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How Wrong Were Mitt Romney's Internal Polls?
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I think both the Dems and the Repubs are kinda blowing it on this whole demographics thing. This wasn't so much "white males v. everyone else" — hell, 36% of white males voted for Obama. This was more like "your platform and your candidate suck donkey dick, and I just can't bring myself to vote for it, no matter how much I hold my nose."
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We should make note of where our numbers lie and act appropriately. If we continue to stand for the issues that younger voters have made their own and fight for them in government, than we continue to win. The narrow interest of the primarily southern, older, white males will be all the Republicans have. And their prejudices preclude them from widening those interests to include "others".
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Another take on this:
It's quite possible that quarter-of-a-billionaire Mitt Romney is accustomed to having his lackeys tell him what he wants to hear.
And that his lackeys -- in this case, his pollsters -- oblige.
How'd that work out for you, Willard?
It's quite possible that quarter-of-a-billionaire Mitt Romney is accustomed to having his lackeys tell him what he wants to hear.
And that his lackeys -- in this case, his pollsters -- oblige.
How'd that work out for you, Willard?
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It the eternal problem of echo chamber ideologues - left or right. They steadfastly ignore the reality that there actually IS such a thing as objective fact.
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"Well geez, over half the people working on the campaign said they'd vote for him. I don't get what happened."
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I'd like to know how the polls were conducted. Landline phone calls? Snail mail? Stopping people in shopping malls?
Bad methodology can explain a lot.
Bad methodology can explain a lot.
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It's almost as if younger and less white voters:
a. have cell phones
b. don't answer polls from right-wing hate groups that poll them.
a. have cell phones
b. don't answer polls from right-wing hate groups that poll them.
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