Sep 29, 2008 7:05am
Prepare for Another Wacky Stunt
EmailAn LA Times/Bloomberg News poll of voters who watched the debate has Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., ahead of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., 49% to 44%, with a plurality deeming Obama more "presidential."
- jpt
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What happened to the post about Gov. Palin that has been apparently taken down. It included a link to the most recent S&L skit with Jake commenting that it was not too far from reality. The post mentioned comments from her debate opponent and made the comment that it was personality vs. facts. Jake added that she was an empty pantsuit.
I went back to comment on the post a few minutes later and poof it was gone.
Bias is not a strong enough word for what the MSM has done this cycle – journalistic malpractice is more accurate.
Posted by: Stevereno | September 29, 2008, 7:31 am 7:31 am
Sorry. My mistake. That was Rod Dreher’s blog.
Posted by: Stevereno | September 29, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am
“I would like to see the demographics of who was polled before making any conclusions”
It was Americans who were polled.
Posted by: DownSouth | September 29, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am
Well keep up the ‘fair and balanced’ reporting, and wacky may be running the country soon.
Posted by: cs | September 29, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am
With all these polls, I think it is interesting that the poll on AOL has McCain overwhelmingly up over Obama. Maybe the calling polls are more selective in their polling with a left slant than the polls you can do online. Who knows?
Posted by: Maria | September 29, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am
Great leadership Obama, America and the world are waiting for you to lead this great nation toward peace and economic prosperity. May God bless America and may God bless Obama.
Posted by: BKMC | September 29, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am
AOL poll let you vote multiple times just remove your cookies and vote again!
Aol polls are a joke! Like fox news and cnn online polls just remove cookies and vote again!
Posted by: Alex Independent. | September 29, 2008, 8:15 am 8:15 am
I am not sure which debate people were watching.
While the US was facing a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac created financial mess that can be tied back DIRECTLY to sitting Democratic (non)Leadership, 0bama continues to stump, and John McCain goes to DC and does the job that taxpayers pay him to do?
No wonder our economy is a mess. People have no clue what is going on. Hint: ACORNS don’t always grow mighty oak trees. Sometimes they steal votes.
Posted by: beebop | September 29, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am
Polling does not give true results.
Online polls? Joke. The MSNBC poll on who won the debate had 80% of the people participating were logging in from foreign web addresses. Only 20% were from computers inside the U.S.
As in the media, too much personal bias has creeped into polling.
Once you see who was polled (too many Democrats, too many independents, too few Republicans) it is realized how they are skewing the results.
Posted by: Zank | September 29, 2008, 8:39 am 8:39 am
Bristol and her hockey dude are getting married.
Maybe that will help.
Help McCain-Palin. (I don’t know that pregnant teens really should get married… especially to hooligans who don’t want kids…. but that’s my personal opinion)>
Posted by: Blip | September 29, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am
Didn’t these polls also indicate that Kerry and Gore seemed more “presidential”? Just wondering how much value to put in that adjective.
Posted by: dt | September 29, 2008, 9:13 am 9:13 am
Stevereno:
You are looking at the meltdown of American journalism. When the kids tell me they have to watch Comedy Central to get the news, I know that mainstream journalism is done.
Posted by: len | September 29, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am
Yes, even though the kids are “off limits”, it is being reported that the Mccain campaign is thrilled over the fact Bristol will marry her boyfriend. They hope for them to marry before Nov. 4th so they will “dominate” the media coverage during that time…..
