Two weeks to go and the machine is starting to prepare the narrative for how it is possible that John McCain won the 2008 Presidential election. With every poll showing an Obama lead of anywhere from 10-14 points for the past few weeks, suddenly today the Associated Press announced a new poll that shows the race in a dead heat. Nonsense. With the backdrop of the Kennedy-Palast reporting on how the GOP has already started the systematic theft of the election this poll today is just the coverage they need to pretend that the results of a McCain victory will be legitimate. If McCain does indeed go on to steal the election, no doubt his supporters will point to this bogus poll to refute the other polls.
The talking points have been as inane as the alleged poll results. Primarily, the talking points are that the bump is due to the “strong” showing of McCain in the last debate and the “Joe the Plumber” nonsense has “struck a chord.” You have got to be kidding me. Every post debate poll clearly showed that Barack Obama once again dominated John McCain in the last debate. This was even stronger among undecided voters and independents. There was no strong showing by McCain; he lost and everyone saw him lose. By every count, including Fox News, he lost. Not only that, but he lost all three debates as well as the Vice Presidential debate. Throw in the fact that his recent Ayers attack line and socialist charges were also polled to be losers, the new AP poll simply defies logic.
And Joe the Plumber? C’mon guys; you have to do better than this. It has now been revealed that Joe was probably a plant by the McCain camp, which seemed obvious when he approached Obama with stock GOP talking points and has now been exposed as a McCain campaign donor. Even the argument fell apart – that an average American making over $250,000 per year is somehow being cast as being poor or a victim of Obama policy. The realities are that Joe could possibly even do better under Obama than McCain. But moving past the failed realities of Joe the Plumber, the notion that this ridiculous ploy somehow moved a national poll 10-14 points in one day, or one week is patently absurd.
A key “finding” is that the lead Obama had with voters making under $50,000 has shrunk from 24% to just 4%. Really? How in the world is that explained? People making under 50K now like the idea of not getting a targeted tax cut and feel bad for millionaires? Once again, absurd. Not to mention that this week saw the incredibly strong endorsement for Obama by Colin Powell on national television on Sunday. We are supposed to believe that this had a negative effect?
Let’s look at this against the backdrop of every other poll out today. The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Obama up by 9 percentage points, while a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center had Obama leading by 14. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, among the broader category of people registered to vote, found Obama ahead by 10 points. So we have 9, 10, and 14; numbers consistent with what has been the norm for a few weeks now and this one rogue poll which says “no no, it is a statistical dead heat.” Please, let’s be real.
This is all about the backdrop for the theft of the election. Already states such as New Jersey are refusing to allow election experts to monitor voting because they claim it is “too important” and election. The crafted talking points on exit polling is that people will be “too embarrassed” to admit they did not vote for Obama. Exit polling is not some haphazard venture. We use it to challenge the elections in other countries as proof when election results have been tampered with. We only had problems with exit polling when the Bush Administration came into power. Suddenly the data collected is not reliable and silly rationales are generated to explain away how someone like John Kerry can win amongst men and women in Ohio, yet still lose the overall count. Is there a third unknown gender demographic? Instead of properly questioning why the vote totals do not match the exit polling and we are talking by wide margins, the exit polling is “adjusted” to reflect the vote tallies.
Then with the exit polling dismissed, election experts banned from observing, shenanigans like in Colorado where minority ballots are targeted for removal at a rate of at least 1 in every 6, and the bogus “dead heat” poll in hand, the backdrop is set. The machine’s media minions rush out to comment on how legitimate everything was and next thing you know we are in a McCain Administration with Obama and the democrats again wondering what happened?What happened is the lazy democratic congress did nothing about HAVA for the past two years and are doing even less about the daily reporting of voter fraud. I mean real voter fraud, not the silly ACORN nonsense that is being thrown around. Now we see the bending of reality to absurd levels. John McCain’s campaign has been nothing short of an implosion every day. His Vice Presidential pick has been an unmitigated disaster as brilliantly pointed out by Colin Powel this past Sunday. His presentation on the economy has been soundly rejected by the electorate. His dirty politicking has been soundly rejected by the electorate. He is up to double digits in verbal gaffes and bizarre comments. There are reasons why Obama has had a consistent double digit leads. Yet amidst all of this obviousness, the Associated Press wants us to believe that up is down and the election is tied.
When recently asked about the lead Obama was enjoying, John McCain smiled and responded, “We have him right where we want him.” With the cover story being crafted now, maybe he was right.
Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to opednews.com, is dedicated to educating the populace to the lies and abuses of the government. He is a 41-year-old independent writer from New York with political commentary articles seen on multiple websites. A Christian progressive and professional Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and disabled, Mr. Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected officials accountable for lies and excess.
I believe you're entirely correct. The chairman of the AP, Dean Singleton, is apparently a good friend of good 'ole dubya. I would not put it past him or the AP in the slightest to be preparing the makings of a coverup for another potential stolen election with their recent poll nonsense about a dead heat. Someone should call for an investigation into how this "poll" was conducted. There will be nothing short of martial law having to be being declared, which will be able to stop this Obama tsunami wave. Anything said to the contrary. . . is a lie.
