Posted on 10/13/2004 11:20:33 AM PDT by Scott Mahrle
Terry McAuliffe was kind enough to send me the list of on-line polls to Freep after the debate tonight in the email below. Make sure you hit them all!
Dear Scott Mahrle,
We need your help one last time. So far the debates have been two clear wins for John Kerry. And your actions after the debate have been absolutely crucial in keeping the Republican spin machine in check.
Tonight is the final debate between John Kerry and George W. Bush, the one where the post-debate spin will solidify and last until Election Day. If you have not taken action before, now is the time to do it!
There are four critical things you can do to help beat the Republican spin machine after tonight's final debate.
Forward this email to family, coworkers, and friends. Vote in online polls. Write a letter to the editor. Call radio and television stations. Vote in Online Polls National and local news organizations will be conducting online polls during and after the debate asking for readers' opinions. Look for online polls at these news websites, and make sure to vote in every one of them:
CBS: www.cbsnews.com
CNN: www.cnn.com
Fox News: www.foxnews.com
MSNBC: www.msnbc.com
Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
Akron Beacon-Journal: www.ohio.com
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: www.ajc.com
Detroit News: www.detnews.com
Los Angeles Times: www.startribune.com
Orlando Sentinel: www.orlandosentinel.com
Philadelphia Inquirer: www.philly.com
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: www.sun-sentinel.com
And be sure to check the websites of your local newspapers and TV stations for online polls. It is crucial that you do this in the minutes immediately following the debate.
Make sure swing voters know why you support John Kerry by sharing your thoughts on message boards in target states. Visit our 2004 Debate Center after the debate for a list of message boards where you can fight the Republican spin. If you visit chat rooms on AOL, MSN, Yahoo, or other websites, be sure to let people know what you thought of the debate.
Write a Letter to the Editor Immediately after the debate, go online and write a letter to the editor of your local paper. If you feel John Kerry laid out a plan to make America stronger put it in your letter. If you feel George Bush failed to defend his four years of failure, put it in your letter.
Writing a letter is easier than you think. It takes just a few minutes and just a few clicks using our online media center:
http://www.democrats.org/media/
Call Radio and TV Stations TV and radio coverage immediately following the debate is where much of the spin is cemented. Make sure you call radio and TV stations to tell them what you thought.
Find shows in your area on our media website:
http://www.democrats.org/media/find.html
Also... Don't forget to visit our 2004 Debate Center before, during, and after the debate for important information and more ways to take action.
http://www.democrats.org/debates/
Thank you,
Terry McAuliffe Chairman
PS: Make sure to forward this email to at least 10 other people who will be watching the debate. Also, print out copies for your friends, family members, coworkers and neighbors and get them involved.
Agree with you. In fact, think it's a great idea to actually paste the DNC letter from McAwful and mail those to the local papers and just write that we're doing as the DNC asked us to do!
Look at all of the newspapers that received letters and emails before the debate had begun saying that Kerry won?
Going to send it to my local Liberal rag and the SFChronic.
Agree with you. In fact, think it's a great idea to actually paste the DNC letter from McAwful and mail those to the local papers and just write that we're doing as the DNC asked us to do!
Look at all of the newspapers that received letters and emails before the debate had begun saying that Kerry won?
Going to send it to my local Liberal rag and the SFChronic.
Pardon my burp!
Terry is so good. That is why under his leadership the Democratic party has increased its ratio of elected officeholders in the .....nevermind.
I agree, we know and they know that online polls are meaningless,but in this instance they are choosing to give them weight and spin them as evidence of Kerry's "win",and the MSM is in on the act.Remember Prissy Matthews using MSNBC's online poll as "proof" that the public thought that Kerry won. If they're going to point to these polls,as they did last time,we need to be able to point at them also.We have GOT to start beating them at these games,meaningless and irrelevant as they may factually be,because by ignoring them,we're allowing them to make the rules as they go and giving them the game by default.
VOTE FOR KERRY in all these silly online polls.
I am going to write the newspapers now and tell them the DNC told me to tell them Kerry won. What a wonderful idea. I'm lucky I know how to turn on the computer and would have no idea how to make a BOT but I can e-mail all the newspaper columnists and let them know Terry McAwful said that Kerry won.
They already look stupid.
Brit at Fox read some debate comments...then said they were posted before the debate began.
No, vote KERRY. It will undo the credibility of the polls, like last time. The real polls ("Who will you support for president") are reflecting Bush's victory in the last debate. They're phase-shifted about a week back - they reflect events from the previous week.
Sorry, no.
I've been told that it would be very easy to design a program that would allow you to stack the votes on these on line polls, you need access to a proxy server apparently and I seem to recall someone admitting they had done this before, after all isn't this what makes everyone nervous about online polling in real elections.....
are there no computer RNC geeks out there? wouldn't you just love to see old McAwful's face if you had polls 99 per cent Bush to Kerry 1% just for the fun of it, even though you know they will scream a RNC plot or maybe the RNC and DNC hackers would cancel each other out and you'd get close to real poll results, LOL ........
It is the radicals that have the time and know how to create the bot programs that feed the polls in their favor.
The suggestion that we Freep in their favor is probably the best way to combat the problem. IF you are motivated enough to even log on after the debate.
I am hoping NO ONE uses the online polls. By participating in these polls when the Dems have them on auto pilot, it just makes it look like they are ahead! If we don't use the polls the difference will be so obvious that it will look like the dems are skewing them!
And another thing.... :) .....You have to be a complete nutcase to sit there and ping the polls a million times to get it to move. The dems can do that if they want, but we have real work to do. If you want to make a difference...send an email because then at least it has a chance of counting.
JMO...no slight meant to you because we have all been doing this. ;0)
BTW, Terry McAuliffe is a simple minded low life who wouldn't know truth if it slapped him in the face. He still has the forged emails on the DNC website. Let him lead his own people into the monotony of repetitive poll entries. They are like Lemmings.
Listen I could do this, but don't have the time right now. It's not that important. Besides it's not really honest, for which reason I'm rethinking what I said to jmstein7. Let the Rats, who are characterized by dishonesty, have these polls. They don't matter much.
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