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August 03, 2004

Of Bounces and "Suspicious Timing"

A week ago, the WashPost & ABCNews put out a poll showing Bush gaining big.

The poster called "Kerry is Unelectable" called shenanigans on that poll. He thought the poll was deliberately biased in favor of Bush so as to produce a big Kerry bounce after the convention. In other words, the lower Kerry's support seemed to be right before the convention, the bigger the "bounce" he would show afterwards.

Now, I didn't really buy that theory then, and I don't know if I do now, either. But I do have to note that Kerry Is Unelectable at least called the outcome of the two polls, if not the chicanery behind them. In fact, it's the ABCNews/WashPost polls that are showing the biggest Kerry "bounce," all based off of the cratering Kerry support reported in the previous poll. Had that earlier poll shown results more in-line with other polls, the new poll wouldn't show a bounce at all.

Kausfiles (August 3 entry) dismisses that earlier poll as a likely outlier, and decides that Kerry probably got little if any bounce at all.

posted by Ace at 05:18 PM

Comments

Good. I'm glad Kerry didn't bounce.

Posted by: Maranna on August 3, 2004 07:30 PM

I'd like to see Kerry bounce.

You know, the way you bounce when your parachute doesn't open.

Posted by: Brian B on August 3, 2004 07:31 PM

I've pointed this out in another thread before, but I'm gonna go ahead and do it again while I take my victory lap. (Even though you still have your doubts about my predictive talents, Ace.) I called the no-bounce convention on July 12.

This isn't so much boasting as it is taking my rightful place in history next to Nostradamus and John the Revelator.

Posted by: Kerry Is Unelectable on August 3, 2004 07:31 PM

When I saw the lack of a bounce, my first thought was, "Hey, I remember seeing that predicted by that guy on Ace's blog ... um, whatizname ... uh ... Shoot, if only he had taken his place in history next to, for example, Nostradamus and John the Revelator, THEN I'd remember who it was!"

Posted by: Aaron on August 3, 2004 07:36 PM

Isn't this new WaPo poll another one of those supsect polls that over-poll Democrats? It's a joke that we even have to consider the possibility that the poll was rigged.

Off-topic: I guess Kerry's people forgot what Gore's people did a few days before the election in 2000. (The Drudge dirtiest trick ever story.)

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"It's f**king f**ked."
-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source"
Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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