It's seemed for a while now that some of the Conservatives in the U.S. live in a parallel universe with some significant differences from our own. You know the universe I'm talking about: where climate change is a hoax, the planet is only a few thousand years old, lowering taxes on the rich magically improves the situations of everyone, and evolution's still - at best - a crazy theory that could never be proved.
Well, in the aftermath of this week's election results, we can add another line item to that list of differences: the reliability of polls in predicting outcomes, and by extension, how math works. Romney was apparently shocked by what happened as the election returns came in. Why, when it had been so clearly forecast by a multitude of polling-aggregators? Well, as an article at Huffington Post puts it:
'[T]he campaign was unprepared for this in part because it had ignored
polling that showed the races favoring Obama. Instead, it turned to its
own internal "unskewed" polls, which it believed more accurately
reflected the situation on the ground. They didn't.'
That's what life must be increasingly like for those folks. They know, to their very core, all kinds of things that just keep turning out not to be true. That's pretty rough, but I find it hard to feel sorry for them.
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