One thing odd I noticed in every single poll

[Toots]

All of the pundits are calling it a tie. Every poll has at least Bush*, Kerry or Tie and virtually no one polled believes it a tie. Kerry is leading in almost all polls and some by huge amounts but virtually no one has voted TIE. All the Pundits say TIE but none of the people.:shrug: What do you all make of that?

[Lindacooks]

1. The 'pundits' are mostly right wing shills

especially the cable talking heads.

[johnnyrocket]

2. The nature of a poll, you DONT VOTE if its a tie...

there's no motivation to take the poll of you think its a wash.

[feistydem]

3. It's always a "tie" among the media talking heads when Bush loses.

[SEpatriot]

4. Media whores

If this debate was a tie, then so was WWII. Give me a break.

[CaOs]

5. It's becouse the weak media is afraid of being called bias

[Jade Fox]

11. Yes, they did the same thing after the first debate.....

Then it became so laughably obvious that no one agreed with them.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi CaOs!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[patrice]

6. More of that privileged intelligence we're all just supposed to obey.

You know, as in a monarchy.

[Union Thug]

7. They need bush to have done well to make it a horserace..

never mind that fact that bushie got trounced again. The little troll even lost his temper at one point, cutting off the moderator to squeal out something about asking tony blair.

Kerry kicked his ass. there was no tie.

[patrice]

8. They're afraid they can't justify themselves, and they are right.

We can think for ourselves, thank you.

[Mojambo]

9. My take

Anything other than a clear win for Bush was a victory for Kerry.

You saw a preview of the domestic debate tonight. Bush is going to really try and divide america in that last debate.

It's going to be all about social wedge issues. My advice to Kerry (like he needs it) is to play even more moderate than he has to this point. He needs to look reasonable to Bush's extreme in the last debate.

Kerry's base is very secure now.

[4_Legs_Good]

10. Crazy - by tomorrow it'll be a win for Kerry. I'm confident

And I know the power of the media.

They want a tie or a small George Jr. win.

By tomorrow the facts will be irrefutable. Just poll the people in the hall tonight. No question in my mind that 70% of them will vote Kerry.

david

[restorefreedom]

12. I love how Tweety

keeps pointing out that it isn't a scientific poll.

Wonder if he'd be saying that if the numbers had gone the other way.

Something tells me no - it would be like "even the public agrees with me and my inflated ego."

[MADem]

13. They can't handle the truth!

They want to keep spinning the lie that it is a tie because they NEED a horserace to sell advertising. If one horse is halfway across the finish line while the other one is loping around the first curve, there's no race....they want people hanging on the edges of their seats.

I think the only way weecowboy can take this race is if he cheats...his friends at Diebold are probably already getting their marching orders.

[intheflow]

15. It depends where you're looking for polling results

The TV & newspaper (hard copy) news media are using polls taken via phone calls to "registered" or "likely" voters. That means anyone whose registration is among that huge surge in newly registered voters still awaiting to be data entered, or people that didn't vote in the last 3 presidential election cycles has not been consulted. That can only work in Kerry's favor.

The on line polls are completely unscientific (not like the other ones are scientific, but that's how they're defined by pollsters). Anyway, the on line polls are voluntary and depend on who had access to the Internet, who is taking the time to participate in them, and if they can be hit multiple times by a single user/computer. All that can skew the data to give us all a false sense of security.

But I still think Kerry won this debate hands down.