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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (21233)	3/15/2003 3:56:44 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

jeez...cite another freeped poll...pitiful

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (21233)	3/15/2003 4:10:19 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

First of all, the mass poll voting: A FReeper will post a link to a poll on Free Republic and urge other FReepers to FReep it. Search under "FReep poll" at the Web site and you'll find many "FReep this poll!" marching orders each day. In monitoring Free Republic myself, I have been amazed at how fast the FReepers seem to find polls, which are sometimes posted to Free Republic just minutes after they appear online. "Whenever a poll is posted on Free Republic.com, everybody goes and votes the right way, and there's nothing wrong with that," says Marinelle Thompson, FReeper and founder of gun rights group Second Ammendment Sisters. "We just do it for a laugh. It doesn't really mean anything." She's right -- there's nothing at all wrong with encouraging a group to vote in a poll. It's done all the time in political groups of every stripe. What most people, even some FReepers themselves, object to is the intentional swaying of polls by people who vote repeatedly. In fact, SF Gate has had a few of its own polls FReeped. As SF Gate News Director (and poll writer) Vlae Kershner put it, "People are finding a way of getting around our system that only allows one vote, and they're voting hundreds of times. It's not thousands of people voting one way; it's one or two people voting hundreds of times." Anyway, Kershner says, SF Gate's polls are for entertainment value only. After all, the poll population is self-selected. The people who vote in online polls are those who care enough about an issue to vote -- by its very nature, a skewed population. But not everyone who looks at poll results knows the difference. sfgate.com

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (21233)	3/15/2003 4:48:56 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

===> "2. Do you support the Bush Administration using military force against Iraq? Yes 70% No 24% Don't know 6%" <=== Hi Lazarus. Thanks for posting the poll results. The poll shows the results of having an informed, educated public. It also shows that the mostly uneducated, anti-decency, anti-Democracy, anti-responsibility, anti-"working for a living", appeasement demonstrators are a small minority. Hopefully the demonstrations won't do to much damage to world peace, freedom and democracy.