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Originally Posted by CC1
Chan, I know this is difficult to comprehend but when websites have polls that you click on to vote they are very much skewed and prone to being manipulated by groups.
They are naturally biased by whatever demographic frequents that website. Then that bias can be overcome by an orchastrated campaign by a group to vote a certain way on an online poll.
In other words they are prone to publicity campaigns for a person or issue that is involved with the poll. A canidate's blogasphere can notify supporters of online polls and urge them to go vote to make their guy look good. It happens all the time. Remember back on FCF or NFCF we were asked to vote for some Pentecostal involved in an online singing contest.
You are astute, misguided but astute, so I am sure you know all of this but just don't want to acknowledge it.
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And other polls are naturally biased by the way the questions are written, who asks the questions, how the questions are asked, and who is selected to be asked.
Maybe you should acknowledge that these online polls are just as meaningless as the so-called "legitimate" polls.
Of course, if one of the FOX News or other media darlings had done well in the online and text messaging polls I suspect that you, like FOX News, the rest of the media, and Rush Limbaugh, wouldn't be dismissing those polls.
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