Iowa, land of surprise
It seems like just last year John Kerry had been all but left for dead, pleading for some street cred by invoking the F-Word in a Rolling Stone interview. Now he returns, like a vampire (not quite dead, you see) sucking the blood out of the Dean campaign and goes on to win the Iowa Coffee Klatch, er Caucuses with a whopping 38% of the vote. For those looking for a sports analogy: Kerry is batting .380 in the state of Iowa and now has forward mo: Forward Momentum. From here on out, Kerry will now be known as The Vampire in the Verbal Jazz Glossary.
And they didn't even cover the spread
Verbal Jazz has long thought that polls are most useful in providing jobs to pollsters. Why just as recently as last Thursday a Zogby poll, with a +/- 4.5% margin of error had it mapped out thus:
Kerry 22%
Dean 21%
Gephardt 21%
Edwards 17%
Then all the others.
The real results went as follows:
Kerry 38% (+16%)
Edwards 32% (+15%)
Dean 18% (-3%)
Gephardt 11% (-10%)
All the others
With such a swing (only Dean was within the margin, and not in the way he would have liked), we can safely say that the margin of error in polling should be increased to +/- 25% just to cover the spread. Whoops, sorry: Verbal Jazz is still giddy about the Pats in the Super Bowl.
Wheels coming off the bus?
The Anointed loses and explodes like Mount Vesuvius trying to stick it to those Pompeians. (Please allow Verbal Jazz one extended analogy). To put it bluntly, the Anointed looked like a frothy lunatic as he finished Iowa 3 points behind his Zogby poll numbers and lost what was once a commanding lead. To use a sports analogy, the Anointed is folding like the 1979 Red Sox (they blew a thirteen game lead to the Evil Empire).
Time to take a bow
The Labor Pain will reportedly drop out of the race after getting only 11% of the vote in Iowa, a state he desperately needed in order to give the illusion that he could win other states beside Missouri. Well, gee whiz golly shucks, he'll be missed by Verbal Jazz.
Forward Mo
The Vampire and Dorian Gray have Forward Mo going into New Hampshire. The Anointed is taking a bathroom break (a la Verbal Jazz in the Disney Marathon). Another bathroom break for the Anointed, and well, he may never find his stride again.
Now Iowa returns to obscurity for another four years.
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It seems like just last year John Kerry had been all but left for dead, pleading for some street cred by invoking the F-Word in a Rolling Stone interview. Now he returns, like a vampire (not quite dead, you see) sucking the blood out of the Dean campaign and goes on to win the Iowa Coffee Klatch, er Caucuses with a whopping 38% of the vote. For those looking for a sports analogy: Kerry is batting .380 in the state of Iowa and now has forward mo: Forward Momentum. From here on out, Kerry will now be known as The Vampire in the Verbal Jazz Glossary.
And they didn't even cover the spread
Verbal Jazz has long thought that polls are most useful in providing jobs to pollsters. Why just as recently as last Thursday a Zogby poll, with a +/- 4.5% margin of error had it mapped out thus:
Kerry 22%
Dean 21%
Gephardt 21%
Edwards 17%
Then all the others.
The real results went as follows:
Kerry 38% (+16%)
Edwards 32% (+15%)
Dean 18% (-3%)
Gephardt 11% (-10%)
All the others
With such a swing (only Dean was within the margin, and not in the way he would have liked), we can safely say that the margin of error in polling should be increased to +/- 25% just to cover the spread. Whoops, sorry: Verbal Jazz is still giddy about the Pats in the Super Bowl.
Wheels coming off the bus?
The Anointed loses and explodes like Mount Vesuvius trying to stick it to those Pompeians. (Please allow Verbal Jazz one extended analogy). To put it bluntly, the Anointed looked like a frothy lunatic as he finished Iowa 3 points behind his Zogby poll numbers and lost what was once a commanding lead. To use a sports analogy, the Anointed is folding like the 1979 Red Sox (they blew a thirteen game lead to the Evil Empire).
Time to take a bow
The Labor Pain will reportedly drop out of the race after getting only 11% of the vote in Iowa, a state he desperately needed in order to give the illusion that he could win other states beside Missouri. Well, gee whiz golly shucks, he'll be missed by Verbal Jazz.
Forward Mo
The Vampire and Dorian Gray have Forward Mo going into New Hampshire. The Anointed is taking a bathroom break (a la Verbal Jazz in the Disney Marathon). Another bathroom break for the Anointed, and well, he may never find his stride again.
Now Iowa returns to obscurity for another four years.
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