Warning from the President!

[Dodece]

Polling is a piss poor substitution for reality. Were it truly effective then no politician would need to worry about losing their jobs. Yet they readily lose their jobs every single year. In fact you could say that politicians follow polls to their graves. The problem with polling isn't that it is a inexact science it usually isn't a science at all. The techniques are so easily bent to serve biases, and as a rule they are not effective gauges.

The reality is that you have a binary process trying to predict the motivations of beings that by their nature only work in composites. Human beings really do think in shades of gray. Polling has a huge margin of error, because large amounts of people reside in the bulk they are just tilting back and forth. Basically if you force them to make a choice they will, but in a few hours they could be leaning the other way. The worst thing you can do is ask them how they are feeling.

Polling can be quite effective if you ask someone for concrete details, once you enter the vague realm of feelings however your entering the realm of whim. I remember a statistical study where people in a city were polled about whether they liked their mayor or not. They did a survey at the end of the week, and then early in the next week. Somehow the mayors approval rating took a ten point hit despite nothing political having happened. In fact they did these surveys while the mayor and most of the government was on vacation.

What changed surprisingly enough the local sports team lost a big game. So simply asking the question while people were excited about the game made them have a positive outlook. Asking them after the team lost, and they were crestfallen got a decidedly negative response. The real point of all this is that polls are incredibly fallible they can be undone by a sporting event.

I have heard these same polls, and in my opinion they only show that Republicans have done a good job in confusing the public. Confuse people enough, and they do not want anyone to do anything until they can figure it out, because on the flip side of these polls when people are asked questions like do you think the president is working hard, has your best interests in mind, and is a positive influence. Somehow Obama is still upwards of eighty percent. According to the very same polls. In other words these questions aren't linked. Now how the hell could that be.

Personally I heard the same health care crap from the right during the Clinton presidency. To be honest to my way of thinking they had their chance to prove it was right. Instead more people have lost their health care, and the rates continue to climb faster then inflation every single god damned year. I am supposed to fear beauracracy what like all the red tape I have to dance over when I deal with my insurance company. I am beyond being afraid of anything other then the government doing nothing.

Lastly it isn't health insurance it is health issuance. Insurance is what you have for the unseen eventuality. Issuance is what you need to obtain access. You have to have health insurance to obtain health care. The health care insurance industry through its practices drives up the price of care to those that are not insured. Effectively health care practitioners pass their losses to the uninsured. So there isn't even a capitalism debate here, because this industry functions as a protection racket.