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Singapore Presidential Election 2011 Polling Day
When is Singapore Presidential Election 2011? Singapore Presidential Election 2011 Polling Day is on Saturday, 27 August 2011 as announced by Elections Department of Singapore. Singapore Government has announced that Saturday, ...
Is the Mosque Controversy Going to "Blow Over" by Election Day?
Is the American attention span so short that Obamas position on the Mosque at Ground Zero will be virtually forgotten by the time folks go the polls on Election Day this Year?
If not, all Democrats may wind up getting punished for Obamas improvident position.
Obama may be leading his party over a cliff.
The House right now looks like its the GOPs to lose. They would have to really mess up between now and Election Day to not win the House.
The Senate is till up for grabs. If Obama leads his party over a cliff bad enough, the GOP could take the Senate too.
I happen to think the GOP is completely and totally devoid of ideas -- they dont have any ideas.
Their only item on the agenda is lower taxes.
Their main push is to keep the capital gains tax at 15%.
Doing that would give $680 Billion to the top 1% of AGI taxpayers in USA.
Now they can be multi-millionaires many times over, instead of just millionaires.
So letting Obama lead his own party over a cliff would not be good.
Heres how to avoid it.
Obamas PDB (Presidential Daily Brief), which goes out in edited form to 20 people on Capitol Hill, says one day next week that the CIA has evaluated the Ground Zero Mosque from a National Security perspective and finds that it is very risky to US National Security because of its location and because the money sources that will be paying for it have not been identified, and may turn out to be overseas enemies of the USA.
The CINC of the Northern Command and the DCI are invited to the White House, with lots and lots of Photo Ops of them going in, and maybe even a picture of them meeting with Obama.
Gibbs comes out the next day and says The President has ordered the Mayor of NYC to find another location for the Imam Rauf Mosque or withdraw the permission of the City for it to be built.
At the next news conference Obama says his security advisors have told him that no building of any kind, religious or non-religious should be built at that site if the funding for it has not been identified and fully investigated, and verified to be from sources that are not enemies of the USA. The site is national security sensitive because it is close to 25 major Federal Agencies, two stock exchanges, and two major telecom hubs, one of which in an inter-regional check clearance switch.
Obama says that with this updated information he will be exercising his Commander in Chief duties, and invoking the Supremacy Clause and ordering the mosque project to find a new location. He goes on to talk about how the free exercise of religion can better be served if every single penny going into the mosque project does not need to be invesrtigated by the FBI and DHS and DOD and CIA. He would prefer a location that was less sensitive SO THAT no issue of free exercise of religion could arise concerning Imam Raufs project. He could then spout out a few law cases, just to bamboozle the crowd a bit more.
See this way Obama doesnt lead his party over a cliff. The braindead GOP doesnt wind up owning the House and the Senate. They dont wind up giving every single penny in the Treasury to the top 1% of the income earners in USA, and Congressional Gold Medals to every executive in Big Oil, Big Coal, and the US Chamber of Commerce and CATO Institute and AEI.
The little friend of all mankind asks you to be respectful and thoughtful as you answer this question, please.
Answer: I hope not it should run and run and show the weakness and smarmy grovelling of the Liberals.
Category: Politics
Is it true that the Presidential polls for the 2008 general election are flawed
because younger voters, generally Obama supporters, arent being polled because they only have cell phones? Is that possible?
Do you think this whole cell phone thing and how it effects polling, is a real issue that is not addressed in the media today. Could there actually be a landslide brewing for Obama and it wont be known until election day
Why do people like Hope opps, keep talking about the candidate for The Pedophilia Party, "Barry Dickson" there so many Pedophilia and their sympathizers such as "Hope" Why does she support molesting little children?
Answer: That may be true, they don't have land based phones, so they don't get polled.
Same with blacks.
I have also noticed that democrats in recent years (after 04') have been doing better than polls say.
Ps: It is probably best for Democrats (like me) that there is an illusion of a close race, then people will turn out. The only way that Obama could lose is if people don't turn out.
Category: Elections
4 overlooked issues this presidential election « New Nation
With things as they are, people with half an opinion, people who are clueless, people who find it hard to hazard a guess and people who just don't care are given the same obligation to mark an 'X' on polling day as the next informed voter. So if misguided ... Regardless, here's a little thought experiment: Assuming voluntary voting rules are in place this presidential election, wouldn't it be interesting to know how many people were indeed for the winning candidate? ...
