Creating the Illiusion of a Winner!

How the pollsters mold an election and justify it's outcome.
An electoral majority for Obama?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36133477/ns/politics-white_house/page/4/

What all these trends — the growing strength of minorities and single women, the conversion of organized labor from private to public sector employees — mean is that the fundamental economic issue in post-Great Depression American politics, the issue that dominated politics from the start of the Great Depression into the mid-1960s, has renewed salience. American National Election Studies (ANES) polls have tried to capture this economic issue, asking respondents: “Some people feel that the government in Washington should see to it that every person has a job and a good standard of living. Others think the government should just let each person get ahead on his/ her own. Where would you place yourself?”

While both the “have”and “have-not" coalitions have been growing, with the middle waning, the devastating effects of the Great Recession, the inexorable enlargement of the minority electorate, and the legions of single voters now give greater momentum to the left and to the Democratic Party.

The problem facing the Democratic Party and the Obama administration lies in maintaining the fragile alliance between their constituents: those looking to the government for resources and protection; millions of ideologically moderate working-class whites upon whom the party continues to depend; and college-educated professionals, many with advanced degrees, who represent the Democrats’ newfound strength among ‘knowledge workers.’ These Democrats are relatively well-off and socially liberal. They are not bread-and-butter voters, but ideological voters, seeking a government that defends post-materialist rights and values, especially women’s rights, civil rights, and sexual freedom. Many are anti-war. These are the Democratic “haves.”

Obama has taken major risks. He could go down in flames; he could blend into history in the manner of Fillmore, Arthur, and Harding; or he could effect — as promised — the long-awaited transformation of American politics.

Lengthy article but interesting.

You pigeon hole people, throw the switch and your man is in by manipulating the polling. People question the outcome and you turn the debate (spin) to: well isn't this how you feel about this, isn't this where you stand on this, isn't this how you look at that, you're for this and the candidate who wins shares these views. They lay the guilt trip on people and no more questions are asked.

Every body loves a winner.[b][u]

i think hes going down in flames..