EzineArticles - Expert Authors Sharing Their Best Original Articles



  Submit Articles
  Members Login
  Benefits
  Expert Authors
  Read Endorsements
  Editorial Guidelines
  Author TOS

  Terms of Service
  Ezines / Email Alerts
  Manage Subscriptions
  EzineArticles RSS

  Blog
  Forums
  About Us
  What's New
  Contact Us
  Article Writing Shop
  Advertising
  Affiliates
  Privacy Policy
  Site Map


Advanced Search


Would you like to be notified when a new article is added to the Politics category?

Email Address:


Your Name:


Prefer RSS?
Subscribe to the
Politics
RSS Feed:

Another Perfect Storm
Print This Article Ezine Publisher Send To Friends Add To Favorites Post A Comment Suggest Topic Report Author

It looks like another Perfect Storm to me.

I'm talking about the NH Primary results which left egg all over the pollsters and the political pundits and the media.

Ever since the book and the movie, by the same name, came out, things that go wrong are called a perfect storm.

For opera lovers, it was the Una Furtiva Lagrima that escaped from Hillary Clinton as she bravely faced the cameras and voters on the fateful final day before the election. That's what swayed the election, say they.

Not so, says Andrew Kohut, President Pew Research Center, who brings you the Pew Polls. It was the po' white folks, the poor women voters, to be exact, who turned out in record numbers to vote for Senator Clinton.

Kohut, in his NYT Op-Ed piece today, probably has summed up the results best.

Pollsters, pundits and the media saw what they wanted to see, not what was really there.

Now they will have to face the possibility that their dwindling number of readers and viewers will continue to dwindle and diminish. But I would suggest that being wrong isn't something that the pollsters, the political pundits and the media should find so hard to explain.

After all, they've had lots of practice.

It reminds me of one of Clint Eastwood's movies, Pink Cadillac. Somebody named Roy is supposed to be acting as a look-out, but a gang goes right around him unnoticed by Roy. How could they get by Roy, says one character in the movie. People have been getting by Roy for years is Eastwood's answer.

Lots of stuff--people and things--have been getting by the pollsters, political pundits and the media for years--seven going on eight years, at least.

Richard E Walrath is a former budget analyst and co-owner of the Articles and Answers News and Information sites: Articles and Answers Articles and Answers 2007 and the Alternative Augumenta blog.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Richard_Walrath

Other Recent EzineArticles from the News-and-Society:Politics Category:

Most Viewed EzineArticles in the News-and-Society:Politics Category (90 Days)

  1. Women's Rights in America - Timeline
  2. The Pros and Cons of the Obama Health Care Plan
  3. Quotes From HR-3962 the House "Health Care Reform" Bill With Analysis From a Small Business Owner
  4. President Obama's Speech and Illegal Immigrants Health Care Reform
  5. Eight Surprising Facts About President Barack Obama
  6. Justice at Last Obama's Birth on Trial
  7. Why the Obama Health Care Plan is Important
  8. Seeing the Importance of Elections
  9. H1N1 Vaccine Distribution Plan - What is Really Behind It?
  10. Government Electronic Medical Records Requirement - How Many Will Suffer If We Go Paperless?
  11. The US Constitution - 18th Amendment - Differing Views of Intent
  12. What is Communism?
  13. Canadian Politics - Top Five Issues in 2009
  14. Top 3 Ways to Create Political Slogans That Win!
  15. Communism in America? Marxist Theology Vs President Obama

Most Published EzineArticles in the News-and-Society:Politics Category

  1. Public Or Private Option to Solve Health Care Issues in America?
  2. Why the Obama Health Care Plan is Important
  3. Quotes From HR-3962 the House "Health Care Reform" Bill With Analysis From a Small Business Owner
  4. Where Democrats Went Wrong on Health Insurance Reform
  5. How Muhammad Ali Replaced Malcolm X and Ushered in a New Era For America
  6. President Obama's Speech and Illegal Immigrants Health Care Reform
  7. The US Healthcare Debate Brought Out the Worst in Us
  8. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Two Sides of the Same Coin?
  9. Strong Words of Wisdom From Leaders of Our Past For Our Youth
  10. Whither Democracy in Africa?
  11. Copenhagen at the Crossroads - Adaptation Or Mitigation?
  12. Analyzing Obama's Healthcare Reform Campaign Plans
  13. The Great Health Scare Debate
  14. What the Obama Administration Needs to Know About Reaching Youth
  15. Different Conceptions of Power

 

This article has been viewed 27 time(s).
Article Submitted On: January 10, 2008



© EzineArticles.com - All Rights Reserved Worldwide.