Being a resident of New Hampshire, I got to vote in the primary Tuesday and I was a witness to the shocking win by Hillary. When you are done groaning, I will continue.
The pundits will tell you that Clinton beat the spread on the contest due to polling too soon or experts unwisely thinking momentum means anything.
She won because people seem to be really divided between her and Obama. It is just as wide-open on the red side as well. This is what happens when our society continues to churn out lukewarm Presidential candidates.
But the predictions were off in Iowa too. Either someone on the polling end is fudging the numbers, Gallup and Zogby are now using global warming computer models to forecast elections, or there is something else in play.
During my time in college, fraternities and sororities were just getting started. It was the job of the Greek Council, the governing body of fraternities and sororities on campus, to determine and vote on recognition, thus clearing a path to establishment of a chapter.
One of the groups wanting to start a sorority was a friend of ours so we helped lobby the others on their behalf. Being my guild’s rep on the Council, I asked the other reps who they were voting for.
We went back to our friends with the assurance of recognition. I heard nothing but yeses. What I didn’t know was that each rep was not really being truthful, they were being nice.
When it came time to vote, every single one of the sororities cast a nay ballot. That bothered me. I get it that each of them have the right to vote as their group wants, but don’t tell me one thing and do another.
It bothered me so much I used my position on the school newspaper to write a scathing op-ed piece calling them all out. That got me in a lot of trouble because it was in my Greek section, not the op-ed pages. But the papers flew off the shelf that day; that is for sure.
I learned early on in life that polls look the way they do because the people being asked the questions want to make themselves look like they are doing the right thing.
Or in this case, they want to be nice and say they will vote for a black man or a person who is a Mormon. Political correctness however stops at the polling booth curtain. The real tally, not the Gallup one is how America really thinks.
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10 responses so far ↓
1
Fiar
// Jan 10, 2008 at 11:13 am
People lie? Say it ain’t so. My world view has just been shattered. Here I was thinking that the pollsters were the be all, end all of accuracy.
2
Howard
// Jan 10, 2008 at 1:05 pm
If they can get a ‘real’ tally at the end. Can you tell I’m a little disillusioned?
3
Chris C
// Jan 10, 2008 at 4:32 pm
The thing I find interesting is that instead of the obvious, there are calls for the voting to be reviewed because they think out-of-state people registered and voted in NH.
4
Harris Bloom
// Jan 10, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I’m just shocked at how Obama has gotten so much mileage out of promising “change.”
Don’t all candidates (even incumbants) promise change? Isn’t that the whole idea of running?
rock on,
aitch
5
Chris C
// Jan 10, 2008 at 6:30 pm
It’s funny when people who have been in positions to give us change already keep saying we need more.
Reminds of the opening scene in Chad Vader Ep I…
Chad (speaking to an employee working slowly): “You have failed me for the last time”
Employee: “Didn’t you say that the last time?”
6
LOBO
// Jan 10, 2008 at 9:23 pm
haha I SWEAR I wouldn’t have finished without the “groaning” part …
Honestly, I’ll vote for ’someone’, but I usually don’t make decisions until it’s TIME to make decisions …
… I got a feeling there’s a whole lot more boobery ahead …..
7
Pope Terry
// Jan 11, 2008 at 6:48 am
Voting pfffft, what has democracy ever done for me. I ‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again Oprah will be the deciding factor in this election.
8
diesel
// Jan 11, 2008 at 11:05 am
Like Dr. House says, “Everybody lies.”
9
Lisa
// Jan 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Humor-blogs.com votes for the funniest blogs. Not really but go there anyways for a lot of laughs.
haha- you crack me up
10
Skul
// Jan 12, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I intend to ingage in conservative boobery.
LOBO, no swearing allowed.
Not in my House, diesel.
haha-I cracked myself up.
I quit.
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