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Introducing The New Polling Firm of Madoff, Marist, Quinnipiac and Ponzi

wsmith-84 Wrote: Sep 30, 2012 2:59 PM

50Shades, mine hurts too... from laughing my @ss off at these self-appointed victims of the big liberal conspiracy lie and their complete gullibility in being convinced that Obama is some "other" instead of the centrist/right-of-center leader that his record shows. I wonder if Willard offended his base with his 47% victim-hood comment - as it's obvious that the tea-baggers and conservatives, more generally, see themselves as victims.

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Introducing The New Polling Firm of Madoff, Marist, Quinnipiac and Ponzi

After a few weeks spent tracking down and questioning pollsters and the reporters of polls, I can assure the reader that pollsters are the modern-day alchemists. They promise to turn numbers into predictive gold. We'd all like to believe these magical powers exist, but we shouldn't. The pollsters of 2012 just don't know who is going to win in November any more than did the pollsters of 1980 know that Ronald Reagan was headed towards a landslide in that late-breaking year.

I'd like to believe Scott Rasmussen that the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama is tied. Democrats...