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Polling the polls

Posted on October 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Polling the polls

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!

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Bush’s war?

Posted on August 19, 2006 | Comments Off on Bush’s war?

Not hardly, according to 73 percent of respondents to a recent British poll in the UK published in the Guardian on Thursday. This is post-airplane plot discovered. Forty-four percent think this war will last more than 20 years. I’d say that’s optomistic. Fifty-five percent favor passenger profiling. Of course, law enforcement already is passenger profiling. They’re just not talking about it, in my view, and calling everybody else and his two-year-old out of the line to cover themselves.

Via Buzzmachine 

Then, just two days later, look what happens aboard a passenger jet returning Brits from holiday.

"British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny – refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic."

It gets damn claustrophobic in many passenger jets, people all crammed together like cattle. Curiosity, laughter, and surely fear can ripple down the seat files like an exotic bovine infection.

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