A poll on the change

[longtooth]

One question poll.
Results at present are not surprising at all.
Over 2 million voted at present.


http://js.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quizifra ... l_id=46067" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bpet]

Wonder when these poll results are going to be picked up by the media?

The numbers are a little hard to dispute. It would be interesting to see the Obama reaction and what kind of spin his staff could apply.

[Purplehood]

I personally don't think that the Administration cares what we think. They have an agenda to fulfill and they are going to do it come hell or high-water.

[joe817]

Results at 10:09am:

Q. The president's progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?
Extremely well. We are undoubtedly moving in the right direction. 9%
Fairly well. There's still a long way to go. 9%
Not well at all. His plans are hurting more than helping. 79%
Not sure/No opinion. 2%

2282582 votes

Like I said in a different thread, the Pres and the Dems(for that matter) need to take gun safety courses, as they keep shooting themselves in the foot.

[bdickens]

Wonder when these poll results are going to be picked up by the media?

The numbers are a little hard to dispute. It would be interesting to see the Obama reaction and what kind of spin his staff could apply.

That's easy. 79% of the people who responded are unpatriotic, right-wing extremist domestic terrorists and shills for the Republocrats.

[The Annoyed Man]

I just voted....

Extremely well. We are undoubtedly moving in the right direction. 9%
Fairly well. There's still a long way to go. 9%
Not well at all. His plans are hurting more than helping. 79%
Not sure/No opinion. 2%

2292516 Votes — almost 10,000 additional votes and the percentages have not changed at all. What does that tell you?

Boy... that 2% probably doesn't get excited about anything! I'm just sayin'...

[AEA]

There is no provision to stop you from voting more than once.
That, in my opinion, negates any poll (regardless that it is in our favor).

[TheArmedFarmer]

Yep. If you're using Linux, do this from an xterm:

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while [ true ] ; do wget "http://post.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quizresults.php?poll_id=46067&wv=1&user_choice=3" -O /dev/null -nv ; done

Just leave that open for a while. It casts about 5 votes per second until you interrupt it.

[The Annoyed Man]

Yep. If you're using Linux, do this from an xterm:

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while [ true ] ; do wget "http://post.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quizresults.php?poll_id=46067&wv=1&user_choice=3" -O /dev/null -nv ; done

Just leave that open for a while. It casts about 5 votes per second until you interrupt it.

Heh, heh....

[barres]

2292516 Votes — almost 10,000 additional votes and the percentages have not changed at all. What does that tell you?

That they're likely doing the math correctly. 10,000 votes out of a total of over 2,000,000 is less than 1/2 of 1%. Unless something was on the verge of rounding up or down, it would take closer to 20,000 votes to impact the percentages (if the total votes were close to 2 million).

[Oldgringo]

Folk,

The media, both left and right, only care about their own polls. You know, the ones in which they know the outcome before the polls close.

[TheArmedFarmer]

I noticed option #3 was already up a whole percent point (80% now) when I last checked this afternoon.

I can just imagine the reaction from the pollsters on this, if they learned their poll was being gamed by a few "Linux using gun nuts in Texas".

[74novaman]

I noticed option #3 was already up a whole percent point (80% now) when I last checked this afternoon.

I can just imagine the reaction from the pollsters on this, if they learned their poll was being gamed by a few "Linux using gun nuts in Texas".

I bet their reaction would be "They have computers in Texas? And they know what Linux is?! I thought they would all use 'Winders'."