Witch Doctors For Change
Obama enjoys the support of a majority of key shamans in Peru. Nine of 11 leading Inca faith healers say Obama beats McCain. via Canadian Press:
“Obama is growing stronger, I’ve seen that he has the spiritual support of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy to protect him,” Juan Osco, president of the Apus-Inka healers association, told The Associated Press. “He’s going to win.”
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The shamans whistled, chanted and rubbed both posters with Andean spirit-totems, crucifixes, a statue of a dark-skinned Jesus and other idols to scare away bad spirits and negative energies they said might prevent a fair and democratic election.
I wonder if any ACORN execs are getting earaches, strange itches. But I’d have to say the Peruvian results sound about as good as most of the polling I’ve seen, when you consider how accruate they were in 2000 and 2004. Here’s the Washington Post with some nervousness on that issue:
Could the polls be wrong?
Sen. John McCain and his allies say that they are. The country, they say, could be headed to a 2008 version of the famous 1948 upset election, with McCain in the role of Harry S. Truman and Sen. Barack Obama as Thomas E. Dewey, lulled into overconfidence by inaccurate polls.
“We believe it is a very close race, and something that is frankly very winnable,” Sarah Simmons, director of strategy for the McCain campaign, said yesterday.
Few analysts outside the McCain campaign appear to share this view…
Still, there appears to be an undercurrent of worry among some polling professionals and academics. One reason is the wide variation in Obama leads: Just yesterday, an array of polls showed the Democrat leading by as little as two points and as much as 15 points. The latest Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll showed the race holding steady, with Obama enjoying a lead of 52 percent to 45 percent among likely voters.
Some in the McCain camp also argue that the polls showing the largest leads for Obama mistakenly assume that turnout among young voters and African Americans will be disproportionately high. The campaign is banking on a good turnout among GOP partisans, whom McCain officials say they are working hard to attract to the polls.
Yeah, that and Palin’s got that special Kenyan anti-witchcraft ju-ju working for her.
Topics: mumbo jumbo,pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:56 pm Comments (0) on Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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