REMEMBER EVAN
THOMAS’S FAMOUS “FIFTEEN PERCENT” REMARK FROM 2004?
“The
media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they’re going to portray
Kerry and Edwards I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox.
They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic
and optimistic and there’s going to be this glow about them, collective
glow, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.”
Thomas
later revised his estimate to five points. So the media’s
trying much harder this time around, and Obama and Romney are basically
tied. Does that mean that without the media’s help, Obama would be 5
points behind? (Instapundit)
Now this revelation—I
mean admission (it's common
knowledge that Dem pollsters cheat)— from the Gore,
Edwards, and Kerry campaign pollster. If this was Bush's
pollster,
Sixty-Minutes would already be geared up for Sunday's program. |
In
May, the pollster for Al Gore's presidential bid in 2000 and John
Edwards's in 2004 and 2008, Harrison Hickman, took the stand in the
federal criminal case against Edwards over alleged campaign finance
violations stemming from payments to support Edwards's mistress.
Under oath, Hickman admitted that in the final weeks
of Edwards's
2008 bid, Hickman cherry-picked public polls to make the candidate seem
viable, promoted surveys that Hickman considered unreliable, and sent
e-mails to campaign aides, Edwards supporters and reporters which
argued that the former senator was still in the hunt —even though
Hickman had already told Edwards privately that he had no real chance
of winning the Democratic nomination. [Full]
Now,
Jimmy Carter's pollster Pat Caddell almost has a s**t hemorrhage
talking about the Democrat media role in suborning elections with
ersatz poll numbers.
He doesn't say it right out, but it's clear Caddell sees these swine as
no less a danger to this nation than were Hitler, Tojo, and Stalin. And
we went to war with them.
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