What do I mean about “Silly Season”? That’s the Presidential Election Cycle, of course...
First...
Exit Polling
Yea, I understand how they do it but what I don't understand is how they get to, where they get to once they are done doing it.
I could understand...
- 55% say they voted for this guy.
- 45% say they voted for that guy.
It is the specific, exacting and minute detail that I don't understand...
- 42% of the white voters, who went to two years of college, before going on to be left-handed carpenters, voted for this guy.
- 63% of fallen-away Catholics, who have been married three times, where the first and third marriages were to the same person, voted for that guy.
- 54% of those who voted in the 1992 election, but did not vote in the 1996, nor the 2000 election, but returned to the voting booth in the 2004 and, now, voted in this 2008 election, voted for this guy.
Oh well, so much for Secret Balloting.
Would I kid u?
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Second:
My Fondest Wish
There is no way to fully unite a country as large as the United States but my fondest wish would be that all of us refuse to answer any questions from any political pollster about anything political. This would drive the politicians absolutely nuts. Think of the positive results that would come out of an I-Ain't-Gonna-Tell-You-Anything America...
- It would drive the politicians absolutely nuts.
- It would prevent politicians from tweaking their latest campaign pitch to address how the public reacted to their prior campaign pitch.
- They would be forced to tell us what they really plan to do when elected, instead of telling us what they think we want them to do when elected.
- It would drive the politicians absolutely nuts.
- They would be forced to think out their positions and stick with them and hope for the best.
- It would put every polling company out of business. Since they are only interested in what's best for America (yea, right), they would then be free to join the Peace Corps (if such a thing still exists).
- It would drive the politicians absolutely nuts.
One final tirade ... The silliest one is when we are told the results of a poll done by a Democratic or a Republican Pollster. It is strange how the "results" always come out favoring their party's positions. I guess I could be made to believe that the poll did come out in favor of their party's positions but, you will never get me to believe, that any poll that did not favor their party's positions was just not published at all. It's sort of like them saying, "We are going to keep polling the American People until the American People get it right."
Would I kid u?
