How many Thompson, Romney, and Giuliani voters are online here?
By flywheel Posted in 2008 — Comments (16) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
I'm running a straw poll at ChoiceRanker.com, and Ron Paul voters are dominating the outcome. It wasn't hard. He has 80 1st place votes so far. Thompson has 5.
Does that reflect a lack of interest in polls by RedState readers/bloggers in general, or just a lack of passion among supporters of the mainstream Republicans?
This "Tuesday Tracker" closes at midnight Tuesday PST:
http://www.choiceranker.com/election.php?eid=109
A month-long poll for the announced Republicans is here:
http://www.choiceranker.com/election.php?eid=71
I'm not only trying to goad you to vote. I'm really curious about the explanation.
I'm well aware of what you said. But how do you explain the low turnout for the other candidates? Are they simply conceding the web-based straw polls to Paul?
Most of us think that real polls at this point in time are worthless, and they are a million times better than any on line poll.
I think if polled the Redstate community about on line polls (tortured pun intended), you'd find that if we vote in an on line poll it's because the poll is part of a web site we regularly frequent. I've voted in several that were posted here, and I think a couple at Captain's Quarters and PowerLine, but the polls were there before I got there I didn't go looking for them. Also, on those polls, as I recall, RonPaul™ didn't do particularly well.
IMO, "conceding the web-based straw polls to Paul" is no concession. Nobody cares but the Paulies™. And they don't count.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
that by their loading on-line polls, RonPaul™ will have some sort of credibility. They are self-deluding fools.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
about online polls. The Paulites do since that's the only thing they are going to win. Some random website has some random poll? Eh.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
So the consensus seems to be... it's not worth the bother.
And the fact that Paul voters care so much about online polls fits a mainstream RedStater's general perception of those folks as being, shall we say, out of the mainstream.
Perhaps the interest would have been greater if there had been a more tightly matched race between mainstream candidates earlier on. But that's a moot point now.
And the diary is now unrecommended.
are only worth something until everyone else realizes that the system can be "gamed". Then one group, (Romney in Ames, RonPaul on the internets) decides to show this as their strength.
However, in Ames, the rest of the top tier decided not to try and waste $1-2 Million and risk not winning. Because, in reality, winning Iowa in this front-loaded primary season isn't worth it.
Likewise, Ron Paul supporters are complete fruit loops. No real corollary to Ames, except that they can continue to load on-line polls that no one cares about, thus giving themselves their own evidence when they have their collective backsides handed to them when real voting begins, that Diebold, "the bankers", and the rest of the "establishment" conspired against them once again with our fleet of black helicopters and underground computers.
why the RonBots are loading the poll - look at the Top Referrers list at the right side of the page. The top two referrers are Ron Paul sites. It's obvious someone posted the poll page and now all the acolytes are spamming the poll.
Oddly enough, dailykos is also on the top referrer list...the KosKidz may also be behind it. They know what a kook Paul is, and they'd love to see him screw things up for the GOP.
...when they see me they'll say, "There goes Loren Wallace,
the greatest thing to ever climb into a race car."
Of course the Ron Paul sites are top referrers. RedState was a prominent referrer last week, which is why Thompson won, followed by Romney.
Referrers are a Good Thing. The best Internet marketing is viral.
It strikes me as very interesting that Republican bloggers have so readily conceded the online field to Paul. I've been following the Pajamas Media poll for a while, by the way. The Paul folks learned how to dominate it, and no one had an answer for that other than outright exclusion.
...when they see me they'll say, "There goes Loren Wallace,
the greatest thing to ever climb into a race car."
Same reason I didn't vote in the Fox poll on who won the debate. Ron Paul's manic supporters voted over and over, so it just wasn't worth it.
have a very good web campaign going. They flood any poll with Pauls name involved. If you are really curious, check legitimate polling data, Paul is single digits, usually low single digits.
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