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Translation: We didn't get the results we wanted from our lying phony poll because we put it on the World Wide Web where conservatives can vote on it so we spiked the results.
1 posted on 09/18/2004 6:15:04 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Freeping online polls is a perfectly valid activity

WORD

2 posted on 09/18/2004 6:16:18 AM PDT by Drango (PJs? Never. FReep in the "Buff")
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To: kristinn

I haven't had so much fun watching and reading the news in quite some time as this past week.


3 posted on 09/18/2004 6:19:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: kristinn

Dont they put polls online to get opinions? Is not a Freepers opinion worth getting?

We have all known for years that the way to get the answer you want in a poll is to word it correctly or to have that poll in a place where the answers will suit you. When you go online with a poll you ask the opinions of the world we who come to Free Republic are a part of that world.


4 posted on 09/18/2004 6:19:53 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: kristinn

From the essay: "Free Republic and the New Media":

...From our makeup, we are Americans: Conservative Americans. Americans united in one common goal: We won’t stop till the mission is complete. For we are the new media. We are the new truth in America. We are the amateurs that have rocked the status quo. These merry bands of amateurs, known as Freepers, have shown their expertise at exposing the truth. This forum called Free Republic will supercede the admonishment of the liberal media and conquer all those that oppose us. After all, we are the best in the world. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Free Republic is made up of some of the finest minds I’ll ever know.” And for that, I am forever grateful for their expertise. I am forever grateful for this new media.


6 posted on 09/18/2004 6:23:09 AM PDT by writer33 (Try this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml)
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Why don't they do a Dan Rather? There's no law of physics that says that the published results of an on-line poll have to reflect the actual votes cast (kinda like a Chicago Democratic precinct.) Determine the results first, let people pretend to vote and publish the facts that you "know" to be true, despite any evidence.


7 posted on 09/18/2004 6:24:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Islam: Men defend most violently, not what they know to be true, but what they fear may be false.)
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To: kristinn

Po-or Babies!

...got their feelings hurt, did they? Welcome to the real world, jugheads.


9 posted on 09/18/2004 6:31:38 AM PDT by wrbones (Where'd I put my tin foil hat....)
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To: kristinn

One person, one vote. What's the problem? Pure democracy at its finest.


10 posted on 09/18/2004 6:33:34 AM PDT by schaketo
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"That's what the Free Republic Web site calls it when its fans jam a poll to mess up the results."

We FREEP online polls to show how worthless they are. If there's anything disingenuous, its using unscientific polling and then complaining when their flaws are exposed.

Leftist reporters are so stupid. Probably double majored in Femininst Theory and Environmentalism.


11 posted on 09/18/2004 6:34:21 AM PDT by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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This is RICH.

I looked, but didn't see a new poll to FReep.
LOL-LOL-LOL!


12 posted on 09/18/2004 6:34:53 AM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry deserves to be the last casualty of the Vietnam War.)
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The results haven't been tallied because the poll was hijacked. Or "Freeped."

Hey, it's what we do. Offer to pass out free beer at the Walmart and we will be there, too.

13 posted on 09/18/2004 6:34:58 AM PDT by Casloy
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Monterey--They make a pretty good cheese.


14 posted on 09/18/2004 6:41:33 AM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: kristinn

FReeping: The perfect antidote to DUmbing down.


16 posted on 09/18/2004 6:50:19 AM PDT by moonhawk (NYT headline, 11/03/04: KERRY WINS SILVER!)
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Kewl! I guess it would have been nice if they would have put in a link to FreeRepublic, but all in all a nice article about us.


17 posted on 09/18/2004 6:54:21 AM PDT by Wissa
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Inverse Corrolary...had the DU mobilized and the poll been "DUped", the results would have been fair and accurate.


18 posted on 09/18/2004 7:03:57 AM PDT by steve in DC
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To: kristinn

Or:
We didn't get the numbers we wanted so we'll blame it on the Freepers.
..or on the VRC.
..or George Bush.
Anything but admit that they might have actually gotten acurate numbers (could happen!) and they are just having trouble dealing with.. THE TRUTH!!!

Whine whine whine.


20 posted on 09/18/2004 7:30:10 AM PDT by cavtrooper21 ("Why walk when you can RIDE!!" The "real" Cavalry motto.........)
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---The results haven't been tallied because the poll was hijacked.---

How do we know the poll was "hijacked" if they don't tally the results? Are they trying to pull a Rather on us?


21 posted on 09/18/2004 11:25:03 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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Professor Toro, I wrote that the Herald is a "small local left wing Northern California newspaper." Let's decontruct that statement ok.
small: every day I trudge out and pick up the Herald, San Jose Mercury News and Wall Street Journal. Without exception the Herald is the lightest load.

local: most of my neighbors get the Herald. Most of them also take the Mercury News or the San Francisco Chronicle. People in San Jose and San Francisco are not taking the Herald.

Many of us jokingly refer to the Herald as "Mercury News Lite" as a goodly percentage of Mercury News articles show up in the Herald 2-3 days later - trimmed for size. Knight Ridder must save a lot of money on editorial staff at the Herald by running all thise editorials from their other papers.

Yes, you are the epitome of local. Mostly good for movie schedules now that L. M. Boyd has retired. In fact, if it weren't for John Pisto on Wednesdays I'd drop it.

Left wing: well if you compare yourselves to Coast Weekly you're the ghost of Joe McCarthy but on an absolute scale you are totally left-wing, liberal, socialist, whatever term you want. I don't blame you, that's you're audience. Monterey gave Sam Farr 65% of the vote in the last election and he's as bad as they come. He has a UN flag prominently displayed behind his office desk in Washington and a US flag hidden somewhere in a corner. He can't even bring home the pork. Why did construction crews come down from Alaska to demolish old Army buildings a Fort Ord?

Northern California: aahhh. That's where I screwed up Professor. Folks here turn up their noses at "Northern California" After all, you're "Central Coast". Can't lump you in with San Jose can we? After all they only send the tourists.

So I retract my description in favor of the more accurate ""small local left wing California Central Coast newspaper."


22 posted on 09/18/2004 12:00:05 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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So no other group does this to on-line polls? My guess is that it all evens out. But if they want a scientific result, then they should avoid these on-line entertainment polls. That's all they are.


23 posted on 09/18/2004 12:08:54 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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