Putting aside the obvious fact that most people under thirty either do not answer their landline telephones when they are not familiar with the incoming number or don't even have a landline, as is the case with me (I own a house, am thirty-one, but don't have a landline telephone and will never be polled as a result); putting asside the obvious bloviating on the part of the Republicans to make these polls mean more than they do and on the part of the media for trickling along in a game of goofy-fetch with the over-and-over-discredited republican establishment; putting all that aside, I give you this little nugget from the Daily News
Barack Obama's once-commanding lead in New York has shrunk to just 5 points, a poll released Monday shows.
Really?...
I mean, really? New York is in play? New York? The state of New York is in play? Well, if I were John McCain, and if I believed this poll, as the repubs want us to, I would dispatch Sarah Discrepency up to New York right now. She is in Ohio today, a state that is in play because Obama leads it by a similarly small margin.
If New York of all states is in play, then this election is going to be a landslide in McCain's favor, and she and other pubs should be campaigning in traditionally solid blue states. Forget the Obama fifty state challenge. Forget putting Virginia in play and turning New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada solidly blue--as well as Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. It's Obama and the dems who have to worry. The republicans are going to take New York!
According to this poll, Obama is just as likely to loose New York as he is to loose Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Sure. Right. Uh-huh.
Nonsense.
Slowly but surely, leading up to the first debate, the truth will come out as banking giants crumble, as health care swallows the ability of the middle class to get ahead, as we spend ten billion dollars a week in Iraq.
In the midst of all this fecal matter being slung around by the pubs and the MSM, I would say this if I were Obama right at the beginning of the debate. "I have one goal tonight. You can judge my success or my failure in this debate and this campaign by how I achieve that one goal. My goal is this: in the next ninety minutes, I will make it absolutely clear that if you vote for John McCain, you are for four more years of George Bush's policies, and if you vote for me, you are voting for a complete change from those policies. If I am successful at that goal, I have faith in the American people that they will vote for me as their next president."
Ninety minutes later, he should get a bounce that counts, and that should seal up Ohio and Pennsylvania--and, according to this poll, New York.
New York! New York? Pah-leeezze.
Update 1: Newsday picked it up! You must be kidding me!