What would happen if both candidates of one party for president and VP passed away on election day?
Of the party who was leading in the polls the night before election day in November - both passing away during the day on election day. Does the US have a plan for this situation? What if just one of the two (presidential candidate - not VP) passed away from a heart attack?
Answer: yes find out where the clintons were....sorry just a joke..i would really guess it would be up to the party to replace them on the ballot...but to be honest i'm not sure
Category: Elections
PE: Voters advised to walk or take public transport to polling stations
PE: Voters advised to walk or take public transport to polling stations SINGAPORE: Polling day for the Presidential Election is this Saturday, August 27, and voters have been advised to...
A historic Presidential election?
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=020608
I saw last night on cw 39 they did a texting poll of how many people bought a newspaper on tuesday of the presidential election to keep and collect. I think it was something like 62% said No and 38% said yes. I was a Yes. LOL. I think that it is a historic election and I wanted to have a paper to show my great grand-kids some day. I mean I wish my mother collected newspapers for me to see with my own eyes but she didnt.
So my question is did you buy any papers to keep?
Either from this election or a past election?
I wish I could have bought from a great big paper like NY times or Houston cron. lol but I totally forgot I was going to buy one and I was on my way home late that day and the day was almost over and I was able to purchase The galveston daily news. lol. I guess its better than nothing.
http://df.galvestondailynews.com/history.lasso?WCD=firsts.html&-session=TheDailyNews:42F946A71b0d8053A6MtL375FF41
no matter what we say about being equals and such No matter how we want to see this, it IS a historic election. Yes he is the first "african-american" (mother white, father black) president-elect and (No. 44) I think it is something to be proud of. People cant say that We "americans" or white people are racists. This election is another step showing our great country and that anyone can do whatever they want to and that we are all being treated equal! I am just saying change is among us whether you think it is bad or good. =P
Answer: Stupid me, I forgot...even after having called a friend to remind her to buy one the night before. Funny, I have every election result newspaper and inauguration from 1980, 84, 88, 92, 96, 2000, and 2004 (each from the NY Times and Daily News). Well, I'll be too old before it's worth anything and now that I hear 38% kept one, they'll be a dime a dozen. lol I also have ones for the deaths of Truman, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, 911, and a few baseball HR milestones (Hank Aaron's 715th, McGwire's 70th and Bond's 73rd.)
Category: Elections
Mason-Dixon: Another Poll has Obama Losing in 2012 Presidential ...
Mason-Dixon: Another Poll has Obama Losing in 2012 Presidential Election, Polling Badly in Florida. Billy Joel sang, “Say Goodbye to Hollywood', Obama might be sing saying the same to Florida. Another day and another ...
Singapore Presidential Election 2011 Polling Day
When is Singapore Presidential Election 2011? Singapore Presidential Election 2011 Polling Day is on Saturday, 27 August 2011 as announced by Elections ...
Presidential Elections - Singapore Elections Department
The first Presidential Election was held on 28 August 1993. ... the Returning Officer will adjourn the election to a date where a poll will be taken, i.e. Polling Day. ...
Online Analysis: The 4th President in Singapore | Rocky FU
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Aug 3, 2011 ... Read '27 August is Polling day for presidential election' from our blog SingaporeScene on Yahoo!. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has issued ...
Will the bradley effect have an effect on the upcoming presidential election?
The bradley effect is the effect voters have on polls. When polled people say they will vote for a black canidate because they dont want to sound racist... but then they vote for the white canidate. Do you think this will happen on election day?
Answer: I believe people will vote for him and against him do to his ethnicity yet it will not be a downside to the obama campaign. Here are some numbers per Fox news and CNN. 40-55% of whites will vote for obama. 85-95% of blacks will vote for obama. This may have a positive effect on the election for Obama.
Also, something that many people leave out when discussing the bradley effect is that first he ran a terrible campaign per CNN. Also Bradley was ahead by double digits in the polls which affected voter turnout.
Category: Civic Participation
Singaporean presidential election, 2011 - Wikipedia, the free ...
On 3 August, the government announced that polling day would be ... ineligible to vote in future Presidential or Parliamentary elections, ...
