Dems Say Kerry Back On Track

?????????? How can you say your presidential candidate can get off track and get back on track within 50 days of the election date. I wonder if he is just pretending to be back on track untill he wins the election ?





[edit on 9-17-2004 by Valhall]

Kerry got his second wind.

Polls show its back to a tie, the bounce is dead.

We're back. Did you miss us?

what polls are you reading Nerdling? surely not the Gallup poll, Not the polls comming out of Minnesota or Pennsalvania. If you are refering to the pew poll, then yes they say that it's even. Don't buy it.

2 Polls are showing a dead heat.

Gallup is a lead for Bush, Well, Gallup is actually headed by a public RNC'er who gives tons of cash to bush every year.

"I won't every say that polls are the end all be all of anything, but, let's be honest, Gallup builds their entire company on polls, and if they are SO wrong SO frequently, no one would hire them to do polls anymore. If you have a source where Gallup is so off the main stream, so out of the truth, please post it. Don't just say "Gallup had Bush ahead 52-39 in Oct 2000" with no link."

One need only go to Gallup's own website and find their polling history. If memory serves, Gallup did have Gore getting as low as 39% of the electorate the week before the election. It struck me as odd then, as everyone was saying how tight the race was. Turns out Bush didn't have a lead at all, nationally...

Credit to The_Counsel, Poster, Democratic Underground Forum.



Kerry is gaining

Gallup is stunningly incompetent:

-- One week before the 2000 elections Gallup showed Bush leading by 13 points.

-- They also had Dewey beating Truman.

-- It's a wonder anyone takes them seriously as a pollster.

2) There is clearly something wrong with their methodolgy:

-- 14 of the last 16 Gallup polls have been the most pro-Bush of any taken at the same time. The odds of that happening randomly are about 1 in 14,000

-- They have consistently oversampled Republicans in their polls -- despite the fact that self-identified Democrats have been at least equal to self-identified Republicans in the every national election of the last 20 years, Gallup chooses to poll more self-identified Republicans than Democrasts.

-- In fact, in the 2000 election, 39% of the electorate described themselves as Democrats and 35% as Republicans. If you weight Gallup polls to those numbers, Kerry would be leading in most of their surveys.

3) Gallup's likely voter model is has been discredited:

-- The formula by which they determine who is a likely voter is bizzare and complex and always inaccurate.

-- Their last poll showed Bush voters 10% more likely to vote than Kerry voters despite the fact that the eletion-day difference between the parties hasn't been more than 4% since at least 1992.

-- Their likely voter model almost certainly leaves out those who didn't vote in 2000 so they aren't even sampling a representative electorate.

4) Gallup is run by a right-wing Republican.

-- Gallup is no longer run by the legendary Frank Gallup. They now are run by a right-wing CEO who has given money this year to support the right wing agenda. This bias is reflected in the polling.

5) Every other poll has shown movement toward Kerry.

-- Bush is fading because of the wrong choices he made in Iraq and the wrong direction he has taken the economy. No flawed poll can change that.

-- The American people will decide on election day whether they want to continue the current direction. They will hold Bush accountable and they will further discredit Gallup.

DU, Poster.

Says it all really.

The Kerry campaign took off the month of August virtually spending nothing on media, while Bush spent his war chest AND had a convention. When Bush was trailing he did the same thing to some extent hiding out at his ranch the whole Democratic convention.

The "lull" was planned to be "in the race" until the end when the only poll that matters takes place (Nov. 2).

The race started Labor Day. (The real one). With a full contingent of Clintonistas and money to burn. Burn Baby Burn!

And keep your eye on the news.

Originally posted by Nerdling
Kerry got his second wind.

Polls show its back to a tie, the bounce is dead.

We're back. Did you miss us?

Hey Dan Rather,

He's on the losing track! Let me say that again. THE LOSING TRACK! He's not catching up! Where'd such false hopes for the Democrats come from?

Whoa! Don't tell me. The Republicans, right? I thought you'd think that.

[edit on 18/9/04 by Intelearthling]

Originally posted by Intelearthling
Let may that again. THE LOSING TRACK!

Flustered somebody is.

Thought for today:
Without the fertilizer of others, smelling like a Rose yourself wouldn't be so sweet.

[edit on 18-9-2004 by RANT]

Originally posted by RANT

Originally posted by Intelearthling
Let may that again. THE LOSING TRACK!

Flustered somebody is.

Thought for today:
Without the fertilizer of others, smelling like a Rose yourself wouldn't be so sweet.

[edit on 18-9-2004 by RANT]

Hey man! I'm not the one who's flustered! The losers in this election campaign are the ones who's fustered! I'm simply having the time of my life watching the reactions of those who know they haven't got a chance!

BTW. Thanks for pointing that out.

[edit on 18/9/04 by Intelearthling]

How can you be BACK, if you were NEVER there?
Kerry was the DEM Party's Silver medalist.
Remember Dean? The First choice?