[lbo-talk] Ruy Teixeira on why most of the polls are crap

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Fri Sep 24 10:50:20 PDT 2004


At 04:44 AM 9/24/2004, Michael Pollak wrote:


>It follow from this that the success of registration drive efforts aren't
>really relevant for explaining variation in this number. You could
>register people and they could call themselves independent even if they
>were voting for you.

With PIRG, you registered people to vote but you weren't supposed to encourage them to tell you how they registered. My point was that, young and idealistic, we believed and hoped they'd vote Mondale--whoever the hell ran against Bush. We'd had two terms of Raygun and yet, the poor would look at us and defiantly tell us they were _voting_ Republican. Whether they registered R, D, or I I wouldn't know.

Kelley

"We're in a fucking stagmire."

--Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'



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