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I always want more information on how these polls are done - are they just asking random people in Missouri? Are they doing it by electorates? Are they asking people in big cities, or just rural areas? A combination? An accurate combination?

What do you want to bet on that, gus?

Methinks the real truth is Obama is the unqualified one. Sure, lotsa you folks is gonna vote fer 'em, but the real meat and potato folks see what you caint...that Obama-dog won't hunt!

Et tu, Beazley? Want some action?

Filtering the elitist bullshit from your pontification, I'll give you that the stock market will likely affect things. However, for it to turn Obama's way, he is going to have to actually SAY something. Which, I am still willing to bet will either not be attempted (i.e. more teleprompted non-speak), or be conducted in a screwy manner like promising more toasters. Lotsa folks realize that the 9% approved Democrats have been at the helm for quite some time and have NOTHING to show for it...even past those 100 days that were supposed to fix things.

Anyway, why don't I bet you meat and potatoes that McCain wins? Only question is, what would you put up? And it had better be something better than your powder blue Razr.

Oh, wumble, you know I lurve you, and would never call you stupid. However, who but an elitist would attend a $28k per plate dinner and listen to Bab S on the same week that the DJIA dropped 1,000 points?

More so, my father was a union diesel truck mechanic and my mother was a secretary (yeah, it was before PC, so that was the term). I grew up in a town where the steel mills closed before I was a teenager and unemployment there is still over 20%. Under your line of thinking, does that mean that I could not be an elitist? Don’t you think it silly to judge someone by what their parents did when the someone has a record from which to directly judge?

If the Democrats are just barely in power, then why did they promise the “first 100 days” shit? If they are just barely in power, and folks like their incumbents, then how are things going to change?

Perhaps what is meant by elitist is Barack Obama calling the agenda of Pelosi and Reid “change”, while America calls out hungry for real change. To which, Barack says, “Let them eat toast”. This explains Palin’s popularity…she is the only outsider.

Anyway, wumble, I am game to place the same bet with you that I offered to gus and online-polls-are-not-polls Beazley.

An elitist, wumble, is someone who professes to know things in a pompous manner with disregard for potentially differing points of view.

Beazley’s commentary on polling is a perfect example of elitist bullshit. In no uncertain terms Beazley claims the polls are skewed because of the 18-30 year olds not having land lines. This insidious comment fails on the grounds that online polls show the same results as the phone polls, and disregard for the presumption that the Internet is full of much younger folk.

You caught that I might be an elitist under my definition of it, wumble? Good for you! You caught this, and called me on it, even though you implied that my history prevented me from being an elitist. Some could try and spin this into a gaffe and attack you. But, you didn’t make a gaffe…it was a rational line of thought and spinning it would be asinine.

The key here is it shows that you do listen and think rationally; an aspect not shared by Bush, NPR, Hannity, Rove, Pelosi, Obama, McCain, Olbermann, Limbaugh, or any of the other nitwits out there trying to tell us how we ought to think rather than listening to the folks they are supposed to be representing or watch dogging for. But, I believe listening and thinking rationally ARE, or at least WERE qualities of the typical American person. If they weren’t there is no freaking way we would have accomplished what we have in our past history...recent history being an embarrassing exception.

Unfortunately sensationalism has taken the reins and the holier-than-thou tact has become the only thing some folks “get” in their fucked up score keeping. Somehow folks buy into polls proving their view of the world is correct because a majority shares it. What’s worse, many await a crazily spun gaffe because, if properly spun, it would have a high likelihood of altering these polls, even though this clearly proves the polls are baseless on so many fronts.

Somewhere along the line the rational approach has been lost and replaced with a scoreboard mentality. In such a system, how are we going to have any meaningful change? There are not supposed to be two teams competing for “political capital”…there is supposed to be a single government that is of the people, by the people and for the people.

So, yes, I am an elitist in that I see our American-ness being abused by both parties with no end in sight and it bothers me immensely. Methinks you see it too looming large behind the infighting, names, and polls.

I just figured I would try to win something in a bet, because I honestly stand to win nothing when Obama or McCain gets elected.