Scotland: The Polls Said 50-50 But They Were Wrong

I first voted in the 1980 election. The local news was reporting that Jimmy Carter had 80% of the vote nationwide. Nobody could explain how Reagan got in.

Back in the Presidential election of 2000, my brother lived in the Florida panhandle. He got off work and was ready to go to the poll when the TV said that Florida had gone for Gore. So, like practically everyone else who got the news, he stayed home.

Shortly afterward, of course, he found out it was a lie. Since then, we've both kept an eye on election reporting. Basically, the mass media lies unrelentingly - statistics, campaign advisors, exit polls, all supporting their (always liberal) candidates.

I've also noticed an odd characteristic of some people. They'll be all for one candidate, until it looks like the other has won… then they'll jump ship and claim they were for the other guy all along. Had one friend do that, and claim he didn't, even though he'd had a sign for the other candidate on his lawn for weeks before.

Besides trying to get voters to fail to turn up to vote against a done deal, the media also influences losers like above, that don't care who gets in, as long as they can join the winning side.

The history of various revolutionary movements made a lot more sense after I realized that...