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DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 12:56 PM Nov 2012

RRRAAATTTSSS!! The rats are starting to flee the sinking S.S. Romney.

Last edited Sun Nov 4, 2012, 01:32 PM - Edit history (1)

WilliamPitt posted today that many of those polls that had Romney waaaaay ahead are shifting towards being too close to call.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021708121

When I look at these numbers I see something else.

Some pollsters have started to notice that independent voters, who until recently were leaning toward Mitt Romney, may be trickling back toward President Obama with just days until the election.
Zogby polling has Obama up five points among independents


A national ABC News/Washington Post poll has Obama and Romney tied with independents, at 46%, Romney was at 58% a week and a half earlier.

Politico/GWU tracking poll has it tied with independents week after Romney had a double-digit lead.

After the first debate we saw Romney make huge leaps in polling. He was behind then suddenly he was way ahead. This had continued with the corporate media crying out that it was a tie or Romney was ahead. And they had all this polling to prove it.

What we are seeing now is the corporate rats starting to walk back their support of Romney. To sell ad space this needed to be a close race so they made it one.

But there are only a couple of days left before the election. Only a couple of days to suddenly shift back to the truth before they are proved to have been wrong. Their news was wrong, their pundits were wrong, their polling was wrong. Corporate Media sold its soul to keep this a close race, to tip the balance toward the corporate candidate, but it didn't work.

And then they were four days before the election with polling numbers showing Romney with 58% or 10+ points ahead. Their reputations are at stake.

You can't let your last poll numbers, your last reports, your last pundits all be 100% wrong the day of the election so they are all putting out new numbers. Obama a little bit ahead or a tie that is too close to call.

We will be hearing a lot of "The numbers were very off. Sandy really moved the people back to Obama." But the truth is, the people were always with Obama.

And for this reason we will see a lot of "close" elelctions and "100% red wins" that were not close at all and some of those sure red seats in the Senate and Congress are going to be a surprise Blue.

And the corporate media is going to pretend that they were right all along...even though they were lying the entire time.

squeek squeek squeek

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RRRAAATTTSSS!! The rats are starting to flee the sinking S.S. Romney. (Original Post) DonRedwood Nov 2012 OP
They are joining the thousands of dead ones from Sandy.... Historic NY Nov 2012 #1
Does that make Christie the King Rat? DonRedwood Nov 2012 #3
sorry...rat king DonRedwood Nov 2012 #4
Just like the rats all drowned in the subway. Auntie Bush Nov 2012 #2
I have been thinking there must have been zillions of dead rats! DonRedwood Nov 2012 #5
I live in NYC and haven't seen much mention of the rats, dead or alive... LiberalElite Nov 2012 #7
interesting. DonRedwood Nov 2012 #10
Oh, and welcome to DU! DonRedwood Nov 2012 #12
They went too far and for too long BumRushDaShow Nov 2012 #6
They will all use Sandy as an excuse DonRedwood Nov 2012 #13
K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2012 #8
They need to have their final guesses within the margin of error so they can point Motown_Johnny Nov 2012 #9
all of them, en masse DonRedwood Nov 2012 #14
Romney will need a life jacket just to reach the "also ran" column. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2012 #11
Iceberg straight ahead!!!! Initech Nov 2012 #15

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
5. I have been thinking there must have been zillions of dead rats!
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 01:46 PM
Nov 2012

and a zillion more live ones who have moved up to the surface for a while.

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
10. interesting.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:07 PM
Nov 2012

I once saw an entire park full of rats in philly and have never got the picture out of my head!

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
6. They went too far and for too long
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 01:51 PM
Nov 2012

to even give themselves some sort of exit hatch to walk it all back. And the only thing that they seem to have left is Hurricane Sandy because by golly, Gallup has certainly used that excuse for halting their polling all this week (they were supposed to start it back up Thursday which would make today a possible restart with a 3-dayer, but too late - their credibility is toast).

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
13. They will all use Sandy as an excuse
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:42 PM
Nov 2012

That's the pity of it. They will run with that and the media will follow suit because they look just as stupid!

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
9. They need to have their final guesses within the margin of error so they can point
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:01 PM
Nov 2012

to it the next cycle and say that they were right all along.

The media must break toward Pres. Obama now or lose what little credibility they have left.

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