Despite what Big Media, Barry and the Democrat Party wish you to believe. Certainly not under the classic definition: two successive quarters of negative real growth. The latest quarter grew less more than expected but and still is positive. You might suspect that the diving and climbing stock market, swooping like a drunken albatross, surely indicates that we’re about to see those two successive negative quarters. Nevertheless, we haven’t yet, and until we do, well…
Via the Seablogger.
It may or may not be significant that the polls are all over the map, as Mac says. This analysis says that it is statistically likely that they would be varying. Statistics and I are not friends, so I can’t independently say yay or nay.
But I do agree that it is probably significant that not a single poll that I am aware of (though with two hundred fifty-one this month alone, how can I be sure?) shows Mac in the lead. In 2004, some polls showed Kerry in the lead and some showed Bush in the lead. This time out, at least as of this date, all of them seem to show Barry leading. The question is: will Mac take the lead between now and Tuesday? Whatever. The voters have the last word, so the important thing is to vote!
"What are you going to do when Obama wins?" a former colleague asked. I responded: "What are you going to do when he loses?"
Like Cobb, I’d go on as usual, though certainly less focused on politics for a while. My old colleague, I suspect, would scream and rant for several months, at a minimum–like a lot of her peers. Some say the Big Media and their fellow-traveling pollsters, who have so intently misled Barry’s supporters for so long, might see their house burned down by the irate losers. At the least, if Mac wins, but not substantially, this thing will be tied up in the courts and recountings for a good while. If Barry wins even by a small margin, well, the nice thing about Republicans is that they don’t riot and they seldom sue.
Who could resist an appeal from Jeri Thompson? For that matter how many women will be able to resist voting for the first woman vice-president? Well, it didn’t help Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. But that was another age. Must they wait another age before their next chance? Not these folks, anyhow.
Via The Fat Guy.
Nevermind the WSJ’s Peggy Noonan and the NYT’s house conservative David Brooks. Elaine Lafferty, former editor-in-chief of MS Magazine has the goods on Sarah:
"Look, I am obviously personally pro-choice, and I disagree with McCain and Palin on that and a few other issues. But like many other Democrats, including Lynn Rothschild, I’m tired of the Democratic Party taking women for granted. I also happen to believe Sarah Palin supports women’s rights, deeply and passionately."
Looks like others have figured it out, too, as the polls tighten to the margin of error (i.e. a tie) going into the home stretch.
"Across the electric wires, the hum is ceaseless: Give it up, loser. Don’t go down with the ship when it’s swept away by the Obama tsunami. According to newspaper reports, polls show that most people believe newspaper reports claiming that most people believe polls showing that most people have read newspaper reports agreeing that polls show he’s going to win."
Mark Steyn, as always, is a hoot. But no funnier, in this instance, than the wide-eyed folks on the groaning Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Barney Frank-ACORN bandwagon eagerly awaiting their "spread-the-wealth" checks. Fifty-two percent of us, Gallup says, don’t trust Big Media. Yet, for some reason, these sheeple trust it when it says the Daley Machine’s landslide is near and y’all don’t wanna be swept off your feet. Yet some of us, still, join Mac in calmly foreseeing a long night on Nov. 4.
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