Hillary Campaign Disputes DMR Poll
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has disputed the Des Moines Register poll the results of which were published yesterday. The biggest problem with it: “The Des Moines Register Poll this time has 40% independent voters and 5% GOP voters in the poll when past independent participation has been 15% in 2000 and 19% in 2004, and the GOP has generally made up 1% of the vote. So they are depicting an unprecedented departure from historically established turnout patterns in the caucus. Under their model, only 55% of the caucus goers would be Democrats.” As Marc Ambinder points out, even Obama’s “internal polling does not show this high a proportion of independents choosing to caucus.”
Aside from that, every other poll has Hillary in the lead and not Obama but Edwards surging. I’m highly suspicious. We’ll see. Soon. The problem for Edwards and Clinton is, however, that even if the poll is wrong, it could still influence the race.
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Well, well, well… The Ron Paul people have been saying all along how biased these "scientific" polls are, now we have Queen Hillary saying the same thing. Do you still believe in them? Vote for who YOU want, not who "they" tell you is the "winner".
Can ANYONE tell me why there is this constant rapt attention to, and vast coverage of, these all-but-meaningless polls? Time after time after time after time these "scientific" polls have been proven WRONG, completely wrong, utterly wrong, and yet like the crack addict going back to his pipe, the pundits and media just cannot let them go. Not only are they irrelevant to what should be a meaningful campaign, but the fact that so often they have failed to predict the outcome of a race should make them of trivial importance in any election — and yet I hear more and more about "the horserace" and the polls with every election cycle.
I guess the media’s attention spans are as short as the average American’s.
Hmmm… this looks amazingly good for Ron Paul.
The dollar slid across the board on Friday as data showing a 9 percent decline in sales of new U.S. homes last month heightened concern about the economy, putting the greenback on track for its worst week in more than a year.
The housing report, which was weaker than economists had expected, also bolstered the case for more Federal Reserve interest rate cuts in 2008. Earlier this week, the S&P/Case-Shiller index showed a record decline in U.S. home prices in October.
This is what’s happening to YOUR house. All the ‘money’ and ‘equity’ you thought you had saved – eliminated! The equity through falling house prices – and the money because we are DEBASING OUR CURRENCY. That low fed rate you’re reading about gets created by printing money and lending it to people. With more money, the money YOU have is worth LESS. So your money is worth less and your property is worth less – where can you turn to keep ahead of inflation? I think you BETTER turn to Dr. Paul. He’s the ONLY one running that has a HOPE of being able to deal with this.