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SPIN THOSE POLLS! SPIN THOSE POLLS! (Do not vote in any of the online polls tonight)
Kerry Spot ^ | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 10/13/2004 12:14:04 PM PDT by vmivol00

SPIN THOSE POLLS! SPIN THOSE POLLS! [10/13 02:50 PM]

UPI reports on the efforts to spin online polls and mass-mailed letters to the editor.

President George W. Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry will walk across the stage Wednesday night and greet each other at the beginning of the third and final presidential debate. Already, across the country, e-mail messages are arriving in newsroom inboxes declaring a winner. A new form of spam is emerging this fall, called debate-spin spam, experts told UPI's The Web. The veracity of the e-mail messages being sent as letters to the editor is coming into question, as are the timing and content of many of the messages, because a significant percentage is being generated by bots, or intelligent software agents.

Which reminds me, it's time for the Pajamahadeen to continue our jujitsu operations. We had some success recently, but I think it's time to set our sights higher.

As usual, the instant online polls of news organizations, that the DNC is steering its members to here, will be less valuable and useful if the result is so stunningly skewed that no one believes it. So a poll that shows Kerry won 99 percent to 1 percent is less useful to the DNC than one that shows Kerry won 70 percent to 30 percent....


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: polls; shishkabob; skew; skewer
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Lets let the polls show ridiculous numbers that Kerry won 99% to 1%. People will see through this completely.
1 posted on 10/13/2004 12:14:04 PM PDT by vmivol00
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To: vmivol00

I agree.


2 posted on 10/13/2004 12:14:56 PM PDT by BoBToMatoE
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To: vmivol00

I'm so disheartened that Kerry won the 3rd debate by 98%.


3 posted on 10/13/2004 12:15:41 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Visualize Smaller Government)
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To: vmivol00; All

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4 posted on 10/13/2004 12:16:09 PM PDT by olde north church (I would have supported Henry Waxman's mother's right to an abortion.)
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To: vmivol00

I agree - don't shoot til election day ..


5 posted on 10/13/2004 12:16:35 PM PDT by 11th_VA (John Kerry - America's first European ruler since King George)
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To: vmivol00

I don't even believe that the DNC activists are that good. They have computers running up most of the polls.


6 posted on 10/13/2004 12:16:41 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: vmivol00

This is a good plan and soooo much easier.... let the demwits work themselves into a frenzy for nothing...


7 posted on 10/13/2004 12:16:56 PM PDT by jagfar
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To: vmivol00

The best way to do this is to hold your nose and vote for Kerry in the online polls. Let's see just how skewed we can get them... ;-)


8 posted on 10/13/2004 12:17:00 PM PDT by pcgTheDestroyer
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To: vmivol00
People will see through this completely.

I'd like to think that, but Kerry got trounced in the 2nd debate and all this week I've been hearing about how it was a big win for Kerry.

I always thought people could see through Clinton and Perot too.

9 posted on 10/13/2004 12:17:09 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Visualize Smaller Government)
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To: vmivol00; MistyCA

Bump!


10 posted on 10/13/2004 12:17:24 PM PDT by need_a_screen_name
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To: vmivol00

AGREE!


11 posted on 10/13/2004 12:17:30 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: vmivol00

I agree, plus I've just got better things to do with my time, like come here and critique Bush and Kerry, or yell at the talking heads on TV, or read more Unfit for Command, or just go to bed.


12 posted on 10/13/2004 12:17:48 PM PDT by eyespysomething (Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.)
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To: jagfar
This is a good plan and soooo much easier....

Maybe somebody could post a list of the polls we're supposed to ignore.

13 posted on 10/13/2004 12:17:57 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Visualize Smaller Government)
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To: vmivol00

Well, they didn't see through the 70-30%..they(Chrissy) reported it gleefully to his rat audience and they were all orgasmic...


14 posted on 10/13/2004 12:18:13 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Why don't they make toilet paper in colors anymore?)
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To: vmivol00

A very creative plan. Love it. I'm in.


16 posted on 10/13/2004 12:18:24 PM PDT by Serb5150 (Look at me! I don't need subtitles!)
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To: vmivol00

Got it :-)


17 posted on 10/13/2004 12:18:24 PM PDT by RedRepublic
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To: Question Liberal Authority

It's just completely ridiculous. The looney left manipulated online polls, then used them as evidence of a kerry win. Even worse is the MSM using their own obviously faulty web polls as some sort of proof.

The world has gone insane around me.


18 posted on 10/13/2004 12:18:49 PM PDT by kenth ("Master will heal you. Master good." - John "Renfield" Edwards)
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To: vmivol00

Yup! good thought


19 posted on 10/13/2004 12:19:06 PM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: vmivol00
YOU have my only vote then ;-)

LET'S ROLL!

20 posted on 10/13/2004 12:19:16 PM PDT by NordP (We're Mad As Zell, and We're Not Going To Take Your Liberalism Anymore!)
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