Re: more usless statistics

all 8 of them

Re: more usless statistics

Very good point!!!

Re: more usless statistics

This is so typical... when a poll or vote doesn't go the way you wish it would you just can't resist trying to discredit it.

You have no idea what the demographics of the polling body are, the ONLY thing you know about them is the raw numbers reported in this article yet you try to tell us that it's somehow an inaccurate representation. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

Re: more usless statistics

The lack of scientific practice was admitted up front. This is a poll of FedSmith readers who elected to participate.

That this casual polling often produces results that show surprising trends that anticipate the trend developing in the general population was also stated.

I find it interesting as Obama did score better in earlier polls, and that the news outside of FedSmith is reluctantly admitting the change seems to be happening "out there" as well.

Just take it for what it is worth, an interesting discussion point.

Re: Survey Surprise

the fact that you used the letter "H" when you wrote "BHO", is proof enuff that you are one of the mindless sheep that the repubelican party counts on for re-election.

please explain to my why a candiatate's middle name is important to a voter in deciding whether the candidate can be a good president or not.

please learn to think for yourself, instead of spewing hate-filled propaganda that you heard from rush or bill.

Re: Survey Surprise

To Overpaid Peon:

Is that the best you can come up with?

OK you got me on using the wrong spelling on plane vs.plain and as to your other comment of why I used BHO well I guess I could have referred to him as just "plain" old BO did you ever hear of FDR-JFK-LBJ? Like it or not his name is Barack HUSSIEN Obama.

Re: Survey Surprise

and once again, you prove my point. the mindless repubelican supporters can do little more than spew hate-filled propaganda.

"OH NO, HIS MIDDLE NAME IS DIFFERENT THAN A NICE SAFE ANGLO-SAXON MIDDLE NAME! WE BETTER NOT ELECT HIM PRESIDENT!"

Re: Survey Surprise

What is it a problem using Barrak's middle name or initial. Does anyone have a problem with John F Kennedy? George W Bush?

Re: Survey Surprise

duh...the W in GWB is used to distinguish him from his dad. (not sure about JFK; before my time)

the H in BHO is used by the right to try to convince non-thinkers (including themselves) that his middle name somehow makes him a muslim and thus a bad person.

in other words, you (and yours) have made the "H" a political statement....

Re: Survey Surprise

"the H in BHO is used by the right to try to convince non-thinkers (including themselves) that his middle name somehow makes him a muslim and thus a bad person.

in other words, you (and yours) have made the "H" a political statement...."

Overpaid peon, I think you are stretching this a bit. What political statement are people making when they refer to JFK, LBJ, FDR, GWB, WJC, HRC, or any president or presidential candidate through history that has ever been referred to by his/her initials? Your statement makes you appear to be a mindless democratic supporter.

You wrote, "i love it: "plane" ignorance." Since you like to be critical of others' misspellings, I'd like to point out to you that "enuff" should be spelled "enough" and "repubelican" should be spelled "republican".

Re: Survey Surprise

yer so funny.

i know how to spell republican. u should really read ALL my posts before you call me on things like that. you'd see that i consistently spell your party's name with the extra "e".

and the denial you must be living in! your party has turned the "h" into a political statement, trying to convince others he's a bad guy just cuz his middle name is different.

i'm sorry for you. folks living in your kind of denial just can't be reasoned with. *sigh* guess you'll be REALLY sad when the "H" guy gets elected.

Re: Obma/McCain survey

How comical, how sad, or is it just plane ignorance? When everthing looked like BHO was going to win this election by a landslide all was just grand. Now when surveys like this and when more and more polls indicate people are waking up to who and what the senator from Illinois is all about we are called prejudice and other not so nice names. You need to accept the fact that there are some Americans who are capable of assessing information and facts then make decisions that are best for this country, they are not blind sheep or bobbleheads who vote the democratic ticket because there mom or dad or some other mis-guided organization advises them to do so. AWAKEN, SMELL THE ROSES AND VOTE FOR McCAIN.

Re: Obma/McCain survey

i love it: "plane" ignorance.

if yer gonna spew hate-filled propaganda, at least use the right words.

