But the last time, remember, the polls did not favor an Obama win in Indiana, but he did. But regardless, Indiana is not a bellwether state to worry about. Yet, it was to the testimony of Obama's 2008 campaign messages that he won the last time, and that angered a lot of people around here. Also, which areas are they polling? I am sure some of these polls are not as representative as they ought to be. Further, traditional polls use landlines, whereas many households today just have cellphones, and these some of the pollsters are not capturing, and those are the more dynamic voters. That again aligns with the supposition above that polling landline users, which tend to still be a privileged in many suburban houses, that are also more highly Republican and right wing partisan clusters in Indiana, leaving out places like Indianapolis, Bloomington, South Bend and the Northwest Indiana area closer to Chicago and more Democratic. Therefore, lets be real regarding what some of these polls entails and portrays. A map of the diffusive areas and demographics of the polling would provide a better graphic insight, than merely following some of these teleguiding polls, aimed at uni-directing political opinions along a certain dimensional trajectory. --- On Sun, 8/5/12, Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:
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