Free Republic Puts Faith in AOL

I like to look at the enemy’s websites, especially in these glorious final hours before Obama wins his landslide victory over the hilariously incompetent McCain/Palin campaign.

And what do I see over at Free Republic, but reporting on an AOL online poll that shows Obama and McCain tied:

America Online Poll Mccain 49% Obama 49% - ~286,000 Sampled
Monday, November 03, 2008 7:27:02 PM · by jzlouis · 2 replies

Check out this America Online Poll. This poll is obviously not scientific but it is an enormous sample. The results are uplifting. Maybe I’m making a false assumption but I would guess these polls represent a broad cross section that skews toward younger voters. If thats true then Mccain is doing pretty well. Be sure to cast your own vote.

And one of the replies:

I find this very encouraging. Would think youthful Obama-tilting population. Thanks for posting.

How out-of-touch with American society does someone have to be to assume that AOL means skewed to younger voters? Isn’t AOL pretty much senior citizens who don’t know anything about the Internet, which explains why they’re using AOL?

And finding a single—extremely unscientific—poll that shows the two candidates tied means that McCain (oops, Mccain [sic]) is doing “pretty well?” That’s just reaching for any small hint of positive news in the final day of McCain’s horrible, horrible campaign.

It feels so good to be on this end of an election, for the first time in a long, long, long time.

And if you’re feeling really brave, you can try reading some of the comments on that poll. You get AOL gems like this:

all your talk about lying, sounds like what obamas doing.
it doesnt matter if the govt lies because in the end its still my govt. they are the ones providing our way of life.
all you guys are doing is biting the hand that feeds you, like a cancer eating away at the host destroying america from the inside out.
this is a visible socialist marxist movement, i stand for the real america and real americans. mccain/palin

Yeah.