Anyone out there ever been Polled? Or known someone who was Polled? I don't. No one I know does. You have to wonder who the chosen few are. In sampling a thousand voters in a concentrated population, do you get real numbers?
I ask this because one of the local news stations is already reporting on a possible recount for the Governor's race here in Ohio. It is 9:39 a.m. on election day! to be reporting on recounts at this point is another example of totally irresponsible 'journalism'! Of course, the story is based on Poll numbers. I do wonder how many voters are influenced by polls. Say I want to cast my Libertarian vote, but the polls say that the Democrat and Republican candidates are in a dead heat and that a recount is likely. At that point I have to decide if my fear of a Democrat taking the race is greater than my belief that the Libertarian is the better man for the job. Because we all know how the media and the Two-Party system like to tell us that non of the Third Party candidates stand a chance...
On another Polling issue...Perhaps 100 feet is just not far enough away from the Polls. Amazingly, as I left my polling place, a woman that had been out front of the polls at the required 100 feet was in the lobby of the polling place 'warming up', I assume, and sporting her sticky-badge of support for a county levy in support of Human Services. Is this legal?! Somehow, I doubt it.
I was also accosted by a woman pimping her candidate for Auditor, and a man with a list of the appropriate candidates to vote for to have a "Christian" government...I cannot tell you the fear that the thought of a "Christian Government" instills in me. The fact that the list is probably Republican down the line is disconcerting, too, seeing as how the allegedly Fiscal Conservatives are also Social Conservatives...
The trade offs, the trade offs...
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