PBS Poll on Gun Restrictions

[ELB]

PBS is running a poll on whether people favor more restrictive gun laws, hung on the Sandy Hook and the report that Connecticut has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation (per PBS article).

I won't tell you how the poll is running, you'll have to go vote to see that.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/pol ... law-state/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(But I will say that because of the way it is going, some commenters there feel that PBS has been absorbed by the FoxNews/Koch Brothers borg. )

[BobCat]

Thank you for that link!

[Charlies.Contingency]

Woo-ow, as to not give it away, I am very surprised at the results. I can't believe how extreme some people are, and I bet a lot of people are disappointed in the results. Oh well, such is life! Everybody check it out, and cast your vote!

[joe817]

Wow! Surprised me to no end.

[RoyGBiv]

Ha!

[jimlongley]

107,416 vote no

4,608 vote yes

1,285 are confused

Even on PBS!

[Scott B.]

Countdown until the results are nullified or the poll is discontinued begins...

[rbwhatever1]

Would you support more restrictive gun laws in your state?
Yes 4663
No 108329
Maybe 1294

[Skiprr]

Countdown until the results are nullified or the poll is discontinued begins...

The date on the header article is December 14. I'm frankly shocked that PBS has left the poll up this long.

Not gonna make the hoplophobes happy. The 94.79% not in favor of new gun restrictions wouldn't be such a big deal if the sample size wasn't so significant: the numbers are essentially the total population of Round Rock versus the number of students in my local high school. Wow.

[LDB415]

It's actually just 37 people that are voting correctly but doing so repetitively 24/7. The dummies don't know you can do that yet so they have virtually no numbers.

[Beiruty]

Is that shocking? You cannot feed people nonsense without them puke it out.

[Skiprr]

It's actually just 37 people that are voting correctly but doing so repetitively 24/7. The dummies don't know you can do that yet so they have virtually no numbers.

Probably not: the PBS site is tracking IP addresses. I tried going back to the article this morning; I was again presented with the poll, not the results. But when I voted I got, "Thank you, we have already counted your vote." So unless I come in via a proxy to mask my IP, I've had my one vote. I doubt many, if any, are so industrious about an informal PBS poll that they'll spend their time securing an anonymous proxy, voting, releasing the proxy, securing another, voting again...

BTW, it's currently showing 110,015 votes for no new gun restrictions; 4,770 in favor of new regulations; 1,314 undecided.

[Charlies.Contingency]

It's actually just 37 people that are voting correctly but doing so repetitively 24/7. The dummies don't know you can do that yet so they have virtually no numbers.

Probably not: the PBS site is tracking IP addresses. I tried going back to the article this morning; I was again presented with the poll, not the results. But when I voted I got, "Thank you, we have already counted your vote." So unless I come in via a proxy to mask my IP, I've had my one vote. I doubt many, if any, are so industrious about an informal PBS poll that they'll spend their time securing an anonymous proxy, voting, releasing the proxy, securing another, voting again...

BTW, it's currently showing 110,015 votes for no new gun restrictions; 4,770 in favor of new regulations; 1,314 undecided.

I'm surprised the liberals aren't sitting their changing their IP address all day long to boost their side's points. I wouldn't be surprised if the day the poll closes, one of them hacks it and changes the numbers, or they boost it by using random IP address'. In case you didn't know, you can do that from one computer. (I can anyway, though I do it to avoid location tracking.) Companies like ION offer services that give you a rotating IP's running parallel and constantly changing. That's what most poll junkies do.

[jimlongley]

I doubt many, if any, are so industrious about an informal PBS poll that they'll spend their time securing an anonymous proxy, voting, releasing the proxy, securing another, voting again...

I don' doubt it at all, first because it's relatively easy, and second because they don't do it for any logical reason, they just do it because they can.

[LDB415]

I'm a few blocks away from geeky so I don't have much clue. I just know I was curious so I voted twice to test it and it took both and didn't give me any message about already having my vote.