TODAYonline | Singapore | Assembly centres on polling day ...
Assembly centres on polling day confirmed for Tan Cheng Bock, Tony Tan. 04:46 AM Aug 25, 2011. The Elections Department has reminded candidates that campaigning and election advertising for the Presidential Election will not be ...
Presidential elections poll-like question...?
Alot of people I know are going for Obama, but I want to know the preferences of a variety of people. Soo, who are you guys voting/ going for?
I am personally split, I would love to have an African American president, and I agree with alot of his opinions (not ALL, I hat ehis stand on abortion...}.
But I also would like too have Palin for VP, maybe president some-day....
ANYways, yeah who areyou going for?
Im only 14 I cant vote yet... And I do pay attention to what they stand for... I watched the speeches with my dad
Answer: Palin is way too ignorant. A person who seriously considers banning books statewide because of her own personal beliefs should NOT be running our county!
Check out Cynthia McKinney for a different perspective.
AND in response to A-Dawg --- http://www.911truth.org/
Category: Elections
Voting Information - Florida Division of Elections - Department of State
Additionally, a Presidential Preference Primary is scheduled in January of Presidential ... Early voting begins 10 days before an election and ends on the 3rd day ...
Polling Day for Presidential Election: Aug 27
Aug 3, 2011 ... SINGAPOREANS will elect their next President on Aug 27, a Saturday.Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong issued the writ of election this afternoon ...
Presidential elections: No campaigning allowed on Cooling-off Day ...
2 days ago ... SINGAPORE - No campaigning and election advertising are allowed on both the Cooling-Off Day and Polling Day for the presidential elections, ...
Lets talk about race and the 2008 presidential election ! ?
Lets talk about race and the 2008 presidential election. Right now polls show Barack Obama with a lead over John McCain. (Such a lead, however, is only meaningful if it directly translates into votes on election day. Since this isnt election day they are only indicators of what the future might hold.)
Heres the thing: people who respond polls say one thing, but then do another--or so it is said. One of the areas where people say one thing and do another revolves around race. There is something called the "Bradley Effect," where voters, particularly white voters, profess support for a Black candidate, but then proceed to elect a white one.
heres my question: in your opinion what impact will race have on the outcome of the 2008 presidential election? What source backs up your opinion?
Below is a source I found.
Source:
* http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/732
Answer: I blame the media for the creation known as the Bradley effect. They can't help but get the same answers when they're calling the same people for their polls. And obviously they are, I've never been polled, I don't think most of the people here have been polled.
Category: Politics
Do you think polls should be allowed up to election day ?
For instance, in France, polls during presidential runs are banned during election day and few days before. Thus Internet, SMS and many other services are offering from neighboring countries what is locally forbidden...
So, do you think that countries like France have to change their laws regarding political polls and if yes dont you think that this will turns polls into decision makers instead of indicators ?
Answer: I believe polls should be banned completely during a presidential campaign. All they do is bias voters to vote for the candidate who is leading in them. So I say, get rid of them for presidential campaigns!
Category: Elections
Under Presidential Elections Act, Polling Day is a Public Holiday ...
In accordance with Section 17 of the Presidential Elections Act, Polling Day, Saturday 27 August 2011, is a public holiday. The Ministry would like to.
Is OBAMA the next JOHN KERRY of the last 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
In 2004, Democratic Party nominee John Kerry had challenged the incumbent President George W. Bush. Kerry led all polls from the beginning, and his lead was even wider weeks before election. He had a double-digit lead on polls even the day before election and political pundits predicted landslide victory for JOHN KERRY.
After the Election, KERRY LOST by a margin of 3 million votes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJjOCYmi-A
Go Kerry! Go Obama!
Go to the hall of poll winners and election losers!
For more information, read "2004 United States presidential election"
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To all Obama backers,
The real poll will come on Nov4!
To the 2nd answerer, who won the electoral vote last 2004????
Answer: First of all your premise is full of crap, and the link to Wikipedia provides no data to back it up. Namely, Kerry did not have any double-digit lead in the polls before the election. I suspect the integrity of your memory if you've forgotten that endless virtual dead heat that went all the way up to the election. Kerry was behind most of the way, but catching up right beforehand. Unlike your question I will post a link to a pre-election poll:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-2346558/NEWSWEEK-POLL-CAMPAIGN-2004-Bush.html
This one had Bush ahead with less than a week to go. Bush had a slim lead in most others too. Kerry was still considered a good bet because Democrats are more commonly undervalued in polls than Republicans are.
