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FREEP: AOL Presidental Election Straw Pole - BUSH ROCKING!
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Posted on 08/10/2004 10:36:47 AM PDT by ImProudToBeAnAmerican

AOL home page Presidental Election Straw Pole
If the election as held today, who would you vote for today?
Bush, Kerry or Nader?

Individiual Votes and electoral votes by state.

BUSH - 55% versus sKERRY 44% and NADER 1%

BUSH - 352 electoral votes versus sKERRY 186.

As 352 is greater than 270 - can you spell landslide?


TOPICS: Announcements; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; aol; bush; election; kerry; landslide; polls
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

bush is 1 VOTE behind in new mexico, someone get in there and sway it a little more! =P


21 posted on 08/10/2004 10:51:50 AM PDT by Zeppelin
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To: Americanwolf
NO WORRIES!

It's nice to glean something positive out of all the commie/pinko/traitorous fume blasted upon us by the lamestream press.

PS: AOL sucks dead badger!

22 posted on 08/10/2004 10:54:29 AM PDT by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (Bill raped, Monica swallowed, Hillary totally sucks.)
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To: marvlus

It's an online poll, but presumably AOL has good control over vote "fraud". What remains, however, is any bias between the online community and RL likely voters.


23 posted on 08/10/2004 10:56:09 AM PDT by Paul_B
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
can you spell landslide?

Sure.
Can you spell "poll"?

24 posted on 08/10/2004 10:57:22 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Paul_B
but presumably AOL has good control over vote "fraud".

It's still completely worthless.

25 posted on 08/10/2004 10:58:32 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
I just logged on under my screen name and voted... not that Georgia is going to be any other color than blue
 
I am shocked that New Jersey is blue, that I didnt expect to see

26 posted on 08/10/2004 11:00:39 AM PDT by backinthefold (President Kerry.... If that thought doesn't send you shivering to the corner, what will??)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
Do you know if they have it set up so that you can only vote once?
27 posted on 08/10/2004 11:04:18 AM PDT by Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok (DNC- "We have made a clone. We shall call him Minnie Dukakis")
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To: Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok

We can hope this is accurate but I doubt it. However, the AOL polls for months have been pro Kerry. The sudden shift is surprising. A few weeks ago AOL had Kerry up by a large margin, and ahead even in states that NEVER go Dem, like KS and Nebraska. So I don't put much faith in this. But we can hope. :)


28 posted on 08/10/2004 11:12:02 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Darkwolf377

Internet polls are not reliable, because they measure the opinions of people who have internet access, not the entire population.


29 posted on 08/10/2004 11:24:24 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: cspackler
What is AOL? ;)

I think it stands for "Anachronistic On-line Legacy"

30 posted on 08/10/2004 11:31:35 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

When I go to the site, I get the message "your flash is not 6.0 or higher, you need to upgrage." Actually I have Flash Pro 7.2 installed. Anybody have an idea what's up?


32 posted on 08/10/2004 11:36:23 AM PDT by Positive (There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/


33 posted on 08/10/2004 11:38:07 AM PDT by scott0347 (Commander of the 0347th Lancer Brigade, Operator of the Immaculate Steamroller)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

Kerry is up by one vote in NM and six votes in his home state of MA.

Any NM or MA freepers out there?


34 posted on 08/10/2004 11:44:47 AM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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To: Onelifetogive

also known as the internet with training wheels


35 posted on 08/10/2004 11:46:32 AM PDT by snuffy smiff
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To: Positive

That's AOL for ya.


36 posted on 08/10/2004 11:46:32 AM PDT by HouTom
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

No it's not. Aol always skews Republican. I don't know why. They used to not.


37 posted on 08/10/2004 11:47:17 AM PDT by Hildy (John Edwards is to Dick Cheney what Potsie was to the Fonz.)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
 
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38 posted on 08/10/2004 11:49:53 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Get in the fight today: Freepmail me to get on your state's KerryTrack Ping list!)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
Accurate? I doubt it. there's just too many states on there that I know are solid blue, that are red on this map, HI for instance.

But will Dubya win in November, and will the media be scratching their heads as to why? Yep. This will break our way in the last few weeks (especially if we work for it) and the popular vote will be by 4-5 points, but the electoral college will be a landslide.

39 posted on 08/10/2004 11:53:55 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Get in the fight today: Freepmail me to get on your state's KerryTrack Ping list!)
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To: lugsoul
I'm guessing you know the differences.

Yes. Let's just take one state (Wisconsin) in 2000 as an example. None of the AOL folks can vote three times as a student at Marquette did. There are no absentee-ballot vote-a-ramas at group homes for the mentally challenged like the one (of many, I'm sure) that the Doyle gubernatorial campaign got caught holding. I doubt the AOL subscibers will sell their votes for cigarettes given out by Dem activists. And if Dubya's winning an AOL state by 1%, he wins it, while in the real world Dubya by one point means there will be a bunch of Dem precinct committeemen spending quality time in locked rooms with voting machines and piles of punchcards.

Plus, no democrat-run bus trips for senile seniors, no dead people voting, no voting early and often, no cheating of any kind, the AOL demographic is still younger despite the aging of the internet user, and there are fewer blacks and poor people in general using AOL. And people who access the net through their library, school or college aren't going to be able to vote on AOL, and probably lean liberal, and many people who can vote on AOL are probably under 18 or otherwise ineligible, as in not a citizen, etc.

That said...

1. We can't trust any of the info on this poll (except for one thing, see item 4)

2. This is probably more accurate in any case than half the phone polls Rassmussen, Zogby, etc. are doing.

3. I hope that this is accurate, because that means Bush is only down 2 points in Illinois, and that means we're in play.

4. The one fact we can take to the bank from this is the big picture result: Dubya will win. I can't see anything that would skew the AOL sample so badly that it would show the future loser routing his opponent 352-186. Work hard, but be confident.

40 posted on 08/10/2004 12:17:19 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Don't miss your chance to be a goon: Freepmail me to get on your state's KerryTrack Ping list!)
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