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I'd be glad to if you could explain what the heck you're asking me!

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In Reply to: RE: Didn't you say Americans vote for a PRes not a government. Bush isn't standing, so put up or shut up...nt posted by dave c on May 11, 2008 at 23:45:08

Polls are polls, my friend. Elections are elections.

Polls are telephone calls that come during dinner time, which most intelligent people automatically hang up on. Polls comprise tangentious and leading questions that suit the underwriter's political aims.

Elections take place in an election booth, where civic minded and motivated individuals are face with a concrete choice and where they know their response counts. There are no carefully crafted, tangentious questions in an election booth. Only NAMES!

Polls and elections are two entirely different "response environments," with completely different dynamics -- and not only for the reasons I've already stated, but because they take place at different times.

Good grief, these so-called opinion experts can't even get EXIT polls to match the outcome of the elections!

Just to show you how preposterous your whole line of thinking is, consider this:

If we had Congressional elections TOMORROW, I absolutely guarantee you that 90% of MORE of our senators and congressmen would be re-elected. Yet, the polls you are so enamored of claim that 80% of the American people are dissatisfied with the Congress and the Senate.

Furtermore, I have no idea why you continue to harp on Bush's low approval ratings in these polls. Bush is not running for president anymore. Bush cannot run for president anymore (unless he puts his WIFE up to running for him as a proxy). Let me make it simple for you:

Bush is still in the "polls"; he will no longer be in the "election booth".

And I would humbly submit that WERE Bush to run again, against either of the two Democrat candidates, he could very well win.

Now, what was your question again?

Follow Ups:

so are you saying you will never mention polls about Clinton or Obama again? - dave c 22:31:34 05/12/08 (2)
- davec, I don't need to prove you wrong ... - halfnote 20:03:04 05/13/08 (1)
  - "Everything I have said is absolutely logical and reasonable." Excuse me while I roll on the floor... again! - dave c 22:43:35 05/13/08 (0)

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