The Randians of the Republican Party have finally found a group of people they think aren't operating according to economic self-interest: every news organization and polling firm in America that's surveying voters regarding the upcoming presidential election. According to Republicans, they're all deliberately generating bad results:
Republicans have taken their complaints about media polls allegedly favoring Democrats a step further this morning, embracing an obscure new polling website that re-engineers public polls to add more Republicans to their samples, and which gives Republican Mitt Romney a wide lead....These are the real results, according to Chambers:
Dean Chambers, a blogger on Examiner.com who writes from his home in Duffield, Virginia, took [their] complaint a step further -- producing wide Romney leads far beyond what the Republican's campaign or Republican pollsters have suggested is the case....
Chambers said he suspects that big polling shops are intentionally over-sampling Democrats to help get the President re-elected.
"This year, they've been more skewed than in the past. Any poll that says NBC, CBS, or ABC is going to be skewed and invested in trying to get this President re-elected," he said....
Romney has a huge lead! Chambers is right and every polling firm and poll-generating news organization in America, including Rasmussen and Fox News, is wrong!
You see, they're all doing this because they love Obama and hate freedom -- even though, come Election Day, everyone will see that their polling operations have failed spectacularly and should never be trusted again. They don't care about any of that. They don't care if no one trusts their polls again. The news organizations don't care if they lose readers and viewers and listeners. The polling outfits don't care if they lose clients. They're happy to give up credibility and future revenue, perhaps permanently, because that's how much they worship Barack Obama. A conspiracy so vast....
Back a couple of weeks, Jonathan Chait was claiming that the internal polls in the Romney and Obama campaigns both showed that Obama had a sizable lead. According to him, this was because the public polls were under predicting Latino voter turnout.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the current status. But certainly Chambers is just embarrassing himself. But I think I know why. The fear on the right is that if Romney looks like he is going down, the Super PACs will stop supporting the campaign and switch to more winnable races. Ezra Klein discussed this today, although it wasn't exactly news.
I discussed Romney's distorted views on property rights today, at my blog. If anyone is interest.
Those poor little victims - the whole world's conspiring against them!
ReplyDeleteIf reality doesn't fit their world view or narrative, it's the world that's wrong.
I don't think all Conservatives are psychotics - but I suspect that all psychotics are Conservative.
Steve, we know this whole THE POLLS ARE SKEWED nonsense is Step 1 to de-legitimizing Obama's second term, right?
ReplyDeleteStep 2 is after Obama wins, the "conspiracy" is PROOF HE STOLE THE ELECTION and stuff.
Step 3 from the playbook is WE MUST IMPEACH of course. And if the media doesn't at that point play along with the "Well, the President's critics may have a point" they're in the tank for Obama.
C'mon man, you can see this coming a mile away.
You're right -- I can see them moving on to voter fraud after the election, following this sequence. But maybe the disgust Romney engenders will minimize their ability to sell this nonsense now.
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