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Axelrod to Gallup: I'm Makin' Youz An Offer You Can't Refuse

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It is becoming increasingly difficult to satire the absurdity and dangerous direction the Democrat Party is taking this nation on "The Cube" when the Obama Administration antes up a reality that grows ever more absurd...

This article from Breitbart is a case in point... I thought perhaps Maksim or Red Square had written a parody that had been mistaken as a real news story... only to find... well... read for yourselves.

You just cannot make this stuff up as fast as they can actually DO IT... That train ride to Next Tuesday is now on a super highspeed rail system...

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Gallup Sued by DOJ after Unfavorable Obama Polls, Employment Numbers

by Breitbart News 6 Sep 2012

https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/06/gallup-doj-axelrod

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Senior Obama Campaign adviser David Axelrod reportedly contacted The Gallup Organization to discuss the company's research methodology after their poll's findings were unfavorable to the President. After declining to adjust their methodology, Gallup was named in an unrelated lawsuit by the DOJ.

Axelrod took to Twitter to direct people to an article by the National Journal's Ron Brownstein suggesting a flaw in Gallup's methodology. Brownstein compared Gallup's demographic sampling predictions to previous election exit polls as well as contemporaneous research released by Pew, CNN/ORC and ABC/WaPo.

The heart of the Obama camp complaint lies with varying predictive models for 2012 turnout. Gallup had predicted a lower minority turnout, effecting Obama's margin against Romney.

An email chain from Gallup employees reveals the deliberations about how to handle Axelrod:

In response to that suggestion, another senior Gallup official wrote — in an email chain titled “Axelrod vs. Gallup” — that the White House “has asked” a senior Gallup staffer “to come over and explain our methodology too.”

That Gallup official, the email continued, “has a plan that includes blogging and telling WH [the White House] he would love to have them come over here etc. This could be a very good moment for us to [show] our super rigorous methods compared to weak samples etc. …”

The writer named several news organizations with their own polling methodologies, all of which resulted in numbers more favorable to President Obama at the time.
In response to that email, a third senior Gallup official said he thought Axelrod's pressure “sounds a little like a Godfather situation.”

“Imagine Axel[rod] with Brando's voice: ‘[Name redacted], I'd like you to come over and explain your methodology…You got a nice poll there….would be a shame if anything happened to it…'”
Since Axelrod first contacted Gallup, the DOJ has become interested in an old allegation made by a former Gallup employee, claiming that the firm violated the False Claims Act by overcharging on their contracts with other federal agencies. Michael Lindley, a former Gallup employee, filed suit against Gallup in 2009 and Gallup was served and responsed to Lindley's suit in 2010. The DOJ signed on to Lindley's suit in August of 2012.

Lindley, was a former field organizer in Iowa for the Obama campaign in 2008.

In addition to Gallup's unfavorable polling numbers on the Obama re-election effort, they have also published employment numbers that are not "politically helpful" for Obama.

“Gallup publishes its research without seasonal adjustments [i.e. they don't "season" the Jobs numbers to make them more "palatable"],” William Tate wrote for the American Thinker. ”The BLS's [Bureau of Labor Statistics] version applies adjustments in an alchemic formula that's more mysterious than the Shroud of Turin.”

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Were the Obama Administration ever to grow smart enough to figure out that "The Peoples' Cube" is NOT an avante garde Progressive site filled with the blogs of fellow travelers, they'll have us all frog marched to a Federal pen... or worse.

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I'll give you 3 clues why the CUBE is not a DOJ target:

1. Most Americans can't discern our Irony Curtain, so to many a web surfer we look indeed like a Commie website.
2. Hardcore Democrat Commies actually enjoy our parodies, since they actually THINK/SPEAK in Agitprop Hyperbole.
3. Every time we log in is like having sex with cheap Havanah hoes, that is, we pick up something itchy every time... The website itself is not the source, but hackers are stationed around the openings lurking to hitch a ride.

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Well, say what you want believe what you wish the Truth is that it is about time that Pollsters and The Peoples' Media finally treat Dear Leader with The Respect He Deserves ™!

My Our Collective has never witnessed more outrageous and unfair attacks on any political figure as have been unleashed upon Dear Leader over the last four years. Finally He will get some positive endorsements coverage in national media (even though it is almost completely controlled by Rethuglikkkan Big Businessmen.)

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”The BLS's [Bureau of Labor Statistics] version applies adjustments in an alchemic formula that's more mysterious than the Shroud of Turin.”


The Shroud of Turin has nothing on the Cook County [IL] Tax Assessor's office when it comes to alchemic, mysterious formulas of fuzzy math.

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The image of Mr. Axelgrease shown above is not accurate. He is not shown with a clown suit, bulbous nose, hideously bright clothing or any of the items of his craft.

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I came across this most accurate photo of Darth Axelrod. Indeed.

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