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more on Iraq war poll[ I endorse the "idiotic"nature of open online and telephone polls -- djf
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:40:43 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:16:07 -0800 To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Iraq war poll From: Deborah Alexander <dsalexan () optonline net> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:26:20 -0500
Majority Senate Leader Frist has an Iraq war poll on his website. Right now a small majority of the respondents are pro-war. He invites votes at http://frist.senate.gov/opinionpoll.cfm
Yesterday afternoon, the vote *significantly* favored war and killing (politely called "invasion" on Frist's web-site). And 15.6% of the respondents were supposedly from Tennessee. (Bet you didn't know TN had such a large percent of the nation's population, did ya?) By late last night, Deborah (above) told Farber that, "a small majority of the respondents are pro-war." Now, at 1058am PST on Thu, 55% OPPOSE the war (and 13.8% of the votes supposedly came from TN). Since the poll now opposes war, this survey will presumably be reported finally, as the worthless near-scam that such online polls are, to wit: When I visited the site yesterday, I voted and stated I was not from TN. When I just visited the site again this morning, and voted a second time, I checked that I was from TN. (Well geee, my father WAS born there.) Like the old cliche' sez: Vote early; vote often. (All votes will be counted ... unless they're from black or liberal communities in Florida.) --jim These idiotic online and call-in polls really should be more publicized as the complete fraud that they really are -- where anyone can vote as often as they have time to waste, and special-interest groups can flood such polls with bogus responses. In fact, I'd love to widely distributed software that can be programmed to hit all such online poll-sites every few minutes, saturating them with "votes" biased by the user. Maybe then, the media would stop using and reporting such MISrepresentative polls. And the idea of an elected official -- especially any Senate Majority Leader -- allowing, much less facilitating, such illegitimate operations from their own offices and on legislative computer facilities, is simply appalling! ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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