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October 9th at 12:24PM

The One in Which Indecision 2008 Locates and Reprints the Most Seriously Moronic Piece of Campaign Advice For John McCain

POSTED BY: Eric March

Here at Indecision 2008, we've dedicated ourselves to delivering you the most laughable punditry on the web, largely to mask our tremendous incompetence as comedians and save ourselves the trouble of having to come up with actual jokes.

So it is with great pleasure that we announce that this morning, at 11:34 a.m. EDT, we found holy grail -- the stupidest piece of political punditry ever committed to print. A piece of campaign strategy so unholy and dumb, that the pundit in question should immediately stop whatever it is he's doing turn in his press badge and audience reaction meter and get a job feeding money through an industrial shredder or shoveling diamonds off a cliff -- something -- anything less dumb than the excreting the manner of punditry you are about to witness.

For Sen. John McCain to win [North Carolina], he will have to look back to May and take a few pages from the campaign playbook of Sen. Hillary Clinton. Clinton made a concerted effort to target conservative Democrats uncomfortable with Obama’s liberal record. She essentially ran a Republican campaign in a Democratic primary; appearing on programs such as The O’Reilly Factor and courting local press in conservative vote rich eastern North Carolina, including small but influential conservative newspapers such as the Dunn Daily Record.

Once McCain finds the Hillary Clinton playbook, he should definitely take the first couple pages of Chapter 12, "How to Lose by More than 14 Points, but Not More than 16 Points."

Although Clinton did not win North Carolina, her campaign can serve as a road map for McCain to find the conservative Democrats and swing voters he needs to carry the state.

Of course, if McCain is going to use the Hillary option in North Carolina, then Obama will probably be forced to counter, nationally, with the Mondale Strategy. Although Mondale lost in the biggest electoral landslide in history, he did effectively identify the 14 people who would ultimately vote for him. And now they play gin rummy every Sunday.

Occasionally, they let Mondale win.

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Don't let the political parties fool you. Neither one is there to serve you--they both have their own agenda, and to vote for either one is a compromise. But the ultimate power does not--and should not--lie with the President.Whoever wins, we are going to have to keep pressuring our representatives to actually respond to our views, not the political parties or special interests. www.reddyrighter.com

by Reddy Righter October 9th at 10:45PM
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September 10th at 11:48AM

How Many Polls Does It Take to Screw Up an Election?

POSTED BY: Ethan Ris

The blogs yesterday were buzzing with bad news for Democrats: the new Gallup/USA Today poll showed John McCain opening up a 54%-44% lead over Barack Obama.

Well, it turns out that the prediction of Obama's demise might have been a little preemptive, because a rash of polls were released yesterday, and every one of them except for Gallup showed the race in a statistical dead heat.

There's no question that McCain has gone up in the polls, but he’s certainly not leading the race by 10 percentage points.

McCain's rise is clearly directly attributable to his selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, which has energized the conservative base and improved his numbers among women. However, as DailyKos notes, Walter Mondale experienced a similar bump in 1984 after naming Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, jumping 16 points in the polls before going on to get slaughtered by Ronald Reagan in the election.

Anyway, polls are funny things. For instance, a new Fox News/Rasmussen poll shows the presidential race tied in Florida, which nobody expects to go for Obama.

What was that they say about the only poll that matters?