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Internet polls measure the ratio of people who have enough interest to participate in the given poll.  PBS.org has put up an Internet poll with the responses noted above.   You can see that the poll is getting hammered by second amendment supporters.   The message, loud and clear, is that of people who are interested enough to answer the poll, second amendment supporters outnumber disarmists by  24 to 1.   This is one of largest differentials that I have seen in second amendment related Internet polls.  A couple of weeks ago, we had one in Florida that was 15 to 1. ...

The weekly online polls on “NOW on PBS” usually fetch votes in the thousands. But a poll asking if Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president touched a nerve - and drew tens of millions of votes. And in the end, the hardest questions were being asked of “NOW on PBS” - a newsmagazine show on the public broadcasting network. The Palin poll was posted earlier this month during the Republican National Convention after John McCain announced the Alaska governor as his running mate. After the poll sparked intense lobbying by blogs on the left and the right, “NOW...