About Those Polls

In the last year or so I have become a big fan of The Tammy Bruce show. I bought one of her books a few years back, and then heard her sub for Laura Ingraham. I liked her style and humor, but the big plus to her show is, in my opinion, the fact that she is a former member of the left and therefore has a very good understanding of their thinking, tactics and motivation. I always get good insights from listening to her show and I don't miss it if I can avoid it.

On her Saturday show, (yesterday), she brought up this topic of polls and why they are probably wrong. We all know about media bias and over sampling of Democrats. Those are good enough reasons to be skeptical of polls to begin with. And we also know that looking back we can see that the polls tend to over predict for Democrats on a regular basis while also under predicting for Republicans. Again, a good reason to think that the polls this cycle are probably wrong. But she brought up another reason we should be distrustful of the polls that has had little discussion from the Obama Media.

Consider:

We know that a regular citizen, "Joe the Plumber," simply asked a question of "The Anointed One" that was inconvenient and all hell broke loose. He was immediately attacked by the Media as well as the Obama campaign. Reporters looked into every nook and cranny they could find to dig up dirt on the guy. And Democrats in the Government started using their official position to hack into his records illegally to find out if there was any way to get back at him.

We know that one of the McCain buses was shot at with a .22 cal. weapon. Fortunately no one was hurt, but that was clearly not the intent.

We know that regular people who have put up posters and signs on their houses and lawn have had their homes vandalized and the signs ripped up and destroyed. Cars get keyed if you have a bumper sticker. Hillbuzz has a post about one of their people being attacked by Obama supporters right across the street from a police station for simply asking a question. (The question was, "can you name one Obama accomplishment?")

Sarah Palin's email was hacked and her personal information was put up on the Net by a rabid Obama supporter including family photos. Obama supporters have been photographed wearing t-shirts with a term that even rappers don't use in polite company.

A few brave McCain supporters marched through a New York neighborhood and were treated to all manner of abuse and profanity from the "tolerant" liberals there. (I put this video up on my own blog; you have to see it to believe it.)

And of course if you question His Holiness, there is the predictable smear that you are a racist.

These are the tactics of Fascism pure and simple.

Given all of this, do we really think that if a strange person calls you up and asks you if you are going to vote for Obama, are you going to want to answer honestly if you are a McCain supporter? Will you think twice before giving such information to someone about whom you know nothing? Or will you be cautious and either give the expected answer or simply say you are not interested? What, exactly, is your motivation for putting yourself at risk by telling the truth if the person on the other end is a rabid Obama supporter who can hurt you? They already know your phone number. What if they have other information about you? Will they use it against you? How do you know they won't?

The bottom line is that we can see from this campaign that the Obama supporters are dangerous and often violent and willing to use whatever methods that they can to achieve their goal. So why would a regular person want to answer a pollster if they don't have to?