You probably were reading some old poll summary that said Kerry was up by double digits among college students, or voters 18 to 25, and only too eager to spin it out of context, but nobody with an intact brain is going to read that "kerry up by double digits in the polls" without busting a gut laughing. Kerry had a big lead only one time, after the Democratic convention and before the Republican one, and it was all bounce.
It's ridiculous that you use that wikipedia link as your reference, because it doesn't post any campaign poll data at all, which your whole wishful rant is based on. Besides which, the Wikipedia is not a reliable reference especially for a rant, because anybody who wants to can simply click "edit" and type in whatever they want. If you'd known that, maybe you'd have tried to put something in there about Bush being up by double digits. It would have been removed, but it would have taken a while.
Nobody was predicting any kind of landslide for Kerry either, nobody with any real credentials as a pundit. Here's a challenge: go research up a respected news organization that predicted victory for Kerry using the word "landslide."
Category: Elections
Do you think the presidential election will be close this year?
Polls show the candidates are pretty close, but I think a lot of voters will turn out on election day and prove the polls wrong. I wont say who Im voting for because I dont want this to become a partisan rant.
Answer: The polls will change a lot between now and November. I don't think it's going to be close at all though.
I don't think the polls will matter until after the first debate, cause that's when things will get very clear.
Category: Elections
Why does the presidential election process of the USA drag on forever?
Does having an election campaign while the sitting president cant participate weaken him in any way?
When the real polling day finally arrives, will people have heard so much about it that they cant be bothered to vote for anyone?
Answer: Elections do not generally drag on for so long, but this year they coincided with the sitting president's significant unpopularity. The elections thus became a forum for the discussion of general policy.
Couple this with the fact that it is a close race for the nomination in both parties, as well as the unprecedented candidacy of an African American and a woman, and one can see how this is a unique, extended election season for the country.
The elections are only a manifestation of the current political climate, which is turbulent. And that is putting it mildly.
Category: Elections
Considering that voting in large-scale elections doesnt matter, isnt it better to stay home on election day?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/024702.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_narrow_elections
Doesnt the current Senate race in Minnesota show why there is no point in voting? Afterall, in a close race, each and every recount will produce a different amount of votes. Considering that it is impossible to actually determine who won a close race (for example, it is impossible to determine who won the Florida presidential race in 2000, the Ohio presidential race in 2004, this years Senate race in Minnesota, or the 1974 New Hampshire Senate race), isnt it better to save your time and just stay home on election day?
I believe I once read somewhere that it is more likely that you will be killed in a car crash on the way to the polls than it is that your vote will be the deciding vote (with the exception, of course, of local races; Ive even heard of some cases where nobody even showed up to vote for a local election). These days, many people are concerned about the environment, so wouldnt it be great if those people would stay home on election day and not pollute the environment with their cars exhaust for something as pointless as an election?
Why do we need these charades called elections anyway? Its not like there is anything of significance on the line anyway (afterall, both political parties are nearly identical).
Answer: I always felt that if I didn't vote, I didn't have the right to complain or voice my opinion. They count.
Category: Elections
Why would the White House mock polling data and then turn around and spend 4.5 mil on them?
During his daily press briefing on July 13, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was peppered with questions about why the presidents popularity numbers are in decline and his policy positions are so difficult to sell.
ABC Newss Jake Tapper sought reaction to the networks newest poll showing that 51 percent of respondents would rather have Republicans running Congress. CNNs Ed Henry wanted to know why, in that same poll, "six in 10 Americans have little or no faith in the President to make the right decisions." CBSs Chip Reid then pointed to his own networks poll showing that only 13 percent of respondents thought the presidents economic programs had affected them personally.
Exasperated, Gibbs deployed a classic rejoinder: mocking the polling-obsessed media culture.
"You know, in all honesty, Chip, there isnt a website in the world that doesnt have a new poll every day," the press secretary replied. "And if you spent a lot of time sitting around worrying about polls rather than worrying about the people that youre trying to help, Im sure youd get discouraged. But were way too busy to sit around looking at polls."
