Properly conducted polls can be invaluable but there comes a time when leadership requires decisions being made for the right reasons, regardless of the poll results. For the future of us all we must sometimes swallow the bitter pill.
As a weak example, I wasn't happy when indoor smoking was banned, but it is something that I can willingly accept, as do all the other tobacco fiends of my acquaintance. Reasonable people can (and should) accept certain levels of self-sacrifice for the greater good. The sticking point is that the definition of greater good, and how to implement it, is often open to debate.
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I was misinformed about the nature of the pro-Chump polls...seems they were gamed by the good hackers at 4chan, who may have been miffed about the wisecrack regarding 400lb hackers sitting on their beds.
Which begs the question, how is it possible that at this point in time there are still undecided voters? Who are these people, and why aren't they paying attention? Not all media have a liberal bias, yet there are very few positive statements of support for the Bilious Blob; it's not quite unanimous, but getting close.
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George Gallup may have lived in New Mexico, don't know for sure. Gallup polls have interesting methodology, relying mostly on phone calls, both cell and land-line. See Wikipedia for details, but don't forget the Tribune headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." Gallup got that one wrong, along with Ford over Carter and Romney over Obama. Nobody's perfect.
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I'm close to the point where I don't care who wins the presidential election, as long as the Chump suffers a humiliating defeat. This campaign is draining and it saddens me to know that humans of such low character may be in a position of pushing the big red button; even sadder is the fact that such people have so many supporters. Future historians will puzzle over this for years, in the worst case, and wonder why the American voter failed to avoid a catastrophe that was plain to see. The whole world is watching...
Sales of anti-depressants should be trending upwards, soon, if they aren't already.
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