Iowa: ‘The Whole Shebang’ for Obama?

I don’t think that today’s polls are reliable. Pollsters can only call landlines, and the respondents have to be home in the evenings. They are usually used if they have a history of voting.
Pollsters are not disclosing the extent to which what they do is no longer very scientific. A likely voter is a person who, amongst other things, has voted before. What about first-time voters, cell phone-only users and people who are never home in the early evening?
Additionally, how much credibility can you give to polls such as those by Rasmussen that have margins of error of up to five percentage points either way?
Polls are a lazy reporter’s shortcut. They do not seem to reflect what one sees on the ground. How do you explain Obama raising so much money and getting such large crowds and being so behind in the polls?
To be sure, crowds do not equal votes, but this has been going on for MONTHS now, and most of Obama’s rallies cost about $25 per ticket for non students. And the money means that people are actually willing to make a political commitment. A donation is not something you take lightly.
Young people are often dismissed by pollsters because they are unreliable shows on election day. There is some merit to that, but past experience does not necessarily indicate future behaviour. If Obama’s campaign can mobilize its ground troops to the polls, he will win.

If Bill Clinton is challenging Sen. Obama’s experience then it would logically follow that he is also challenging Sen. Clinton’s experience.
What is Sen. Clinton’s experience? Please ask Bill Clinton to detail, item by item, what Sen. Clinton’s experience is.
When asked in the last debate what her foreign policy experience was, Sen. Clinton responded by saying when you’re married to the president you’re privy to information about this and that. When did pillow talk become foreign policy experience?
Bill Clinton cannot honestly challenge Sen. Obama’s experience without also calling attention to Sen. Clinton’s lack of experience.
The media has got to start doing their job. Lets be clear here, Bill Clinton is not running for president – Sen. Clinton is running for president. Lets examine HER experience.

Based on their performance during the most recent election cycle, there are a number of things that I can say about embers of the Main Stream Media namely: (i) reporters for the main part are very far removed from the ordinary people that they cannot accurately represent the people on the ground; (ii) there is a general sense of laziness and desire to please the Washington establishment and huge corporation that most are afraid of not reporting different opinions – a case of “group-think” ; (iii)most are wishing for fight between Mrs. Clinton and Guliani to such an extent that they are trying to push these two candidates on both sides; (iv) the desire to coy-up to what is familiar (here read G.W. B in 2000) led the media machine push the dumber candidate and to attack Gore as too stiff as though the president’s role is to be entertainer-in-chief; (v) reporter were collaborators in leading us into the Iraq was and are as guilty as any of the major decision makers. I suggest that some the journalism schools should recall their diplomas because of the shame that has been placed on them. Otherwise a creative and serious reporter could take time to examine the thing that most are not talking about namely: What if all the conventional thinking, polling, and reporting is wrong, what would be the surprises? What if predictions that Hilary and Guilliani are the front runners are not correct