I agree, this is a very bad idea.
People DO believe those online polls, and 19 days before the election is NOT the time to try to educate them.
So freep those online polls! Vote your true views, not a lie.
My view: Kerry handily "won" the first debate, though Bush was truer to the mark on the facts. In the Veep debate, Cheney beat Edwards thoroughly, even though Gwen Ifill was trying very hard to help Edwards. Kerry narrowly won the second debate, though Bush did better that time. Bush finally won one in the third debate, and he did so very convincingly, IMO.
-Dave
We're better off exposing the polls for the useless junk that they are - but only if we can really *expose* them. Just running them up to 184% Kerry isn't enough.
Remember, we're dealing with a MSM that *willingly manufactures phony documents* - you think for a second that they won't just adjust the poll numbers to anywhere they want them? If they get numbers excessively skewed toward Kerry, they'll reduce the numbers to something more believable.
In order to pull the plug on them, we'll have to forcibly expose the fact that the polls are being hammered by 'bots.
We could probably get some help exposing it, from our friends in the new media.
We've been artificially skewing polls by hand for years. Now the Demonrats have automated the process. Either way, the fact is that the polls are meaningless and useless and that anyone in the media who uses them to support either side of any issue is acting irresponsibly. That is just a *fact*, and we need to occupy the high ground and start hammering that *fact* down their throats. (or pounding it somewhere else... pick an orifice...).
The American people do not like to be fooled and used and manipulated and we need to occupy the high ground on this *immediately* and *destroy* this idiotic online polling stupidity *completely* and once and for all. There is NO way to make it meaningful in the cyber age, and it just needs to be discredited and wiped out - and now is the time, while there is a critical election at stake.