Toe sucker Dick Morris has seen 'the real polls' and 'trend is' toward Romney

[WI_DEM]

Of course he has nothing to back it up his claim:

Dick Morris says the polls reported by the media are not accurate.

"On Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls, taken by an organization I trust (after forty years of polling) show the real story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely voter interviews in each swing state within the past eight days."

"The trend line is distinctly pro-Romney. Of the thirteen states studied, he improved or Obama slipped in nine states while the reverse happened in only four. To read the media, one would think that Romney had a terrible month. In fact, the exact reverse is true."


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/06/the_real_numbers.html

[JoePhilly]

1. Dick Morris wrote a book predicting Hillary VS Condi in 2008 ... dope.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. Available in a fine clearance bin near you since early 2008 - get yours now!

Whatever Morris says, always expect the opposite to happen.
The guy has a worse track record than Bill Kristol and the Amazing Criswell combined.

Here are some of his greatest misses:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/03/24/good-news-for-democrats-dick-morris-predicts-go/177904
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-nickolas/worst-pundit-in-america-d_b_160212.html

[brooklynite]

18. Are you implying that what Criswell picked DIDN'T come true?

I saw it in a movie!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

20. Perhaps I should have used Jack Van Impe or Harold Camping as my example

One should never doubt the wondrous powers of Criswell:

[RedStateLiberal]

2. I've seen a whole lot of right-wing spinning of the polls lately

because Romney is trending down and Obama is trending up. Even Rasmussen has Obama ahead in the general election now.

[JaneQPublic]

3. This sounds like Rove's 2008 proclamation...

...indicating McCain would win: "There's your math, then there's real math."

[budkin]

6. That was 2006 talking to NPR's Robert Siegel

re: Midterm elections

[JaneQPublic]

7. Thanks for the correction! (nt)

[mazzarro]

4. When will this big idiot STFU?

With all his predictions failing to materialize even once, why is he even on TV? I guess the Faux-nuts are so brain dead that they do not know any better to ditch him in a back country roadside hole. This idiot has not come up with one prediction that has panned out in the last ten years!

[budkin]

5. Remember when Karl Rove had "the real math" in 2006?

Despite the polls, Rove said it was virtually impossible for the Dems to take back the House accoring to his math. LOL

[BeyondGeography]

8. Dear Toewasher: Romney is losing and a direct discussion of the issues will finish him off

in September and October, which includes the three debates.

The only thing he has spelled out in any detail is his tax plan, and that is DOA.

There was also his attempt to burnish his overseas credentials...how'd that go?

Health care? Repeal. Dodd-Frank? Repeal. Replace with what? Who knows.

As bad as this stretch has been for Romney, the fall will be much worse.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. +1

The debates should basically be a TKO for Romney's candidacy IMHO. I'm buying tons of popcorn to watch them with.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. The only poles Dick has seen are at places where you can get a lap dance.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Let them believe what they want to believe

Election Night will be just that much sweeter IMHO!

[Cannikin]

12. They're hoping for the "our guy is going to win" boost

From an article about poll reliability:

Why does it matter? Because polls, whether reliable or unreliable, accurate or inaccurate, are reported by the news media and devoured by political insiders. Early polls can influence a race by giving a candidate an artificial boost, encouraging supporters and donors to get behind someone who appears to be winning or at least has a shot. Early in a race, polls can, to some degree, become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Here's how it works in Wisconsin: Rasmussen does a poll, duly reported by WisPolitics, the Associated Press, Journal Sentinel, bloggers, and others. The poll, overloaded with Republicans/conservatives, tells us that in our candidate and issue choices we are more conservative than we really are. That feeds the "Dems can't do this because voters don't want it" narrative of the media, and give chicken-hearted Dem officeholders a reason to derail progressive policy and legislation. That may sound like a conspiracy theory, but it is the way things work.

http://uppitywis.org/why-rasmussen-polls-tilt-republican

[C_U_L8R]

13. In other words it's NOT Romney

Its just a bunch of Rightwing wishful thinking.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. He plays with his pole

That's his biggest problem.

[progressivebydesign]

16. I'm thinking that a hooker has finally sucked his brain right out of his big toe. n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. Morris loves to pull predictions from his ass and then attribute them to secret sources

Here's a hilarious one he made on Hannity last week:

“I guarantee you, Sean, based on what I have heard from third parties or I have spoken to, that William Jefferson Clinton is going to cast his ballot for Mitt Romney,” Morris said. “However, he’s going to open his mouth for Barack Obama because his wife is hostage. They have her under lock and key as Secretary of State, and he is scared that Obama will lose and blame him if he undermines Obama. So he will do everything he asks him to do, and then he will jab him whenever he can.”

http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/31/dick-morris-clinton-is-going-to-cast-his-ballot-for-mitt-romney

The guy is the Weekly World News of pundits.

[ilikeitthatway]

21. It's called psychosis

Most of the GOP suffers from it.

[dougtaylor]

22. Morris is Captain Queeg...

"Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist! And I'd have produced that key if they hadn't pulled Caine out of action!"

[yellowcanine]

23. Has Toe suck man ever gotten any predictions correct?

Not sure he even keeps up with a stopped clock on getting it correct.