divemaster, check out http://www.zogby.com right now.That’s the poll that MSNBC and Reuters uses. They have the numbers at 48% Gore, 46% Bush, 5% Nader.
[sub]PS, I just came back from my polling place (next door!). I did my part to help Freedom2 lose his bet! ;)[/sub]
DITWD, you do realize that if Bush wins, but not with 400 votes, Gore won’t be around at all anyway for Freedom2 to be able to bitch about?
Freedom2, if this election isn’t even close to a landslide, what will you say about all those bunk polls that you keep quoting?
Get out the vote people. Either way, the country will not be going to hell in a handbasket, but what really is on the line is our country’s self-respect by way of voter-turnout.
OK, it looks like I missed the Zogby poll showing Gore edging ahead; but maybe that can be forgiven, since Daniel cited MSNBC? (:)). I saw a link citing a Reuters/MSNBC poll with a 2% Gore lead, but interestingly enough, MSNBC itself doesn’t seem to have it on their web site. Maybe the link has misattributed the Florida results to a national trend.
Maybe you could help me out. Before the results come in, could you tell me which polls exactly you think are “bunk”? Then maybe you could tell me why you think they are “bunk”.
I guess my real qurstion you would be: “What will you say about media bias when Bush wins by an electoral landlside?”
I think the media are biased enough as it is. If the media were truly biased against Shrub, they surely would have been able to come up with a full arsenal to use against this clod. The media seem to think that Shrub has something to say, and they treat him accordingly. Sounds like pro-Bush bias to me.
I broke down and voted Bush. I was succumbed to the illusion that my vote mattered. At the moment of truth, I realized that if I voted for Browne, Bush would lose my state by 1 vote. This would not only cost him his 400 ec votes, but it would somehow spiral into a domino effect, and possibly cost him the entire election. This would doom the country to 4 years under Gore, and more importantly, I would lose any possible respect I had on the SD. The prospect of searching for another forum as good as this one was unbearable to me.
After leaving the polling place and regaining my senses, I realized that it will take a miracle for any third party to become a lasting force in this country. Peer pressure is a force, even when you are in a voting booth, all alone, and your individual action will have no effect either way.
God bless Nader, I hope he gets 5% and leads the way.
At 2115 EST, CNN is listing Bush as leading 52%-46%.
They have Gore leading 192-153 in the electoral vote. They are, however giving both Florida and Michigan to Gore, despite the fact that Bush is leading strongly in both states now, and has been for some time. In Michigan, it may well be too early to call so close a contest, but, unless a lot of strongly Democratic precincts have yet to report in Florida, that state’s 25 electoral votes may have to be switched to Bush.