Correcting a mistake
On Nov. 6, the voters of Forsyth County will have an opportunity to correct a big mistake.
In 2008, Karen Gordon, the Forsyth County Registrar of Deeds, was swept out of office by the “wave” that swept President Obama into office. Karen began working in the register of deeds office at a young age and was an exceptional employee for over 27 years. She was appointed registrar when her predecessor retired and served in that position for two years prior to the General Election in 2008, earning the respect and confidence of all who dealt with that office because of her efficiency, dependability and integrity. Then the election results robbed her of her job and her career.
Karen is running for register of deeds and I urge the people of Forsyth County to take advantage of an opportunity to correct a mistake and return Karen to office!
GLENDA MOTT
Kernersville
Can’t stop there
For those of us who are voting to re-elect President Obama — we can’t stop there. If we don't give him the House of Representatives and the Senate, he will be in the same position that he has been in for the past three years, fighting Republican obstructionism.
He can do a limited amount without the cooperation of Congress, but to do the really big things that this country needs, he needs the cooperation of Congress.
The wisest voter — in this election — will vote for the whole Democratic ticket.
CATHERINE W. PITTS
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Do you trust political polls?
Well, a poll released by the right-wing Civitas Institute shows President Barack Obama ahead of Mitt Romney — I guess I can trust that one.
JANE FREEMONT GIBSON
Yes, I trust political polls.
People who design the national polls have a good understanding of demographics and are trained to interpret the results.
SAM JONES
Polling is subjective and skewed, regardless of the polling source. Do I “trust political polls?” Are you kidding? Trust is earned. News organizations have proven themselves to be completely untrustworthy for decades. The major news networks are so in the tank for Democrats, it's comedy hour when they're on. It's now so common, there's rarely any attempt to hide the bias any longer.
Do I trust them? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ... well, it ain't gonna happen.
WES PATTERSON
Polls do inform a general trend of public opinion but they may not reflect 100 percent what exactly each person polled is thinking. Viewing in this perspective, yes, political polls are believable.
BOON T. LEE
No, not at all. I really don't consider them very accurate.
WILLIAM SAMS
I tend to dismiss most of the political polls, because they're oversampling Democrats. Similarly, I tend to dismiss the political news reports and editorials with misleading headlines, faulty premises, omitted or inaccurate facts or buried leads.
DEB PHILLIPS
No, unless it’s a Rasmussen poll. The rest are all weighted 13-15 points in favor of Democrats.
DON WOLFE
Trust polls? Are you kidding me? I don't think the pollsters manipulate the responses, but they do manipulate the outcomes by the questions they ask, how they phrase them and who they poll. Plus people being polled lie. I for one have been a white male in my 60s, a black female in my 20s, a black male in my 40s and a white female, no age given. Then I answered in line with my demographic, or not.
The hard core will support its candidate, regardless of anything else, so the 20 percent or so of true independents will decide who wins in the only poll that actually means anything, the election.
KEN HOGLUND
Obama is supposedly some 10 percentage points ahead of Romney in Ohio. If you believe that, I'm sure you believe Obama has done a great job helping our economy and our quality of life.
ReplyDeleteObama has grown government from less than 20% of GDP to over 24%, and he has added $6 trillion to our national debt. That's not even including the disaster that will hit in the next few years called Obamacare.
Many small businesses are already planning to drop healthcare benefits to employees. Healthcare costs have also already risen since the passage of Obamacare. The costs of Obamacare are 'projected' to be over $1.7 trillion over the next ten years.
And you wonder?
What fool, or group of fools, would vote for Obama,......AGAIN? That's right, Rush, and his 'merry' group of psychotic liberals.
You see, it's more important to them to have access to a perverted form of marriage, than to have one of the greatest countries on earth.
Good morning Bucky. I just can't stop laughing. You made my morning. Thanks for a reverse buzz kill.
DeleteI'm glad you enjoyed it. Sadly, it's not going to be economically 'funny' the next four years, if Obama is reelected.
DeleteI hope Obama buys that woman some teeth to go along with the phone he bought her.
DeleteVoters nationally consider the economy far and away the number one issue as they go to the polls, and in North Carolina 52% of voters trust Romney more than Obama when it comes to handling the economy.
Delete"Can’t stop there". I know what you mean. If your president wins but does not control it all, then maybe he can just go it alone. Lord Cromwell will have no need for his parliament. People like you make me wonder why we even bothered to win the Cold War since you seem bound and determined to ultimately lose to the proxy of our former adversary. We can catch up with Europe and go down the insolvency drain pipe right along with them. North American version of "Eurotrash".
ReplyDeleteAs always, Dunce is the main source of lies and misinformation on this forum.
ReplyDelete“Obama has grown government from less than 20% of GDP to over 24%, and he has added $6 trillion to our national debt. That's not even including the disaster that will hit in the next few years called Obamacare.
Many small businesses are already planning to drop healthcare benefits to employees.”
It would be difficult to find three sentences that contain more outright lies and ignorance thatn these three.
