Comments on: Taking a Second Look at those #WIRecall Exit Polls–And Other Things

By: 6t9boss

6t9boss — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:48:34 +0000

I was one of those who said I would not vote for Romney during the primary…NOW!?….It’s Romney because I can’t take FOUR MORE YEARS of Obama. I think if anyone splits and votes third party THIS TIME ; they have sealed the fate of this country forever and the final nails of Socialism WILL be driven in the coffin of this country if Obama gets that second term.

By: 6t9boss

6t9boss — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:44:03 +0000

but I think had Obama /Romney been on the ticket the outcome would be the same and Romney would have won.There are alot of people who are suffering under Obamas policies (even Liberals) and are tired of fighting against the tide of socialism and just don’t want 4 more years of this junk.

By: gwbramhall

gwbramhall — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:28:19 +0000

Never a truer word spoken. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
As you say, they are the only party of the two viable parties to have any conservatives. We must not quibble and give another pass to the outrageously awful.

By: gwbramhall

gwbramhall — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:14:36 +0000

How can an exit pole be scientific or unbiased? The respondents
cannot be random. True, they are certainly “likely voters” but the
individual who does not want to be thought of as racist is going
to walk by the poller while the democrat partisan is going to be
eager to display his bonifides. If the Obama team takes comfort
from this news, they are even less competant than the stories I’ve
been reading on that point indicate.

By: rigdum

rigdum — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:06:32 +0000

I suspect that I agree with you on almost all conservative positions, and up to the Limbaugh rule that says that in times like these the correct vote is always for the most conservative candidate running, in a primary or a general. [despite Alaska, Delaware, and Nevada Senate races last year]. But, and this is a big but–we have to ally with the Republicans, since only they have any conservatives at all, and we are locked into a two-party system. Until true conservatives are at least 40% of the country [I put them at 25% at the most] and maybe more, we can either commit political suicide and feel good, or take turf a bit at a time.

By: Finrod

Finrod — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:46:13 +0000

They’re not scheduled to meet again until after the November elections, which will be run on maps set by the Republicans, plus there are 10 Dems and 6 Reps up for re-election then.

By: ariyosef

ariyosef — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:58:42 +0000

(simple street reality)_

By: 4suramcan

4suramcan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:30:30 +0000

hear hear

By: waynemiddleton

waynemiddleton — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:49:31 +0000

With due respect to all who write posts and speak publicly using the term “Republican” as the Jake Walker does in various ways and places in this article describing the party status with the results of this Wisconsin election (such as “Republicans would have a chance in that state”), it is time conservatives got off the party bandwagon and started using terms which focus more on the “GOAL” we need to achieve – that is “CONSERVATIVE” wins or “FREEDOM” progress or “LIBERTY” improvemetn.

I am as tired of reading or hearing what “Republicans” have done or will do as I am of the same regarding “Democrats.” No matter which, it is all “PARTY TALK,” making me think of keeping some current “Holder of Office” in that position of power.

ENOUGH!

WE NEED TO FOCUS UPON AND CLEARLY HEAR THAT CONSERVING OR RESTORING OUR COUNTRY’S LIBERTIES AND FREEDSOMS IS THE ROOT AND GOAL OF DISCUSSION ABOUT ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY.

By: Right_Again

Right_Again — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:17:40 +0000

It is not that one half is flawed and the other half is not. The entire exit polling was flawed. But by comparing it to the actual results we know how it was flawed in relation to the Walker/Barrett race. We are therefore at least somewhat able to extrapolate that flaw to the Obama/Romney race. If the Walker/Barrett race was off by approximately 7% in favor of the Democrat, it follows that the Obama/Romney race results in the exit polling were off by a similar margin.

By: 6t9boss

6t9boss — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:06:27 +0000

I don’t see how on any statistical level you say that one half of the exit polling was flawed and the other half wasn’t. The pollesters got this SO SO WRONG there is no way the Obama/Romney question results are even close to accurate.

By: Jake Walker, no relation

Jake Walker, no relation — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:52:50 +0000

Fraudulent ballots can fudge no higher than three percent of the grand total of voter. Usually more like 2.5

Beyond that, you’re safe.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:37:27 +0000

Keep it up all summer.

I loved “Exit polls have been highly accurate in every recent election except 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.”

fivethirtyeight has a way with words too.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:34:12 +0000

As was noted yesterday morning, Walker needed to win by more than the “margin of vote fraud.” Apparently SD21 didn’t.

Since that was a mostly symbolic loss (the Senate is no longer in session, out until the next election) maybe the Repub’s should just study how the cheating was done and be ready to stop it in November.

By: BlueLandRed

BlueLandRed — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:30:46 +0000

that we just lost control of the Wis Senate.

Now it is just grid lock until the next election.

And looking for voter fraud post election can’t change the results. Tho’ it can help in the future.

By: robertm75

robertm75 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:21:40 +0000

and that is exactly why I want him to stay in the House. We need to surround him with more Tea Party-type colleagues and challenge the Beohner-McConnell-DC GOP establishment. Ryan is a master on the Apps Comm in the House and we need his leadership there.

By: GreyCloak

GreyCloak — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:37:31 +0000

Even though Walker and his Lt Gov. won by 53% to 46-47%, it is heartening that three of the Senate races retained Republicans by 60/40.

That was also true of the Senate District 21 vote up until about 9 pm, with 25% of precincts reporting. It seems odd that the vote shifted to the Democrat, late in the game.

It might be worthwhile to compare the names of the 71,000 who voted to the past year”s obituaries.

http://wisconsinvote.org/election-results

By: acat

acat — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:36:36 +0000

over at Ace of Spades Decision Desk …

I’m not a Wisconsinite, so lack good knowledge on what cities are where, but … they have the turnout broken down to the county level at least, and if you dig I think they have sub-county in there somewhere.

Mew

By: PowerToThePeople

PowerToThePeople — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:34:25 +0000

are not that valuable at this time. I do not know why, but way too many are still unwilling to state who they will really vote for as President when asked in person, but when they close that curtain, their vote is for who they really want. I think this is why so many polls were wrong on Tuesday.

I know why they say what they say when it comes to Obama, they do not want to be accused of racism so they lie. I think Wisconsin is in our hands and will be for awhile now. It will be close, but the democrat rule in Wisconsin is over.

By: medicineman

medicineman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:32:52 +0000

I would like to get the African American turnout. One would assume it was similar to 2010 levels.

With that said, being down 1-2 points at this point in time compared to a 14 point defeat in ’08 is a darn good place to be..