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Especially CNN.com polls - we had such an experience yesterday with the Blitzer poll

Created: Fri Jul 11 07:04:40 EST 2003

Has the president's case for the war in Iraq been damaged by questions about pre-war intelligence on WMD?
Yes	58%	36300 votes
No	42%	26268 votes
Total: 62568 votes

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The DUh crowd love to reverse-freep Blitzer polls, because almost nobody votes in them (maybe a couple thousand votes total), and he announces the results at the end of every broadcast. So two or three of them, probably the only ones over there with the technical know-how, set up their little voting bots to spam CNN's poll server over and over hundreds of times, until they achieve the desired far-left result. Then Blitzer dutifully reads said far-left result on the air, and the DUh-ers delude themselves a little more into thinking they're about to topple Bush in Watergate II.

It's quite funny really. The Blitzer polls are always mirror images of what scientific polls say on every question you could ever think of. The CNN people have to know they're getting scammed, but they let it go anyway. And to the DUh-ers, it's a like a drug; they're addicted to seeing their beliefs aired somewhere, ANYWHERE, even if under totally false pretenses.