How odd? I voted after your post and the poll is only showing 1,881 total votes? Some scrubbing going on behind the scenes? Do they block referring address (i.e. FreeRepublic.com) addresses?
I noticed that too- I don’t know exactly how those polls work, but I’ve seen that before. I think that maybe they update the totals in batches or something like that. But I have seen some that update immediately.