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rooddood743 Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:12 AM
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Revealed! Reasons for Arnold's sudden poll surge
Last week, he's behind; He gets spanked by Arianna Huffington, (who is smart and strong without being abrasive) and suddenly, he's up 14 points in the polls? What gives?

Well I'll tell you: When the no-paper-trail voting machines give the election to Arnold, people might wonder how he won, even though he was behind in the polls. And maybe people will remember what happened to people like Max Cleland, and others in the last '02 election, when polls suggested they would win their elections, but somehow the no-paper-trail voting machines said they lost. Weird. And maybe, if Arnold was elected, since so much attention is focused on the Calif. recall, maybe people would start asking some hard questions. "Like, dude...what's up with Arnold bein' like, the Guv, dude? I thought he was, like, behind in the polls. Whoooaaa! Dude! I wonder, if like, those voting machines, like, changed my vote, dude?! Oh man, that would be like a total bummer dude!"

Can't have that.

So, maybe, the powers that be just decided to grease those poll numbers early, so as to avoid the hard questions.



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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:17 AM
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1. I think you are dead on. This is what they have done over and over
with polls and elections over the last three years. It's why they don't care that Bush pisses off so many special interest groups. It doesn't matter. But the polls that tell us he's popular must stay high to make the theft less obvious. This is why they are panicking a little bit now. But all they will need is some event right before the election that will make it SEEM like people might vote for him.

Arnold WILL win, but it won't be because we voted for him.
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Noordam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:21 AM
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2. Yes the touchscreen fix is in
and they HAD to have polls that more or less support the FIXED outcome.

In Florida before the 2002 governor's race, McBride was plus or minus 1% of Bush in the polls leading up to the election. But on the election day or the day before ONE poll show Jebbie winning by over 10%. and guess what the final outcome was, over 10%.
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:21 AM
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3. Californians
better start asking the questions now, today. 8 days to go. Seems like they think they've gotten a raw deal by Davis what do they think they they will get with Arnold? I agree the whole country better keep their eye on this election, maybe precursor to Nov 04.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:23 AM
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4. Here's the puzzler
Arnold is despised by the hard-ass right, the GOP's "base". Absolutely hated. They call him a RINO. This is why Tom McClintock has stayed in the race.

--bkl
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:27 AM
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5. ah............ remember the good old days ???

when they had exit polling ???

that's a luxury the corporate criminals can't afford anymore.
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59millionmorons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:30 AM
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6. Oh please
Every news channel are jumping on this Gallup poll numbers. Lets get real Gallup is one of the worst pollsters. First this poll was of only 767 people. A simple 10 vote swing turns this poll upside down. Heck most people here know I support Clark for President but not I even believed the last Gallup poll that had Clark and Kerry beating Bush. Gallup is just not reliable. Gallup is the same pollster who had daily 15 points swings in it daily polling for CNN.
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 10:17 AM
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7. wouldn't surprise me
after 2000, 2002 (when the exit polls at VNS had "computer problems") this is exactly what I expect to happen.
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