Obama by 5%. Obama up by 11%. McCain’s down in the polls.

You see these kinds of headlines all the time; so-called news organizations publishing public opinion polls about who’s leading in the Presidential race.

It seems to me that the goal of these polls is to suppress voter turnout, especially if that voter plans on voting for a Republican.

I don’t see any difference in this than what the TV networks used to do when they’d call a race before the polls (the real polls, not these fake ones) closed. They still do that to some extent, by calling East Coast states before the West Coast states’ polls close.

I’ve always thought that these polls were really “invented” news. Basically, you have a news organization who, instead of reporting real news, goes out and reports “what if”. They’re basically creating the news.

Polls that showed George Bush behind in the last election were clearly wrong, and it’s certainly possible that that “news” kept people at home.

This isn’t about the 1st Amendment right of a free press; this is about the right of the citizens to not have their elections manipulated. With the Democrats’ passive-aggressive approach to registering voters with groups like ACORN, Republicans need every (legitimate) vote they can get.

I think these polls and newscasts calling races need to be stopped. If you vote on the west coast, and see that your candidate has lost more states than his opponent, aren’t you more likely to just stay at home? I mean, why bother to vote if the election’s already been decided by the time you get off work to go vote?

It seems to me that there just isn’t enough real concern about voter fraud. Democrats are only concerned about voter fraud when their guy loses. Obama has hired a bunch of high-dollar lawyers ready to challenge election results. It’s funny, the Democrats talk about George Bush “stealing” the 2000 election, but they’re preparing to do it for real this time if they come out on the losing end of the count. I wonder if those high-priced lawyers will do anything if they find voter fraud that benefited Obama? I doubt it.