundry list of Obama's character flaws, bad judgments, and questionable associations is far too long to dirty up THIS blog entry with. You know what they are. You either choose to pay attention to them and support McCain, or disregard them because you want "change," or some expanded entitlement.
Obama said that the Republicans are making a "virtue out of selfishness," but isn't it just as selfish to base your vote on what Obama is going to do for YOU? Checkmate.
I'm back on the phones tomorrow, on my son's 13th birthday . . . Country First baby! And I have already been assigned to be a "challenger" on election day, to investigate absentee ballots that ACORN and others have tried to slip through the system to steal the election. I was born in the day, but not yesterday, and I promise you this . . . every ballot I lay my eye on will be valid, or it WILL be challenged, no matter WHO the ballot is for. And finally, to you Obamaheads: Go ahead and be uninformed. Be selfish. Make bad choices. It is only fitting you would make a bad choice in choosing a man who has done NOTHING BUT MAKE BAD CHOICES. But not to worry . . . us RIGHT thinking McCainiacs will save you . . . and protect you from YOURSELVES.
Nighty night. : )
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Why the polls mean NOTHING
That's right, nothing. And not just NOTHING . . . absolutely nothing. They're utterly worthless and without ANY value whatsoever. Even the Zogby Poll, which tends to be more accurate than the others, has its limitations. What kind of accuracy do you expect when 80% of people polled by telephone hang up the phone!
People generally don't trust polls, for good reason, and don't give pollsters the time of day. Others seem to get a "kick" out of lying to the pollsters. Take PENNSYLVANIA for example. During the Democratic primary this year, polls had Obama ahead by 3%, but Clinton won by 9%.
And what REALLY shows the FACT that people intentionally lie to pollsters, because pollsters are generally detested, seen as a lower form of life than used car salesmen and attorneys, EXIT POLLS showed Obama beating Hillary by 5% in Pennsylvania . . . what happened? The POLLS said Obama won by 5%, but Clinton ACTUALLY WON by 9%!
So a couple of things you can take away from polling data:
1)People say the opposite of who they will vote for just to mess with pollsters. People are somewhat put off by being called at home, and to pay the pollster back for bothering them, they give them inaccurate information.
2)80% Hang up the phone as soon as they hear the word "poll."
3)Conservatives are MORE distrusting of the polls, and so hang up on pollsters, or give them inaccurate information just to mess with the pollsters. It is the liberals who LIVE BY POLLS, that are oh so happy to participate in the poll . . . they think polls mean something. In fact, it's nobody's business who you're for . . . at least that is what most CONSERVATIVES think, and why conservatives are almost ALWAYS silent, or misunderstood in polling. Liberals want YOU to be informed of who they support, however they have NO INTEREST in being informed on the issues themselves, or the character of the candidate. I think at some point liberals just ASSUME that their candidate is a scumbag, so they don't care.
Show me a presidential poll that has been CLOSE to being accurate in modern history and I'll show you someone who has been smoking crack(you). But no matter how WRONG the polls are, Al Gore and John Kerry were both "leading in the polls," the media just heaps it on heavier the next time. In fact, there have been more polls taken in just the last SIX WEEKS than the entire presidential campaign in 2004. Instead of figuring out a more accurate way to poll, or giving it up altogether(which seems like the best alternative), they just give us more polls. And so we get MORE inaccuracy, more garbage, more worthless information.
Finally, one of the main reasons(I think), that polls are inaccurate, is that polls catch you at home. The voting booth doesn't stop at your house and let you vote from the couch. People SAY they are registered to vote, SAY they are going to vote, but statistics show that these people just don't want to admit to the pollsters that they don't have the motivation to vote, for whatever reason, or aren't informed enough to make an intelligent decision. SO they just THROW A NAME OUT THERE. That's right, you heard it here first. The election train doesn't ride by, ring your doorbell, and wheel a voting machine into your house so you can vote without missing your favorite meaningless sitcom. You have to GET UP OFF THE COUCH AND GO VOTE. THIS is why, I think, conservatives always do better in elections than polls. Conservatives know what EFFORT means. They don't wait for the world to come to them, they get up and make things happen for themselves. It's the guy who just answers the phone and SAYS he is going to vote that also sits and waits for his check to come once a month that skews the polls, and is more likely than not a Democratic voter. Who's more likely to be for higher taxes, and government handouts? The guy who works 60+ hours a week to support his family, or the guy who watches tv and answers the phone on the first ring when the pollster calls? The questions don't come much easier than that, folks. if ya missed THAT one, I am afraid you need to go back and read every entry in this blog for the past two months to get up to speed. Hell, do it anyway! : )
Also, its far more likely that a conservative that WORKS to pay for the guy to sit on the couch is out WORKING and not home answering the phone when the pollster does call. How much money can you make sitting on the couch eating Cheeto's talking to pollsters?
I hope that at SOME POINT people will rise up, and tell the media "HEY, WE DON'T WANT YOUR BOGUS POLL RESULTS! REPORT THE NEWS, BOTH SIDES OF IT, FAIRLY, AND I'LL BE HAPPY!"
There needs to be a groundswell, an uprising against the media who tries and discourage voter turnout with their polls, and try to get people to "get on the bandwagon" . . . if we all TURN OUR TV'S OFF THE SECOND A POLL IS MENTIONED, at some point the networks would start paying attention. When the ratings start showing that there WERE 12 Million viewers, until poll results were mentioned, and then suddenly there were 36 people watching, I think things might change. Until then, every time you hear a poll, just LAUGH . . . and see ME at Republican Headquarters Tuesday night in Louisville, KY LAUGHING AT THE POLLSTERS . . . AGAIN!
