Comments on: Is McCain catching up? Maybe. http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jane wilder http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-56431 Jane wilder Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:45:57 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-56431 I , along with apparently millions of African Americans, am terrified that the republicans have a plan to steal the election. This would be less scary if they hadn't already done it in the past one or two elections, while gore and kerry just let them. I on't see the people just letting it happen. I am 58 and remember the riots in the streets. It the elcetion gets stolen, and I saw a story on how easy it is to make a machine cheat, I will be out there in the streets myself-- heaading towand any socialized medical country. I , along with apparently millions of African Americans, am terrified that the republicans have a plan to steal the election. This would be less scary if they hadn’t already done it in the past one or two elections, while gore and kerry just let them. I on’t see the people just letting it happen. I am 58 and remember the riots in the streets. It the elcetion gets stolen, and I saw a story on how easy it is to make a machine cheat, I will be out there in the streets myself– heaading towand any socialized medical country.

]]> By: fikshun http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-56161 fikshun Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:16:54 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-56161 Maybe gas prices are starting to play a part. In August, gas was up around $4.00 a gallon here in Austin. This morning, I bought gas for $2.13. These days, the stock market has a wild up day almost as often as it has a wild down day. Perhaps people are beginning to think that the economic downturn isn't as drastic as politicians and the media would have them believe. Maybe gas prices are starting to play a part. In August, gas was up around $4.00 a gallon here in Austin. This morning, I bought gas for $2.13. These days, the stock market has a wild up day almost as often as it has a wild down day. Perhaps people are beginning to think that the economic downturn isn’t as drastic as politicians and the media would have them believe.

]]> By: JS OBrien http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-55994 JS OBrien Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:38:17 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-55994 Lara: Interestingly, I live in an important battleground state and have received no robo calls, no get out the vote calls, or anything else for that matter. Which is rather odd, when you think about it. Steve: Obama's support in the Rasmussen poll has hovered between 50% and 52% (within the margin of error) for many weeks, and this Ramussen poll also has him at 50%. So, if anything has changed (and, as you say, it's not noise), then it probably means that McCain is picking up a lot of undecideds, and that may very well come from a repeated and steady message of "socialist." But, as I said, this isn't showing up in the state polls, and later polls today aren't showing a lot of change, with the RCP average back up to 6. So, go figure. Lara: Interestingly, I live in an important battleground state and have received no robo calls, no get out the vote calls, or anything else for that matter. Which is rather odd, when you think about it.

Steve: Obama’s support in the Rasmussen poll has hovered between 50% and 52% (within the margin of error) for many weeks, and this Ramussen poll also has him at 50%. So, if anything has changed (and, as you say, it’s not noise), then it probably means that McCain is picking up a lot of undecideds, and that may very well come from a repeated and steady message of “socialist.”

But, as I said, this isn’t showing up in the state polls, and later polls today aren’t showing a lot of change, with the RCP average back up to 6.

So, go figure.

]]> By: Lara Amber http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-55986 Lara Amber Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:08:32 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-55986 I blame the following: People are SICK of robo-calls and heartfelt volunteers. We're getting 6 calls a night. So if I picked up, realized it was a computer, I would be hanging up again right away. I wouldn't stay on the line long enough to realize it IS a poll. We've already voted, we want our peace and quite back, please. Someone who hasn't voted yet, or is pulling for their underdog, might be more willing to stay on the phone. Lara Amber I blame the following:

People are SICK of robo-calls and heartfelt volunteers. We’re getting 6 calls a night. So if I picked up, realized it was a computer, I would be hanging up again right away. I wouldn’t stay on the line long enough to realize it IS a poll. We’ve already voted, we want our peace and quite back, please.

Someone who hasn’t voted yet, or is pulling for their underdog, might be more willing to stay on the phone.

Lara Amber

]]> By: Steve http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-55984 Steve Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:56:29 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-55984 Assuming the moves in Rasmussen are legit and not statistical noise, it makes one wonder what happened in the past four days to cause it. I mean, did anything meaningful happen in the past couple of days that could be a, to use an overplayed word, game-changer? You had Biden's "joke" interview (lots of air time on the Internet), you had the story about Palin's $150,000 make-over (probably beating a dead horse), you had Ted Stevens's conviction on corruption charges (too recent to make a lasting impression)...I mean, what else is there? Don't tell me Joe the Plumber's endorsement of McCain has anything to do with it. What would really bother me is if this change in the polls is from the McCain campaign's appropriation of the term "socialist" to Obama's tax policies. It reflects on the intelligence of the American public (Mencken's axiom observed, never to be underestimated) if they can't distinguish progressive taxation, a tradition in Western civilization going back to Adam Smith, from real socialism, <b>and</b> it would be reinforcement to politicos who think "swiftboating" and Rovian politics are viable strategies. Is it so much to ask for a little truth in my political discourse? Assuming the moves in Rasmussen are legit and not statistical noise, it makes one wonder what happened in the past four days to cause it. I mean, did anything meaningful happen in the past couple of days that could be a, to use an overplayed word, game-changer?

You had Biden’s “joke” interview (lots of air time on the Internet), you had the story about Palin’s $150,000 make-over (probably beating a dead horse), you had Ted Stevens’s conviction on corruption charges (too recent to make a lasting impression)…I mean, what else is there? Don’t tell me Joe the Plumber’s endorsement of McCain has anything to do with it.

What would really bother me is if this change in the polls is from the McCain campaign’s appropriation of the term “socialist” to Obama’s tax policies. It reflects on the intelligence of the American public (Mencken’s axiom observed, never to be underestimated) if they can’t distinguish progressive taxation, a tradition in Western civilization going back to Adam Smith, from real socialism, and it would be reinforcement to politicos who think “swiftboating” and Rovian politics are viable strategies.

Is it so much to ask for a little truth in my political discourse?

]]> By: fikshun http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-55977 fikshun Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:26:38 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-55977 Maybe Diebold hacked Rasmussen? Eh, if McCain wins, I'm blaming Dr. Slammy: http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=H4OAYbwVZyrueULLzM8QKTE4ODg-&referred_by=10053828-nkoJ31x Maybe Diebold hacked Rasmussen? Eh, if McCain wins, I’m blaming Dr. Slammy:

http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=H4OAYbwVZyrueULLzM8QKTE4ODg-&referred_by=10053828-nkoJ31x

]]> By: rawdawgbuffalo http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-55964 rawdawgbuffalo Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:54:27 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-55964 <a href='http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/10/all-he-gotta-do-is-stay-white.html' rel="nofollow">all he gotta do is stay white</a> all he gotta do is stay white

]]> By: Elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/10/29/is-mccain-catching-up-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-55949 Elaine Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:55:12 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5050#comment-55949 ...on a separate note that is the best graphic in an S & R post in the longest of times. The polls still worry me. It ain't over until its over. …on a separate note that is the best graphic in an S & R post in the longest of times.

The polls still worry me. It ain’t over until its over.

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