I was so zen...
about the days running up to November 4th. Sigh. I was helping out with the GOTV thing... I got on that huge conference call with Barack Obama last night. Shit, I even jumped on the Young Dems conference call with HRC this afternoon...
You know... just squeezing out the last bit of this piece of history. (in a very cheerful and relaxed way I might add.)
Then I plopped on the couch and turned on Hardball.
"Breaking News, National Polls: Gallup has B.O. up by 14; CNN has B.O. by 9; ABC has B.O. up by 11."
AARGH!!!
This killed my zen. Which pisses me off on a number of levels.
To start, true zen should not be so fragile... so it must have been some kind of quasi-zen.
Next, polls are ridiculous. (1) they don't account for the bullshit in people, and we KNOW people lie and tell strangers what they think they want to hear (2) the samples are way to small. How on earth can you extrapolate the pulse of a nation of 400 Million by calling a thousand? or even Ten thousand (they never call that many). (3) Even if they could, Pollees are self selected. So they are only polling people that share a certain trait, the tendency not to hang up on a pollster. (4) Pollsters are not getting a true cross-section. For example they only get to people that have house phones AND are home to answer them. I'm busy. I've NEVER been called to answer a poll in my life, political or otherwise.
Moreover, National polls are both irrelevant and HARMFUL in a general Election. (1) um... electoral college? (2) We may be up by 25 points in some states; but we're only up 1-4 points in the other states we need to get to 270. (In these states we need every-fuckin-body to go vote and the lines are going to be long as hell).
I can already see some lazy ass in Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio or Missouri who's gonna think were up by FOURTEEN, so he'll start drinkin early and stay his ass at home.
Tweety (Chris Matthews) made the joke, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if Barack won the popular vote by 5-10 Million votes, but McCain won the electoral college, so he became president?"
I think I blacked out.
You know... just squeezing out the last bit of this piece of history. (in a very cheerful and relaxed way I might add.)
Then I plopped on the couch and turned on Hardball.
"Breaking News, National Polls: Gallup has B.O. up by 14; CNN has B.O. by 9; ABC has B.O. up by 11."
AARGH!!!
This killed my zen. Which pisses me off on a number of levels.
To start, true zen should not be so fragile... so it must have been some kind of quasi-zen.
Next, polls are ridiculous. (1) they don't account for the bullshit in people, and we KNOW people lie and tell strangers what they think they want to hear (2) the samples are way to small. How on earth can you extrapolate the pulse of a nation of 400 Million by calling a thousand? or even Ten thousand (they never call that many). (3) Even if they could, Pollees are self selected. So they are only polling people that share a certain trait, the tendency not to hang up on a pollster. (4) Pollsters are not getting a true cross-section. For example they only get to people that have house phones AND are home to answer them. I'm busy. I've NEVER been called to answer a poll in my life, political or otherwise.
Moreover, National polls are both irrelevant and HARMFUL in a general Election. (1) um... electoral college? (2) We may be up by 25 points in some states; but we're only up 1-4 points in the other states we need to get to 270. (In these states we need every-fuckin-body to go vote and the lines are going to be long as hell).
I can already see some lazy ass in Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio or Missouri who's gonna think were up by FOURTEEN, so he'll start drinkin early and stay his ass at home.
Tweety (Chris Matthews) made the joke, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if Barack won the popular vote by 5-10 Million votes, but McCain won the electoral college, so he became president?"
I think I blacked out.
Labels: election 2008, my zen, politics
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