SHOCKING how Kerry keeps loosing points on cnn.com as minutes go by

[Was_Immer]

Its absolutely shocking!

1 hour ago it was 53 bush kerry 47. Its now Kerry 42 and Bush 56

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. It's not shocking.

It's perl scripts. Know it.

[Was_Immer]

5. What is a perl script? Please explain?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Perl is an interpreted language...

That must have the perl program running in the background or as a daemon on Linux. The process reads and interprets the script and makes the magic happen. If you were to read a raw perl script, you would think that someone had printed a screen dump of static(In fact, some of the perl geeks I know speak in static...). That said, a good perl script is very powerful and can make a computer dance, sing and play the guitar.

Some of these scripts that allow these slugs to manipulate online polls are written in perl.

[iamtechus]

12. Where to get perl scripts

First, you need to have the (free) perl interpreter installed on your
computer. Use google to find it. Perl is available for just about any
computer system -- windows, linux, mac, vax etc.

[endnote]

18. right... But you need to write a script to do this as well...

[NeoConsSuck]

24. Especially since CNN is running the Perl scripts...

if (a vote is for Bush)
Bush = Bush + 10;
else
Kerry = Kerry + 1;
end if

[are_we_united_yet]

26. WRONG!

if (a vote is for Bush)
Bush = (Bush + 10)*(1E03);
else
Kerry = Kerry + 0.5;
end if

:)

[NeoConsSuck]

31. Your algorithm is more accurate :)

[are_we_united_yet]

34. Yes I had

the Repubs "fix" it.

[ClassWarrior]

2. What the hell are you talking about? It's like 89% Kerry and 11% for *.

23.

[Fluffdaddy]

4. .Kerry's behind in the Poll I see. Kerry was way up last nite

[ClassWarrior]

Wow, that was almost gleeful...

23.

[Me.]

9. You Don't Need To

It seems that you can vote as many times as you want just by going back and forth, which is exactly what someone may be doing. For the numbers to go like this either means CNN keeps "adjusting" or someone(s) else_ is doing a number.

[sherilocks]

21. You can vote, but check the counter. It doesn't go up.

I wanted to see what would happen if I voted for Bush, but I couldn't do it.

[spotbird]

6. There are two CNN polls

The one where Kerry is behind is at http://www.cnn.com

Hard to guess which one they will promote.

[Nite Owl]

7. What do they have two polls?

I just went there and Kerry is down.

[Fozzledick]

16. It got eaten by a fnord!

17.:evilgrin:

[Longhorn]

17. There are two CNN polls.

Last I looked, Kerry was way ahead in one (on the Hardball page) and about 10 percent behind in the other (on the main page.)

[Protagoras]

3. The speed with which the numbers are running up on a Saturday

makes me strongly suspect the Freeps are running some bots that are just voting again and again. I've seen them brag about such programs in the past...sounds like it would be simple (and creepy and immoral) for them to make such things.

They suck. CNN needs to announce clearly that the poll is a crock and move on.

[Birthmark]

8. CNN has zero credibility

Their polls even less. Hell, given their antics the other night over the on-line poll, I have no reason to believe that anyone even voted in this new poll. They probably are just typing in the numbers that appeal to them.

Kent Brockman has as much journalistic credibility as CNN; John Stewart has infinitely more.

[Fluffdaddy]

10. Come on now. There have to be someone that's honest.................

The Rightwing-nuts was saying FOXNEWS was against them last night. Settle down ..................Settle down This is not the X-files

[Ripley]

27. WTF does the X-files have to do with it?

Have Foxnews polls or any other known right-wing website polls changed dramatically like this? No. In fact, the last time I looked at Fox it was a tie. Haven't looked since noon, so I could be wrong. But clearly the CNN poll did an about face.

[cpa]

13. Bush Is Terrible

It's the creepy freepers! kerry won all the other polls.

[mzmolly]

14. CONTACT THEM HERE, LET THEM KNOW THEY'VE BEEN HACKED

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?23

:hi:

[951]

15. I don't buy the crap about freepers its CNN adjusting the polls

or their webmaster is doing a very shitty job but its CNN none the less because we haven't seen this problem with other polls.

[Shopaholic]

19. I tried to vote several times

and the vote total wouldn't change. To vote again, you had to clear your cache out first. And now it's really, really lopsided for * by about 18 points.

[Ripley]

20. I really really hate to be the spelling police, but...

IT'S LOSING, NOT LOOSING. Why do so many people spell it wrong?

Sorry, but I must have seen it spelled wrong 20 times this week. Everyone makes typing errors (me too and I try to edit to correct if I see them) and who cares if you type shockng...we know it's shocking...but let me make it clear what Smirkaholic is:

A LOSER not a LOOSER

Ah, I feel better now.

[MADem]

22. Blue Lemur has it, need to bitch to CNN

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=335

[Guaranteed]

23. No, what's REALLY shocking is that Kerry was winning with

80% immediately after the debate, and CNN decided that they didn't like that, so they scrubbed it.

[Mr_Spock]

25. 777678 votes for Bush & 541419 for Kerry. That's a lot of votes!

President Bush 58% 777678 votes

John Kerry 40% 541419 votes

I've never seen that many before...

[Mr_Spock]

28. 780895 to 542845 three minutes later...

President Bush 58% 780895 votes

John Kerry 40% 542845 votes

[Mr_Spock]

29. 784022 - 544230 ten more minutes...

President Bush 58% 784022 votes

John Kerry 40% 544230 votes

[Mr_Spock]

30. 787248 - 545625 in four more minutes...

President Bush 58% 787248 votes

John Kerry 40% 545625 votes

[Mr_Spock]

32. 793423 - 548475 - 15 minutes more...

President Bush 58% 793423 votes

John Kerry 40% 548475 votes

[Quixote1818]

35. You got me listening! I was skeptical but these numbers look tampered with

Sixteen thousand votes for Bush and only a handful for Kerry in less than a half hour????????????????????????????????????

This absolutely needs to be reported!

[Mr_Spock]

36. Bush's rate is down to about 4000 votes per hour, Kerry steady at 10000/hr

Weird huh? At the peak of the tampering, Bush got 200,000 votes in one hour!!! Look in the link: http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=335

[Joe Turner]

33. Screw the Freeped Polls

Every national poll that I've seen show Kerry won the debate.

It was interesting watching the McCoughlin Group tonight. John, a life-long republican conservative, is openly supporting and defending John Kerry. He thinks the Bush Administration is dangerous, reckless and has to go before they do more damage to America's credibility in the world.

When a conservative like McCoughlin backs Kerry strongly, the handwriting is on the wall for Shrub.

[Shopaholic]

37. One of the MSNBC web polls has been freeped too

it was Kerry in the lead (for who you will vote for in the election) and now it's Shrubbie.

[moondust]

38. They use scripts on the MSNBC polls all the time now.

It started during the RNC and has continued ever since. The CNN polls appeared to be unfreeped until this week.

As somebody pointed out it could be internal freeping by employees as well.

[Dem_Loyalist]

39. I don't get it

Why don't we just have everyone at DU vote in this poll like we did in the others? It worked to get us the results we wanted then didn't it?

[Nana]

40. So..

..you run a script and obviously make the online poll defective (as in * winning-clearly defective)..the goal is skew the results so badly and so obviously that it gets media attention, so that noone gives them any credibility whatsoever for future/past real wins by Kerry.

Seems to me that it only proves that you are supporting a candidate (*) that needs some desperate help to try to erase the truth.

Just my 2 cents.