Posted on 07/06/2008 8:46:45 AM PDT by mamelukesabre
straw poll to predict the president(AOL news) Scroll way down past the "predict the president" map to get to the strawpoll vote.
Bingo! Especially in this election, with the "you are a racist if you do not vote for Obama" angle. Election day is going to be a big shocker.
Maybe only living people are only voting ONE time?
Jack
This is the first I've seen of the straw polls on AOL. I have to say I am really really shocked. By the MSM coverage, one would think McCain is all washed up.
I'm trying to remember the last time we had 3 full terms in a row served by republican presidents(besides reagan-reagan-bush). I think it must've been before WWII.
I don't count reagan-reagan-bush because I consider that a fluke. Bush should’ve never been elected, imo. I think the only reason he got in was because the public really wanted a reagan third term, but had to settle for reagan’s veep. On his own two feet, i don't think bush41 is/was presidential material.
So you guys think many who get calls from pollsters are hesitant to admit they’ll be voting for McCain because of a fear the pollster will view them as racist?
“AOL is notoriously left leaning in viewership.”
The same poll in 2004 predicted Bush would carry 48 states.
The poll to wait for is the Weekly Reader poll.
The elementary school children have never yet picked a loser.
Both sides are predicting landslides. I don’t. I think there will be a low turnout.
Somebody is going to be surprised come election day!
I have had AOL for years just to follow their audacity at putting up ‘iffy’ news. Their polls are troll polls - they often couch a question which leads to a certain position - no matter what people believe. It is so typical of the left - and if this kind of behavior is ok for a large company - I wonder why they are so adamantly in favor of getting the democrats in?
Nah - maybe just another Soros influence at work.
I doubt AOL does anything for free.
Their polls are hacked consistently - one way or the other and it would seem there is a right-leaning hacking working on this particular poll.
Perhaps the esteemed Voice of Reason who thinks AOL is his personal free bandwidth for blogging has upped the blood pressure of some of the readers.
Could be they are trying to get a higher hit count on the poll than people would normally take part in - everyone is so sick of the usual lurking left.
I wouldn’t trust an AOL poll any farther than I could throw my living room couch.
It was nice to see McCain dousing Obama for a change even if it was another AOL fantasy moment.
“The same poll in 2004 predicted Bush would carry 48 states.”
Thanks for the reality check.
Yes, absolutely. Its the same sort of psychology that allows telemarketers to call during dinnertime and hold people on the phone while their dinner gets cold....fear of being rude prevents them from telling the telemarketer to eff off. In this case, it is not fear of being thought rude by the caller, its fear of being though racist by the caller. Many people cannot stand the thought of some one thinking ill of them and boy does that psychology sell a LOT of products.
I've noticed that when a poll site puts an "anti-spam bot" check it usually deters the 'idiot vote'.
-Traveler
Perhaps aol sees the handwriting on the wall and knows it will be Hillary VS McCain after the DEM convention. So thei feel preparing the DEMS for Obama going down is the way to go.
I did not know that.
I’d take this with a bucket of salt, as I take any self-selecting Internet poll.
BTW, very few people under the age of 50 use AOL. I’d bet their demographic skew older. I used AOL when I first got on the internet... but that was back in 1993!
Re the age demographic — I am barely older than BO.
I am simply not prepared to vote for someone for president who is younger than me.
There’s an interesting theory.
A kind of “IQ test” that doesn’t exist on a real ballot. If you can’t type, can’t read funny letters, and can’t accurately replicate those funny letters via a keyboard, your vote don’t count.
In the real world, even a pregnant chad counts as a vote.
So the spambot blocker skews the poll? That’s kinda scary.
Just FYI, sooner or later you'll have to, as will we all. :-P
ya think?
Remember what the MainSlime Media and the pollsters - pre Internet - were predicting in the 1980 election?
Reagan was going to loose big according to all polls.
Just before election, there was a phone in vote. No one could skew it. And it wasn't a 'sampling."
Millions called in. It went 2 to 1 for a Reagan landslide.
The media and dimRats screamed and said things like "Republicans are richer and could afford more phone calls!"
But Reagan won = 2 to 1.
These polls are much more accurate. And this one makes my heart sing...If this is the results on a heavily leaning liberal site - WAHOO!
“My Lefty friends are all convinced that Obama will win in a landslide.”
This is where I think Obama’s handlers and the candidate himself are making a big mistake. Every day they boast to their friends in the MSM about the messiah’s incredible wave of support from young voters, which I believe he does have. The downside for the messiah is that the more his soft supporters hears this, I believe it’s less likely a significant number of them will bother to vote because they think he’s got it in the bag. Also, young voters are the most unreliable block there is. One more quick point, remember all that spin in 2004 from Kerry and the MSM about the “millions of newly registered dem voters in OH, etc...,” that turned out to be just that, spin.
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