SELF DECEPTION runs rampant among humans, as if you didn't already know. We homo sapienses do more self deception before nine A.M. than other species get done in a long week.
Long before the recent election, month after month, poll after poll indicated a close but definite victory for obama, with close but obama-istic results in just about all of the swing states. Oh, there was an occasional, short lived push for mitt in some polls, most notably gallup, but nothing serious. It was obama all the way.
And yet, throughout the campaign conservative republican america confidently, stridently predicted a mitt victory. Conservative republican america denounced the polls as false, as pro obama, as dishonest trash. They tried to implicate the democratic party in manipulating the poll results, public opinion, anything and everything.
It become ludicrous, and was a clear demonstration of outright denial. The actual election results, a perfect reflection of poll predictions, proves this. It proves that polling is a highly competitve industry, an industry in which the participants have an urgent need to be as accurate as possible, a perfect display of capitalism.
It proves that modern scientific polling works. But then, conservative republican america never has been too big on science or reality. They also deny global warming, evolution, and the limitations of all human thought and religion, including the christian religion. In each of theese examples, denial is at work.
Now they are denying that it is their conservative dieas which need to be updated, in order to more closely match those of the american people. Some people never learn.
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