For Whom the Poll Tolled.

Active citizens should always vote on the basis of where a candidate stands on issues that truly matter and never on the basis of statements by media pundits as to who is supposedly electable.  This process of voting based upon deceptive images depicted through advertising and the corporate media has produced what Noam Chomsky aptly refers to as the “democracy deficit"--the gap between where citizens and their elected representatives stand on policy.  The most meaningful poll was the blind-poll which listed the actual positions of candidates on issues of substance, but did not provide their names.  One candidate, Dennis Kucinich, received more than 50% of the vote.  The so-called leading candidates--Obama, Edwards & Clinton were all in the low single digits.

This idea of voting based on whom the polls say will win always reminds me of what I had seen written on a men’s room wall at UCLA back in the early seventies.  It read, “Eat sh-t!  Ten billion flies can’t all be wrong.”

It’s not that I like Clinton, but the poll HAS to be wrong.  Is it P0SSIBLE to be lower than our republican presidential candidates....?

The real question is why Zogby did not include Kucinich in its polling.

I know I recently heard Hillary say that she pays little or no attention to polls. Wenzel’s statement and Penn’s flap indicate that her staff does. Since Hillary pays the bills one would think that she would realize that she’s paying for services that she seemingly has no use for.  Or are we into contradiction - one of Hillary’s less than admirable foibles.

Well, I don’t know anyone who likes her from any point on the grid.
Not that it matters to her cult following what the very real world risks are of pushing such a divisive nominee. Actually, on second thought--even though she is the manufactured candidate promoted by the corporate powerbrokers, she is a uniter in the sense that all points in the spectrum will rally against her in an election where there should be no question, no risk, but a clean break and decisive sweep.

The last two polls that Zogby emailed for me to fill out were suspect!  They did not allow me to “continue” to the final couple of questions after I had filled out most of the poll--including saying the political party I feel affilliated to, who I had voted for last time, and (probably--I can’t remember for sure) who I am currently planning to vote for.  Since I am currently planning to vote for Hillary, and was then, too, my results could never have become part of the results.  I wondered how many others --who also plan to vote for Hillary--met the same suspicious fate.  And, yes, after the second time, I emailed Zogby and told them; I have never had a reply of explanation.

Her husband should stay out of it.  This is supposed to be a democracy.  What are they trying to do, establish a monarchy?  Is Chelsea next in line?  Then there will be grand childern.
The Bushes and Clintons feel entitled to rule the world.

Maybe there’s a vast left wing conspiracy out to get her.  Some group or other is always out to get her.  She’s like Nixon that way.

From what I can see, this show ain’t over by a long shot!  The earliest candidates may have already fired their best shots...and long before they saw the whites of their opponents’ eyes.
LOL!  Surprises await us yet.  The best shots will be the last fired.

The results of this Zogby poll do not seem surprising.

Hillary and Bill Clinton are strongly disliked by many people of different political viewpoints, including Democrats, independents, centrists and others.

More on this in the article ...

“Democrats risk self-sabotage in presidential race ... again”

AmericanChronicle.com
November 5, 2007

http://americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp? articleID=42271

Hillary’s chief political strategist, Mark Penn, is a union buster.  Click http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/berman