Americans are schizophrenic! I was sitting on the subway thumbing through the paper when I saw the headline “McCain erases Obama lead.” If there is one thing that people can say about this campaign it’s that the prognosticators and pundits have been proven wrong over and over again. McCain’s campaign, according to “all the experts,” was dead last August – bankrupt and written off. Yet, he is the Republican nominee, and as of today’s poll results, the presumptive president. And, I guarantee, like Joe Namath in Super Bowl III, that this poll is wrong. I’m sure that a new poll will come out in the not to distant future reversing this latest poll’s findings.
Throughout this whole election the American people have been polled, and polled, and polled, and yet they consistently find ways of fooling all the news gurus and polling companies. Each reactionary headline wants to proclaim a winner and a reason for the results. The news article sighted above claimed “The survey showed the extended Democratic primary campaign creating divisions among supporters of Obama and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and suggests a tight race for the presidency in November no matter which Democrat becomes the nominee.” Really? Two months ago, polls showed Obama with a 10 point lead over McCain in a head-to-head match up. How about this for an article: “The American people still seem unsure as to who they would like to see as President. Much is dependent on how the campaigns actually conclude. This may be a close race, or a landslide. Honestly, this reporter does not know.” Don’t worry, you will never see that.
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From New Hampshire, where Obama had a nine-point lead going into the election – but lost anyway – to today, Americans simply are far too unsure of what course history will take over the next seven months to make honest decisions. Any current polling information should be on page nine, not one, and really shouldn’t concern anyone, especially the candidates.
Americans, take your time in making your decision about who you will vote for. A message to the media: Chill out!