Another Day, Another Poll
A new poll is out by Public Policy Polling regading the major races here in Indiana. Here are the results.
President
- Barack Obama – 48%
- John McCain – 46%.
Governor
- Mitch Daniels – 57%.
- Jill Long Thompson – 36%.
Attorney General
- Linda Pence – 42%
- Greg Zoeller – 39%
Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Tony Bennett – 38%
- Richard Wood – 36%
The poll of 1,411 likely voters was taken October 18 and 19. It has a margin of error of 2.6 percent.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Poll is wrong. People are not being truthful. McCain by 2%.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I was polled the other day and when asked who I favored (or whatever the question), I said neither.
Hell…I was trying to bake chicken for dinner. I didn’t have time to be interrupted when dinner was on the line.
I will, however, vote for the Palin/McCain ticket.
lol
October 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I agree with Silent Bob. I think that Obama is over-polling nationally.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
McCain/Palin will win Indiana and the media knows it. Reason they keep promoting Obama and attacking Palin.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/10/21/gallup-and-new-coke.php
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
We will see in the final poll. People are fed up and the polls reflect that. I get so bored with Blame-the-Media. Do you really think the media owners at General Electric, Time Warner, Newscorp and Disney are a bunch of wild eyed liberals? Give me a break.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:24 am
Tom – they are corporatists, not wild-eyed liberals. Their goal is the seamless intertwining of government and private enterprise – under their control.
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How does that translate to wild-eyed liberalism? Simple. If you’re a large corporation, it is to your benefit if you can have socialist legislation passed that finances your services, married with so-called conservative principle of using private industry for services in order to cut wasteful government spending.
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In a perfect world for corporations, they would support both parties – the GOP to promote and initiate privatisation of government services, and the Dems to make social services broad and indepth so that the corporations can get more of our tax dollars.
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That’s how a national healthcare plan would look – our tax dollars financing private corporations to provide medical and pharmaceutical services. For example, New Jersey just passed a mandatory law stating that all pre-k and k kids require mandatory flu shots before attending classes. Do you think that initiative was promoted by parents, or by the flu vaccine manufacturer?
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In short – socialism is not a wild-eyed philosophy at the policy level. The wild-eyed bunch are the ones who are presented to distract you from the dangerous ones who sit in authoratative positions. Like Rupert Murdoch, possibly the strongest Clinton supporter and lifelong fan of Karl Marx. Or like George Bush, who has overseen the largest expansion and centralization of US federal government in our history. Or like the most aggressive corporate monopolists, who understand that perfect success is to achieve victory and control over a national economy rather than a handful of business sectors.
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That could be achieved by using your collective media and cotrporate resources to focus only on candidates who support your agenda – and then to use them to begin the process of nationalizing the finance industry under the excuse of protecting the economy. And you make sure that your media doesn’t remind viewers that the same gov’t reps and companies who are participating in the solution are the ones who made the mess. Because you don’t want viewers to realize that the solution was planned long before the problem materialized.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 am
Public Policy Polling is not with a live person asking questions. It gives you the questions and than you hit the buttons on the phone. It is probably pretty accurate. Does anyone believe the Governor is not up 21 points on JLT? Does anyone not realize at this point the McCain-Obama race will be close. It is because of that race that we are seeing the tight numbers in the AG and Super of Ed race. Most people know Governor Daniels and have made up their mind one way or another. Same as for President. These other 2 races will be decided by the thoughts people have literally when they walk in to vote. That’s why they will poll close and probably will be tight on election day.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 am
While I take polls with as a grain of salt, Tony Bennett definitely has the marketing edge over Richard Wood… I mean. If a Jerry Lewis or Tom Jones was running for state senate… Come on, I’d vote for them.
That was all a lie of course. Just social commentary.
Abdul you’re awesome.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 am
“These other 2 races will be decided by the thoughts people have literally when they walk in to vote.”
Provided that the voting machines aren’t tampered with. Keep in mind – if those in control of the polling stations truly wanted accurate polling results, they wouldn’t be relyong on machines who’ve been proven time and again to be very easy to tamper with, and that have been proven multiple times to have been tampered with during an election, resulting in the wrong candidate winning.
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Here’s a poll I’d love to see: In recent elections where exit polls showed dramatically different results from actual voting, what percentage of those polling stations used electronic voting machines? I would then compare that data to exit poll results from stations that relied upon paper ballots.
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It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that the majority of inconsistencies occured at stations that used electronic voting machines.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
Shorebreak: National Socialism?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hey anyone going to the big rally tommorrow? I can’t wait.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Public Policy Polling
Hmmm….i have worked on political races my whole life, from NYC to Wash DC to Indiana to a senate race in Alaska…I have never heard of this polling group…interesting…