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    So I guess all the early polls.................

    were absolutely spot on. You know, the polls that were said to be inaccurate because they were using the 2008 results models. I guess the professional pollsters did indeed know what they were doing.

    Shocking.
    "Trump is a bit like Gandhi, but without intelligence, without restraint, without humility, without wisdom and without empathy for anyone but himself."

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    No they weren't. Both sides played up this 'close' election for the sake of ratings. They called states at 0%, it no longer matters what the polls said, it never actually mattered, because the media kept them close enough to sucker us into spending money, either to donate to candidates or watch their commercials and waste money at those places as well...

    We got sucker punched, anyone in the media that predicted this outside of 2% or six electoral votes should be lined up and shot...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dispondent View Post
    No they weren't. Both sides played up this 'close' election for the sake of ratings. They called states at 0%, it no longer matters what the polls said, it never actually mattered, because the media kept them close enough to sucker us into spending money, either to donate to candidates or watch their commercials and waste money at those places as well...

    We got sucker punched, anyone in the media that predicted this outside of 2% or six electoral votes should be lined up and shot...

    Eh, I had no skin in the game this time. So I am not emotional about it either way. Both candidates sucked ass. Too bad the GOP doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to actually back a true conservative.
    "Trump is a bit like Gandhi, but without intelligence, without restraint, without humility, without wisdom and without empathy for anyone but himself."

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    Quote Originally Posted by WalterSobchak View Post
    Eh, I had no skin in the game this time. So I am not emotional about it either way. Both candidates sucked ass. Too bad the GOP doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to actually back a true conservative.
    A true conservative is not viable with the moderate populace. God knows I'd love to see one, WITH A FOREIGN POLICY...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dispondent View Post
    A true conservative is not viable with the moderate populace. God knows I'd love to see one, WITH A FOREIGN POLICY...
    What the Repubs are doing is not working. I think a true conservative would have had a better chance than a liberal Mormon Yankee from Massachusetts -- there would have been a more obvious difference between the two candidates.

    The Repubs -- maybe not Mitt himself -- keep alienating women and minorities. That makes it a lot harder to win. There's a lot Americans agree on but the bozos on the left and the right prefer to focus on wedge issues that don't affect most.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conley View Post
    What the Repubs are doing is not working. I think a true conservative would have had a better chance than a liberal Mormon Yankee from Massachusetts -- there would have been a more obvious difference between the two candidates.

    The Repubs -- maybe not Mitt himself -- keep alienating women and minorities. That makes it a lot harder to win. There's a lot Americans agree on but the bozos on the left and the right prefer to focus on wedge issues that don't affect most.
    Tea Party(ies) candidates did better than big government GOPers.

    But, in general, I think demographics have doomed federalism and limited federal government ideas. The only thing left is collapse..., and then re-birth.

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    The polls nailed it this time around, no doubt about it. Wasn't really that close.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conley View Post
    The polls nailed it this time around, no doubt about it. Wasn't really that close.
    Depends on who's polls though.

    A lot of "conservatives" had this one in the bag - especially toward the end.

    I got caught up in it a little, but at the end of the day (before the voting began) I dismissed what I considered unreliable predictions and considered Obama the likely winner.

    It all goes back to the old mainstay - people will latch on to what they want to believe, not what is likely or credible.
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    I wonder what happened to all those white women accusing herman Cain of boinking them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    I wonder what happened to all those white women accusing herman Cain of boinking them?
    Didn't ya hear? They get free birth control now, they can boink away without any worries; and kill any potential offspring with fewer worries.... Maybe Wright was right, God DAMN America! Well at least Allah, ok, that's actually a joke...

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