Hey, Hullo...anybody notice the calender today?

Today, I posted a live link to a live Survey Usa electoral map calculator that I saw that had Obama losing to McCain by 500 electoral votes.

Even though I know the actual numbers, I still did go "oh my" inside when I saw it.

Obviously, those numbers were wrong (as are 98.2 percent of poll numbers imho) and at a glance you could see they were from before the campaign even began. But since the electoral map was still live...and it being April 1, I thought it looked like fun for a prank, hoax and learning lesson all in one.

So I posted the numbers and the link to the SUSA electoral map with no commentary about it whatsoever.

(But I did go on with my friendly pitch for a Unity ticket)

I came back after a spell to see the response to my April fools hoax bit and to fess up and admit to it... and so I wrote that yes, they were old, old  numbers - but because they still made one wonder - if only for a second - that this  was my entire point!!!

My goodness...then the diary was deleted for having "old poll numbers".

REALLY!?

I thought maybe the 60 different candidate head to head match ups at the electoral map I sent people to might have been a clue...huh, ya think, maybe? (for the math challenged, there now are only 2) So no, there is no longer a chance to make the big dough betting on Intrade on how Barbra  Boxer will do competing against Condoleeza Rice this fall for the White House.

But ....the point of the jest was that in the back of our minds...those kind of electoral landslide numbers, 510 to 28.....sound...eh...plausible...

Folks, i's quite simple....

We cant win with a nominee who won't be sure to WIN 2 out of these 3...OH,PA and FL. It Cant be done...

We cant win with a nominee who has NO chance to win in WV, KY, TN, AR...

We cant win with a nominee who may lose NJ. NEW JERSEY!!

The idea that bragging about OR, or high hopes for AK....and maybe, maybe, maybe that VA may go blue ....AINT GONNA DO IT.
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People are FOOLing themselves...especially the type who seemingly cant even get THE joke on April 1.

If THE MEDIA along with red state open voting primaries and caucuses and these kind of math/irony challenged people do get their way, and make him the nominee, the joke will be on all of us and that won't be one bit funny.