What IS This Poll????

[Henny]

Someone emailed me some information about a poll out there on a little site called "The Daily Conservative" asking people to go out and put in their vote (intentionally, to skew the results).

(I see a lot of this poll skewing activity both in blogs and in emails I get from friend - I usually only jump in to skew results about creationism and evolution (when creationists/ID'ers are the ones putting up the polls). 

Anyway... this one was a bit different and to be honest, I would have rather seen the real results of such a poll. The question? "Are blacks equal to whites?" You can see it here: http://thedailyconservative.net/

When the poll was emailed around for skewing, the results were something like Yes - 57% and No - 39%, although it has been since skewed in much higher favor of Yes now.

So I'm curious - have any of you ever heard of this site? I like to think that some small-time racist is running a website, but the name of the site gives conservatives a bad name by association.

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[sirs]

So I'm curious - have any of you ever heard of this site?

Nope

I like to think that some small-time racist is running a website, but the name of the site gives conservatives a bad name by association.

Yep.  Perhaps done so, on purpose

[Plane]

What gets measured by an internet poll?

If there isn't a good way to prevent squidging it might scientifically be measuring peoples willingness to lie.

[Henny]

I like to think that some small-time racist is running a website, but the name of the site gives conservatives a bad name by association.

Yep.  Perhaps done so, on purpose
[/quote]

Perhaps, but it hardly matters. Just a reminder of how the internet, while helping us all to be more informed, can also work to the detriment of a group or a cause at the hands of 1 idiot.

[sirs]

So true     

[BT]

The poll and site are published by a liberal who posts often at the Huffington Post.


This is a not a site put up by a conservative, idiot or otherwise.

This is a disinformation operation.

Like infiltrating a tea party rally with racist signs.

[sirs]

The poll and site are published by a liberal who posts often at the Huffington Post.  This is a disinformation operation.  Like infiltrating a tea party rally with racist signs.

Ahhh, tends to reinforce the deduction I prompted earlier.  Thanks Bt

[BT]

Ahhh, tends to reinforce the deduction I prompted earlier.  Thanks Bt

http://debategate.com/new3dhs/3dhs/what-is-this-poll/msg110989/#msg110989

[sirs]

Yea, I kinda saw that the 1st time, and appreciated the barebones later edition, I was responding to.  But thanks again

[BT]

Facts change perception.

But the author succeeded in his mission anyways. Because the majority of the chatter on the net about this ASSUMES that this was posted by a conservative, based on nothing more than the name of the website.

[sirs]

Facts change perception.

But the author succeeded in his mission anyways. Because the majority of the chatter on the net about this ASSUMES that this was posted by a conservative, based on nothing more than the name of the website.

Indeed.  Just as the left hopes continued plants at Tea party events, brandishing racist signs/rhetoric will degrade their tidal wave of a message

[BT]

Nixon did the same thing.

[sirs]

Yep