Britain/Israel/Pollsters and You


David Cameron was just re-elected Prime Minister of Great Britain.  That matters to you how?  It matters because it was an epic battle between the Tories...Britain’s Conservative Party led by Cameron, and the Labour Party…led by Ed Miliband.  It matters because David Axelrod was imported to Britain to assist the Labour Party get elected.  It matters because one of the major issues in the election was Britain’s immigration policy.  And it matters because the pollsters got it wrong in a major way.

Going into the election, polls showed a neck and neck race…dead even with neither party getting the necessary seats in Parliament to form a government.  It would require a coalition government. The pundits and American Press were giddy giving the advantage to the progressive Labour Party.  Surprise.  As I write this, the Conservatives not only won the election handily, it appears that they may achieve sufficient votes in Parliament to form a government without a smaller party coalition.  In other words, it was a blow out.

How could the pollsters be so wrong?  A month or so two ago, the same thing happened with the Israeli elections.  The press, pundits and the polls had buried Prime Minister Netanyahu…and he blew the poll figures away.  Guess who was there?  David Axelrod. 

Missteps by pollsters are becoming common place especially here in the United States.  There are several possible reasons.  1) The pollsters haven’t mastered the art of polling with a diffuse communication system…in other words land lines are passé.  2) The pollsters are purposely skewing the polls to show results they want to achieve rather than reporting accurate polling results. 3) People are lying to the pollsters on purpose.
  
My money is on the latter reason.  People believe in the sanctity of the ballot.  It is the one place they can express their opinion without opening themselves up to criticism which in a left leaning media can become virulent.  Every aspect of people’s lives are being watched and monitored.  Trust in government and anyone else for that matter is kaput.  When you get a telephone call from CYA Polling Company, why risk giving them an answer that might be used against you?  So people lie.  It’s nobody’s business anyway. 

All of Europe is facing immigration problems of the worst kind.  Miliband’s Labour Party espoused passing laws against Islamaphobia…touchy feely wonderfulness.  Cameron took a hard line especially as relates to the concept of importing workers to do the work that would otherwise be done by Brits if they had the motivation and skill to do the jobs.  Cameron argues that no immigrants should be allowed into Britain to lay claim to the welfare rights and benefits that hard working British citizens have paid into all of their lives.   Remind you of anything? You can read the content of Cameron’s comments here. 


Britain took a stand today against open borders and an Obama type immigration policy.  It caught the pollsters and the press by surprise.  The Democratic Party should look closely at these results in a country which generally accepts a European style of social democracy.  As ISIS and the terror threat grow the political class in the United States better take heed in next year’s election.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Strouss-Hirshberg; Things That Aren't There Anymore

Image
Youngstown was at the heart of the American industrial revolution in the mid 1800’s. During World War I, more steel came from Youngstown than anywhere else in the world. It’s no wonder, then, that the area was home of some of the best of everything, including department stores. Strouss-Hirshberg and McKelvey’s were the Macy’s and Gimbels of northeast Ohio, and offered to local residents the best of what money could buy. Strouss will always hold a special place in the heart of this area. It is hard to believe that there are twenty somethings today that haven't heard of it, or go “huh?” when you mention it. I tried doing some research on its history. Believe it or not, it is hard to find. As near as I could figure, the Strouss Hirshberg Company was originally known as D. Theobald and Company. Isaac Strouss clerked there, and eventually bought the store in 1875 with his new partner Bernard Hirshberg. The store was incorporated in 1906. The Readers Digest version of the life of the ...
Read more

Hope vs. Aspiration

Image
Don't forget to visit http://www.markknowsitall.com/ Hope: to have a wish to get or do something or for something to happen or be true. Aspiration : a desire or ambition to achieve something. As the 2008 presidential campaign heats up, Barack Obama is in full gear selling his vision for the future of America. He is for “hope” and “change.” …and oh yes, peace. He is also for “peace.” Aren’t we all? Obama, the oratorical wunderkind with the speech cadence of Martin Luther King, is doing a fine job of telling us what we should hope for, and how he is going to give it to us. He is a riveting individual and a spell binding speech giver. Hope is a good thing, right? Obama believes Americans are “hope” deficient. Americans “hope” for universal (read “government run”) health care, even though 85% of Americans have coverage, and 25% of those who do not aren't American citizens, and an additional 14% of those who don’t can afford it but simply choose not buy it, and a portion of the re...
Read more

Donald Sutherland's Pants

An adult coming of age movie entitled Garden State made the rounds last summer. A friend of mine told me it was worth watching, so I bought the DVD. If you are a fan of movies filled with generational angst, which I am, this movie fills the bill. But if you are easily offended by casual sex, drug use, spoiled brats, and generally slovenly behavior, stick with Casablanca . Let's face it. A movie in which one of the protagonists is a grave digger who steals the jewelry off dead bodies prior to their being put in the ground is not exactly The Brady Bunch . Included in the movie soundtrack is a song called In The Waiting Line . It is a "head" song. Translated: play it while getting stoned. The lyrics ask the musical question: "Do you believe in what you see?" And that, my friends, is the topic of this week's essay. Animal House is the quintessential college frat house slob movie. It was fairly raunchy when it was released in 1978. By today's standards, i...
Read more