But if you have a candidate who is perceived as something new, who appeals to people who are not regular voters, polling 'likely voters' will surely understate their support?
I wonder, too, if the tendency of polling agencies to focus on people with fixed landlines (rather than cells) is also going to be at play this year. In particular, I'm thinking of how a lot of Obama supporters skew young, and guessing that, despite their vigorous presence on the internet (esp. Facebook) they're unlikely to be part of the polling data due to their lacking fixed residences with landline phones in their names.
Safari here too, and I'm also familiar with the links-that-disappear while a page is loading thing.
What was annoying here was that the links _kept_ disappearing after the page was done loading.
It's not just your site, either; AmericaBlog in particular has been ridiculously slow all day, more than it usually is. Given that none of the stories on the page were any more fascinating than they've been, the likelihood of it being related to ads and the L.A. blackout seems good.
Yep. No disagreement here. It's the latest stanza in a song Bush supporters have been singing since the election, starting off with "get over it" and "51% is a mandate" and continuing along with "support the troops" and the like. It's part of what made people scream at me and delink my blog when I raged against Bush and those who voted for him -- it was too naked and close to home for their comfort. (I'd say "I told you so," but there's no pleasure to be had in it.)
I think it's part of a larger trend of people not wanting to do the hard work of rethinking their comfortable existences or self-delusions, whether that takes the form of "Christians" shilling for a corporate Jesus, contestants on the Apprentice or American Idol shrugging off warranted criticism with "that's just their opinion," or news reporters promoting he said-she said "fair and balanced" coverage rather than acknowledging real, uncomfortable facts and their implications.
Unfortunately, I think it's going to take several decades, maybe a generation's worth, of cluesticking before we get out of this hole, if we ever do.
Can I just say that this terrifies me more than anything else I've seen written about the disaster and its mismanagement? And I've been reading a lot that's made me quite anxious, ranging from civil liberties issues to environmental pollution to press censorship...
Oh, good! I'm not the only one who read #4 and went HAH! I know that one!
Of course, it is to be expected, given that the dude Keeps. Churning. Them. Out. and it is frustrating trying to re-read the previous ones each time a new one comes out. (I gave up when I realized that he was on book 5 with no sign of stopping. If he stops, at long last, then I _might_ read them again. Otherwise, expecting me to read book 1 umpty-dum times is ridiculous.)
Jill, I'm stupid today. I'm sure your comment is delightfully subtle and witty, and filling the rest of the comment-readers with pleasure, but I'm too dense to get it. Explain please? :)
Oh, wait. Just got it. *big grin* We'll see!
This is a fun thread! Googling, screen plays, useless educational credentials...
My entry:
B.A. History
M.A. History
Ph.D. (you guessed it) History
(History in the flavor of U.S. history with a grand dollop of environmental history and theory.)
Currently working as an admin assistant and blogging like mad.
What a cool conversation! The old Reader's Digest guide to needlework has decent stuff on basic knitting, with good illustrations and clear photographs. The colors and projects are gross, though.
I too find that crochet is good for free-form, on the fly 3-D creating; I can whip out little animals and weird hats very quickly when crocheting, but am very slow when knitting. (My weird way of "throwing" the yarn probably has something to do with it -- the bane of the self-taught knitter...)
I find knitting is a wonderful activity during computer work, especially time-consuming procedures that still require constant human attention (like waiting for images to load on my slow dialup at home).
Great post!
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