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SPIN THOSE POLLS! SPIN THOSE POLLS! (Do not vote in any of the online polls tonight)
Kerry Spot ^ | Jim Geraghty

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....


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: polls; shishkabob; skew; skewer
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To: vmivol00; Howlin; Timesink; Mr. Silverback; Utah Girl; hosepipe; backhoe; FITZ; Happy2BMe; ...

Haven't voted in one yet ain't about to start now !


181 posted on 10/13/2004 5:28:57 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Want to know why I don't vote Democrat?" http://www.museumofleftwinglunacy.com)
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To: vmivol00

Excellent Idea...
Bump!

182 posted on 10/13/2004 5:40:54 PM PDT by Agitate (littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog -Jihadwatch.org -Protestwarrior.com -Congress.org -ACLJ.org)
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To: vmivol00

Makes sense to me. This is good strategery.


183 posted on 10/13/2004 5:42:41 PM PDT by kcar (theUNsucks.com)
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To: goldfinch

Not to mention,what would stop some of the DUmmies from reading this and voting for the President just enough to make it look legitimate?


184 posted on 10/13/2004 5:44:13 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: MistyCA

Good idea!


185 posted on 10/13/2004 5:55:42 PM PDT by The Mayor (The Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.)
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To: vmivol00

You know what that is a good idea.


186 posted on 10/13/2004 6:02:39 PM PDT by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: MistyCA

thx 4 the ping


187 posted on 10/13/2004 6:03:27 PM PDT by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: MistyCA

anti poll bump


188 posted on 10/13/2004 6:26:24 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: MistyCA

You know me. Don't do polls anyway.

Thanx.


189 posted on 10/13/2004 6:26:43 PM PDT by wizr (President Bush has several plans, and they are already working.)
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To: vmivol00

And .. this will give the dems a false sense of security. I like that!!

The secret is to get this information out to the public.


190 posted on 10/13/2004 6:33:01 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Election 2004: This election is for the SOUL OF AMERICA)
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To: vmivol00
...let the polls show ridiculous numbers that Kerry won 99% to 1%

Heck, I don't even think Saddam won by that margin!

191 posted on 10/13/2004 7:44:15 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (...and Freedom tastes of Reality)
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To: vmivol00

DUh is down hard, it looks like.


192 posted on 10/13/2004 7:45:27 PM PDT by smonk
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To: The Mayor

I hope so. It just seems counterproductive to try to compete with what the dems are mindlessly doing. Particularly when we can't even see a change in the polls regardless of how much we attempt to change them. Something is skewed. I would rather not participate with that farce at all.


193 posted on 10/13/2004 8:22:20 PM PDT by MistyCA
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To: Tempest

You are welcome.


194 posted on 10/13/2004 8:23:01 PM PDT by MistyCA
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To: dalebert

Thanks.


195 posted on 10/13/2004 8:23:23 PM PDT by MistyCA
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To: wizr

;)


196 posted on 10/13/2004 8:23:48 PM PDT by MistyCA
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To: vmivol00

What makes you think the lefties won't realize the same thing and adjust the results accordingly anyway?


197 posted on 10/13/2004 8:33:24 PM PDT by Still Thinking
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To: Still Thinking

We will just have to work harder than the lefties.


198 posted on 10/13/2004 8:35:18 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: dalebert

No, I meant the lefties running the polls. If they decide they want 56%-44% Kerry, what's to stop them from ignoring the actual vote totals and announcing their vision as historical truth? No one on the outside would be able to tell the difference.


199 posted on 10/13/2004 8:39:30 PM PDT by Still Thinking
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To: dalebert

And another thing I've always wondered, particularly at election time: Is "taking a poll" the same thing as "getting the shaft"? ;-)


200 posted on 10/13/2004 8:41:41 PM PDT by Still Thinking
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