According to the CBO, the last time that the budget was less than 20% of GDP was in 2007. The last two “Bush” budgets drove the percentage to 25%. The first Obama budget pushed even higher, to nearly 26%. The 2011 budget fell to 25%, this year’s to 23%. Next year’s will take us close to 22%.
One would hope that Dunce merely made a mistake, but we know better.
According to several national surveys, no more than 1 in 10 small businesses are considering dropping health care coverage for their employees, and most of those will probably continue once they understand how the law works.
We are delighted, because we have actually been able to provide a better health care package for our employees because the tax credits under the ACA pay nearly half our costs.
Oh, and “Obamacare” as Dunce calls it, will not “hit” in the next few years. It has already been functioning for almost two years now, with none of the disastrous results predicted by the Chicken Little crowd.
I am culturally illiterate: what does "buzz kill" mean?
ReplyDeleteThe act of intruding into a situation where others are enjoying themselves and killing the mood.
DeleteOriginated in bars...remember Killjoy?
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DeleteSUM IT UP: Do you trust political polls?
ReplyDeleteThis is like asking “Do you believe in god” because the answers will be religious in nature, not logical.
I could have written the answers for most of those who responded to the question, based on their past comments.
The best example comes from William Sams: “No, not at all. I really don't consider them very accurate.”
Really? And why is that? We assume Mr. Sams has made a careful study of polling, and can cite us many reasons why he doesn’t “consider them very accurate”. Of course, we know better. If Mr. Sams actually knew anything about polling, he would have said so. He “doesn’t consider them very accurate” because, like all people who say this sort of things, he doesn’t like what the polls tell him, just as fumblementalist Christians don’t like what evolution tells them.
Wes Patterson says that all polls are subjective and skewed. Actually, just the opposite is true…polls are quite scientific. The hardest part of constructing a poll is making sure that there is no bias in a particular question. That is checked by several people before a particular question is OKed. Another difficult area is the order in which questions are asked. Great care is taken to avoid having the order affect people’s responses.
Deb of course repeats the Limbaugh/Beck/FOX nonsense about “oversampling”. What none of those dunces knows is that almost all polls are designed to accurately reflect the electorate in which there are considerably more Democrats than Republicans, with independent voters sandwiched in between.
But my favorite as always is the Hoglund, who claims to have impersonated various “characters” in polling. His implication is that he has participated in many polls, which is statistically virtually impossible. Secondly, he claims to have impersonated various females. Since most polls are done by telephone, or more rarely in person, that didn’t happen either. So, like the Dunce, Kenny boy is merely a common liar.
It really comes down to the same thing as religious stuff, superstition vs. science. Deny the polls all you want…in the end you are very unlikely to be going to heaven.
Deletion above: I have my own form of buzz kill.
ReplyDeleteYep, pretty effective too...sort of like zapping a bug. I assume Duncy did a potty mouth...Wordly's original use of buzz kill was directed at him.
DeleteYes, I understood Wordly's usage and target, once you defined the phrase. Bucky also furnished an example, using his favorite foils and locale, thus my "buzz kill." Swat.
ReplyDeleteI worked with a guy in AZ who grew up in China. Although fluent in English, he had trouble with our colloquial expressions, so he relied pretty heavily on an English-Chinese dictionary. One time, the term "party pooper" was used. Our Chinese friend emailed back: "What is a 'pooper'? My dictionary doesn't have it".
DeleteStrange how a picture of a presidential candidate with a dog peeing in his mouth is okay, but I can't describe an ongoing practice by a certain segment of society in this forum?
DeleteIt wasn't a picture of a presidential candidate with a dog peeing in his mouth. It was a picture of a dog peeing on a presidential campaign poster. Big difference.
DeleteIt's funny how people view the truth and reality so different.
DeleteGood afternoon folks! Was in Charlotte all day for Microsoft meetings yesterday, but my comments for those posts are 1: Boo R's; 2: Boo D's; FtT: umm...whoever can get the most electoral votes?
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: Endorsement
LTE 2: Since there is no NC senatorial vote this year, and voters are limited to voting only for their US House district rep (unless, of course, they have registered all over the country and are casting illegal absentee ballots), exactly how can the voters within the Journal readership area elect a D majority House and Senate? Even with a majority D vote in the Senate, it will still take 60 votes to get anything enacted because the R's will filibuster all D or POTUS proposals.
Sum it up: The closer it gets to the elections, and the more people make up thier minds, the more accurate the polls become. When you look at past polls taken in Oct of election years and compare to the results, they are fairly accurate. Many people who mistrust polls may be thinking about the infamous Literary Digest poll in 1936 that predicted a landslide loss for FDR who wound up winning in a landslide. LD based its results on a mailed out questionaire with addresses culled from telephone directories. Of course in 1936 only the well-to-do had telephones, and the surveys had a low response which consisted primarily of FDR haters who were eager to vent. Polls taken today have a much broader base and are carefully tailored to get as accurate a measure as possible. Deliberately giving a false impression of the state of an election race hurts everyone, because candidates heavily depend on the numbers in order to know where to focus their attention instead of wasting resources on places where winning or losing is a given.
