this morning and it got sent to Meta. Hope you have better luck.

ReTHUGs don't want to pay time and a half!

They see a negative poll for Obama. Hopefully, that means they will be gone for a long time.

The Westboro Baptist Church must have let out...

concern trolls with restless fingers have returned!

Or do you just click on Alert?

** this is from stinky the clown but maybe go to Meta and ask to be contacted by a member?

Technically, it isn't possible to contact MIRT directly. What *is* possible is to contact a MIRT member and ask them to take it to the MIRT for consideration.

I am a MIRT member (although, beyond the end of my term and subject to be replaced by the Admins at any time).

I'm also a vet, but fail to see what the issue is here. Don't take that to mean I don't agree there's an issue, just that, right now, I don't understand what it is. I am happy to get a PM explaining what the issue is and what you'd like of MIRT.

Next is what MIRT can and can't do.

Any MIRT member can PPR any sub-100 post count member at any time for any legit reason. No need for discussion with other MIRT members although discussion and agreement takes place 99.99% of the time.

MIRT can ban any short term (usually means under 1000 posts, but there's no hard and fast, precise rule) member in the event they have a post hidden in the last 60 minutes and the TOS was checked in the alert.

And that's it. MIRT can *only* deal with short term disruptors.

MIRT has no power to PPR a long term member no

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Alas, no, not troll-free today. There's still a lot of 'concern' and 'woe is me' violin playing. [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]

Now they're back with a concern and violins

I'm going to be concerned until I see Obama overtake Romney in Gallup. That still hasn't happened yet. Romney is ahead of Obama by 2 points in both Gallup & Rasmussen today.

One silver lining: these 2 pollsters were showing lower numbers for Obama than many other pollsters a couple of months ago too, so it may not be reason to panic yet.

I'll feel better when we start seeing other pollsters showing Obama ahead Nationally, like NBC, CBS, Bloomberg, Pew, CNN etc. Obama led in all of those earlier this Fall.

So far the only National pollster we seem to be winning again is IBD/TIPP. I hope others follow suit this week!

You do realize the election is based on state by state electoral college votes? National polling is useful early on to show a general trend but once there are enough state polls out I think national polls should be ignored.

And you know all the concern trolls are hoping they'll have the chance to jump all over those and exploit them more than Mitt Romney and CNN exploit the death of an ambassador, should they show a tie or Romney lead of any amount (even though they have been two unpredictable states from the beginning and probably the most unlikely of the swing states to go with Obama, it won't matter, just as long as it shows them what they want to see and gives them an excuse to engage in faux panic).

They're doing their job to infiltrate and they take the week-end off.