Through June 9, 2010, the administration, via the Democratic National Committee, has spent at least $4.45 million on the services of seven different pollsters, according to records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. (The Huffington Post looked into only those expenditures that totaled more than $5,000.)
That total represents only 18 months into the administration. During the first 24 months of the Bush administration, the Republican National Committee spent $3.1 million on polling according to a 2003 study done by Brookings. During the 2005-2006 years of the Bush administration, the RNC spent just north of $1.23 million on "surveys," "focus groups," and "polling," according to an analysis of Center for Responsive Politics data (they spent millions, instead, on telemarketing services). So far this cycle, the RNC has spent slightly more than $1 million on those same activities. (The Huffington Post did not examine data from the 2008 cycle because spending totals were affected by the presidential election.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29…
America on Bushs Watch- Maybe you should tell Obama that and quit wasting the Dems cash, since they are gonna need it for November. But then again. Dems never could pass up wasting money on fruitless tasks.
Majestic Llama- Must have slipped my mind. How could I have let this happen? Must be the global warming.
Answer: Because they lie. They think we are all too stupid to realize it.
Category: Politics
What percentage of America identifies as lesbian?
"In the United States, according to exit polling on 2008 Election Day for the 2008 Presidential elections, 4% of electorate self-identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, the same percentage as in 2004.” Would lesbians be the smallest out of these groups? Approximately what percentage would they be? Perhaps 1%? Or is it more? Of course its impossible to tell but approximately...
Thanks
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Do you feel the Bradley Effect will factor into this years Presidential Elections?
Definition of the Bradley Effect :
The Bradley effect, less commonly called the Wilder effect, is a proposed explanation for observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some American political campaigns when a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other. Named for Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California governors race despite being ahead in some voter polls, the Bradley effect refers to an alleged tendency on the part of some voters to tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, and yet, on election day, vote for his/her white opponent.
The theory of the Bradley effect is that the inaccurate polls have been skewed by the phenomenon of social desirability bias. Specifically, some white voters give inaccurate polling responses for fear that, by stating their true preference, they will open themselves to criticism of racial motivation. The reluctance to give accurate polling answers has sometimes extended to post-election exit polls as well. The race of the pollster conducting the interview may factor in to voters answers.
Some analysts have dismissed the theory of the Bradley effect as "baseless", while others argue that it may have existed in past elections, but not in more recent ones. One analysis of 133 senate and gubernatorial elections between 1989 and 2006 suggests that "before 1996, the median gap for black candidates was 3.1 percentage points, while for subsequent years it was -0.3 percentage points."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
Answer: One of my neighbors, a self-proclaimed Obama supporter, voted for Clinton in the primary specifically because Obama's black and Clinton is not. She said that she never considered herself prejudiced before, but when it came down to it, she didn't vote for him because he's black.
This lady's irrationality notwithstanding, I'd hope that this phenomena is a non-issue in this election, but only time will tell. I'd imagine like in every walk of life, some people will say one thing and do another. Hopefully, though, not many.
Category: Elections
Polling Day for Presidential Election: Aug 27 – Straits Times-Top ...
AsiaOnePolling day for presidential election: Aug 27Straits TimesPrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong issued the writ of election this afternoon and named A.
Is this the best prediction of the presidential race?
-- Americas most trusted and accurate student survey has predicted the winner in 12 of the past 13 elections.
Just days before Americans choose our next president, voting has concluded in the Weekly Reader Student Presidential Election Poll. And the nations students resoundingly say that Barack Obama will be the countrys next leader. In the 14th Weekly Reader election survey, with more than 125,000 votes cast from kindergarten through 12th grade, the result was Obama 54.7% and John McCain 42.9%
For the past 52 years, the results of the Weekly Reader poll have been consistently on target, with the student vote correctly predicting the next president in 12 out of 13 elections. (The only time the kids were wrong was 1992, when they chose George H.W. Bush over Bill Clinton.) This year, as in 2000 and 2004, the student election was conducted in conjunction with noted polling organization Zogby International.
http://www.weeklyreader.com/election/election_map.asp
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/The-Nations-Students-Pick-Barack/story.aspx?guid=%7BBFCBCCF9-9DD6-4215-B1FE-B2368CCF72FD%7D
Answer: It's hard to argue with sample sizes like that. I'd say it's pretty representative.
Category: Elections
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