Inside the Coming Completely Fictional O’Donnell “Surge”
Here is the plan. 1) Constant harping in wingnut blogs that O’Donnell “won” the debate. 2) Fundraising reports used to support the bogus claim that O’Donnell “won” the debates and is “surging.” 3) Internal polling results released that show the race “tied.”
4) WDEL & The News Journal uncritically report on O’Donnell’s press releases and public statements about her “feisty” campaign’s “comeback.” 5) Some Coons statement or appearance is blown up into being a “gaffe” by the O’Donnell campaign and the national wingnut press in order to make the Coons campaign look panicked and jerky.
Items 1 & 2 are already in motion. The polling that you will hear about in the next week will be highly suspect “robopolls” that use ridiculously leading automated “push poll” scripts rather than live interviewers. These polls will be complete garbage, but will be breathlessly reported along with the Coons “gaffe” by the News Journal and WDEL as national news outlets like (Loudell’s favorites) Politico and the Washington Times, jump on the juicy “down the wire” horse race story.
Nothing is accidental. All of this has been planned out well in advance. The point is to fire up O’Donnell supporters and leaners while simultaneously discouraging Coons supporters.
Sometimes I wish I didn’t know as much about the future as I do.
Well, Rasmussen has already participated in the narrative-setting. After polls last week showing Coons up by 19, 16, 21 & 19, Rasmussen gave the first post-debate poll showing Coons up by 11. Of course, the COD team gleefully posted it as “O’Donnell cuts lead in half!” The Rasmussen poll showed Coons up 2% from their previous poll and COD’s numbers didn’t move at all. The poll had a suspiciously high number of people voting 3rd party, 6%.
The UD poll released after the debate showed voters thought Coons won the debate by a 56-29 margin (a significant number of her voters thought he won). The UD poll before the debate had Coons up 54-33. They didn’t release a new number after the debate but had only 2% of decideds flipping and 75% of undecideds making up their mind. They split 50-50. So the new numbers would be around 59-38 Coons over O’Donnell.
One thing that might get in her way is if other polling organizations release polls that don’t show a surge. I’m sure some organization will.
Just so you know, a Republican poll right before the election was released that showed Coons up by 18.
Here’s where to watch – the Pollster.com aggregated poll averages. Right now it’s Coons by 18%.
The same idiots that Coons raised property taxes on will be the only ones supporting him. Only the tip of the state is liberal but that’s where all the government leeches are.
Yeah, funny that Dover is located outside of New Castle County.
AP has a couple of stories running this morning where they report that the Obama coalition has disintegrated, Dems are disheartened and won’t be voting this year, and there’s going to be a huge R surge and victory on Nov. 2nd. You called it Jason. The theme is being set up — actually reinforced, since they’ve been playing it all year.
Here’s the thing. Nobody, I mean nobody, I know is planning to stay home on Nov. 2nd and not a single one plans to vote for COD.
Ripsaw, I keep saying this. Pick a house for sale in NCC. Look at the taxes. Find a comp in southern PA. Look at the taxes. Stand on practically any corner in the Brandywine school district during school bus times and watch the people with out of state plates put their kids on, or take them off.
We know we have a good thing.
Various fools are already trumpeting the “O’Donnell cuts lead in half!” figures and have made it a new tenet of thier gospel.Same for “she won the debate!”. Will the strategy “fire up” O’Donnells supporters/leaners? Perhaps but thier already fired up and theres just not enough of them.