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Political Malpractice

by: Dean Barker

Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 20:05:40 PM EDT

What do you do when the evidence that you yourself have commissioned stands opposite to of the meme you are desperately trying to put out there?

You find a newspaper and columnist who will give media oxygen to any pro-Republican spin, not matter how non-reality based it is:

[Jennifer Donahue] said that while most Clinton voters have moved to Obama, "there is a big chunk of women who support Sarah Palin, and, somehow, that's not being picked up in the polls.
"Many of them are independents," she said, "and you ignore them at your peril."

This is really political malpractice. As we've sourced time and again in countering Donahue, Palin is a drag on both women and independents in this state.

Look, I know this is a small state, and I really don't want to harp on one political pundit in a sphere of maybe ten or twenty total, but Donahue's commentary is becoming increasingly detached from reality. My theory is either that a) it's more fun to say that a race is close, so just say it and damn the data, or b) she's trying to soften the blow on this statement made at the outset of the Palin nomination:

Either Central Casting and Candid Camera have teamed up to trick cable television, or this is the best real choice and the best hidden secret the republicans have made in decades.

Dean Barker :: Political Malpractice

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Political Malpractice | 5 comments

Rivalry? (4.00 / 1)

Is there a rivalry between the IOP and UNH? UNH did hire a couple of IOP people, and the following comment by J. Donahue in the UL story you linked to above made me wonder:

"It's one thing to reach someone on the phone, particularly a land line," she said. "It's another to identify who is going to walk into that voting booth and who they are going to vote for."

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 19:26:56 PM CDT

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Nice take. (0.00 / 0)

I hadn't thought of that.

And at this point, I'm seriously looking into everything, because it honestly makes no sense to me why she keeps going on in this vein.

by: Dean Barker @ Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 19:49:08 PM CDT

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Love this statement: (4.00 / 4)

there is a big chunk of women who support Sarah Palin, and, somehow, that's not being picked up in the polls.

Fortunately, it IS being picked up in Jennifer Donahue's Telepatho-Cerebro Metrificator (Patent Pending)! Don't pontificate without one!

by: elwood @ Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 20:50:48 PM CDT

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There IS a very, very large chunk of women who support Sarah Palin. (4.00 / 1)

Just nowhere near as big as the chunk supporting the Dems.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 21:07:36 PM CDT

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Media people are into getting attention. (0.00 / 0)

Outraged people are paying attention. So, you outrage them. Besides, any oracle is better off being wrong than right. It makes those who pay attention feel better for the oracle to be wrong.