Republicans are adamant about their distrust of "the polls"..here's why

[SoCalDem]

Their "on the ground", and "in the counting rooms" helpers MUST have "close" numbers in order to work their voo-doo magic with some degree of believability.

At the heart of it, they really don't care how it "looks", but they may just fear the tenacity of those "Chicago campaign masters" who might not just "move on" and send out the president for an early and polite concession speech (see Kerry '04)

This is so important to them that they (Karl Rove, for one) actually STARTED new polling operations this election, since the aggregated-averages style polling seems to be more trusted these days, so they had to have more right-skewed polls to drag down Obama's numbers....does anyone really think we actually NEEDED more poll takers?..or that THAT many people really like Romney enough to have his numbers gaining for no apparent reason?

I think they were hopeful that enough media types would buy into the Romney surge to help them at the end, but Sandy took away a lot of the air time they counted on, and it may be too late for them now.. (hoping it is)

[Democratopia]

1. It is also an important step to help them steal the election.

[liberal N proud]

2. Exactly!

[SoCalDem]

4. It's the cornerstone

Romney behind 10 for months & he wins......smells..

but

Romney "closing" a little every week and he rolls across the finish line first.. well, it could happen

Propaganda works..perception becomes reality

[Obamamama44]

3. They seem to boast and trust them when they are all sowing him up with momentum.nt

[RomneyLies]

5. CT hogwash nt

[Angry Dragon]

6. You should get a print-out of your votes