By the way, I will be spending from 9am-6pm working phones for the McCain campaign today, so I will have some VERY HARD, HANDS ON DATA for you tonight. I expect to be hung up on most of the time, and I expect that I will hear way more people supporting McCain than the media would have you believe. We'll see . . . I'll be blogging tonight, come back and see me. Yeah, that's right. I won't be home watching tv all day waiting for a pollster to call. Us conservatives have to get up and WORK to make the world go around so those that feel especially "entitled" can sit home and do nothing and wonder why they don't have "opportunity," and eat the Cheeto's us McCain supporters BOUGHT FOR THEM!
Love ya, mean it. : )
People generally don't trust polls, for good reason, and don't give pollsters the time of day. Others seem to get a "kick" out of lying to the pollsters. Take PENNSYLVANIA for example. During the Democratic primary this year, polls had Obama ahead by 3%, but Clinton won by 9%.
And what REALLY shows the FACT that people intentionally lie to pollsters, because pollsters are generally detested, seen as a lower form of life than used car salesmen and attorneys, EXIT POLLS showed Obama beating Hillary by 5% in Pennsylvania . . . what happened? The POLLS said Obama won by 5%, but Clinton ACTUALLY WON by 9%!
So a couple of things you can take away from polling data:
1)People say the opposite of who they will vote for just to mess with pollsters. People are somewhat put off by being called at home, and to pay the pollster back for bothering them, they give them inaccurate information.
2)80% Hang up the phone as soon as they hear the word "poll."
3)Conservatives are MORE distrusting of the polls, and so hang up on pollsters, or give them inaccurate information just to mess with the pollsters. It is the liberals who LIVE BY POLLS, that are oh so happy to participate in the poll . . . they think polls mean something. In fact, it's nobody's business who you're for . . . at least that is what most CONSERVATIVES think, and why conservatives are almost ALWAYS silent, or misunderstood in polling. Liberals want YOU to be informed of who they support, however they have NO INTEREST in being informed on the issues themselves, or the character of the candidate. I think at some point liberals just ASSUME that their candidate is a scumbag, so they don't care.
Show me a presidential poll that has been CLOSE to being accurate in modern history and I'll show you someone who has been smoking crack(you). But no matter how WRONG the polls are, Al Gore and John Kerry were both "leading in the polls," the media just heaps it on heavier the next time. In fact, there have been more polls taken in just the last SIX WEEKS than the entire presidential campaign in 2004. Instead of figuring out a more accurate way to poll, or giving it up altogether(which seems like the best alternative), they just give us more polls. And so we get MORE inaccuracy, more garbage, more worthless information.
Finally, one of the main reasons(I think), that polls are inaccurate, is that polls catch you at home. The voting booth doesn't stop at your house and let you vote from the couch. People SAY they are registered to vote, SAY they are going to vote, but statistics show that these people just don't want to admit to the pollsters that they don't have the motivation to vote, for whatever reason, or aren't informed enough to make an intelligent decision. SO they just THROW A NAME OUT THERE. That's right, you heard it here first. The election train doesn't ride by, ring your doorbell, and wheel a voting machine into your house so you can vote without missing your favorite meaningless sitcom. You have to GET UP OFF THE COUCH AND GO VOTE. THIS is why, I think, conservatives always do better in elections than polls. Conservatives know what EFFORT means. They don't wait for the world to come to them, they get up and make things happen for themselves. It's the guy who just answers the phone and SAYS he is going to vote that also sits and waits for his check to come once a month that skews the polls, and is more likely than not a Democratic voter. Who's more likely to be for higher taxes, and government handouts? The guy who works 60+ hours a week to support his family, or the guy who watches tv and answers the phone on the first ring when the pollster calls? The questions don't come much easier than that, folks. if ya missed THAT one, I am afraid you need to go back and read every entry in this blog for the past two months to get up to speed. Hell, do it anyway! : )
Also, its far more likely that a conservative that WORKS to pay for the guy to sit on the couch is out WORKING and not home answering the phone when the pollster does call. How much money can you make sitting on the couch eating Cheeto's talking to pollsters?
I hope that at SOME POINT people will rise up, and tell the media "HEY, WE DON'T WANT YOUR BOGUS POLL RESULTS! REPORT THE NEWS, BOTH SIDES OF IT, FAIRLY, AND I'LL BE HAPPY!"
There needs to be a groundswell, an uprising against the media who tries and discourage voter turnout with their polls, and try to get people to "get on the bandwagon" . . . if we all TURN OUR TV'S OFF THE SECOND A POLL IS MENTIONED, at some point the networks would start paying attention. When the ratings start showing that there WERE 12 Million viewers, until poll results were mentioned, and then suddenly there were 36 people watching, I think things might change. Until then, every time you hear a poll, just LAUGH . . . and see ME at Republican Headquarters Tuesday night in Louisville, KY LAUGHING AT THE POLLSTERS . . . AGAIN!
By the way, I will be spending from 9am-6pm working phones for the McCain campaign today, so I will have some VERY HARD, HANDS ON DATA for you tonight. I expect to be hung up on most of the time, and I expect that I will hear way more people supporting McCain than the media would have you believe. We'll see . . . I'll be blogging tonight, come back and see me. Yeah, that's right. I won't be home watching tv all day waiting for a pollster to call. Us conservatives have to get up and WORK to make the world go around so those that feel especially "entitled" can sit home and do nothing and wonder why they don't have "opportunity," and eat the Cheeto's us McCain supporters BOUGHT FOR THEM!
Love ya, mean it. : )
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