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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:49 AM
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We are not skewing the polls
and there is an easy way to prove it.

For the last 4 years all these stupid polls have been freeped and they've reported the results as if they were the gospel.

Now that the Dems have decided to respond, we are being accused of skewing the polls.

All these Bushbot have to do is check their website logs. I am willing to bet that if you look at the polls from the past four years, many of them were freeped. The freepers saw nothing wrong with deleting their cookies and voting multiple times. What happens then is on the sites web logs, you will see multiple hits from the same web addresses.

Now ten to one, if you look at the site web logs in the last couple of weeks, you are going to be seeing 1000's of hits from 1000's of different addresses.

These logs will prove that the Kerry supporters believe in One Person / One Vote. Dems don't need to freep polls. We don't support cheating.
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Shadow30 Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:53 AM
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1. its a typical thing for....
...Bush zombies to yell foul anytime they don't win,there spoiled children just like the chimp himself.You watch what these crazy people do if Kerry wins the election,they'll lose there damn minds.
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jrthin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:58 AM
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2. I think those who are accusing
us of skewing the polls are projecting. They are accustomed to doing so, therefore when the polls turn in our favor they accuse us of their wretched behavior.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 09:36 AM
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3. Sorry, But I Don't Believe 95% Thought Kerry Won
That's the percentage in some of the polls I saw last night. Somebody is stuffing the box for Kerry.

Someone posted a couple of days ago that freepers were discussing freeping the polls for Edwards on the theory that this would discredit his supporters. is this possible?

BTW, It's perfectly true that freeping has been going on for years and nobody's made a point of it.
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 09:40 AM
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4. ok, then throw out the measuring stick!
just because it favours the good don't mean it's bad(?)...why does stock market jump at thought of bush victory, when bushinc damages the very planet?
throw out the shapeshifting (ie polls) measuring stick!
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:29 AM
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6. The Results are Completely Out of Range
This is a closely divided country. Both parties are on the internet and watching the debate. Did most Republicans suddenly become Kerry fans?
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GingerSnaps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:33 AM
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7. So you believe what you are being fed?
This is not a divided country the right wingers want you to believe that so that they can steal the election again through BBV and you wont even blink an eye when they do it.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 01:18 PM
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10. No, Actually You Appear to Believe Anything You See
that supports your own beliefs, whether or not it's credible.

The internet polls are not even close to any more scientific polls. A small majority of people thought Kerry won the debate.

The vote should be close to exit polls. That will tell whether voter fraud is likely, not a belief that over 90% of voters prefer Kerry.
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Jasper 91 Donating Member (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:37 AM
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9. Do rednecks know how to use the 'internets' ?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 09:45 AM
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5. Yes, there is evidence from FR
that they were planning to do that.

It would be interesting to compare the web logs of both sites. I bet you will find the the ones who vote multiple time also hang out on FR a lot.

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sonicx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 01:31 PM
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11. yes, it was a reverse freeping
They said they would vote for Kerry so that the polls looked like BS
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hippiegranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:35 AM
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8. I could tell the polls that were skewed from the ones that weren't
The polls that were a bit skewed were the ones that most people besides us wouldn't bother to hit. The bigger polls, the ones with hundreds of thousands of respondents all pretty much went the same way - 65% Kerry vs 35% Bush. This is the election spread, folks. There are not that many undecideds and many of us have been saying for quite some time that Bushler's base is about 35%. These polls prove it out. The polls that show the race neck and neck are NOT reflecting a real cross sampling. They are either conducted by orgs that are trying to keep the race close or they have been hit hard by the freeps (Faux news comes to mind).
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