Kucinich Wins Debate Poll, ABC Covers Up Results

[DanTex]

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's supporters (and, according to his website, even some non-supporters) are demanding that ABC explain its actions of the last few days.

On Monday afternoon, Congressman Kucinich took a significant lead in the ABC online poll: Who won the Democratic debate? About the time that he took that lead, ABC removed the poll from its prominent position on the ABC website. Then a new poll suddenly went up, "Who is winning the Democratic debate?"

Those events could be seen as technical glitches, but there was more to come. Kucinich took the lead in the second poll, also, and that poll, too, was dropped. ABC also "forgot" to announce the results (Kucinich tied with Sen. Hillary Clinton as the winner), and news about the poll is nowhere to be seen on the ABC website. Kucinich was also cut out of a group photo of all the candidates in the debate.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2007/08/kucinich-wins-debate-poll-abc-covers-results

Needless to say, President Kucinich got the last laugh. Plus ca change...

[virtualobserver]

1. President Obama got the last laugh

[NorthCarolina]

3. Don't forget Focus Groups too!

[bkkyosemite]

4. But if they are motivated to vote just think

of all those votes for Bernie.

[DanTex]

5. That was the point of my OP. Even Kucinich can win online polls.

They're mostly worthless.

[Dawgs]

7. Yep. Same as opinions. n/t

[upaloopa]

6. It is futile to make that argument here no matter how factual it is.

How many time did we see pleas to rec a poll because the freepers are leading. Anyone can vote in an online poll for any reason. You could be a repub and vote against a Dem in a poll between two Dems and skew the poll. You could get all your friends to rec a poll to skew the poll.

Only a random selection, of persons in a population where everyone in the population has the same chance of being selected, can tell us what is true about the whole population within a margin of error which is a factor of the size of the selection.

You learn that if you study statistics. But then reality gets in the way sometimes.

An internet poll is not a random selection so it cannot tell us anything about the whole population. This is true whether you support Bernie or not.