The first exit poll of the 2008 election

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In many of the 31 states that have early voting, Americans have already cast their ballot for President. And while exit pollsters refuse to reveal their results until voting sites close because they don't want to discourage people from voting, I feel that the sooner we can end this thing the better. So on Oct. 9, I went to Ohio, where people had started voting a week earlier, and stood outside the early-voting site in Cincinnati to conduct America's first 2008 exit poll.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1851144-1,00.html
 
Ohio. land of 200k disputed new registrations by ACORN.

Turn a blind eye...
 
Joel Stein. Only a left-wing rag like Time would still keep this douchebag on their payroll, and only an ignorant poster would post this without acknowledging the source.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...,4137172.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

I don't support our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car.

Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.

I'm sure I'd like the troops. They seem gutsy, young and up for anything. If you're wandering into a recruiter's office and signing up for eight years of unknown danger, I want to hang with you in Vegas.

And I've got no problem with other people -- the ones who were for the Iraq war -- supporting the troops. If you think invading Iraq was a good idea, then by all means, support away. Load up on those patriotic magnets and bracelets and other trinkets the Chinese are making money off of.

But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken -- and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.
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It's a pure humour article (which in fact gets in a shot at Obama's campaign) and you're ranting about sources and spouting Republican talking points.

"Stay stupid." ;)
 
The first thing we do, let's kill all the comedians...

barfo
 
PapaG said:
I don't support our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car.

Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.

I'm sure I'd like the troops. They seem gutsy, young and up for anything. If you're wandering into a recruiter's office and signing up for eight years of unknown danger, I want to hang with you in Vegas.

And I've got no problem with other people -- the ones who were for the Iraq war -- supporting the troops. If you think invading Iraq was a good idea, then by all means, support away. Load up on those patriotic magnets and bracelets and other trinkets the Chinese are making money off of.

But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken -- and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.
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What part of this do you have a problem with?

An honest and common opinion among Americans.
 
That's a little bad calling poor black people, "People the Obama campaign rounded into a van off the street that smelled like pee".
 
So people from the inner city are voting for Obama? What a shock.
 
Shooter said:
So people from the inner city are voting for Obama? What a shock.
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Let's try this again: This is not an article meant for informing. This is an article meant solely for humour. There is nothing being argued here.
 
Minstrel said:
Let's try this again: This is not an article meant for informing. This is an article meant solely for humour. There is nothing being argued here.
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Really? I suspect that some of these recent polls are being manipulated by the organizations running them in order to create the impression that everybody is getting on the bandwagon for Obama, so you better, too! This article does the same thing. It's all part of an effort to suggest that there's a groundswell of support for Obama, and it's an unstoppable tide.

If the people in this region of Ohio were voting overwhelmingly for McCain, this article probably never would have been published.
 
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Shooter said:
Really? I suspect that some of these recent polls are being manipulated by the organizations running them in order to create the impression that everybody is getting on the bandwagon for Obama, so you better, too! This article does the same thing. It's all part of an effort to suggest that there's a groundswell of support for Obama, and it's an unstoppable tide.
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In fact, even the posts on this board are being manipulated by the vast left-wing conspiracy. They told me to say this! I guess they are getting overconfident, or they wouldn't be revealing that they control me. Ooh, now they are telling me to have a few more drinks and go out in the street naked and shout Obama! Obama! That'll be fun. Well, bottoms up!

barfo
 
barfo said:
Ooh, now they are telling me to have a few more drinks and go out in the street naked and shout Obama! Obama!
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Great! You'll fit right in with all of the other Obama supporters!
 
Shooter said:
Really? I suspect that some of these recent polls are being manipulated by the organizations running them in order to create the impression that everybody is getting on the bandwagon for Obama, so you better, too! This article does the same thing.
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Setting aside your conspiracy theories, you are missing a rather vital point: this is not actually a poll. It's a purposely unscientific poll simply for the sake of humour. He even says this:

I was told by the very nice election-board workers that in-person early voters come in two varieties: the superinformed and the people Obama supporters pick up off the streets and throw into a van.
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Pro-Obama?

I realize you are always on alert for the liberals trying to screw you and America, but take a night off. This was simply linked for entertainment value. If you weren't entertained, I'll refund the money I charged you. What this isn't, though, is a political statement or argument.
 
Minstrel said:
It's a purposely unscientific poll simply for the sake of humour.
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I'll repeat my earlier point: If the people in this part of Ohio were going overwhelmingly for McCain in early voting, I'll bet this article never would have been published.
 
Shooter said:
I'll repeat my earlier point: If the people in the inner city of Cincinnati were going overwhelmingly for McCain in early voting, I'll bet this article never would have been published.
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There's no data about how people are voting in inner city Cincinnati available. They could well be voting for McCain (although it seems unlikely). The "data" in that article is not real, or, even if it is real, it is not meaningful. It's a joke. The article is humor. You are not supposed to take any of it seriously.

barfo
 
barfo said:
There's no data about how people are voting in inner city Cincinnati available. They could well be voting for McCain (although it seems unlikely). The "data" in that article is not real, or, even if it is real, it is not meaningful. It's a joke. The article is humor. You are not supposed to take any of it seriously.
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Which he outright says:

"Unfortunately, by law every county has only one early-voting site, and Hamilton County's location is in the middle of the inner city, so even though it's a conservative county, 84% of the people I surveyed voted for Barack Obama. The vast majority of early voters submit their ballots by mail, and Hamilton County's envelopes are probably just as strongly pro-John McCain. But I was interested less in which candidate Hamilton County will vote for than in finding out what kind of person votes a month before the election."
 
Shooter said:
I don't, believe me.
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Good for you! Not taking a humour article seriously. You've proven your point well and have thouroughly discredited me and my source. :(
 
Денг Гордон said:
But the polling data I posted was real, and it shows Obama walloping McCain in early voting.
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Yep. Updates since then by SurveyUSA are mixed:
California 58-37 Obama
Florida 53-45 McCain

barfo
 
One more early polling result: Wisconsin, 52-37 Obama.

barfo
 
barfo said:
In fact, even the posts on this board are being manipulated by the vast left-wing conspiracy. They told me to say this! I guess they are getting overconfident, or they wouldn't be revealing that they control me. Ooh, now they are telling me to have a few more drinks and go out in the street naked and shout Obama! Obama! That'll be fun. Well, bottoms up!

barfo
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Brainwashed.

Like they took your brain and beat it on a rock or something.

:lol:

j/k
 
At least he didn't say "Kill all the lawyers" as I resemble that remark.
 
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