27
Oct
The satire skit of the election season goes to Flowgo.com!
You CAN NOT MISS THIS!
http://www.flowgo.com/funpages/view.cfm/6019
27
Oct
Do I trust this one? Not any more than I do ABC’s telling us that polling people that have voted is less accurate than polling people who haven’t.
27
Oct
Nice read from Powerline:
The Washington Times reports that the Democrats have already filed nine separate lawsuits in Florida, challenging various aspects of Tuesday’s election procedures:
Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush’s brother.
The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations, established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks.
One suit challenges a ruling by Mrs. Hood to throw out forms on which new voters had failed to check a box indicating whether they were U.S. citizens, and another argued that although only 17 percent of the voters in Broward County and 20 percent in Miami-Dade County were black, more than a third of the voter-registration forms that were determined to be incomplete and invalid in both counties involved black voters.
Comment from Powerline: “I think that’s exactly right. The essence of the Democrats’ strategy is to use bullying tactics to facilitate voter fraud, which they hope will tip the election in their favor.”
So what’s new? Have unions ever been accused of bullying? Have civil rights groups such as the Rainibow Coalition ever been accused of bullying? Have lawyers ever been accused of bullying? Has Dan Rather ever been accused of bullying? Mix those groups together on a common mission and what else COULD you expect?
I’m still hoping this thing’s not close enough that the Kerry people feel lawsuits will accomplish anything. And, as Gore learned, the Constitution will trump their efforts anyway unless they can get it all resolved within six weeks, which Gore learned, is pretty dang hard to do. And quite frankly, if the Dems push too hard, falling on the heels of the 2000 fiasco, it could do the Democrat Party serious permanent damage. Do I think any of the Kerry lawyers are considering that? Not in a million years.
27
Oct
Foxnews is running a poll today that I feel is rather eye-opening.
At the time of this post, only 11% of the respondents feel polls are accurate.
That sounds about right to me. Call it the CBS affect. The one thing this election has done is reveal just how biased mainstream media is. Their polls have consistently not reflected what private polls have. In the case of yesterday, ABC just could not admit Bush was winning the absentee polling by a margin that would constitute a blow-out. They couldn’t do it. The had to malign that poll, and cite the fact that another poll they took would be more accurate ( how again is that? ). After mainstream media has constantly showed their bias, could they truly be surprised that 11% of the public so far doesn’t trust their polls any more?
26
Oct
New Study Finds Media Favored Kerry in First Half of October
…At the same time, one in three stories about Kerry were positive, one in seven for Bush.
Well, duh.
26
Oct
An excellent read from Blogicus. I’m going to do the bad thing and pretty much just copy it.
Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday edition of 60 MINUTES, said in a statement that “our plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn’t hold…”
Elizabeth Jensen at the LOS ANGELES TIMES details on Tuesday how CBS NEWS and 60 MINUTES lost the story [which repackaged previously reported information on a large cache of explosives missing in Iraq, first published and broadcast in 2003].
The story instead debuted in the NYT. The paper slugged the story about missing explosives from April 2003 as “exclusive.”
Do I believe that? Of course I do. Rather’s been dogging Bush since 2000, why would he change now? But wait, there’s more. Rather than acknowledging that the weapons cash that was missing before we got there was bogus in the first place, this is the Kerry response:
In response to reports that the Bush campaign is distorting an NBC news report in an effort to cover up the White House’s failure to secure 380 tons of explosive material in Iraq, Kerry-Edwards senior advisor Joe Lockhart released the following statement:
First of all, it was a UN mistake, not the US. The International Atomic Energy Agency was the one responsible for tracking them. Kerry’s blaming Bush for the failure of the agency he endorses playing a greater role in Iraq. That’s disingenious as hell. Where’s CBS reporting that?
Now, the evidence is there. NBC filmed it over a year ago, and if you look real hard, you’ll see the video floating around on the net. It’s not a question of when it happened, it’s a question of why in the hell 60 Minutes would choose to run yet another story so incredibly wrong it begs the question of what is wrong with CBS? Are they so tainted by their hatred of Bush that they are willing to totally sacrifice any dignity they have left? Their efforts in this race have been less than amateurish, as amateurs are debunking their stories faster than they can run them. Who at CBS can feel good about their product right now? Not only is it hurting Kerry, it’s killing CBS’s credibility. They’re going to be the #5 news source before long if they aren’y already. Maybe then they’ll see that people don’t like mislead, whether it’s for their cause or not. I’d also like to know if the FEC and/or FCC is looking into the obvious political agenda CBS is displaying to the entire world. If not, there’s no need for either of those agencies to exist.
26
Oct
Nine percent of “likely” voters in the ABC News tracking poll say they’ve voted for president, either by absentee ballot or early voting, a number that’s jumped in the last week. Fifty-one percent say they went for George W. Bush, 47 percent for John Kerry.
Great news for Bush? Not so fast…..
That doesn’t mean Bush is “winning” the absentee vote; the difference is within sampling tolerances.
ABC is quick to squelch any chance for enthusiasm. But, wait, there’s more:
The race tightened slightly from last week because Saturday and Sunday were two of Kerry’s three best days since this tracking poll began Oct. 1; Monday, though, was a bit better for Bush. Tracking polls average results across days to build a reliable sample.
Although their “exit poll” is not reliable, their tracking poll that has Kerry doing well, and tied with Bush, is reliable.
More of the same ole BS. Downplay anything good for Bush, trumpet non-news for Kerry. Got news for ABC. I trust the “exit poll” more than I do their tracking poll. Apparently 51% of the absentee voters do as well.
26
Oct
We’ve done a few articles on Hubbert’s Peak and the political risk associated with taking action to avoid/delay the peak. CNN took a poll that effectively addresses that issue:
Looks like the risk is still pretty low at $2.00 a gallon.
26
Oct
Sen. John Kerry (search) lost his battle to make Missouri a battleground state
The road to the White House normally runs through Missouri, a state that has sided with the winner in every election but one 1956 for the past century. Bush won the state by 4 percentage points in 2000.
The writing’s on the wall.
The following is from the CBO web page showing the budgets and federal debt from 1960 until 2003.
This is a very handy tool to have when discussing all things government.
