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....
Let's not participate in online polls BUMP!
Yeah, I noticed that DUh tends to do what we do.
They remind me of that annoying copycat jerk from kindergarten that jut begged for a building block upside the head..
Run this again under Announcements? Big Caps?
Just a thought! Change the title a bit and make yourself the author with a link.
Absolutely. Do not vote in them. Let the dems push the numbers to incredulous percentages.
It is not going to backfire. If a polster calls you on the phone then of course take the poll. Do not do any online polls though.
Ready?
All of them.
Bump for no voting in the polls tonight!
It's true.
I got a post in return from the editor of the Wausau (Wi) Daily-Herald, dissing me for requesting a Freep of their on-line Presidential debate poll.
Not playing the online polls here. Waiting for Nov.2.
Never cared for playing games with cheaters anyways. Grew up in a big family of Democrats...in the stealing votes, dead people vote capital of the world.
GOOD GOD, Thats a lot of spin cycles...is that a Democratic washing machine or what?
How about http://www.AllOfThem.com?
It's become pointless.
It is clear that some DU-types have hacked the on-line polls and it really isn't the Right way to do the same. The numbers don't make any sense.
Maybe we should vote the other way. Mrs. & Mrs. Idaho will pretty much dismiss any poll that says Lurch won by 88%
BTTT!!!!!
SUPPOSE YOU GAVE A PARTY AND nobody came? SUPPOSE THEY GAVE A POLL AND nobody voted! ;)
bump
I think so!
LOL!
It'd be even worse if some of us ASSISTED the polls itno being one sided.. skewed them to the point of being obviously skewed.
But no-one I know would be able to do that and be able to live with themselves afterwards.
So it's better off merely not touching them and hoping that DU's votebot does it's insane little programming.
(They have a bot program that votes on online polls.. how ironic.)
I think we should all vote Democratic in the polls
Absolutely right. Don't go near these things.
yep, got my sites set on Nov.2nd........silence is golden!
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