[Marxism] Nader at 6% - CNN poll

[Eli Stephens]

JB quite rightly takes TC to task for quoting some absurd poll about Panamanians 
supporting the invasion of their country, but claims that TC is doing this "in
order to respond to Nader's apparent rise in the polls."

To which I ask, which "apparent rise" would that be? Searching the archives, it 
was almost a full month ago (July 7) that I wrote a post entitled "Nader at 
6%?", discussing what was then a repeatedly cited number of Nader at 6%. So it 
doesn't appear there is any "apparent rise" at all.

Actually in that post I noted that the composite of multiple polls at that time 
showed Nader at 3-4%. If that were true, and if there were now a composite 
result (not just one CNN poll) showing Nader at 6%, one could talk about an 
"apparent rise," but considering the margin of error in these polls is usually 
3% at best, you'd be on rather shaky grounds even then.

Once again, I hasten to add, I'm not trying to put down Ralph in the least. I'm 
thrilled that he and Gloria La Riva and Cynthia McKinney and anyone else on the 
left are running, and I wish them all well. Just calling for sanity. One poll 
means next to nothing.

By the way, I only caught a little of it, although I think it's probably going 
to be in high rotation on the cable channels, but some black activist called out 
Obama at a campaign rally today for not doing anything for the black community. 
Later, interviewed on CNN (getting more time on CNN so far than Cynthia 
McKinney!), he talked about how there was no way he was voting for Obama, how 
Obama was even to the right of McCain in some respects, and basically that 
Obama, McCain, Clinton, and the whole lot were all clones of one another. First 
time I've ever heard that on CNN from anyone except Ralph Nader!


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