Rasmussen: McCrory ahead

That was a joke. Anyway, freedom of speech means the freedom of other people to sound off on your thoughts, too.

— RTB 

So much for freedom of speech, or the press, huh Beckwith?

I recant that statement..a little to far, I shall give you that. However, seeing as how this is a forum on governmental issues rather than one of personal/political differences, the substance of the post which you failed to recognize or respond to effectively leads me to believe that it did resonate with you in some capacity. I merely desired to incite a credible debate over this issue, originally from the subjective point of view, to try and cut through the usual rhetoric and create objectivity...the kind of which eludes most people who only see and believe what they want too. The underlying theme is that, as we have seen from President Bush through his exploitation of God-fearing Christians to rise to power, there no longer is a separation between Church and State - which is the basic premise or foundation of the U.S...and any further crossover is the greatest threat to our individual liberties. I just hope you will offer a critical analysis of everything next time to refute my arguments, rather than trying to sidestep the post and make me look stupid because you don't know the real facts - and somehow that makes me a moron and on drugs because of your ignorance.

Do you propose a minimum or a maximum?

— RTB 

The "Rasmussen Reports," throughout the years, has rightfully garnered national respect as an impartial and unbiased media source. However, Mr. Scott Rasmussen - and his company's credibility - should be under fire, and the proverbial microscope, for their blatant and unscrupulous poll which glorifies the pompous Mayor of Charlotte, and ignores the three G.O.P. candidates whom, apparently, are irrelevant. The basic principal of statistical inference is to ignore the outlier (or nonessential variable - whom in this case is Mayor McCrory, since he isn't even in the race) and to mathematically find the best linear fit which offers a scientific and accurate prediction based on the results of a random sample of eligible voters. The skewed nature of this poll, which discounts the hard work of the Honorable Justice Orr, State Senator Smith, and Mr. Graham, is not only an insult to their hard work, but the democratic process. The lone reason these three fine gentleman would be ignored, or caste aside with such insult, would be to foster an illegitimate and unethical exercise of biasness that only serves to reinforce some connection between the two parties that only benefits Mr. McCrory, and whatever business interests he is a slave too. This man has already sold out his own potential constituency, and from the viable biographical info. that is readily available to any internet user, it seems that Mr. Rasmussen and Mr. McCrory share a rather dangerous mix of religion and state that would undermine the basic principles of effective government.

RTB,

Can we have mandatory drug tests before people are allowed to post?

"it seems that Mr. Rasmussen and Mr. McCrory are such diehard Evangelical Christians, that if the Mayor from Charlotte were to win, North Carolina would become the equivalent of Iran - religion and state would coexist and be the law of the land, yet who knows in what tyrannical capacity."