Rule 1: Polling is an art and a science … and no pollster can guarantee who is going to vote
Rule 2: Each poll is a snapshot in time and reflects what people who are willing to be polled are willing to say at the moment they’re polled
Rule 3: It’s as important to know who is paying for the poll as it is who is being polled
Rule 4: “Margin of Error” (MoE) allows every poll to be wrong
Rule 5: Follow polls over time and look for trends and averages of polls
Rule 6: Watch out for pollsters who spend a lot of time on public media hype
Rule 7: The methodology used by pollsters can sway any poll by simply oversampling any group … like disproportionately including results of the percentage of Democrats or Republicans
Rule 8: Ignore partisan polls taken for candidates when the entire methodology is not released … they’re usually done for insiders who are know how to interpret even slight variances
Rule 9: NO POLL IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR VOTE … YOUR VOTE IS YOUR REAL VOICE !!!
Today my friend Congressman Jim Moran (and his dog) were on the Stephanie Miller Radio Show. He called in from what some of the GOP (including John McCain’s brother) are trying to label as the communist part of Virginia. The Congressman pointed out how absurd it is for these Republicans calling an area, that includes the Pentagon and the CIA, communist.
Congressman Moran told Stephanie and her listeners that he believes these radical Republicans will be “soundly repudiated”, that NOVA will vote “2/3rds for Democrats”, and “they will lose throughout the Commonwealth”
I appreciate Congressman Moran’s work in and helping Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mark Warner and Democrats win elections all across Virginia and our Nation. He deserves a major hat tip and thanks from all of us for what he does in Congress and in helping move our Commonwealth and our Country forward.
I encourage every voter in VA-08 to go to the polls and vote for Congressman Moran and all our Democratic candidates!
At the conclusion of the third and final Presidential debate of the 2008 election cycle where Senator Barack Obama spoke to America with the following:
I think we all know America is going through tough times right now. The policies of the last eight years and — and Washington’s unwillingness to tackle the tough problems for decades has left us in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And that’s why the biggest risk we could take right now is to adopt the same failed policies and the same failed politics that we’ve seen over the last eight years and somehow expect a different result. We need fundamental change in this country, and that’s what I’d like to bring.You know, over the last 20 months, you’ve invited me into your homes, you’ve shared your stories with me, and you’ve confirmed onceagain the fundamental decency and generosity of the American people. And that’s why I’m sure that our brighter days are still ahead. But we’re going to have to invest in the American people again,in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans and college for every young person who wants to go, in businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future, in policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class.These are the policies I’ve fought for my entire career, and these are the policies I want to bring to the White House. But it’s not going to be easy. It’s not going to be quick. It’s going to be requiring all of us — Democrats, Republicans,independents — to come together and to renew a spirit of sacrifice and service and responsibility. I’m absolutely convinced we can do it. I would ask for your vote. And I promise you that if you give me the extraordinary honor of serving as your president, I will work every single day tirelessly on your behalf and on the behalf of the future of our children. Thank you very much.
272 Solid 
48 Leaning
118 Solid 
53 Leaning
47 Toss Up Florida and Ohio 
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