Free Republic Cesspool Finally Catching On?

[TeaBagsAreForCups]

"Is Rasmussen Playing us like a fiddle? The Psychology of a Close Race"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2953763/posts

... and although it's relatively early in the thread's life: nary a dissenting voice, much less any infamous "zots" by RimJob and his minions.

[CoffeeCat]

1. When my husband came to bed last night...

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...he said, "Oh my God, I was just on Free Republic, those people are practically delusional. You were right. They are going to be shocked on Tuesday night."

I had been telling my husband that those on FR actually believe that Romney is going to win in a landslide. My concern was that those on FR were being fed Republican-slanted polls and information that completely hid reality from them. I look at all polls. I'm crazy for data and I look at everything. Fox News and FR has absolutely nothing about most of the critical state polls that show Obama winning by substantial margins.

FR and Fox cherry pick polling info. For one thing--the are all about the national polls. At this point, those polls mean NOTHING. It's the state polls in those key swing states (OH, PA, FL, VA, WI, MI, CO, NV, IA, NH, NC) that will decide this thing. I watched a Glenn Beck video. He did a swing-state analysis. He totally ignored most of the state polls and included Rasmussen only. Plus, he had Indiana as a swing state. LOL!

They also cherry pick deeper polling data that favors Romney, which does not tell the whole story. Right now, they're focusing on Romney being ahead with Independents. It's just silly. Look at Iowa. Obama is ahead by 5 points, in the past two polls. The aggregate of the last few polls shows a +4 lead for Obama. YES, Obama is behind with Independents, but he is leading the entire state in the likely-voter measure--the one that counts.

FR and Fox do not look at polls that combine and average all polls. They pick one poll they like. And then they put blinders on.

I'm concerned at the level of shock and dismay these people will have when Romney loses. I understand that the Republicans and Rove have to prop up enthusiasm. It's essential for getting that base to the polls. However, by totally bamboozling these people, they are not doing them any favors.

[louis-t]

8. It sets them up to scream "HE CHEATED" on Wed. morning.

I wonder who they'll blame?

[doc03]

2. Gee reading those posts it sounds like Obama is

the devil himself, he just does whatever he wants. He could hand the keys to the nukes to the Russians and wouldn't get impeached.

[RichGirl]

3. So they are at least assured that...

Dems run a white guy next time! Wow...they are really ONLY voting for the white guy!

Hope next time we run a white gay guy or white woman or black guy or black women or black lesbian! Or maybe we should find a real muslim to run!

[txdemsftw]

4. Or maybe..GASP...

an Athiest!!!!!!!!!!!

Woo hoo!

[JuniorPlankton]

6. that would be so sweet! n/t

[montanto]

7. Win! Nothing scarier than that.

[JuniorPlankton]

16. that would be so sweet! n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. I we go for the trifecta and run a black lesbian woman would R's self-combust?

It so, I suggest we start looking now.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Is she also a Latina and a senior? Because that's 2 more key demographics right there. :^)

[grasswire]

12. make her a food stamp recipient, too!

We've never had a poor woman run for POTUS

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. I'd vote for her!

[msanthrope]

15. Add "wheelchair occupant" to that list and the Rapture may come for them. nt

[Indpndnt]

18. Promises, promises!

[liberalhistorian]

19. That reminds me of the comedian Wanda Syke's

line that "I'm a black gay woman. The only thing that would make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around in welfare checks."

LOL

[formercia]

17. Michelle Obama 2016 n/t

[Care Acutely]

10. "next time, the D’s will nominate a white guy and the few straggling sympathy votes will come back

to us"

Make no mistake, when Romney said that he'd have a better chance of being elected if his parents were Mexican, it's because large swaths of these people actually believe that shit.

[RomneyLies]

11. Those idiots claim that 3-5% of all votes are due to Democratic voter fraud using "illegal aliens"!

Those complete out of their skull morons are trying to say that somewhere between 3,881,751 and 6,469,586 votes in 2008 are the direct result of Democrats shipping "illegal aliens" into the polls to vote.

In other words, they are saying somewhere between of 32% and 64% of all undocumented aliens in this nation voted illegally in 2008 and did so undetected.

What complete idiocy!

[aletier_v]

14. I've been concerned for awhile over the relative certainty

on both sites. One effect of the Internet is that it's more granular and insular, and so much easier to create many small echo chambers of like-minded but socially disassociated people.