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dawg

(10,777 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 05:43 PM Oct 2012

Let's not forget the fact that the polls are almost all lies. [View all]

No, I'm not being paranoid and ranting about the evil conservative pollsters who are trying to mislead us. I actually think that most of the pollsters are trying their hardest to accurately predict the outcome of the election. But in order to do that, they have switched to "likely" voter models that *assume* that Democrats don't show up at the polls as often as Republicans do; young people don't show up like old people do; black people don't show up like white people do; poor people don't show up like rich people do.

Are all those things going to be true this year? Well, that's up to us. But imagine for a moment that we were just as likely to vote as the conservatives were. This race would not be all that close right now.

The reality is that a solid majority of voting-age Americans want the President to be re-elected, but it might not happen due to apathy, intimidation, despair, and a thousand other reasons that keep our people from voting.

The polls have been adjusted to reflect this.

Let's show them.

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