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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJosh Marshall: Poll Trutherism & the Conspiracy Trifecta---I can see it coming now.
Unless, that is, you think the pollsters are conspiring against Mitt Romney and the Republicans to get them so bummed out that
well, Im not really sure what the idea would be. Because if the liberal pollsters really have conspired with the liberal media to hurt Mitt Romney the main effect would probably be to make Romney into the biggest upset winner in like forever.
But if the polls stay where they are right now and the election results mimic them I have little doubt youre going to have a serious backdraft of Republicans who are convinced that there really was a conspiracy. And by simple inference theyll be convinced the race was somehow stolen.
(Its worth noting that there was a minor variant of this among Democrats in 2004, when it was held for that because the final results in Ohio didnt match or sufficiently diverged from the exit polls that some funny business must have taken place.
This would bring into play the third conspiracy on top of the media and pollster conspiracy: the voter fraud conspiracy, which holds that there is vast amounts of voter impersonation fraud in the inner city, i.e., practiced by the black people and sundry non-white people.
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Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Dismissing concerns about RW election rigging?
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)comparing pre-election polls to exit polls is truly false equivalency. Sheesh you'd think they'd know better.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Whoops!