Posted on Sat, Sep. 18, 2004 'Fake' polls, 'phony' stories -- sounds like a leftist paper Professor Toro Professor Toro By now, the "no" votes could be up to a gazillion on an informal poll on The Herald's Web site last weekend. The poll asked: Should the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons be extended? The results haven't been tallied because the poll was hijacked. Or "Freeped." That's what the Free Republic Web site calls it when its fans jam a poll to mess up the results. The Free Republic folks wrote that the poll in a "small local left...