{"id":30659,"date":"2012-09-24T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30659"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:51:44","slug":"chanting-points-memo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30659","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: Camouflaging The Battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strib “Minnesota Poll” is doing what it’s paid to do: \u00a0create a pro-DFL bandwagon effect, and suppress GOP voter turnout. \u00a0It’s calling Minnesota<\/a> at Obama with 48% and Romney with 40%.<\/p>\n

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But the poll uses the same absurd D41\/R28 breakdown that the Marriage<\/a> and Voter ID polls. \u00a0This polling would have you believe that while in 2008, with a messianic media darling running against an unpopular two-term candidate (McCain was irrevant) and the war the DFL had a six point advantage in partisan turnout (D39 R33),\u00a0this\u00a0<\/em>year,\u00a0mirabile dictu<\/em>, we have a 13 point Democrat advantage in this state?<\/p>\n

If you use turnout numbers from somewhere in between 2008 and 2010 – say, D36 R34 – and multiply the changes by the percent of each party that the poll itself says plan on voting for their candidate (93% of Democrats plan to vote for Obama, vs 96% of Republicans), then you wind up lopping off roughly .3% of Obama’s numbers, and adding a whopping 5.8% to Romney’s.<\/p>\n

That makes the real split 47.7% Obama, 45.8% Romney. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Question – especially for you libs in the audience: \u00a0In what way is a widely (one might say “lavishly”) publicized poll using a partisan split that this state hasn’t seen since Watergate to be interepreted as anything other than an elaborate voter-suppression scam?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Strib “Minnesota Poll” is doing what it’s paid to do: \u00a0create a pro-DFL bandwagon effect, and suppress GOP voter turnout. \u00a0It’s calling Minnesota at Obama with 48% and Romney with 40%. But the poll uses the same absurd D41\/R28 breakdown that the Marriage and Voter ID polls. \u00a0This polling would have you believe that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4,130,125],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-30659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-great-poll-scam","tag-minnesota-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38347,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions\/38347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}