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A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:26 am
by 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;

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:10 am
by 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.

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:12 am
by 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.

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:13 am
by 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.

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:12 am
by bdickens
bpet wrote: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.

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:33 am
by 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'...

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:55 pm
by 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).

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:44 pm
by TheArmedFarmer
Yep. If you're using Linux, do this from an xterm:

Code: Select all

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.

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:55 pm
by The Annoyed Man
TheArmedFarmer wrote:Yep. If you're using Linux, do this from an xterm:

Code: Select all

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....

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:17 pm
by barres
The Annoyed Man wrote: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).

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:52 pm
by 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. :evil2:

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:01 pm
by 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". :lol:

Re: A poll on the change

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:06 am
by 74novaman
TheArmedFarmer wrote: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". :lol:
I bet their reaction would be "They have computers in Texas? And they know what Linux is?! I thought they would all use 'Winders'." :biggrinjester: