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OT:If you want a lecture on Wisconsin politics

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:28 am
by midranger
I'll add nothing political here, but check this guy out.

http://www.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:39 am
by midranger
Just a quick taste...

cmaff051 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



The facts are in the demographics. Polls have margins of error that are not indicative of what the final tally will be. No reputable polling company even bothered to poll in Wisconsin, like Survey USA.

The facts?

Wisconsin is 90% white. Obama has never won a primary with those demographics. Hillary has. Massachusetts is just one example.

Wisconsin is full of lower class whites. That is Hillary's base.

Wisconsin has a very small African American population. 6% is what the turnout was estimated at.

Don't try to present some BS poll to me from some rag polling firm as "facts".

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:46 am
by MajorDad
I gave him my 29 cents worth in that linked thread above.

as clemens would say, I think he misremembered what the pre-election forecasts actually were. Most pre election polls were predicting an Obama victory. traditionally , Wisconsin is a very independent thinking and also unpredictable state and takes its voting very seriously.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:57 am
by MikeIsGood
Look at his post history. He's a Knicks fan. Surprised by the way he handles his conversations? I guess I am. Carmelo Anthony was the one that ran away, not Mardy Collins.

This thread is likely on the verge of being locked, but I thought I'd get that shot in. My apologies :)

Never let the truth get in the way of illusionary personal presumptions.