I will now accept my accolades

[Sam Spade]

bumpity..

[Sam Spade]

Guess he'll have to come up for air, eventually. 

[Sam Spade]

Fish, it's what for dinner.

[Sam Spade]

lol @ Vorlon.

[Sam Spade]

The problem is that he tied himself with his own rope on this thread.

This thread ain't gonna die any time soon. 

[Sam Spade]

No, sirree, we can't.   FISH will live forever.

[Sam Spade]

I had a fish sandwich for lunch and it reminded me of this thread.

[Sam Spade]

Nope, go ahead, I deserve the thrashing. 

I'll let you go, fish, for good, if you'll answer two more questions for me.

Why did you go around this forum pretending to be a Bush volunteer and crying out about how bad the Bush campaign was being run?

No one believed you and no one was going to believe you because (frankly) it was ludicrous on the face of it.

I am also wondering what you hoped to gain out of it.  Panic out of the Bush people or something?  Really, what was the point?

And finally, do you look like this in real life?

[Sam Spade]

nobody cares about the bloody Canadian anymopre

I suppose MPF WAS right about the Bush campaign in Wisconsin, clearly it didn't match up to Kerry's...

The Kerry campaign was clearly able to bring so many people out that it had 115% turnout in a number of Madison districts.

Bringing out more voters than people who live in a precinct, county, etc. is a certain way to ensure that you'll win whatever race you're in.

[Sam Spade]

bump

Just read it through again.

This thread is still funny.

[Sam Spade]

I don't understand what all the concern on polls were with this race.

The polls of the last week of the campaign (esp. state polls) were for the most part dead-on, when you averaged them together.  As I continually thought long throughout the campaign, what few undecideds there were broke evenly.  That breakdown was what got Gallup in trouble and made Pew look so good.

Only those who trusted the exit polls got shelled (witness this thread).

Of the state polls in the battleground states, the average nailed Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, etc.

The only major screw-ups were Florida (towards Kerry), which is a state where you don't trust any polls anyway and 99 times out of 100 they oversample the Democrat; Wisconsin (towards Bush), where some interesting hijinks were going on anyway; and Hawaii, which just was because of lack of polling.

http://realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_sbys.html#oh

[Sam Spade]

I tried to tell you what was going on.  I really tried.  This looks like a landslide, folks.

One-year anniversary bump

Thanks for the memories, mypalfish. 

[Sam Spade]

I don't disagree with making light to some degree with someone's inaccurate prediction, but does this thread really merit being stickied?

This just seems ridiculous to sticky this, unless we are going to start stickying stuff like when AuH20 predicted Harris would win in Florida.

True, but there really is a difference of degree here.  All of us have sort of occasionally wacky and dead-wrong predictions 12 to 18 months out from that we may post in a thread here and there.

It's a totally different thing to be saying "day of election" when only exit polls and rumors of exit polls are out that the election is most certainly over already and then make a thread detailing this fact.

That is an error of the greatest magnitude for those of us talk and predict elections.  It's like pitching and throwing a game-winning grand slam to lose the World Series. 

[Sam Spade]

We need someone to create a screenname and post another thread like this this year. (from whichever side you desire)