Gore up 10 points in national polls, sick (alert!)

Yes, the polls are acrock of solid animal waste.

But...

Unless Bush gets his act together, he will lose. I don't know if he's tough enough and well-organized enough to beat a team of professional liars like Gore and his Pet Press.

The Republicans remain astonishingly inept at handling the press. Why?? Yes, they are the enemy. But a good team can use an enemy to its advantage.

Bush is allowing Gore to set the terms of the campaign. That can end only in defeat for Bush.
 
I've long thought that one major way in which all polls are flawed, even the ones purportedly done within x amount of scientific certainty, is that the poll number ONLY reflect the answers of people willing to TAKE THE TIME TO ANSWER THE POLL WITHOUT REIMBURSEMENT. I, for one, if asked to take my time (which I can charge up to $145 per hour for) to fill out their poll, will ask "what's in it for me", and not take the time to fill it out unless there's some consideration for me taking my time, which is money. So the polls are inherently flawed - they only refect the answers from a certain type of people - the don't account for the answers of (while admittedly a small minority) people like me - who, as it turns out, may potentially be overwhelmingly biased towards one answer or the other on the poll (or set of answers). I.e. Perhaps people like me are overwhelming "conservative", thereby making a statistically significant flaw in the poll, nevermind that we're a small percentage of the population sample on the whole. A similar thing happens whenever I buy a product, and the maker wants me to spend MY time filling out their demographic survey, then spend MY money for a stamp, so that they can help market THEIR product. I don't think so.... Knowing as I do that this is NOT required to obtain the warranty, I file these in the circular file.
 
I cannot vote in the US. Frankly, I actually prefer voting in
Switzerland, where we can enact referendums and change laws as well as
our constitution ourselves.

But this is your stand. Your last. Go spreading leaflets into the
mailboxes of your neighborhood, visit all your relatives not already
voting for Bush to make them vote republican, write letters to the
editor, simply put, DO something. If you have extensive media
experience, help the reps, but DO something. Have stands in malls, put
papers under the windshield wipers of all cars in the parking lot of a
your preferred mall, go and do that in inner cities, have your gun
shops send out a leaflet to every registered customer. Hand them out
at gas stations. If every US TFL member sacrifices two evenings and
the Saturday for this, it might well work.

If you don't fight for your freedom at elections, you'll have to do in
the trenches.

It's your country, not mine. It's your freedom, not mine.
 
Today (Monday), the Washington Times poll had them in a dead heat. Every gun owner needs to vote for Bush. This may well be the closest election in US history. If Gore wins we may as well kiss the second ammendment good-bye.

All of the polls have a prejudice.

[This message has been edited by MikeK (edited September 04, 2000).]
 
There has been a strong shift in the press coverage since the democrat convention. Gore is getting most of the good press now, and somehow his same old class warfare struggle agenda is being presented as fresh, new ideas. Every Bush error is being magnified as a major indictment of his ability.

Others here have already expressed the right viewpoint. Vote, and do everything possible to make sure others like minded also vote.

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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
 
Well gaffes like the open mike today aren't helping Bush. He needs to come out swinging, and swing hard. He's still got too much of a laid back attitude. To me it just doesn't seem like he wants the job, and this is coming from someone that would vote for Tony the Tiger so long as it isn't Gore. I sure wish McCain had won the nomination.

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"Get yourself a Lorcin and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol."
 
Check your local papers.....look were Gore is placed (on the front page), I dont see Bush on the front page very often....fubsy.
 
One more time. Popularity polls give the press something to do during election years. We here in the US do not elect our president by direct vote. We use the electoral college which is a "winner takes all" vote in each state. Popularity polls, if they mean anything, mean anything only at the state level.

Take a look at electoral college poll results. The election for president is not as close as the popularity polls (and press) would have you believe.

Remember, the media have a strong financial interest in a good close race. They do not want a blowout.

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater--1964

[This message has been edited by Waitone (edited September 05, 2000).]
 
Advice to George W. Bush: Take a look at your campaign staff. If ANY of your senior or mid-level staffers served on the Bob Dole or George H. Bush campaigns...FIRE THEM!! And do it NOW. At least one, probably more, are closet Democrats. Nobody could run a campaign so ineptly as the last two Republican attempts, unless the ineptitude was deliberate.
 
The Newsweek poll is flawed for two reasons. It is a small 750 subject sample size but worse, it doesn't poll "likely voters" which is the industry standard, it polls "registered voters" which always favors Democrats.

Go to the Battleground, Zogby or Portrait America polls and relax. Then go call your state GOP headquarters and volunteer.

Sitting in front of a computer screen all day will not to much to win an election. Breathe the fresh air this fall. Get out and activate.

Rick
 
Hey, mussi! Switzerland is a great country, but you are not unique in your ability to pass laws by a vote of the people.

Here in Oklahoma, and in many western U.S. states, we have the right of

initiative (putting a law on the ballot by petition),

referendum, (legislature may refer law to the voters) and

recall (special election to vote an office-holder out.)

And we can amend our state constitution by a one-time vote.

What I am jealous of in Swizerland (besides chocolate, cheese, and mountains) is your tradition of local control of almost everything. It used to be that way here, but we're losing it fast, and have been since the Civil War. (Our civil war, 1861-5, not yours of 1847.)

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The latest poll, done over three days and polling likely voters with a 4,000 sample, puts the race at a dead heat. Bush's double digit lead has vanished. But Gore, who invented the internet, was the central figure for "Love Story," who cleaned up "Love Canal," and who has presided over the biggest booming economy in the world's history can't break 50% after Labor Day. This ain't over. We have to do everything we can to break Gore's numbers.

Bush had better get his act together. There's plenty of good points for him to attack on. Gore's proposals add up to 4.6 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. He's spending the entire projected surplus 140%!! A buck to you, a buck to your neighbor, and two bucks out of your pocket. Can you say "socialism?"
I knew that you could.

Dick
Want to send a message to Bush? Sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/monk/petition.html and forward the link to every gun owner you know.
 
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