Posted by: Paige | September 29, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am
Ancient Rome and now America. To those poor misguided Americans educated in our dumbed down educational system of the past 40 years or so Rome was a great civilization on the European contenant about 2000 years or so ago. If you never studied ancient history and the fall of the Roman Empire it was soley do to internal polotical corruption, and greed of all it’s leaders, sound farmiliar? We can sit and watch history unfold before us as we sit watch this election go forward, cheering and supporting our chosen candidate like it was a pep rally at some sporting event. In reallity we are all a bunch of fools who will fall victim to the above mentioned evils that we are now surrounded by. We have all lost our individual, moral clarity, what ever that may have been. I believe that both parties share equally in our inevitable demise soley because of their unbridled desire for power at our expense, like the so called tax payer bail out that we are now victims of. So eat drink and be merry and continue to write on these blogs which is nothing more than an expression of our sub consciece fears of our eventual doom.
Posted by: bombem | September 29, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am
Obama is on the message now, he’s burried his wife in minor fundraising events and local things and all the rest of his Chicago friends are staying clear. Obama is the only one out there talking about the economy when it’s in the news.
Biden is the stupid sidekick who doesn’t threaten anybody and who has been around so long everybody says he’s experienced. He’s the only man Obama could share the spotlight with.
He’s winning on the Dems reputation and the GOP/Bush failure. It’s horrible; being president is above Obama’s pay grade. Is this the best USA can do?
Posted by: Sylvia Johnsen | September 29, 2008, 9:44 am 9:44 am
Bobbem, Great Post. I am voting McCain but it looks like the chosen one will win. I did not vote for Bush either time. In fact I have been a democrat all my life until this election. When I see friends of mine who fell for Bush’s garbage and voted for him (they are remarkably silent on this issue by the way) I hold up my head proudly and say I did not vote for the jerk. I will be able to do the same when Obama is found to be an incompetent leader in 4 years. And it will be one term I assure you.
Posted by: Cultural Amnesia | September 29, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Cultural Amnesia: Tks. I have been a Republican since the womb, but I like you have the courage to admit I was wrong on the Bush BS. I am voting like you but share the same fears.
Posted by: bombem | September 29, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am
A wacky stunt?
Like sending out a massive text message at 3am? Or heading off to the Victory Column in Berlin?
Posted by: MayBee | September 29, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am
Jake,
Sometimes you can be very sarcastic. But I must confess, I like it when you do. I am sure you would have censored me if I had posted this:-)
Posted by: Lance D. | September 29, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
A lot of these posts I’m reading gives me an Idea why a lot of America is voting the way they are.
There’s no reason why they don’t change the law on the age of voting. 12 would be fair.
I seriously don’t think Palin will be there Thursday night. I think the McCain campaign is over playing Palin’s appointment with Badin.
I believe something will come up and she won’t be able to attend. I think McCain will change his strategy in a big way. I think McCain will come forward with a major excuse/reason and Palin will be replaced. I think Lieberman is coming in. Mark this post.
This is happening.
Posted by: Dianna | September 29, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
I love the smell of GOP desperation in the morning!
Posted by: Lemmy | September 29, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
If Biden shows restraint and deference towards Palin on Thursday night, it could be a long, long night for the GOP ticket. By no stretch of the imagination is Sarah Palin vice-presidential or presidential material. Selecting the Alaska governor to be on the ticket was a naked ploy to get the Hillary vote, and to jumpstart a stagnant McCain campaign. I refuse to accept that Sarah Palin was the best choice. After the jubilation and the excitement and the novelty of the Palin selection, reality has hit, and hit hard.
Posted by: Mark-O | September 29, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
My conservative colleague at work expressed the same sentiment.
He was unsure of Obama but thought the debate put to rest doubts he had when it came to Obama’s handle on world affairs.
Posted by: Ryan C | September 29, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
Why the font change?
Posted by: bombem | September 29, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
“Vote for the party the media hates.”
Wacky stunt – B. Hussane Obama will do his next stump in an Uncle Same costume pointing his finger at us. “We want you.”
Posted by: MEW | September 29, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
MEW, perhaps you could at least get the spelling correct. It is Hussein.
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | September 29, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
A wacky stunt like “Bomb bomb bomb,bomb bomb bomb Iran” What a wild and crazy guy that J. Sidney McCain is, huh?
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | September 29, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm