Polls: I have said it before, but
It still bears saying.
Polls are the means the media uses to manipulate, not to educate. As anyone who has ever had to suffer through a statistics course knows, there are many ways to manipulate them, based on variables like the way the questions are asked, the answers that one has to pick from, et cetera.
But this year is the first year that the media is getting a taste of Citizens United. Even now, the election is a true Billion-Dollar affair, a barrier that even many cynics thought would not be crossed. The Media has a VESTED INTEREST IN DISORDER; the more confusion occurs, the more money they make, and the more the super pacs spend on them.
So, it should not matter if the polls say Mitt Romney might as well hang himself from the Washington Monument, do not believe them. The onyl reason Obama won last time is because he had a CLEAR, INDISPUTABLE win, if there is as much as a sliver, a crack, it will be disputed, and oh yes, just like the media got behind Bush to win in 2000, they will get behind Mitt.
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