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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (3672)	10/26/2000 1:50:26 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

POA has been consistently wrong and has never shown Gore with a lead except for 1% one day after the Dem convention. It's owned and run by GOP conservatives. They also use automated computer voice polling methods. If they're not deliberately giving the edge to Bush then maybe it's fair to say more Bush supporters don't mind talking to a computer for 20 minutes. It's also said Republicans by in large are more willing to talk to pollsters at length. Some polls compensate for this. Whatever the case POA smells like a POS in its inaccuracy. This is a too-close to call deadlocked race give or take a couple points either way. As for the Rand Corporation they are a very conservative institution with no political bias. They released their positive report on Bush right before the GOP primary (which let Bush claim to be the education hero), only to realize later they'd been bamboozled by the slickster Bush people who actually forced teachers to drop other studies and specially tutor kids for the Texas tests, basically giving them the answers. National standardized testing numbers are down for Texas and the minority gap has widened. This was a blatant attempt to falsify and distort the real record. Considering how bad the rest of Bush's Texas numbers are why doesn't that surprise me? Crime up, drug use up, guns up, pollution up, health care down, teacher pay and benefits the worst in the nation....etc. Pretty abyssmal in such a robust economy and when national numbers are improving while Texas deteriorates under a "what do I care I don't have to do much to get elected?" governor.