C'Mon Everybody... I've Been Informed Here That DU Polls Don't Count If We Don't Get Enough Votes...

[WillyT]

Apparently if you get over a hundred or two votes in any direction, that does not count because it under represents the will of DU.

So call your family, call your friends, call your neighbors, PM everybody here... get 'em on the record.

Let's see where you stand!

BTW - As a country, we are lucky to get HALF of eligible voters to come out and vote during a Presidential Election... even less during a Mid-Term Election... our current problem.

And as the saying goes... "If you don't vote, you don't get to complain."

DULink: http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10025021901

[abakan]

1. The poll needs a, none of the above, button.NT

[WillyT]

2. Like I Said... Binary Choice... If You Had To Bet Money... Where You You Place It ???

[DavidDvorkin]

3. It's more than a question of numbers

Online polls are meaningless because you have no way of knowing how representative those who vote are of the total population.

[WillyT]

5. I'm Just Polling DU...

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Yes, but the problem is still the same

You have no way of knowing how representative those who respond to your polls are of all of DU.

[Skidmore]

4. DU polls are convenience samples

and tell you nothing but the responses of those who elect to participate in them. Many of them are push polls or have pretty ridiculous choices in them. I do not take them seriously and only rarely participate in one. The only polls that are really of value are the photograph of the month ones.

[WillyT]

6. Maybe... Yet This One Is Pretty Straight Forward...

Most people here have an opinion on this subject...

So what's the harm ???

[Skidmore]

7. What if you trust neither?

I wouldn't respond to that poll because it does not offer me a choice that represents my views and, given DU's penchant for bludgeoning those who refuse to march in lockstep, it is counterproductive to respond.

[Electric Monk]

8. Here's an interesting read about polling, sample size, and margins of error

(a bit technical, though, for some)

http://www.probability.ca/jeff/writing/pollerror.html

[treestar]

9. Stuck on meta today, I see

[whistler162]

10. Hint... polls don't count.

[L0oniX]

11. Not only that but until you have a 20,000 post count no one believes anything you say.

[whistler162]

16. Obviously it is 30,000 posts and you are wrong!

[L0oniX]

19. Sorry ...your post count is only 6341. I don't believe you.

[frazzled]

13. Many of us do not participate in polls here

because names are shown. Excuse me, but if I want to express an opinion, I write an opinion. And you can read it. But I'm not going to press a button so that the "pollster" can aggregate a bunch of names to have on file.

That, my friend, is data-mining ... spying, and all that. So I'll just tell you my opinion flat out: I wouldn't trust the negligible person who bears the initials ES (is that an insult?) further than I could throw him. My opinion on the NSA is not monolithic: it's a vast, complex organization about which I am unqualified to make a blanket statement. Black and white is not my game.

[WillyT]

14. Well Shit Man... How Is That Fair... I Was Told Right Here On This Board That...

Because we can't get a significant sample, all DU polls are suspect...

I'm trying to correct that.

Won't you help?

[frazzled]

17. Sorry, no can do

DU polls are meaningless. I certainly won't contribute to more meaninglessness.

[WillyT]

18. Yeah... There's Enough Of That Around Here...

[JI7]

15. no, this poll is more comparable to the online polls done by any random person

than to an actual election day poll where results will count for something.

[socialist_n_TN]

20. What you have to look for in DU polls is trends.......

Any individual poll doesn't mean much, but when you take many polls and they show a basic trend in one or the other political direction, you can get an idea of where the majority of DU stands on certain issues and as a whole as to political leanings.

[gulliver]

21. Also, the poster's name is on the poll.

Most people on DU more than likely ignored the polls you are talking about based on who posted it.

[William769]

22. I've Been Informed Here That RW cartoons are not acceptable either. Is that true?

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. Hmmm. No response?

[FSogol]

24. Reminds me of a song!