Who to believe?
The WeAskAmerica poll of yesterday?
Or New York Times 538 prognosticator Nate Silver?
The sharp drop in the right-hand trend line was when We Ask American released its poll showing Joe Walsh and Melissa Bean tied at 42% to 42%.
A telephone poll overweighted to women who are more partial to 8th District incumbent Congresswoman than to challenging Republican Joe Walsh which showed both at 41% is my guess as to why New York Times prognosticator Nate Silver has lower the odds of Bean’s winning from 96.5% on September 12th to 81% yesterday.
Odds on a Bean victory have dropped from 97.5% to 81%.
Until the We Ask America survey was taken, there had been no outside poll taken of Illinois’ 8th Congressional District.
Mark Houser, the “Music Man” of McHenry County baseball stadium proposals, has made the big time.
His $15 million in “low-interest (stimulus) bonds” request from the McHenry County Board was featured in the New York Times Thursday in an article by Charles Euchner entitled,
“Lots of Stimulus Money—and Concerns About Where to Put It to Work”
He says the bonds would save $5 million in financing costs over 20 years.
He does not exude confidence that the bonds can be sold now, but “we might sell them later.”
The New York Times article points out early on that Houser’s EquityOne Sports Development “has already built a sports complex in Libertyville.” That project “failed to meet revenue projections, obliging the city government to use $7 million in rainy-day funds to make good the shortfall,“ the story continues.
“Because state officials are eager to win federal stimulus money and begin work as soon as possible, less worthy projects move to the front of the line,” the article says.
“A problem with stimulus funding, experts say, is that dubious projects too often jump to the head of the line. Projects with political backing win funding, regardless of merit, while more worthwhile projects languish for decades,” it continues, quoting
That’s the question that New York Times reporter Scott Shane had buried in his front page article Saturday on the connection of Weatherman terrorist bomber Bill Ayers and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
And the very day the issue finally surfaces in the New York Times, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin starts talking about Chicago’s home grown terrorist turned state payroller. (He’s a professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Is Illinois a forgiving state or what?)
Here’s the complete quote from Chicago Tribune’s libertarian leaning columnist Steve Chapman, who defended Obama with regard to his minister, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.:
“I don’t think there is a statute of limitations on terrorist bombings,” Mr. Chapman said in an interview, speaking not of the law but of moral implications.“If you’re in public life, you ought to say, ‘I don’t want to be associated with this guy,’” Mr. Chapman said.
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’”
And what did Ayers write in his autobiography?
The [New York Times] reporter quoted him as saying [on September 11, 2001] “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility,”[13], according to Wikipedia.
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That’s the question that New York Times reporter Scott Shane had buried in his front page article Saturday on the connection of Weatherman terrorist bomber Bill Ayers and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
And the very day the issue finally surfaces in the New York Times, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin starts talking about Chicago’s home grown terrorist turned state payroller. (He’s a professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Is Illinois a forgiving state or what?)
Here’s the complete quote from Chicago Tribune’s libertarian leaning columnist Steve Chapman, who defended Obama with regard to his minister, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.:
“I don’t think there is a statute of limitations on terrorist bombings,” Mr. Chapman said in an interview, speaking not of the law but of moral implications.“If you’re in public life, you ought to say, ‘I don’t want to be associated with this guy,’” Mr. Chapman said.
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’”
And what did Ayers write in his autobiography?
The [New York Times] reporter quoted him as saying [on September 11, 2001] “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility,”[13], according to Wikipedia.
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The Left Stream Media has not a clue what to do with Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
You know, of course, I ran for governor against Ron Blagojevich in 2002 as a Libertarian.
I got noticed in the LA Times magazine for my role in the fight against rape in prison, but my name was not mentioned the Sunday before the election in the Chicago Tribune.
So I watch for slights of “lost” candidates. Media bias, stuff like that.
During the New Hampshire primary, I was watching CNN.
That was the primary where Rudy Guiliani got 9% and Ron Paul got 8%. Guiliani’s name was on the pie chart, but Paul’s was not.
On the Democrats’ pie chart, Richardson had his name on the screen with only 1% of the vote.
That is about the most blatant media bias I have seen.
But, when the enclosed came from Scott Bludorn, the fun-loving field director of Illinois Ron Paul campaign, it brought out thoughts for what I have written above about CNN’s blatant bias.
You might think CNN was publicly financed and they thought Ron Paul had a chance to win and, when he did, would take away their tax subsidy, which he would, if they had one.
The Left Stream Media has not a clue what to do with Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
You know, of course, I ran for governor against Ron Blagojevich in 2002 as a Libertarian.
I got noticed in the LA Times magazine for my role in the fight against rape in prison, but my name was not mentioned the Sunday before the election in the Chicago Tribune.
So I watch for slights of “lost” candidates. Media bias, stuff like that.
During the New Hampshire primary, I was watching CNN.
That was the primary where Rudy Guiliani got 9% and Ron Paul got 8%. Guiliani’s name was on the pie chart, but Paul’s was not.
On the Democrats’ pie chart, Richardson had his name on the screen with only 1% of the vote.
That is about the most blatant media bias I have seen.
But, when the enclosed came from Scott Bludorn, the fun-loving field director of Illinois Ron Paul campaign, it brought out thoughts for what I have written above about CNN’s blatant bias.
You might think CNN was publicly financed and they thought Ron Paul had a chance to win and, when he did, would take away their tax subsidy, which he would, if they had one.
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