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Convention Bounce Is Over

September 17th, 2008 14 Comments

Gallup: 47% Obama 45% McCain. It’s worth noting that post-convention McCain never hit 50% as Obama did. All is apparently not lost. Heh.

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14 Responses to “Convention Bounce Is Over”

  1. Jaime says:
    September 17, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    Thank God.

  2. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    September 17, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVU9u97yzg

    This is awesome. h/t to Dr. Zaius

  3. adam says:
    September 17, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    That’s awesome. I new it would roll back. Especially after the news on the economy. McSame has no new ideas.

  4. POWs for Fictional Truth says:
    September 17, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    The reason we cannot verify Barack Obama’s birth is that he was raised in a Vietcong Prison Camp by Chinese Special Ops. Under the supervision of Comrade McCain, aka Christof, aka Mrs. Iselin, he spent five and a half of his formative years under closely guarded and heavily programmed Communists Dukakisian Kennedy ideology. Both Comrade McCain and Comrade Imam Obama are finally carrying the Manchurian plot to its apex. Next January, America will prostrate itself before the the Grand Imam Party Chairman The One with Comrade McCain in the rafters under his new name: Mrs. Christof Iselin.

    So begins the great cultural blackberry purge…

  5. matt621 says:
    September 17, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Oh, good. We’re not telling everyone that all polls are bullshit anymore.

    They must be back in our favor.

  6. Dennis says:
    September 17, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Maybe the fomenting at the mouth will abate for a few days, matt621.

    Don’t believe the polls.

    Now believe the polls.

    Who could’ve predicted the reaction.

  7. Sean D. Martin says:
    September 17, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    matt621: Oh, good. We’re not telling everyone that all polls are bullshit anymore.

    All? Who ever said all? More often it’s along the lines of “This poll is wrong and here’s why…”

    Y’know. A statement actually followed up by the reasons for making the statement.

  8. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    September 17, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Maybe the fomenting at the mouth

    You keep using that word. I don’ think it means what you think it does.

  9. Oliver Willis says:
    September 17, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    I don’t think polls mean a whole heck of a lot, but they do have a hand in media coverage of the race.

  10. Dennis says:
    September 17, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    You keep using that word. I don’ think it means what you think it does.

    Inconceivable.

    Good catch. Brain’s fried right now.

  11. D. Cheney says:
    September 17, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Diebold, bitches!

  12. Dennis says:
    September 17, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    I don’t think polls mean a whole heck of a lot, but they do have a hand in media coverage of the race.

    Yes, agreed. Observe the looks of relief tonight on the three MSNBC shows, Left, far Left, and Beyond Hope Left.

    Mission Accomplished. Oh, and a special shout-out to Lehman, Merrill and AIG.

    Fantastic timing, fellas.

  13. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    September 17, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    “Oh, good. We’re not telling everyone that all polls are bullshit anymore.”

    Got a quote?

    I was talking about when the polls would reflect Palin’s interview, so obviously I didn’t think they were bullshit.

    It would have been valid to warn against buying into the poll numbers too much so soon after the conventions. The weirdness in the bounces complicate matters too much.

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    September 18, 2008 at 3:43 pm

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