The ridiculous caucus thread is nothing more than oppo research for the Trump bullies to gather names and find out who their enemies are. I quickly realized it was a waste of time. It’s about as scientific a poll as those asinine Drudge debate polls.
... you have been promoted to being a Trump bully... way to go buddy!
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I run the Free Republic Caucus. It was set up so any FReeper could support the candidate of their choice.
I spend hours on the forum every day and I don’t see anyone trashing others for who they vote for. If anyone sees something like that, I want to know. I will do my best to put an end to it.
I see that some of you think it’s silly. Others have fun with it, and I urge everyone to participate.
Cruz folks are welcome there. I have made post after post making it easy for folks to hit the thread, spend 15 to 30 seconds there to vote once per day.
Opposition research? Silly?
What is silly about citizens casting a vote? Most Conservatives I know think that’s a pretty cool thing to be able to do.
As for some devious plan to develop opposition research at the expense of Cruz supporters, the very thought is evidence of strong paranoia.
Consider this. If it’s just for opposition research, against Cruz, then why couldn’t it be used against Trump supporters? The idea this is being used as some means of developing a database is absurd.
When the caucus is over I will develop some statistics. I post some of them every day. It’s interesting to people. I get notes every day saying thanks for the caucus threads.
This was set up by myself, solely based on my own concept, and purely for entertainment and the enjoyment of FReepers as a little added value to the forum.
There are plenty of Cruz supporters on the threads. If they don’t wish to vote, I have no problem with that. If they want to, I have no problem with that.
When I started the caucus, I had no idea how the vote would go. I expected to see the Cruz folks in the lead, or at least challenging the lead strongly.
It had been one of my initial concepts, that Free Republic would have a louder voice if more people took part in the caucus each day. I gave up on that. A lot of folks don’t care to participate. Hey, that’s their choice and I think that’s fine.
It seemed to me that if several thousand people were participating, it could provide a rather revealing view of support here.
I know that a few Cruz supporters had a run in with Jim. I know a few left. If my initial premise had been lived up to, those few people should not have swayed the percentages much at all.
It may interest you folks to know that five votes out of 200, equals only 2.5%. If 20 people left, we might be talking about only 10% of a day’s vote. And if our votes were up near 400 per day, it would only be 5%, and at 600 3.3%.
I have seen it stated a number of times that this poll is set up as some sort of tool to put Cruz down, or minimize the appearance of his following here.
The only people minimizing Cruz’s support in the caucus, is the Cruz supporters on the forum who refuse to participate.
You two, and everyone else is welcome to participate in the Free Republic Caucus.
Please join in.
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