UFC: Ultimate Flagellating Campaigns, by Pat Darnell
The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS' WBBM-TV. See the picture in MooPig Header this week. That debate is well documented everywhere.
Had there been a reliable instant survey system in 1960 like there is today it would have been like this map:
of course one has to reverse the colors for Party control. JFK was an overnight rock star...Winning this debate has its drawbacks; MooPig will take you through the reason for not winning this talkie.
[Note: Debate on Sep 26, 1960 plus November 22, 1963: That's only 35 months before JFK was assassinated in Machiavellian context.]
This is what SurveyUSA says abou titself:
"...an independent, non-partisan, full-service opinion research firm that conducts scientific research for media, government, and private-sector clients. By many measures, SurveyUSA is the nation’s largest public opinion polling firm. As of 2002, 19 of the nation’s then 25 largest media companies had contracted with SurveyUSA to conduct opinion research.
SurveyUSA wrote software from
1990 to 1992 to make it possible for local TV news stations and others to order true random-sample research, of any geography, on a topic of local, national or international interest, at a moment’s notice, and, when methodologically appropriate, get back results the same day, in time for that night’s news deadline.Prior to SurveyUSA, opinion research was slow and expensive, and only TV networks and the largest newspapers could afford to undertake them. SurveyUSA reduced the turnaround time and cost by an order of magnitude, without a sacrifice in quality.
SurveyUSA has published this map afterwards and now we have the Oedipus Effect...
A question comes to the frontal lobe of MooPig Editors: "Why again do we have a two party system government?"
This last map looks like a "good water versus bad water" map of the USA.
MooPig ran its own "fifty states" qualitative survey [not really] and came up with a more "descriptive" survey map of
the whole world.We then slyly included this little agrarian area of Italy, and they said: "Obama -- that's the Dego in Charge?"
So they all voted for McCain.
After all this exhaustive Surveying, MooPig has a final conclusive statement: "Whoever wins the Televised Prez-dental DeBate will die in an obvious Mobster-like Hit within 36 months after the debate.."
2 comments:
I agree... and besides: "Our papers have one peculiarity--it is American--their irreverence . . . They are irreverent toward pretty much everything, but where they laugh one good king to death, they laugh a thousand cruel and infamous shams and superstitions into the grave, and the account is squared. Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."
-Mark Twain's Notebook
Subject: Irreverence defines Phony... no? and it's American to be irreverent -- and now it is irreverNet
Just watch how your Ron Paul experience is represented in the final tally after this November. Grass roots today means Grassy Roosts for all who have made it through the IT microspasm, with sense of humor still in good condition... no? As the monochromatic television eliminated Nixon's image while exaggerating JFK's image in the first televised Presidential Debate; so goes today the zeal of grass roots participants with IT in their living spaces for the Obama / McCain debates.
The first one to bring intuition into the IT forums will be a very wealthy individual... or President; and it will be done with irreverence, with subversion, and at the expense of many Ron Paul's. I predict Obama by a landslide because of what Dvorak is describing in this post: PHony GRassroots Campaigns... how you say "that did not look professionally made!!"
Gotta love it!
Going off on a tangent, but the irony is so thick! To the grassroots folks in Tennesee: I grew up outside Buffalo, NY. By age 18, we would drive to Niagara Falls, Canada on weekends (where the legal drinking age is 18), get torched and drive home around 3am. Trust me...in many cases your teenagers might just be safer if they could order booze and have it delivered to their home.
PS - I was a loyal supporter of the Ron Paul 2008 campaign. It was truly fueled by grassroots efforts, including web properties and emails (that did not look professionally made). It was 100% grassroots and legit.
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