You will not believe this. Rethugs claim grantcart is an activist bully blogger.

[No Elephants]

With a link to DU 3.

I am not kidding.


Found this when I googled "conservative activist!"

Election 2012
Leftist bloggers bully pollster for calling Romney momentum early


By: Neil W. McCabe
10/21/2012 07:35 PM


Left-wing bloggers and activists declared war on an independent pollster, who dared to pick up on Romney’s positive momentum, both nationally and in the states.

“I don’t run fake polls,” said Douglas J. Kaplan, who owns Winter Springs, Fla.-based Gravis Marketing, and who has been polling and releasing polls on the presidential election.

“It is ridiculous,” he said. “We have no power. We put out polls.”

“They are trying to shut me down because they think I’m a pro-Romney pollster,” he said. “They said Karl Rove was funding me, I wish I knew Karl Rove.”

In an Oct. 17 post, the blogger “grantcart” posted the following on DemocraticUnderground.com:

Link to rest of story:

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/21/leftists-attack-pollster-for-calling-romney-momentum-early/



Link to grantcart's DU 3 post: http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10021568200

A post on a Democratic message board by one poster now = "Leftist bloggers bully pollster" and "Left-wing bloggers and activists declared war on an independent pollster?"



Oh, the drama!




Can you just imagine the uproar if Democrats did something like this about posts on Free Republic?

[Divine Discontent]

1. I know, oh the humanity! a blogger is bullying me! (eye roll)

Gravis polls are rather interesting from all that I've read. And, I like you've held onto the suited GOP baby throwing a fit! hahahaha it's classic! so true.

my early voting was humorous today. a senior aged man in front of me was not amused with all the Obama supporters in line (there was clearly 2/3 for Obama there, as most were young people and about 1/4 were AA's), and when we went in to vote after 2 hrs, I saw his ballot because he asked a question to the lady who was having trouble with mine (read on!) and his ballot had a big black circle for Romney about 10x bigger than it needed to be, and he asked if that would be okay, because he wanted his vote to count - heaven help me! LOL. I just turned away til he left.

Then when they swiped my ID, the freaking machine shut off! The volunteer had no idea what to do, and I said I ain't going anywhere til I cast my vote for the president. :) The lady who was next to him winked at me and said she understood, and she took over, called someone with the maker of the machines and they sent me to another machine, where it worked and they printed my ballot. I was willing to stay there for hours if need be. My parents got screwed out of their votes in 2000 here in FL, because even though they thought they were registered (through the DMV) when they went to vote on election day they said they weren't registered (I wonder how many Dems Katherine Harris did that do in 2000 as FL's SOS?).

[No Elephants]

2. Boston does not have early voting. Supposedly, it benefits Democrats

because we are low motivation voters.(!) So, they think the more days they give us to vote, the more likely it is that we will find a convenient one. (It's interesting that they assume that inconvenience is the reason so many registered Democrats don't vote, but that is another issue.)

We have had a Democratic Mayor for as long as I can remember. Now, we have a Democratic Governor, too. Still, no early voting.

I could cast an absentee ballot, of course, but I actually like going to the polls.


As far as your experience, what a fool. "Oooohhhh. A really big circle. Let's count this one six times."

In 2008, my experience at the polls was pleasant. A lot of people excited to vote for Obama got on line an hour or more before the polls opened and we talked to each other a little bit. A very young woman ahead of me was calling him "Barack," which I found amusing. After voting, I went to a little store across the street to buy something for breakfast.

A man in there was ranting. "Look at that! Unbelievable! I've never seen anything like it!"

I thought he was angry because he was going to have stand on line too long to vote. I told him the lines were so long because so many people had gotten on line long before the polls opened. Now that they were open, though, the lines were moving nicely and he should not have to wait long.

He yelled, "It doesn't matter because I'm not voting for him anyway."

Somehow, I knew he didn't mean McCain, LOL.

The help in the store, all of whom are younger males, could hardly keep working because they were laughing so hard at his antics that they were having trouble standing.

As far as the cute crying Republican baby, DU babysits him.

Just come to DU 2 or DU 3 and google "Divine Discontent No Elephants think of the children." The post where you handed him to me will come up and you can right click on the image.

That's what I do now whenever I want him! Thanks again, DD!

[Divine Discontent]

7. don't we just loveeeeee the grumpy GOPers!

and yeah, we babysit that crying NeoCon baby, it's a tough job, but we got it covered.

[No Elephants]

3. Forgot to mention, pollsters DO have power, as Kaplan and his con sympathizers know.

I have been posting all along that the polls are as much to shape public opinion as to report it, especially the very early ones and the 11th hour ones.

Otherwise, for example, we would be seeing only electoral vote projections. And politicians would have next to no need to do their own internal polling to try to find reality.

[grantcart]

4. I responded.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021709599

[No Elephants]

5. Very thorough.

I wonder if the melodramatist deserves all that effort.

[Divine Discontent]

6. my word! you not only sunk their battleship, you went to their shipyard & blew it up! LOL

that was painful (in a good way).

good job!