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Default "straw poll" time again

Tim wrote:
On Aug 16, 5:22 pm, hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Tim wrote:
FWIW (not much)
http://news.aol.com/political-machin...raw-poll-aug-1...
The republicans are AOL poll stuffing again. What a surprise.
What makes you think that? Just curious.
Eisboch

Experience with Republican conservatives on gun discussion boards.
Anytime an internet survey pops up that impacts gun owners, the word
goes out to every gun board to log onto the site and swamp the survey.
Works every time.- Hide quoted text -

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But if you go below the poll to the "comments" you will find one guy
heckeling Barrack, while afterwards there are endless posts by one
"Voice of Reason" who must be a 'bot posting for Obama's case. I don't
see how someone can make so many posts at 2:45 pm.

uncanny



Naw. Just someone who has figured out how to play games with AOL's
servers. I've been on gun discussion boards where posters claim they and
their buddies completely reversed polls in a few hours with thousands
and thousands of "votes." AOL doesn't care...the more hits on its
servers for these polls, the happier AOL is.

I'm not convinced any of the national polls have much significance yet.
The state polls are far more interesting. Most of the non-aligned polls
that keep track of state results have Obama ahead by anywhere from 70 to
well over 100 electoral college votes.