What McCain's Polls Are Telling Him

Truthsayer: there is a world of difference between media-sponsored "horse-race" polls and a political campaign's internal polls. You won't find any of the numbers McCain's referring to reported on any media site, unless the campaign leaks them for some reason. But I assure you they exist and are far more real than the toilet-paper scenario you propose.

This is not to say that the McCain campaign's internal polls are necessarily *accurate* -- just that it is not surprising to find that they tell a story that is *different* from the polls reported in the media.

Curmudgette: the context of that Palin quote is sufficient to demonstrate the vast gulf between her version of wealth spreading and Obama's. As she said, Alaska was long ago set up such that its mineral resources are collectively owned by the state to the benefit of its residents. That's a far cry from raising taxes on one end of society, not to pay for public works or invest in infrastructure, but to write welfare checks in the guise of tax "refunds" to the other end. ("Refund" is in quotes because, of course, it's impossible to give a "refund" of money that you never had and parted with in the first place.)

Sutherland of VA 1:19PM October 30, 2008