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dotmafia (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 68 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 12:15:00 AM
Not only is it one of my favorite movies, but I own two copies (one for lending) and have watched it at least 20 times. Everyone should see it. V is a telling futuristic portrayal of the decline of the US, totalitarian dictatorship, and hope. The writers were right on.
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Cinderfella (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 141 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 3:18:04 PM
-- is given in Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman, who demonstrates in his modern classic from 1985 the hair-raising accuracy of Huxley's vision (Brave New World) of a drugged people, happy to be led along into oblivion in a setting of endless war.
Postman's subtitle: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. The term "news cycle" dates from after he wrote, from saturation coverage of the first Gulf War, which gave the 24-hour news channels their secure niche. Now from there they all proclaim something like "Give us 24 minutes and we'll give you the world" (apologies to KNX-1070 AM in L.A.).
We demand to be entertained, because now we've come to expect it. "Who cares about some bill passing Congress when Anna Nicole Smith just keeled over?! I mean, get real!" Even a counterstatement like War, Inc. or Wag the Dog has a tough haul because people have to pay attention for longer than is comfortable. And who can read a book anymore? "I bought it and it's on the shelf, what do you expect from me?"
The suppliers of our drug of choice are the corporate-controlled media. Enough said.
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editnetwork (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 72 comments)
on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 9:55:06 AM
I saw this movie soon after it came out and commented at the time that every American should watch it. Little did I know how much more relevent it would become. The only problem is, those who are already happy with our corporate, totalitarian government aren't able to grasp the parable, metaphor, analogy, etc. Their "re-education" is complete.
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Kathy Stuart (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 31 comments)
on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 9:57:49 AM
it looks like ya nailed it, anthony! sorry to say...
another nail in AP (and the public's)'s coffin is the fact that they have not covered much of the vote purging, suppression, etc., covered ACORN, but failing to cover the revelations about Republican run YPM (the owner of the company was just arrested) and the many voters duped into registering as Republicans. (See: click here Then, they run a ridiculous story about a goldfish registered to vote. Wake me up, fellas, if the fish shows up at the polls!
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Joan Brunwasser (172 articles, 3597 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 675 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 8:17:22 AM
I just hope you are wrong but after the last two, why not make it three. I have asked David Swanson----I'm sure you read his piece as to everyone going to Washington----to come up with a defined plan on "when, where, and how", as things will unfold quickly after 11/4. It would seem that to be effective a plan before hand would be necessary.
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virginius "gin" arnold (13 articles, 3 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 343 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 8:57:54 AM
IF the election is stolen, then we as Americans should revolt. Plain and simple. There would be no other course of action--republicans cannot be allowed to hijack the electoral process three elections in a row. Time to clean it up.
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jeffrey faulkner (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 8:59:51 AM
IF the election is stolen, then we as Americans should revolt. Plain and simple. There would be no other course of action--republicans cannot be allowed to hijack the electoral process three elections in a row. Time to clean it up.
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jeffrey faulkner (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 9:01:49 AM
Can anyone, but so called “conservatives” drunk on GOP Kool Aid, really not consider the high probability that It’s Already Stolen as the indubitable Greg Palast has already asserted?
Will Americans be angry enough this time over a 3rd fraudulent GOP election to stage mass protests and even riot after their legislature in cahoots with Bush admin has looted $2 trillion in taxpayer funds to bailout Wall Street’s predatory lenders?
Will a few million Americans stand up in revolt against GOP if they yet again engage in sufficient vote tampering to illegally install a 3rd republican president? Would the Democratic Party back such a revolt, or would Obama oddly surrender to a quick loss just like Kerry did, despite overwhelming evidence of 2004 Ohio GOP vote fraud later proven to be true in a court of law? If such a possible outcome occurs how many Americans will be angry enough to step forward to be the democratic freedom fighters republicans will designate as domestic “insurgents”? Will these American “freedom fighters” have enough of a firm belief in an honest representative democracy to be able to defend it without flinching against the psychotic “true believer” mentality supporting the continued oppression of human rights, freedom and democracy brought to US by God’s Own Party [GOP]?
There are plenty of progressives who were mad as hell about the election thefts in 2000 and 2004.
There will be even more people mad at a theft in 2008.
All it will take to get a Ukrainian-style protest and shut-down would be for the losing candidate to ASK the American people to "peacefully protest in your state capitals and election headquarters and demand a fair an honest accounting."
AND THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
Sorry, but I absolutely refuse to risk my life, my job, and my future if the candidate himself is not willing to ask me to. I am NOT going out on a limb for a candidate who won't go out on that limb WITH me.
If Obama pulls a Kerry then it is ALL OVER for America. If the Democrats won't fight this time, I'm buying a gun and putting a McCain/Palin and a God Hates Fags sticker on my car and hope to slide by till I can save enough to get out, hopefully before they seal the borders.
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Charlie L (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 737 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 11:38:39 AM
The other polls were at 9, 10, and 14 - tHAT is teh variance you are looking for. Not 1 and 14 - that is not a variance it is an abberation. It is a statistical anomoly.
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Anthony Wade (156 articles, 2 quicklinks, 44 diaries, 683 comments)
on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 12:22:15 PM
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