Homers
Heard about the polls? Sure you have. Even if you have no interest in the polls, even if you hate them, the news has been full of reports from …
Category: Politics
The 538 Magic-BS-Spewing-Machine Takes Google Surveys Seriously
There’s been a lot of talk about Nate Silver’s Five Thirty Eight blog at The New York Times this week. I’ll spare you the arguments (pro and con) to …
What Past Election Results Tell Us to Expect This Time
There’s no shortage of opinions on how the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election will turnout, and a lot of the disagreement comes from the different landscapes presented by the National …
Buried Lede Of The Day – Bipartisan Poll Shows Romney Heading To “Decisive Victory”
October 30, 2012
2012 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Buried Lede Of The Day, Mitt Romney, Politics
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The new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters – taken from last Monday through Thursday – shows Obama ahead of Romney by 1 percentage point, …
Andrew Sullivan: Racist Romney Voters Like ‘The Old Confederacy’
October 29, 2012
2012 Presidential Race, Asshats, Barack Obama, corruption, Culture Of Corruption, Democrats, Elections, Liberals, Media, Politics, Race
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On the Sunday, October 28 edition of ABC’s This Week, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast claimed that Obama might lose this election because the whole south is filled …
Democrats Will Be The Last To Know That They Were Losing Ohio All Along
How do I know that? Look at this story from Taegan Goddard at Political Wire: Ohio Is Not a Toss Up Nate Silver looks at the polling average in …
Denver News Anchor Kyle Clark Has Some Questions For President Obama
October 27, 2012
2012 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Libya, Media, Politics, War On Terror
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When you spend all your media time being interviewed by Jon Stewart, MTV, and the ladies of The View, I guess you get used to never being asked the …
ABC/Washington Post Poll Wants You To Believe This Is What A One Point Lead Looks Like
Here’s a link to a detail piece on the current ABC/Washington Post poll from yesterday. The question is “Q: (AMONG LIKELY VOTERS) If the presidential election were being held …
Polling Is a Messy Business
I became interested in polls back when the first George Bush ran for President. I had noticed how Reagan thumped Carter in 1980 after the polls said he was …
Bombshell Wednesday Fizzles
Regarding last night’s Bombshell Wednesday post… Gloria Allred’s supposed bombshell explodes in her face. From Time Magazine: The full details of the case and the nature of the hearing …