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Mr.Bill

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11. Everything they tell you on cable news

Reply to The_Casual_Observer (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:40 PM

Oct 2022

is designed to make you watch more cable news. It happens with every election. The closer to election day, the closer the races become. I call it "dead heat season", and it's here.

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I having as much trouble digesting this "neck and neck in the polls" as I did with dire predictions [View all] The_Casual_Observer Oct 2022 OP

Problem is this shit gets people to give up. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #1

And oh shit every goddamn piece right now is about how interest in Roe has vanished The_Casual_Observer Oct 2022 #2

Madness and the courts today showing us again if the judges are GOP, the law means nothing Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #6

Here's something for you ... Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #7

Retweeted, thanks Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #9

Actually, that wasn't the one I intended to post ... Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #10

I think polls are missing a lot of rightfully angry women. Qutzupalotl Oct 2022 #3

All the "I'm so worn.... I need a break". Designed to make us give up... LakeArenal Oct 2022 #4

We will not go down without a fight. walkingman Oct 2022 #5

I never miss an opportunity to promote Democrats and GOTV on social media. Runningdawg Oct 2022 #8

Everything they tell you on cable news Mr.Bill Oct 2022 #11

I hate it. I crave actual drilled down honest to god content. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2022 #12

Including their pimping (Yes) of Republican partisan polls Dawson Leery Oct 2022 #13

Polling companies are not stupid. Mr.Bill Oct 2022 #14

The Fox "News" poll has Dems up 49-46, yet no one gave it any attention. Dawson Leery Oct 2022 #15