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To: Petronski
The Oregon Poll was seen by almost 400 "unique visitors," most of them in support of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. The majority of these people came from these two links on the web.

He didn't specify the precise breakdown. Let's say 200 came from Ron Paul forums, 75 from Stormfront, and 125 from regular internet traffic. 75 nuts, even less if they're technically adept poll-pushers, could be the of this sloppy guilt by association smear.

Basing outrage on stats from 400 unique visitors is stupid stupid stupid stupid.

508 posted on 09/21/2007 11:42:20 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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To: Dumb_Ox; Petronski

I think the issue presented by this news item is simply this: Stormfront and what seems like a sunsidiary thereof, RonPaulforums, have been doing their best to do the equivalent of Freeping polls for Ron Paul. That Paul has inspired the fervent loyalty of Stormfront is noteworthy, I believe, especially since Paul supporters on FR love to cite such results as evidence that Paul is more popular than the 3% ratings he gets in most polls.

On the other hand (and I doubt this is wht the thread or Petronski were TRYING to say), this insignificantly tiny datapoint hardly is evidence that anyone who supports Paul is likely to be a member of Stormfront or any other such organization, or that Paul has in any way condoned or solicited such support.


515 posted on 09/22/2007 5:38:27 AM PDT by dangus
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