believe the polls? Don't!!!

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14. The thing about polls for Obama/Romney and now

Is that most people - well, Fox - saying that Romney was going to win is that they were looking at national polls. I remember the only pundit on Fox to bring up a poll that said Obama was going to win was Dennis Miller to Bill O'Reilly, and he said that he didn't believe it. National polls don't really mean much when it comes to the president - it's the state polls, and how many different routes to the magic number of electoral votes each candidate had. Obama had the advantage in both, and I think a lot of us here knew it as we were looking at those polls, and we're into these kinds of details. Corporate media can't - or won't - work that way because it involves more work, and once again, in the case of Fox, supplying their viewers with more information than their pea-brains can handle.

But now we're looking at state and even district polls. I'm still hopeful that they're skewed or wrong in some way - it seems to me that the media are going to push the whole republicans always do well in off-year elections meme come hell or high water, but from some of the things about early voter turn out seems to be playing well for us, and as happened in 2012, I think a lot of voters came out specifically because the GOP was trying to take their votes away, and I hope that happens again.

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