Re: Obma/McCain survey

Always nice to be lumped into the ""discrimination"" crowd when it is convenient.

I am not prejudice, I would vote for Colin Powell, or Condoleeza Rice in a heart beat.

I do not feel Mr. Obama is qualified to be a senator, let alone the President.

See you at the polls!

Re: Obma/McCain survey

To "Retired - IRS".

I can't believe your blatant discriminatory comments " Any one who would prefer a 72 year old, who changes his mind more often than his Depends . . . " -- just who is calling the kettle black?

You disprove your own statement, "the feeling I had in 32 years of service that discrimination ran throughout the government and has not changed".

Clearly, by your retirement, there is at least one fewer racist and age-discriminatory employee still working in the Federal government.

At least the situation has improved somewhat!

Re: Obma/McCain survey

So it's bad to discriminate against Obama based on his color, faith, whatever. But it's ok to discriminate against McCain based on his age? That's very liberal of you....

Re: Obma/McCain survey

I was fascinated by the women vs. black set up to the Democratic primary. I was tempted simply by the fact that an historic choice was possible, to vote for either Clinton or Obama when the time came. However, the more I look at and listen to Obama the less I am inclined to vote for him.

Let's get this straight, I am NOT black. However, my knee-jerk response was to vote for the black man. I have changed my opinion in the last few weeks just because his words have left me cold.

As to "Bush light", I think McCain has shown he is willing to work with the "other" side of the aisle. I also believe that Dems will greatly increase their influence in the House and Senate. This kinda makes me want McCain if only to put some kind of limit on congress. I LIKE one of the three, President, House, or Senate, to be held by a different party than the other two...at least keeps some kind of limits on the craziness of both parties.

Re: Obma/McCain survey

Does this mean as someone with 32 years of service, you also wear Depends and being different than McCain, change them more often than your mind or opinion?

Re: Obma/McCain survey

"So it's bad to discriminate against Obama based on his color, faith, whatever. But it's ok to discriminate against McCain based on his age? That's very liberal of you.... "

hr has an excellent point, if you don't want your candidate discriminated against then stop discriminating against his opponent.

Re: Obma/McCain survey

be careful, programmer, they don't like to have their bigotry pointed out...they get all uppity...

Re: Obma/McCain survey

I am now a LOT older, (yes, "LOT" shall remain unquantified,) than I was when I first started voting. I have changed my political opinions, my social opinions, my faith opinions, probably every sort of opinion I might have over those years.

I have not changed them quickly. Sometimes a discussion 10 years prior FINALLY got through well enough to change my opinions. However, I refuse to have an opinion in lockstep with any demographic I identify with JUST because that group's leadership or shared decisions say so.

Some of my opinions are considered, some are"knee-jerk". It is harder to change my considered opinions but...a fair arguement will be heard and may one day matter to that opinion.

I usually assume that the many reasonably intelligent people I know have reasons for their opinions and try not to question their integrity just because they disagree with me.

I also accept that truth just might encompass elements of differing opinions.

Try to discuss in peace.

Re: Obma/McCain survey

"be careful, programmer, they don't like to have their bigotry pointed out...they get all uppity... "

and we know how uppity and indignant Obama supporters get when somebody practices religious discrimination against their candidate, yet these same supporters are quick to practice age discrimination against their candidates opponent.

Hypocracy abounds in today's political landscape.

Re: Survey

BRAVO! Finally a sensible voice amid the mindless babble.

Re: Survey

Gee, thanks, Overpaid Peon! Usually I get yelled at.

By both sides.

Re: Survey

lol. me too.

most people are afraid to think there might be better choices than the two clones that are forced down our throats every 4 years.

Re: Presidential Choices

Throwing out the electoral college will never happen. It was set up to protect the smaller states with smaller populations from the bigger states with huge populations. You would never get it through Congress. The states are smart enough to know that the electoral college enables them to have a seat at the table. Without it, they would be sitting on the side lines. The majority of Americans don't even understand how our country was founded and why these checks and balances are in place.