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....
Haven't voted in one yet ain't about to start now !
Makes sense to me. This is good strategery.
Not to mention,what would stop some of the DUmmies from reading this and voting for the President just enough to make it look legitimate?
Good idea!
You know what that is a good idea.
thx 4 the ping
anti poll bump
You know me. Don't do polls anyway.
Thanx.
And .. this will give the dems a false sense of security. I like that!!
The secret is to get this information out to the public.
Heck, I don't even think Saddam won by that margin!
DUh is down hard, it looks like.
I hope so. It just seems counterproductive to try to compete with what the dems are mindlessly doing. Particularly when we can't even see a change in the polls regardless of how much we attempt to change them. Something is skewed. I would rather not participate with that farce at all.
You are welcome.
Thanks.
;)
What makes you think the lefties won't realize the same thing and adjust the results accordingly anyway?
We will just have to work harder than the lefties.
No, I meant the lefties running the polls. If they decide they want 56%-44% Kerry, what's to stop them from ignoring the actual vote totals and announcing their vision as historical truth? No one on the outside would be able to tell the difference.
And another thing I've always wondered, particularly at election time: Is "taking a poll" the same thing as "getting the shaft"? ;-)
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