We will see in two weeks.

http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/massmarkets/2010/10/20/umass-amherst-professor-says-cell-phones-are-causing-political-polls-to-be-less-reliable/

“Schaffner says many polling organizations adjust for these changes by including cell phone users, too. But not all of them do. He says some well-known polling companies, including Rasmussen and SurveyUSA, don’t incorporate cell phones into their polling work. Those surveys, Schaffner says, run the risk of being biased in favor of Republicans because the polls are more likely to exclude younger voters who tend to vote more frequently for Democratic candidates.”

Get used to saying it boys!

Classy!

It says Survey USA is not as reliable. Also that the two rivalries between the two polling organizations is as intense as that between the candidates.

I’m confused. You’re entitled to your views, and I’m totally for making sure we have a climate that doesn’t get in the way of businesses like yours. If Harmer’s your guy, go for it. But, when you talk about getting taxes off your back, what are you referencing? Except for a few Reagan years, tax rates are, by far, the lowest they’ve been in generations. Marginal rates were 90% under Eisenhower and 70% under JFK. If you have a profitable business and organize properly, you can pay yourself in dividends instead of salary and pay only 15% — less than the 15.3% a minimum wage worker pays in payroll taxes. The Bush cuts didn’t yield job growth and were funded on the Bank of China credit card. Due to some extra credits that were part of the stimulus package, taxes are even slightly lower than under Bush. I realize some of that will likely change in 2011, but you spoke of the present. What’s so bad about the Clinton-era tax rates, when the economy boomed and generated a budget surplus? When you say the Dems haven’t done what they promised, did you really expect that we would have a V-shaped recovery from a near-depression that has systemic, not cyclical roots? When there is no emerging industry like dot-com, telecom or anything else to replace the ponzi real estate economy that gave us a false sense of well-being for several years? When the skills of the unemployed do not match job openings that go unfilled? With globalization pressures? And, in contrast to the last few months under Bush, losing 700,000 jobs a month and zero net new private sector jobs after eight years, we have at least had very modest private sector job growth for 9 consecutive months throughout 2010. As for 4 years of Dem control of Congress, the recession began 7 years into a Republican administration and less than one year after the Dems regained a slim margin in Congress (after 12 years of GOP rule). The economy crashed on Bush’s watch, remember? By the way, contrary to mythology, Reagan didn’t bail out Carter. Stagflation and the corresponding high interest rates were the cumulative result of “guns and butter” under LBJ and OPEC oil shocks that began during two Israeli/Arab wars under LBJ and Nixon. Remember wage and price controls under Nixon and “Whip Inflation Now” under Ford? And who hired the Fed Chairman (Paul Volcker) who came in to break the back of inflation with the painful but effective medicine of interest rate hikes? Jimmy Carter! The way people talk, you’d think that Carter took over a thriving, low inflation, low interest rates economy and wrecked it in six months. If you want to blame Dems and government for a bad business climate, blame California government. You’ll get no argument from me on that.

Have you ever seen what water boarding is…. it’s a great interrogation technique and it had kept us safe…. I’m all about keeping us safe and taking out the bad guys…. BTW, the bad guys are here and now so I hope you keep your powder dry…