Popularity: 15% [?]
Archive for February 13th, 2008If you compare the election process to a horse race, you need to compare it to a horse race where the people at the track are blind. I don’t have much data on who Rasmussen polled to determine that Obama is in the lead; Although I do not dispute the conclusion. Lets say there are 1000 delegates left and will be allocated one each for 1000 counties. So if you call the average Joe in each of those counties and ask him if he were to vote today who would he vote for, and if Joe had taken enough time to make a decision he could give you an answer that may reflex who would win in his county. If he still has not taken enough time he would likely still give you an answer, as average Joe believes it is important to vote. Now it is a given that sometimes Joe will give you the wrong answer; The hope is that if Joe #1 gives a wrong answer for Clinton and Joe #2 gives a wrong answer for Obama that the results would at least come close. It is also possible to run a second poll asking 1000 Dans, if 1000 Joes and 1000 Dans come out with the same number than you could have more confidence in the number. Well yesterday Clinton was in the lead. But hold on, how do we really know that we called the correct person that can give us a good answer! Are we getting roped into accepting that the polling is correct because of the vast number of them? Are we beginning to believe that people are flacks who change their mind everyday, because the poll numbers change everyday. Maybe the poll numbers are different because of who was polled. Popularity: 18% [?] You will need to have a digital television receiver by 2/17/2009. In a year and one week Analog TV will go out. Hat tip dtv.gov and fcc.gov. You could get a converter box that provides a low resolution output to a 20th century television. or you could get a state of the art (flat wall mountable LCD) reasonably priced digital television with a build in DVD player (multi disc types) that also works as a computer monitor, say about 20″ with 1280 x 1024 for around $400. Must include S - video inputs and output for a state of the art audio system. Please leave one for me. Popularity: 33% [?] |
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