Shades of the 2006 Canadian election poll conducted by the (methinks liberal-biased) Canadian polling firm which does polling for the CTV and the Globe and Mail, the “Council of Canadians Stategery and Liberal-Pushing Polling Councilliery and Canadian Stategy Councilification” (or whatever they’re called), in which, just before the election, the Conservatives were shown to be ahead by, like, 1,000 points. Certainly got the liberal-left vote out, didn’t it? Either that, or they’re a polling firm worse than useless.
So I wonder if the likes of Reuters and Zogby don’t set these polls up just to advance an agenda. For example, we know that the pre-election Obama-crowning Democratic convention is next week. We know this because the liberal media has drilled it into our brain even more than they have “man-made global warming” and “Christians are idiots”.
Apparently, so I hear, Obama will be giving another one of his now legendary (though nearly completely vapid, specious) rousing speeches (read off a teleprompter, in which he borrows bits and bites from all sorts of other people’s books and speeches and says them more s-l-o-w-l-y, to the point where I want to kick his scrawny butt to make him quit with the 8,000 “uhh”s and those copious carefully-placed pauses, and to just hurry up and get on with it). All this, to rousing applause, for nobody-knows-what, in an vast outdoor venue designed not for a grassroots tête-à-tête about “serious issues”, but rather as a carefully staged media and Hollywood-driven Obama poll-bumping piece of PR magic.
Hence, the pollsters will immediately conduct another poll, and alas, it will show McCain’s one-time and short-lived “lead” (air quotes) magically vanished—vanished!—amidst the Obama “mania” following his ever-so triumphant and almost “magical” convention speech, and all that Obama-citement (despite such a poll bounce being absolutely predictable—expected—in every election-year convention for the last century). The bounce will be described as an obvious “trend” for Obama, and the media will no doubt be able to predict with “man-made global warming” accuracy that Obama will win… if only the voters get out and vote…
McCain takes lead over Obama: poll
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll…
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