The biggest thing wrong with the GOP right now:

Nov 7, 2012, 2:04 PM

Paranoia and a deep mistrust of many people and things just a lil' different than they are. Too many will believe just about any conspiracy theory about the media or liberals. This paranoia is ignited by many on talk-radio or in the bloggersphere and many brilliant people end up buying into nonsense. Examples are Obama's birth certificate, the outrage about the mosque in Manhattan, the never happened apology tour, the dreams from my real father nonsense, the war on Christmas, the rapper/poet in the White House nonsense, the 2016 movie insanity, total ban of all weapons ownership in U.S. because of a U.N. treaty craziness, and that all pollsters are biased except one, see article on Rasmussen below.

As a Democrat, I know many in my party are crazy as helll, with the 9/11 conspriracies, the war on women, Bush owned by oil companies, and Bain capital silliness, etc. but it just seems so many more brilliant, intelligent people in the GOP actually buy into things like this.

Also, you as a party, need more going for you than just: We Hate Obama.

Rasmussen Reports polls get the election really, really wrong

For the past year conservatives have put their trust in one pollster and one pollster alone. While nearly every other pollster showed President Obama leading throughout the last year’s presidential race, Rasmussen Reports consistently showed better numbers for Romney, and had Romney leading through much of the last month. Conservative pundits claimed that Rasmussen was the only pollster showing the true state of the race, even though previous studies suggested that Rasmussen’s numbers actually leaned too far to the right in previous elections. The Election Day results are now in, and Rasmussen was not only off in their projection, but far off in many cases. Consider the following numbers:

•Rasmussen’s last national poll had Romney with a one point lead (49 percent to 48 percent). Obama ended up winning by two points (50 percent to 48 percent).
•Rasmussen had Romney winning Virginia by two points (50 percent to 48 percent). With 97 percent of precincts reporting Obama is winning Virginia by three points (51 percent to 48 percent).
•Rasmussen Reports final Iowa poll had Romney winning the state by one point (49 percent to 48 percent). With 96 percent of precincts reporting Obama is winning Iowa by six points (52 percent to 46 percent).
•Rasmussen had Romney and Obama tied at 49 percent in Wisconsin. With 98 percent of precincts reporting Obama is currently winning Wisconsin by seven points (53 percent to 46 percent).
•In Colorado, Rasmussen Reports had Romney winning by three points (50 percent to 47 percent). With 90 percent of precincts reporting Obama is winning Colorado by four points (51 percent to 47 percent).
•In Ohio, Rasmussen Reports had the race tied at 49 percent. With 90 percent of precincts reporting Obama is currently winning the state by two points (50 percent to 48 percent).
Rasmussen’s biggest problem was they consistently had more Republicans in their samples that Democrats, even though other pollsters showed Democrats outnumbered Republicans. The actual election results proved Rasmussen and Chambers wrong. Exit polls from yesterday show that Democrats actually outnumbered Republicans by six percentage points. This is largely attributable to the fact that many former Republicans now identify themselves as independents. The other pollsters accounted for this conversion. Rasmussen Reports did not.

These margins of inaccuracy may not seem like much, but the other pollsters, such as Public Policy Polling, We Ask America, and Survey USA, did get their predictions right, which proves that it was possible. In many cases, like in Wisconsin, Rasmussen Reports strayed far from the average of other pollsters. Over the last year, Rasmussen has consistently been to the right of the Real Clear Politics average of polls, and now the election results prove that they “wrongly right.” This fact is worth keeping in mind as Rasmussen releases polls in future years for the 2014 midterms and the 2016 presidential election.

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sure it is. The nuttiness on the left is more mainstream though, as it holds sway in the academy and in urban liberal enclaves. Just take a look at what some people on the academic left are saying sometime. I recently read a paper claiming from a leftist "critical theorist" who claimed that "religious freedom" was actually an attempt to foreclose the various possibilities for what religion could be. They felt it was particularly prejudicial of "religious" people who didn't actually believe anything.

Then there were the folks who claimed Bush was trying to institute a theocracy, others who still think Republicans are going to take away their birth control, and still others who think the jewish lobby controls the government. These are all nutty ideas, but they are treated with more respect than claims about the possibly socialist aims of some liberals, or about the goals of worldwide Islam.

The biggest thing wrong with the GOP right now:

Rasmussen and so many Joungers couldn't have been

I understand your point, but the converse just got

yep...

I get that but the GOP just seems to fear so much more,

everyone has their scapegoats...

i think that's an incorrect analysis

you're a student right?

you should quit jumping to conclusions

TL;DR Republicans are good at producing fear.

yet a lounge lib extraordinaire posts "romney was to

My point was that...

so its fine to be black bred because you can attract guilty

the term is "whitebread"

I prefer milquetoast. It's classy.***

Re: I prefer milquetoast. It's classy.***

Or "vanilla" which I learned from Qouzzel and other

Of course there is some nuttiness on the left but doesn't

Re: Of course there is some nuttiness on the left but doesn't

exactly, the dems are run by a far left agenda pushed by

2 things

lmao seriously? Obama is nothing but style and zero

Re: The biggest thing wrong with the GOP right now:

I predict Christie will turn Dem

Repubs should hire Nate Silver instead.....***

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