FREEP this Poll

nbc news ^ | 10-08-04 | arthurus

[arthurus]

This poll needs FREEPING Now!!

[ash-housewares]

Good point... why even vote on these self-selected polls? It's funnier when the gullible press reports, "Kerry won by 99.3% in this online poll"

Just now checking CBS, CNN, and NBC's polls, they all had hilariously skewed results for Johnny. On the CBS poll I voted "draw" just for the hell of it, and I seem to be the first person to have done so (it showed that choice in the 0.35 percentile)

[TheEnigma47]

I followed the link to MSNBC's site to vote, lo and behold, their page told me I'd ALREADY voted. Funny, I'd NEVER been to that page BEFORE. Sounds a bit FISHY to me - especially with the figures showing kerry won by 75% to 25%

[cricket]

Could not find the poll. . .figured I would have to hit a Kerry ad to get or something.

BTW. . .great webpage;Kerry promos all over it. . .of course, one is too many. Disgusting; just wanted outta there!

[LunaticSVT]

OH and to further the scandal. heh. Follow the links from the DU's own website. So that the online polls log that you came from their website further skewing the reality.

Link to the DU site where they have the list of all polls. Hope I can put this link. If not mods/admin please remove it. Hope it is not in violation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1006413&mesg_id=1006413

I say vote Kerry on all of them and make the Rats look as bad as they really are. An idea is to get a tabbed browser and just click to open in new tab and let them all take there time to load. Go have a coffee come back and just start pinging them as pro Kerry and skew the results.

And to all doubters again. I am not some freak from DU that is infiltrating this site.

[ash-housewares]

Nah, I actually like this idea (and using the DU links will have to catch someone's attention).

It's fun impersonating an underground Democrat... if not for the annoying Javascript pop-ups I'd probably go click Kedwards on all of those right now

[ash-housewares]

Hmmm... on 2nd thought, if it's a Javascript window for the poll, then it won't keep the HTTP referrer, will it?

Perhaps I'll just click on all those links (coming from DU) and not bother with submitting a vote

[LunaticSVT]

Actually. The site will capture the incoming link on the logs. It is referred to as the referring site in most website logs. Some of the links take you to direct pages with the voting on it and it will be shown in the site logs where the traffic is coming from.

I am all for skewing the vote and making a point. :)