Zogby Claims Mobile-Only Voters Swing to Kerry

Zogby released a poll yesterday that showed the ill-counted mobile-phone-only voters heavily in favor of Kerry over Bush. It should be noted that all participants opted in to the survey through a site run by Democrats, making the results non-random and therefore highly suspect. Further, the results tracked very closely ("virtually identical") to other polls run of the same age group, which means that if the results are to be trusted, mobile-only users in this age group are not any different from other voters in this age group, and their exclusion from those other polls is insignificant.

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Re:I predict...

[Hard_Code]

By that definition anything popular is wrong, so you have to do the _opposite_ just to make sure you don't inadvertently look like you are being trendy. Anti-trendy is the new trendy! Lots of people think murder is wrong. Such sheep! Why don't they think for themselves instead of "going with the herd"! It still seems anti-war and anti-president is sure UNtrendy from what I see. Face it, no matter who you vote for, there is going to be an idiot somewhere ALSO voting for that person. You have to vote on your own beliefs not how popular or unpopular the belief is.

Re:Ok, so we have

[Anonymous Coward]

Idiot. You know full well that the reason the partial-birth abortion law was struck down was because it did not contain provisions that would protect the mother in the event that her health was at risk.

Keep parroting this nonsense, and keep wondering why Democrats treat you like the ranting and raving uninformed boob that you are.

Re:Run by democrats?

[squiggleslash]

Rock the Vote leans left on every single issue (just look at their issues pages)

Try as I might, I can't find one. The nearest thing I see to one is the Petition against the Draft on the front page. Given the site is aimed at encouraging the participation of the young in elections, it strikes me that the draft is a pretty good way of getting their attention.

and their executive director is a former Democratic party operative

Is he still a Democratic party operative? Would you prefer someone not involved in politics to be the leader of an organization aimed at encouraging people to vote (notwithstanding any disagreements you might have with the message of the campaign?

And as to the draft, how do you figure that is nonpartisan? They are trying to make people think the draft is a possibility, which is entirely false, and the ad is clearly aimed at hurting Bush.

It's non-partisan because they're not aiming at any particular party, and there's no particular party associated with the draft? I mean, the only connection I can think of between Bush and the Draft is that Bush is the leader of the current administration, and therefore the one that took us to war. I'm 100% certain that had rumours of a draft appeared while Clinton was in office and a bloody war was raging, the same group would be highlighting it.

Any campaign to encourage people to get up and vote is going to use issues in the news. Usually having power, and thus the ability to frame and decide the issues, is one of the benefits of being an incumbent. In this case, it isn't.

Re:Run by democrats?

[squiggleslash]

I looked recently, and found them to be in favor of federal handouts for education, for free health care, anti-war, pro-choice, anti-ANWR. Just go down the list, they support every Democratic position on every major issue.

We're obviously looking at two completely different websites then. As I said, the draft seems to be the only "issue" mentioned on the (admittedly appallingly designed and expensive to navigate on a slow PC with poor bandwidth) website I was looking at. Perhaps I'll take a better look at it when I get home.

Yes, a good dishonest way, that the Democrats are using to make people vote for Kerry.

That's right, because Kerry's against the draft whereas Bush is... hold on?

She is, yes. That's what Rock the Vote is.

Great. So it's now a self defining argument. Rock the Vote is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it. And the person who runs it is a Democratic Party Operative because she runs Rock the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which we've established is a Democratic Front because a Democratic Party Operative runs it, proof of which is that she runs Rocks the Vote which...

It's a facade! Their appearance of neutrality only extends to what they say and do! They're obviously biased because they're campaigning about one thing that both parties have identical policies on!

I give up. I guess this "logic" explains why Republicans think the press is left wing.

Re:Run by democrats?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I don't think any serious republican wants to discourage people to vote."

There are a lot of Republicans in Ohio specifically trying to discourage people from voting:

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