Poll-arization
All right guys. Today is the call in part of the show, that special part of the show where you all leave comments for this post and which only happens today.
If that sentence was too much to handle, here is what I'm trying to say:
I am looking for your thoughts on the sort of direction you would like this web site to go after the election. Please leave comments for today's post. There is a poll on the right side of the page you should also take. Please, any comments on aspects of this site and my commentary that you like or dislike are fair game.
Think I should have more tech polls? Let me know! Think I should write more about Ashley Simpson!? Wayyy ahead of you, she is on the poll. But please leave comments and I will read every one. After all, I can't take out the trash if I don't know where it is.
The polling trash, that is.
In real polling news, a few more articles are available on possible problems with either polling or the actual voting systems.
There is an excellent Washington Post article (pound of human flesh required for registration) on how inaccurate recent polls have been. Excellent in the, "would have been excellent about six months ago" kind of way.
However, there is very real evidence that voters are not comfortable with the state of political polling.
Technology is changing things pretty rapidly, and if you're like me, you hate anything that is new, unless its a sequel, like the Apprentice 2, in which case its hot. Seriously, many voters do seem to be made nervous by the new technology.
So we can't trust the actual polls, can't trust the actual elections - what can we trust?
Treat Williams, that's who. He just keeps putting out quality films year after year.
But none are better than Dead Heat. He played a character called Rigor Mortis. Oh yeah!
If that sentence was too much to handle, here is what I'm trying to say:
I am looking for your thoughts on the sort of direction you would like this web site to go after the election. Please leave comments for today's post. There is a poll on the right side of the page you should also take. Please, any comments on aspects of this site and my commentary that you like or dislike are fair game.
Think I should have more tech polls? Let me know! Think I should write more about Ashley Simpson!? Wayyy ahead of you, she is on the poll. But please leave comments and I will read every one. After all, I can't take out the trash if I don't know where it is.
The polling trash, that is.
In real polling news, a few more articles are available on possible problems with either polling or the actual voting systems.
There is an excellent Washington Post article (pound of human flesh required for registration) on how inaccurate recent polls have been. Excellent in the, "would have been excellent about six months ago" kind of way.
However, there is very real evidence that voters are not comfortable with the state of political polling.
Technology is changing things pretty rapidly, and if you're like me, you hate anything that is new, unless its a sequel, like the Apprentice 2, in which case its hot. Seriously, many voters do seem to be made nervous by the new technology.
So we can't trust the actual polls, can't trust the actual elections - what can we trust?
Treat Williams, that's who. He just keeps putting out quality films year after year.
But none are better than Dead Heat. He played a character called Rigor Mortis. Oh yeah!
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1 Comments:
as long as the humor is here, I'll continue to read...but here's a question for you, in a race like the current presidential race, where most polls are so close, doesn't polling become useless, beside the point a waste of time, energy, space, Ashley Simpson(just thought I'd throw that in there)
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