I just noticed that you can’t spell ROboMoNkEY without ROMNEY… (and “book”, apparently.)
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Freaky
5 November 2012Finger on the Scale
19 September 2012That is very sloppy programming, where no answer within the alloted time defaults to the first choice (which, in this case, happens to be “Barack Obama”). A lack of response should either be ignored by the pollster (and most polling companies won’t tell us how many people refuse to answer) or counted as “no answer”.
Of course, some people will suspect that this is deliberate poll-rigging (although one shouldn’t rush to attribute to malice anything which can be adequately explained by stupidity). Even if that is the case, then it’s still sloppy programming because, if you’re rigging the poll to take silence as a vote for Obama, you don’t have the program say so out loud and thus provide evidence of your chicanery.
When Hell is Full, the Dead Shall Walk the Polling Places
12 January 2012Another One Bites the Dust
28 December 2011Ben Nelson (D-NE) was going to retire in a year whether he wanted to or not. His decision not to run for reelection merely means that he’s bowing to the inevitable.
In order to recapture the Senate in 2012, the GOP needs a net gain of four seats; and the numbers look much better now than they did in 2010. Out of the thirty-three incumbent Senators up for reelection next year, only ten are Republicans. The Democrats have more than twice as many seats to defend, and it’s going to be tough… Something of which the rats are no doubt aware, given the way they’re starting to abandon ship in droves.
- Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), retiring.
- Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), retiring.
- Senator Kent Conrad (D-NC), retiring.
- Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), retiring.
- Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), retiring.
- Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), retiring.
- Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), retiring.