Since the MSM and Obama's campaign are not waiting for the people's vote to be counted before calling this one for their man, I thought I might as well jump in. With some newspapers already printing their "Obama Wins!" front page, and cartoonist Garry Trudeau inking his congratulatory cartoon to commemorate this "historic" Obama victory, I figure there's no shame in making my early prediction of a McCain "upset".
Polls this year, more than any previous year, have been used as propaganda to promote an Obama victory. Every poll this year has come with the implied message "Don't waste your time! It's a lost cause! Obama will win!". And in the end, that is the only way Obama could possibly win this campaign, if demoralized conservatives decide to stay home on election day, if they move beyond denial into acceptance of this grim reality of an Obama victory. But I believe McCain has managed to convince people that this campaign is not a lost cause, and we have a very strong chance of winning this election.
Not only will I predict a McCain victory, I'll even go so far as to predict how the media will explain it. After much debate over racism, someone will "discover" the fact that polls were all being weighted based on current registrations, many of which, because of ACORN's illegal activities, were not valid. Also, the effect of P.U.M.A. voters has not been sufficiently accounted for. Many more Democratic voters will vote for McCain than the polling models predict. So the polling results, they will conclude, were heavily skewed toward the Democratic candidates. Perhaps Americans are not all redneck racists after all. This, of course, will be too late for thousands of businesses who have suffered major property damage by rioting and looting crowds, or, God forbid, those who have lost their lives in the violence.
Polls should be outlawed. The only consequence of polling is that, prior to election day, one set of voters or the other will conclude that the election is lost, and decide not to bother casting their vote. When this happens, when the poll result significantly drives the real result, the poll becomes the vote. Why don't we simply select a random group of a few thousand voters nationwide and allow them to vote? That is, in essence, what we're doing. There should be only one poll, that on election day. That's the only poll that has any bearing on reality and holds any weight. And in that poll, I believe, once fully counted, John McCain will have a narrow lead and will become our next President of the United States. I cannot believe that a true majority of Americans have been fooled by this charlatan.