Why did Cheney predict 52-47 for Bush?

[Atman]

What if that is the amount the plan to fake the results by? What if, for some bizarre reason, it actually comes out like that. Aren't they opening up themselves up for...

oh, Christ, what am I thinking. I keep forgetting, these guys have no conscience, nor any care whatsoever what anyone thinks of them. Just so they get what they want.

"Fuck off!"

[lancdem]

1. I think it was purely for spin

It's a Rovian tactic - project confidence even when the trends ultimately aren't in your favor.

[NDFan]

2. Boost morale among Bushies. nt

[HFishbine]

3. Ass smoke

nothing more.

Here, I predict Kerry 51.5% and Bush 46.7%. I'm just as informed as Dick, actually more so since I read DU.

[swag]

4. Because their internal polls are showing 52 - 47 for Kerry

and when asked, Cheney picked the numbers that were in his mind (and flipped them).

[dolstein]

5. I think he pushed the limits of reason

Of course he's expected to predict a Bush victory. But even partisans don't think Bush is going to win in a landslide. 52-47 was probably the best numbers he could come up with that still sounded plausible.

[southern democrat]

6. Just Dick taking out of his ass again.

[BurtWorm]

7. Because he knows the results will be 53-46 and he doesn't want

to give it away that it's all been taken care. :tinfoilhat:

[Jacobin]

8. He also said we would be 'greeted as liberators'

that Saddam has WMDs, that Iraq supports al Qaida, that the 'deficit doesn't matter'.....lesse, what else did the doofus say....um, well, you get the drift.

[milkyway]

9. That's what he got when he polled his family.

[BeyondGeography]

11. LOL!

I guess the missing 1% in Dick's calculation represents Mary's vote for Nader.

[Jersey Devil]

10. Bravado - Whistling past the graveyard

Blowing smoke up our asses - add cliche' of your own choosing

[MidwestTransplant]

12. What does he have to loose by predicting a health victory.

[lakeguy]

13. cheney is lying again...

god told bush it will be 52-47 for kerry. when will dicky stop lying to us???

[Stephanjnj]

14. Cheney likes to work in groups of 5's (draft deferments, etc.)

But this time around, rather than being on the correct side of 5, he's on the WRONG side of 5. More correctly his prediction should have been K/E 52% ; B/C 47%.

[tomfodw]

15. Why not?

Who cares what that mean old man says? If he were living in your neighborhood, you'd be warning the kids never to walk on the side of the street next to his property.

[Roland99]

16. He got tired of speaking through his puppet