Polls are meaningless this week

[NJmaverick]

For those looking at this week's polls.... DON'T! The polls next week will reflect the public's reaction to Obama's great speech. The polls this week reflect the pre-speech mood and opinions.

[indimuse]

1. lol...ok.

thanks for the warning. :)

[NJmaverick]

2. Nice picture- I first saw it over at free republic

Shame on you, for posting the same crap they do

[quantass]

3. Precisely.

[BlooInBloo]

4. He's a goner...

.... White folks have created an entire sublanguage to avoid talking about race - locutions like "oversensitive", "it's just a joke", politically correct", "reverse racism", etc.

White folks'll never forgive him for talking seriously about race.

[scheming daemons]

6. White folks over 50 years old.. you're probably right... white folks under 50.... you're dead wrong.

The post-boomer generation doesn't harbor the same innate racist attitudes of their parents and grandparents.

[Texas Hill Country]

8. white folks under 50, white folks in the south, white folks in the midwest, white folks in the...

rust belt, then there is MI and FL not being able to vote... etc etc etc etc.

[NJmaverick]

11. What is it with all the "white folks" comments

Why the need to group people by race?????

[BlooInBloo]

17. Because we live in the REAL world, not some magical pony land...

... where white folks don't do that.

[NJmaverick]

20. How is your racial characterizations

any different than Wright's?

[BlooInBloo]

21. Haven't read enough of what Wright's characterizations are - dunno...

... But you're welcome to go ahead and cluck about reverse racism anyway if you want. It's extra funny in this case because I'm white, but I doubt that'll cause you to miss a beat.

[NJmaverick]

22. I don't care what color you are

When you start defining people by the color of their skin, you doing something that is wrong.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Nah - something's wrong when you refuse to live in the actual world....

... and pretend that it's some other magic pony world that we live in.

[NJmaverick]

25. the actual world

LOL! That's a good one.

you know you are Karl Rove are both white, so does that mean should be grouped together? Does it mean you think alike or share the same values? How about we throw George Bush into your "white folks" group, are we getting a clearer picture?

[BlooInBloo]

26. (shrug) I agree it's difficult to understand what I say when one is too stupid to grasp...

... the concept of an average, or a center of mass etc.

But that's a lack of the listener I'm not in a position to remedy.

[NJmaverick]

28. You should have a stand up act

:rofl:

I got news for you spanky, there isn't any one on this planet that isn't smart enough to grasp your simple minded bigotry.

[BlooInBloo]

29. i AM bigoted against the simple-minded - there's no hiding that.

[EmilyAnne]

13. Wow. I've never been so proud to be a Democrat.

:eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

18. We'll see... in the polls next Thursday, I suppose.

[NJmaverick]

9. I just don't agree with that statement

In many ways, your comments seem as wrong and offensive as Wrights. I don't think people can be lumped into groups, like you did, and then speak for all of them.

[David__77]

12. White racists can't deny Obama the nomination at this point.

The racists are too late to do that.

[theredpen]

5. Hear, hear

[Texas Hill Country]

7. he had a 40 minute live speech and you think it will take a week for it to get reflected?

seriously?

[NJmaverick]

10. He had a speech and it took a day or so for people to hear it

or read about it. What you are not appreciating is that polls are the opinions of people roughly 3-7 days ago. The polling is over a period of days and there usually is a 2-3 day lag time. Just read the "find print" of any poll. That will tell you what time period was being measured.

[democrattotheend]

14. I wouldn't say meaningless, but should be taken with a grain of salt

Obama is losing ground against McCain and Clinton because he's having a bad week. I am sure that Bill Clinton was not polling very well during the Gennifer Flowers scandal. If his poll numbers remain this bad for a month it's cause for concern.

[BigDDem]

15. "For those looking at this week's polls.... DON'T!"

Hilarious.
Keep the blinders on tight....dont look!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

24. Yup - they'll come up with another reason next week to ignore the polls.

[suston96]

16. Polls meaningless this week? Probably so. But as the weeks pass......

....super delegates - ALL of them - will be watching them, and especially the electability polls - very carefully.

[malik flavors]

19. Yea, next week's polls will show the true impact.

[DainBramaged]

27. Polls ARE meaningless, unless you are an aficionado of one of these poles

[BenDavid]

30. uh huh sure they are and as long as obama keeps sinking in

them to begin the new week on sunday then when more polls come out and obama is still falling I guess polls will still not mean anything then too.....

Until Tuesday, Obama said the only thing controversial he knew about Rev. Wright was his stand on issues relating to Africa, abortion and gay marriage. "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial," Obama said at a community meeting in Nelsonville, Ohio, earlier this month.

Obama wrote when he talked to Wright about the reality of class divisions, and mentioned how one of Wright’s assistants underlined "the tendency of those with means to move out of the line of fire." Wright replied:

"I’ve given Tracy my opinion about moving out of the city,’ he said quietly. "That boy of hers is gonna get out there and he won’t have a clue about where, or who, he is."

"It’s tough to take chances with your child’s safety."

"Life’s not safe for a black man in this country, Barack. Never has been. Probably never will be."


So much for the audacity of hope.