Rasmussen: Sununu leads by 7 in NH. Sometimes I really wonder about NH

[cali]

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Email to a Friend
Incumbent Republican Senator John Sununu can breathe a little easier in New Hampshire if the numbers keep trending his way in his rematch race against former Governor Jeanne Shaheen.

Sununu, viewed until recently as perhaps the GOP’s most endangered senator, now leads Shaheen 52% to 45%, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state. A month ago Sununu was down by 10, but in July the volatile Senate race was a five-point affair. In June Shaheen had her largest lead ever.
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_senate_elections/new_hampshire/election_2008_new_hampshire_senate

I'm sorry, but you have to be a frickin' idiot to vote for Sununu.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Rassumssen was also the only poll recently to show McCain leading in NH

Maybe they're polling too many Repubs.

[AllieB]

2. They admitted that they were sampling more Repubs than Dems or Indies

a few weeks ago.

[nam78_two]

3. Tut.....

Man, what the hell is up with NH :-/?

I'm sorry, but you have to be a frickin' idiot to vote for Sununu.

No kidding cali..Sununu is very scary.

Funny thing about Sununu sr. is that he is supposed to be really bright :shrug:?
I had an engineering prof. in grad school who knew him when he was at MIT and he said that he was legitimately one of the brightest people he knew. Why would someone who is supposedly so bright join the anti-science, fundie nut-job party (not to mention everything else wrong with the GOP)? Crazy frikkin asshole....

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

4. I'm really going to enjoy Election Night

Polls come, polls go.
Sununu is toast. Shaheen will win by a minimum of five points.

[cali]

5. from your keyboard to etc.

I really, really hope you're right.

[izquierdista]

7. Suspended judgment

All bets are off when bright people buy into some package of dogma. I understand that Karol Wojtyla was a smart man, but he bought into the whole package of dogma the Catholic Church had to offer and became its chief peddler (well, except for the part about Galileo having to recant that the earth is not the center of the universe). The whole Chicago school of economics bought into the Friedman dogma and spent a lot of effort making facts fit their interpretation of truth. Any scientist or engineer can get locked into stupidity if he is not willing to go back and check his initial assumptions to see if there is some error that gets propagated through the whole task.

I've known "bright people" at MIT and elsewhere who accept certain dogmas, and such beliefs make them stupid. The only way to keep from being stupid is to constantly question even the most basic of assumptions, as Bertrand Russell was wont to do. Anyone who can spend years questioning the basic assumption that 1 + 0 = 1, that is someone whose writings are pretty stupid-free.

Now Republicans seem to have an unending well when it comes to stupid dogma and erroneous assumptions. From the Laffer curve to trickle-down economics to creationism to abstinence education to "faulty intelligence" and many, many others, their arguments have a cartoon physics quality about them. They don't fall down even after they recognize there is a 1000 foot void below them, but gravity waits until they hold up a sign that says "OOPS!".

So you can't call on reason in trying to convince these people. The best you can do is to get them to state the obvious, like "there sure have been a lot of new financial products since they deregulated the banks", and when they agree, follow it up with "now how's that working out for you???"

[nam78_two]

9. Good points

We (humans) are largely quasi-rational/logical creatures..
You get to the root of the problem that plagues even highly intelligent people-dogmatism.

Any scientist or engineer can get locked into stupidity if he is not willing to go back and check his initial assumptions to see if there is some error that gets propagated through the whole task.
I suspect that there is also a tendency among some people who are extremely talented in their own specific area of expertise, to assume that if they have opinions on something entirely different, something which they may not have researched thoroughly or understand very well, that those opinions are as valid as their views in their own area of expertise. (Wow that was an awkward sentence!)

[InNeedOfUserName]

6. "Sometimes I really wonder about NH"???/

Sometimes???:P
Live, Freeze & Die

[cali]

8. heh. Live, Freeze and Die. Love it. And home heating costs were

what I was thinking about- well, one of the things I was thinking about- when I said that anyone voting for Sununu is a frickin' idiot.

Welcome to DU

:hi:

[LiberadorHugo]

10. It's obviously an outlier...

Every other poll I've seen of this race has shown a modest-to-commanding lead for Shaheen...That being said, NH is likely the one state where McCant will have better coattails than Dumbya.

[Hope And Change]

11. How the hell did Sununu gain 12 points?This poll is complete BS.