A new telephone poll commissioned by WGRZ TV has already been posted with a story in the online version of Buffalo Business First. This, the “final poll” commissioned by the TV station from Survey USA, puts Mayor Byron Brown ahead of challenger Mickey Kearns.
Survey USA also conducted a poll for WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, NC last fall, for the Presidential election. There, three previous Survey USA polls had put McCain up by eight, five, and four points, while the fourth one put him up 20. Said McCain would get 58% of the vote, Obama 38%.
On election day, Obama won North Carolina and picked up 15 electoral votes.
So remember, polls are good space fillers for media outlets, but they aren’t always accurate, and they don’t even have to be, no offense to Survey USA.
People seem to love ‘em, though, so I figured I’d get a little mileage off this one, seeing as somebody else paid for it.
Thought we’d share this Saturday Night Live skit with Governor Palin, you know the Washington “outsider” hockey mom who just blew through $150,000 for new clothes at Saks 5th Ave, Neiman-Marcus, etc. John Stewart decided the Palins were Alaskan grifters using a hot looking babe to take advantage of an old man, John McCain, and then go on big spending spree.
Now when you look at it that way, suddenly the republican presidential ticket makes a lot more sense.
Where would we be without that imperfect political tool, the poll?
This morning, Artvoice joined the ranks of major news organizations like Reuters, C-SPAN, CNN, FOX, NBC, CBS, ABC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (the local paper for Sarah Palin’s home town of Wasilla, AK), by conducting a poll of our own among the big crowd of people who gathered outside our office to claim a free movie preview pass for tonight’s screening of Body of Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
Check out the clip below to see what our thrifty cross-section of movie buffs had to say about tonight’s debate and the upcoming Presidential election.
AV’s traveling elections correspondent, Jon Winet, writes in from northern Nevada:
We had hoped to catch up with Erie County GOP Chair Domagalski Jim to get his views on the Biden-Palin VP debate, but were unable to reach him.
We were able to chat Sunday evening on the phone with Oakland California resident and retired Social Security Administration Regional Human Resources Director Alice Butler, (also featured in an earlier video interview).
In the last few days there has been an uptick in personal attacks by the McCain camp on Barack Obama (he pals around with terrorists, he doesn’t see the country the way most Americans do, he dishonors our troops, etc.). Obama supporters are swinging back, beginning by reviving John McCain’s role in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s, and his relationship with Charles Keating of Lincoln Savings & Loan.
Check out this site, which promises to release a full-fledged documentary on the subject at noon today. The trailer is there now.
McCain has called his association with Keating “the worst mistake of his life.”
I would assume that the timing of this piece’s release was determined long before the decision by McCain’s campaign to unleash the negative; tomorrow’s debate is, after all, about the economy, and you can bet that Obama will call up the association between McCain and the savings and loan scandal to capitalize on public perception that Obama is more capable of dealing with the current financial crisis than McCain. The question is whether McCain will be able to anser that perception, or whether he will try instead to change the subject—to the war or to Obama himself.
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald has compiled a revealing look at John McCain’s flip-flopping positions on the economy. He’s against regulation, he’s for regulation, he doesn’t know anything about economics, he’s an expert on economics. Make up your own mind.
Local Republican fundraiser extraordinaire Anthony Gioia has been nominated by President Bush to represent the United States in the upcoming 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Recently, Gioia opened his house for a fundraiser for John McCain. Over 100 people paid at least $10,000 each to have their picture taken with the presidential candidate at the event. I meant to attend, but I had misplaced my checkbook for the entire three-and-a-half hours McCain was in town. I was relieved to hear he made out with $1.5 million during his visit. Still, I really should have done something. I guess I could have donated my Rolex collection to the cause.
Gioia has been an enthusiastic supporter of Bush-Cheney since the beginning, an allegiance that was rewarded with an appointment as US ambassador to the tiny Mediterranean island nation of Malta, where he served from 2001 until 2004—the same year Malta was finally admitted into the European Union.
If his UN nomination is approved by the Senate, as is expected, Gioia will be in the exciting position of mending the widespread damage our country has suffered on the world stage as a result of the belligerent policies of the Bush-Cheney era. He should be up to the task. Check out his business card.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, The New York Times reported this morning that Senator John McCain, during a visit to New Orleans yesterday, was critical of the Bush administration’s handling of the disaster. “Terrible and disgraceful,” said McCain and ticked off a long list of mistakes by the current administration, saying there were “unqualified people in charge, there was a total misreading of the dimensions of the disaster, there was a failure of communications.”
Gee, John, are you certain you’re not making that observation a little too hastily?
A new telephone poll commissioned by WGRZ TV has already been posted with a story in the online version of Buffalo Business First. This, the “final poll” commissioned by the TV station from Survey USA, puts Mayor Byron Brown ahead of challenger Mickey Kearns.
