MyDD :: Polls are for trolls !

Polls are for trolls !

by kosnomore, Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:05:37 AM EST

Are you concerned that the latest polls show McCain evidently raising the roof on his "ceiling"? You're a concern troll!

Do the polls showing Obama's continuing weakness in certain core constituent groups worry you? Don't worry, be happy!

When polls indicate that Obama's standing is overly reliant upon being the overwhelming favorite of youth, women and African Americans, do you realize that any fall among women could be fatal? That this indicates the direction of one of the coming attacks from McCain (i.e., "I'd consider a pro choice VP!"), so we better be ready? And that featuring Casey at the convention, and paying homage to Nunn, could put more nails in the "older white women" coffin? Then you're a god damn dead ender!

During our first post cold war international dispute with a real world power (not a Friedman/Goldberg "pick-up-a-small-country-and-toss-it-aga inst-the-wall-and-tell-them-to-suck-it" erectile dysfunction therapy substitute), Obama was sunning on the beach, nowhere to be found. Now, polls reflect the public's foreign policy concerns (sorry, that word again!) Well, only you and Cokie are too stupid to know Hawaii is America!

Seriously, the only purpose of polls is to reinforce our pre existing beliefs. They are not to be used as tools to develop strategy, tactics and language in response to changing public mood. Only PUMAs didn't know that!

Just celebrate the good polls and ignore the bad ones - - that is why we're spending millions of dollars on polls!

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Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, snark (all tags)

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Re: Polls are for trolls ! (none / 0)

Uh, I can assure you th Obama camp is not ignoring any polls.

by handsomegent on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:28:42 AM EST

Re: Polls are for trolls ! (none / 0)

And we exhale... and we roll our eyes in unison.

Visit Election Inspection for analysis, polls, and predictions!

by X Stryker on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:32:11 AM EST

Isn't a little early to be hitt'n da sauce (2.00 / 0)

"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!

by Al Rodgers on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:38:00 AM EST

Re: Polls are for trolls ! (2.00 / 0)

Why are you still here, hasn't the coherent thought police locked you up yet?

by Dog Chains on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:53:28 AM EST

they are still monitoring you (1.00 / 2)

to see if anything ever comes from you that is not crap. so far no luck...what a boondoggle

by zerosumgame on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:51:38 AM EST
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Re: they are still monitoring you (2.00 / 1)

And once again zero comes into a kos diary. Are these two seperated at the hip?

by venician on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 02:16:29 PM EST
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Re: Polls are for trolls ! (2.00 / 1)

Sorry, my job as the Overused Cliche Police has been keeping me busy full-time.

by Cincinnatus on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:12:56 PM EST
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Re: Polls are for trolls ! (none / 0)

If Obama hadn't been "sunning on the beach", and made statements like McCain's idiotic blurbs ("We are all Georgians"), you'd be calling him presumptuous.
And if you think McVain could get away with a pro-choce VP and not lose the entire evangelical RW base, you haven't been paying attention.

"Who are you for? That is the wrong question. It should be who is for you?" HRC

by skohayes on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 09:18:05 AM EST

McVain???? (none / 0)

If you're going to use silly made-up names for John McCain, be prepared for people to start using Obama's actual full name: Barack Hussein Obama.

Stuff like John W. McSame, John McVain, etc. is counterproductive, since we don't really want to get into "the name game".

by BJJ Fighter on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:32:45 AM EST
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Re: McVain???? (2.00 / 2)

"Start" using Obama's full name?

Have you been living in a cave? That has been used in full force since Feb.

by gil44 on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:49:31 AM EST
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Re: McVain???? (2.00 / 2)

BjjFighter is very sensitive about his maverick hero these days.

Since Senator Clinton lost, he just so seamlessly became a Republic; I think he was always ready to go Chris Matthews and get that manly crush on the Maverick Man.

On Nov 4th, Barack Obama officially ends the Southern Strategy....

by WashStateBlue on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 11:17:01 AM EST
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Hmmm...sounding a little homophobic there (none / 0)

Careful...your political correctness could be at risk! They'll run you right out of Washington State for such offenses...

by BJJ Fighter on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:34:26 PM EST
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Re: Hmmm...sounding a little homophobic there (2.00 / 1)

LOL...

I live on Capital Hill, so I get my "Straight but OK" papers checked on a daily basis.....

Myself and my girfriend are the only "breeders" in my nine unit complex (besides the architect who built it and his wife.)

I prefer to live where the gays live, one, there are typically better restuarants and social life, and two, my property values stay high!

Don't tell the Homophobes, it's smart to follow the gay community around if you want to live well.

On Nov 4th, Barack Obama officially ends the Southern Strategy....

by WashStateBlue on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:41:24 PM EST
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Got it......some of your best friends are gay (none / 0)

by BJJ Fighter on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:15:03 PM EST
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Ha Ha (2.00 / 2)

You don't like it when we call your boy McMaverick?

Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so. -Marcus Aurelius

by Blue Neponset on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:49:49 AM EST
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Re: McVain???? (2.00 / 2)

Yeah, it'd be terrible if the republicans started calling Obama names. They've shown such restraint up until now, but how can they hold back with us using such horrible epithets as McVain?

by Cincinnatus on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:15:14 PM EST
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Re: McVain???? (none / 0)

Yeah, I'm sure no one has ever heard Barack's middle name before.
Does it scare you?

"Who are you for? That is the wrong question. It should be who is for you?" HRC

by skohayes on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 05:45:27 PM EST
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Is this diarrhist (none / 0)

trying to make a point?

by Khun David on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:25:02 AM EST

It was actually Ledeen (none / 0)

not Goldberg.

by JJE on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 10:42:26 AM EST

Re: Polls are for trolls ! (2.00 / 1)

"that is why we're spending millions of dollars on polls!"

Who you mean WE?

I think it's the MEDIA that is paying mostly for these polls, cause they need something to flail about on their hours and hours of Pundit-Festery.

Screw the Polls-Screw the Pundits.

Axelrod is spending a vast portion of the campaign money on infrastructure, GOTV and Registration programs, and those are not only NOT at the whim of gaffes and pundits, they also don't have any effect on the polls.

The Republics always did better then the polls because they KNEW they had done the infrastructure work to empty the churches on Election day?

Axelrod is going to do the same thing, or at least try, with the 35 and down folks..Who are MOST likely to be underpolled.

If he wins, it will be a large turnout and new folks voting.

If you want to worry, be my guest. Anyone that thought getting a young black man with a foriegn sounding name elected president was going to be a slam-dunk was living in LaLa land.

It will take the best political Org executing at the highest level, and my take is, based on sticking to plan as they did in the primaries, that is what they intended to do from day one;

I think you stick with your plan, and the chips fall where they may.

On Nov 4th, Barack Obama officially ends the Southern Strategy....

by WashStateBlue on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 11:31:53 AM EST

I'm not worried (none / 0)

by soyousay on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 11:43:39 AM EST

I Despise the Concept of the Concern Troll (none / 0)

To get troll ratings because you express "concern" about the site's favorite candidate (even though the concern troll is usually a strong supporter of the favorite candidate) stifles debate and intelligent discussion. The concept of the concern troll allows only cheerleading on political blogs. I hope one day the leaders of progressive blogs will get rid of this concept.

Dizzy Zzyzzy

by Zzyzzy on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 02:11:52 PM EST

Re: Polls are for trolls ! (none / 0)

Hey it worked in the primaries. Maybe it will work in the general too.

by RichardFlatts on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 02:13:35 PM EST

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