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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:59 PM
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Opinion polls are the only thing stopping all out Election Fraud?
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 07:00 PM by iconoclastNYC
Can any one dream up a conspiracy by which the Republicans could manipulate opinion polls (besides October surprises) to cover widespread election fraud?
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:01 PM
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1. Who owns the polling companies?
nt
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:03 PM
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2. I note neither Bush or Cheney are running for anything.
So I guess that would provide some wiggle room. But I sure hope you are right - that the polls will make tampering more obvious.
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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:33 PM
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3. Bush and Cheny are just part of a movement
Do you think the GOP's evil is going to go away when they exit stage right?

If so I have a bridge to sell you.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:28 PM
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4. I don't. All I am suggesting is that the average voter might after
a few months of new GOP mimes. Especially if a candidate was not a member of the current administration. And remember if the DLC strong on defense theme continues, the average voter might think some of the poll info applies to a Democratic candidate?

The political consultants have been very successful in creating confusion before. For example it was more than a year after 2000 that people in the Northeast realized George Bush had strong Evangelical backing.

Surely I prefer with going into an election with the GOP tanking but we will have to work hard to make sure the polls stick to THEM and not just Bush and Cheney.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:24 PM
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5. Sure. Thug owned media.
My own paper didn't report the certification of Diebold. And this was in San Francisco. And that's with at least one reporter and the Reader's rep dissenting.

They must not be stockholders.

Who owns the media? Maybe that's not a conspiracy, maybe that's just economics. And there it is.
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nicknameless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:51 PM
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6. Polls are skewed all the time.
There was quite a bit of noise about that last year. They were over-sampling rethugs. When caught, they tossed out some BS about rethugs being more likely to vote.

Maybe they meant that rethugs are more likely to have their votes counted.
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