A few weeks ago ABC posted a internet vote to see who would make best pres. Well Ron paul was first for a very long time untill they took him off claming that very few people acualy voted and just keept signing on under difrent names and diffrent computers to make him higher. what are your thoughts on this? personaly i know it's BS where at a local rally in new hampshire ron had the most amount of people to back him then anyone else.
2007-06-10 17:45:36 · 8 answers · asked by Gypsy 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
"The term "Ron Paul" has been measured as the top Internet search term by Technorati.com[51] since May 9, 2007, which ranks popularity in the blogosphere. The U.S. News & World Report article titled "Ron Paul's Online Rise"[51] states "Technorati spokesman Aaron Krane confirmed that, to the best of the company's knowledge, the online support for Paul is genuine."
Most people only have one computer. Each computer has an IP address. That means that there is only one vote per computer no matter how many screen names you have. ABC's claims are dubious at best. The internet buzz about Ron Paul is for real.
2007-06-10 22:15:19 · answer #1 · answered by Specialist McKay 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
That is the issue. Ron Paul has inspired a fanaticism the other candidates can't come close to matching. Whether some of those tamper with polls (though I don't see the point. It doesn't really help the candidate and just opens it up to being reasonably easy to detect. Bad risk/reward)
One thing I know is that there are meeting places online. (active IRC network, Myspace networks) Soon as a poll is found, it is published to the network and usually everyone goes and votes and sometimes comment.
This causes 'fake' results, but is more organization and superior communications than it is people voting multiple times.
The good news is that the passion is there and the conversations (totally independent of the actual campaign HQ as far as I know. Active member for a while) are geared towards spreading knowledge to have broader advocates and discussions on how best to take Ron Paul from the Internet to the mainstream.
The real number will be the next quarter campaign filings. If it does cross the 5 mil mark (and heads towards 6) then what you have is not a few supporters gaming the system but MANY fanatics doing there best to get the person they believe the most in out.
2007-06-11 04:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by Ethaniel 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The polls aren't fake, nor are the answers, however, the answers are skewed by activists and fanatics.
Because they can, people are voting more than once and it doesn't take all the work that you have described.
This is why we have such strict measures taken to protect the polling place here in America. The internet cannot provide the security in a public poll that the current system can.
They can, however, make the poll available to members only, then they could control the amount of times each person could vote. This would leave the voting to people who like ABC enough to join their website, sign in and take the poll, which would mean it would all lean in the direction that the ABC news story was slanted.
By leaving the poll open, they assume that there are an equal amount of fanatics on all sides, which would even things up.
If ABC doesn't like the results that their poll achieves, they can just change the poll, which they just did.
This should tell you something about how ABC (And other networks) shape the stories that they report on by refusing to acknowledge facts as they exist if the facts don't support the story that they want to report.
2007-06-11 01:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by JOHN G 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is a huge reason for the huge support for Ron Paul after the 1st debates. He was articulate and had the courage of telling the truth about 9/11.
He revealed that RudyG doesn't read CIA reports on 9/11 let alone read at all. For all we know Rudy G may actually be illiterate like Bush.
People who still support RudyG did not fully watch the debates and make up their minds because FoxNews is their Bible.
2007-06-11 01:09:49 · answer #4 · answered by 6th Finger 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, it just goes to show that the internet culture of voters are not a cross-section of average Americans. Internet voters are typically much more educated about candidates while the average American typically only knows the "mainstream" candidates whose names they hear in the news but don't even know much about them at all.
2007-06-11 01:39:12 · answer #5 · answered by Frank 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Polls show what the people want to be the President. Thus, the candidate they like gets the highest number of votes.
VOTE for your choice as US President on my 360 degrees blog and know who will likely win.
2007-06-11 00:52:55 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they are fake also and that Ron Paul supporters are few and far between and keep using new id's just like they do on Yahoo. You are probably one of them.
2007-06-11 00:53:19 · answer #7 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋
I think they are fake. For once ABC appears to have got 1 right.
2007-06-11 00:49:09 · answer #8 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