... so everything's obviously OK. And since it's OK now, it'll be OK forever. And how do I know that? Well, I live in the moment, refusing to acknowledge the past or the future, and things are just ducky at present."

Fair enough. A quick note of caution: Nobody gives a shit about Zogby, or any other poll for that matter. What those in position to influence these things do care about are the really important numbers that make or break the whole operation.

Like the numbers of Obama votes the GOP has already picked off and flipped, how many more will get flipped by Tuesday night, how many Dem voters they've managed to kick off voter rolls, intimidated into staying home, conned into voting on Wednesday or going to the wrong polling place, or just making the process so protracted and inconvenient -- 10 hours or longer in line, but only in Dem-leaning precincts -- that maybe 20 percent will just give up and go away.

So the whole scam depends on choosing the right states, determining margins of victory that produce sorta kinda credible McCorpse wins because they track the pre-election poll numbers that show the race tightening -- more numbers that were purchased by GOP/RNC accomplices on behalf of the usual criminal enterprise.

Presto chango -- meet the new boss, same as the old boss -- except for the giant malignancy and the comb-over and the bizarre biker chickie wannabe always saying "like... yoooo betcha!" And four more years in hell begins, legit as the previous eight, every year stolen from far better people who had the bad luck to be on the side of chronic chicken shits who'd rather eat light bulbs than stand up to authority.

But the official narrative about a squeaker and a last-day surge and the energy Palin brought to the race and blah blah blah... That's hard-wired into US history and it's all the American rubes and gullible true believers are ever going to hear on the subject from our free and independent mass media.

And there's still one final insult to go: Because even the narcotized American public will eventually figure out what a rat smells like if you give them enough samples, people all across the country are getting a little damn sick and tired of listening to ceaseless mass media cheerleading for the beneficiaries of yet another successful GOP election theft. Not that they're actually going to do anything about it, of course, but still...

But ever cautious about offending their delicate viewers and possibly losing another of the trapped consumption addicts they sell their advertisers for big bucks -- and under severe pressure from the corporatocracy to get even more fair and balanced than Murdoch's giant idiot magnet -- TV "news" decides to buy their own approval ratings.

So they commission their own polling firm to produce numbers that "prove" beyond doubt that huge majorities of Americans are strongly behind the McCorpse ticket and, furthermore, they approve by huge margins the way TV news is mixing a little content into its editorializing.

Don't forget the video camera on Tuesday. A sawed off shotgun might be more useful considering the circumstances, but I'm told they're illegal. That's in sharp contrast to three counts of election theft, which are not only just fine and dandy with the law, but the victims don't dare complain and the beneficiaries get to live in palatial splendor for at least four years, then great perks and prizes for life. Which may be mercifully brief in at least one case.


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