We've also got at least 11 million illegal immigrants in the country who could easily 'fool' a poll taker into believing that he/she is a qualified voter. That's something they didn't have back in 1936.
DeleteAlso, the NAACP has asked the U.N. to examine our voting laws.
I hope they do, because it's clear that the Democrats have corrupted our voting laws to the extent that we have no idea who is really voting in our elections.
At this point, I'd be satified if Jimmy Carter would just monitor the polls. Maybe he'll do a better job at that, than he did as president.
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ReplyDeleteJust how many illegal immigrants are going to answer a poll taker's questions. Anyone asking questions might be from ICE, so I suspect it's "No hablo ingles."
ReplyDeleteNAACP probably is complaining about voter ID.
You seemed to be living in olden times Stab. You hugely underestimate the audacity of Democrats and illegal immigrants in their willingness to violate laws.
DeleteI'll bet Iraq has fewer unqualified voters in their elections than we do in the U.S. That's how ridiculous it's gotten.
Since only Dunce, Limbaugh, Beck and FOXLies know about this, I assume that the evidence that would prove this amazing charge is classified way over my poor head, so Dunce is forbidden to copy and paste it here for all to see.
DeleteMaybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...Maybe I can come up with a password...
And shame on you Stab for living in olden times...you need to get rid of that hippy car and get you a BMW and a Brooks Brothers wardrobe so you join Dunce's trendy set...
DeleteSee you for lunch at Le Bec-fin...
Actually, NW, Subarus were cool long, long ago, well before BMWs were adopted by the preppy set.
DeleteYou never can resist an opportunity to make a fool of yourself, can your Rush?
Subarus have never been "cool". "Cool" is a beatnik word from the late 1940s and the '50s.
DeleteHippies are "hip", which is why they are called "hippies". They are never "cool". The Subaru is a hippy car, so could never be called "cool", because no self respecting hippy would ever use the word "cool".
I suggest that you go back to the Fort Stedman Cavalry Post Elementary School and start over, paying careful attention to reading comprehension and English grammar and spelling. Then work your way up from there.
I suggest you go down to the Greyhound Bus Station and take a biology class. Afterwards, I'll bet you'll agree with me which end is the badend.
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ReplyDeleteNever mind…I found Dunce's secret source...all the evidence necessary at Yahoo! Answers.
How many illegal aliens manage to vote in U.S.?
Any estimates?
This gets tricky since illegals are often legalized every once in a while (reference Reagan Era). Also, Baby Bush was courting the Spanish vote so he MUST have let a bunch of people in through Texas and given them creds of some kind. According to the bank manager it only takes $100 to get a phony ID kit in Los Angeles which includes Social Security Card, Driver's License and the whole works with birth cert.
The current estimate is 30 million voted in 2008 for Obama..
When I was in college, thousands of years ago, the City of Davis was becoming overly restrictive on UC Davis Students, so what did the students do? They ALL registered to vote in that city and then removed the Mayor and City Council and installed students in their places. They took over the Police Dept and wiped out the store rules that no more than 3 students could come in at once. They ordered the Police to NOT harass students any more like they had in the past.
MANY years ago a rumor surfaced in California which claimed that Mexicans were going to take over the state, register to vote, and vote to join California with Baja Mexico. That will probably happen next spring.
Are we heading for a change in makeup of the Ruling Elite? After all, the richest man in the world right now is from Mexico so who knows, we might be all speaking Spanish within 10 years. No problema por me, mi espanol is muy malo, pero minimal. Time for a refresher course.
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Hey, this is the real stuff. Thanks Dunce!!!
If you grew up in CA, no wonder you're a certified NW.
DeleteYou're like a mole Rush. Nobody sees you, and nobody wants to see you.
DeleteI am not shedding my hip car.
ReplyDeleteFor most of Subaru's history is has been neither cool nor hip, instead a niche car, operated by college prof families and Western Electric engineers. Only recently has it moved into the mainstream. It is the top-ranked manufacturer by Consumer Reports. It does have an ad slant toward the young and leftward side of the spectrum. But, I like the idea of a zero-landfill assembly plant, in addition to the model's other attributes.
Subarus are great cars. They coninually rank in the top category of safest cars. The switch to CVT was cutting edge. I'm not sure how much I would like it, because I've only driven one of those models short term.
DeleteI used to have an M3, and I liked it a lot.
I'm sure Rush drives something like a AMC Pacer, he's clearly out touch on a number of fronts.
The 4-cyl Subarus use the CVT. Mine is a 6-cyl, has a 5-speed auto. The 4-cyl did fine in test drive, but I could see where it would be worked a bit at highway speeds with Susan, me, and luggage in it.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, OT had a vintage car than his son commandeered. Unless things have changed, I believe he manages sans car.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. He fits my 'mole' characterization perfectly.
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