A very surprising online poll (AFA, of all groups)...

[Cooley Hurd]

I received an email today from the American Family Association about participation in an online poll:

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION ONLINE POLL
YOUR VOTE IS NEEDED NOW!

You help is requested in gaining the opinion of on-line voters to the
following question. Whom do you favor for the next President of the United
States - John Kerry, George W. Bush, or Ralph Nader?

Go to http://www.onlinepolls.net/pollv1/default.aspx?pid=10 to express
your opinion.

Cast your vote. Forward to a friend. Help us feel the pulse of America.

Thanks,

Don

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

Anyhow, I took the online poll and check out the latest results:

Poll Results
Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.76 % 5,688 vote(s)
George Bush 3.26 % 204 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 5.98 % 375 vote(s)
Total: 6,267 vote(s)

For those not familiar with AFA, it's one of the oldest and largest conservative "pro-family" assocoations out there, and their polls are, for the most part, invitation only.

Can you believe more people picked Nader over Bush?????

Just another indication that the "toast" is ready (as in Shrub is toast). :bounce:

[otohara]

1. Have You Looked At Their Site - Yuck

http://www.afa.net/

THANK THE PRESIDENT FOR TAKING A STAND FOR MARRIAGE
Send your message directly to the White House
President Bush has announced his support for a federal marriage amendment. The homosexual "marriage" advocates are sure to bombard him with hate mail. Please send him a thank you. He needs to know we appreciate his bold action.

Tell Mel Karmazin to keep his word, fire Howard Stern immediately!
• This week, Howard Stern violated a direct order by Viacom President Mel Karmazin when he broadcast vile and indecent programming on his radio show. Ask President Karmazin to keep his word by firing Howard Stern immediately.

STDs Growing Among Homosexuals
Several alarming studies reveal that rates of AIDS and syphilis are all escalating within the homosexual community, stumping public health officials who have been trying to promote "safe sex" for almost 20 years. {from AFA Journal)

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Yes... these goobers have been around for a long time...

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yep he is toast

[historian]

4. ooops they want names and address

for this poll.

[teach1st]

5. It accepts bogus e-mail and names

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Latest results...

Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.42 % 10,338 vote(s)
George Bush 3.39 % 388 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.18 % 707 vote(s)
Total: 11,433 vote(s)

[Rebellious Republican]

7. Done, here are the latest results

Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.43 % 10,319 vote(s)
George Bush 3.39 % 387 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.18 % 705 vote(s)
Total: 11,411 vote(s)

[AmericanErrorist]

8. What was the quote again?

If you try the same thing and expect different results, that is the definition of idiocy.

[AmericanErrorist]

9. They do now have a security engine...

but only protects against votes casted by automatic scripts. I just voted in the poll as "Marshall Banana" (DU-Mail me if you get that one).

[Solidarity]

10. 11:25 PM Results EST

Here's the results so far at 11:25 PM EST

John Kerry 90.32 % 17,204 vote(s)
George Bush 3.44 % 655 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.24 % 1,189 vote(s)
Total: 19,048 vote(s)

[Solidarity]

11. Bushie Isn't Doing So Well

John Kerry 90.25 % 18,293 vote(s)
George Bush 3.48 % 705 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.28 % 1,272 vote(s)
Total: 20,270 vote(s)

[Solidarity]

12. Spread The Word!

Send the link to progressives on your e-mail lists and other discussion boards you participate in.

[Vadem]

13. The latest (at 12:11 pm est):

Poll Results
Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.15 % 19,272 vote(s)
George Bush 3.49 % 745 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.36 % 1,360 vote(s)
Total: 21,377 vote(s)

[Cooley Hurd]

14. Amazing... of all polls the freepers should be freeping...

...this is the one. Yet, it's still giving Kerry 90% and has Nader beating Bush:

Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.15 % 19,812 vote(s)
George Bush 3.46 % 761 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.39 % 1,404 vote(s)
Total: 21,977 vote(s)

[burrowowl]

15. I posted this on the DU Lounge

Lastest is:

21,492

Kerry 90.12
Bu$h 3.49
Nader 6.39

I got on their list because I voted on their gay marriage poll which didn't go in their favor either.

Love it, even Nader beats Bu$h!

Go here to vote:

http://www.onlinepolls.net/pollv1/default.aspx?pid=10

They do want your State and e-mail address, but then you get to vote on some neat things when you are on their opinion list.

[kath]

19. Entering a fake e-mail address and state, as well as a fake name

and everything else, worked just fine for me!

[burrowowl]

16. As of midnight MST

24,678 votes:

Kerry 90.02 %
Bu$h 3.46 %
Nader 6.52 %

Really funny!

[notbush]

17. Just for shit's and grin's

Altering a nonscientific poll might be fun.
But these polls don't mean a thing.
Your time could be better spent convincing friends and relatives to give and vote for Kerry.

[burrowowl]

18. You have to enter a code

to make sure you only vote once.
What is funny is how many liberals they got on theirmailing list with their gay marriage poll.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. No one here on DU is "altering" any poll...

That's a freeper tactic, not a DUer tactic. We have more class than that...

[Solidarity]

21. Here's The Latest Count

John Kerry 90.09 % 29,649 vote(s)
George Bush 3.68 % 1,210 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.23 % 2,050 vote(s)
Total: 32,909 vote(s)

[seabeyond]

25. i always check to see if it can be done

and dismiss the ones that can be re voted on

[Cooley Hurd]

29. Me too - and I check FreeRepublic to see if an organized...

...attempt is underway to skew the results by multiple voting. If so, I contact the webmasters of the poll site w/ a link to the FR thread. So far, I've had two polls pulled that were being "freeped":
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Comments: To whom it may concern;
>
> Your online poll regarding 9/11 images being used in President
> Bush's campaign ads is being tampered with by members of
> FreeRepublic.com, an utlra-conservative web site. They are voting
> multiple times, as this thread from the site admits:
> http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091471/posts
>
> I thought you might want to know this, for the sake of the integrity
> of your poll. Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Al G.

Thanks for letting us know. We killed the poll.

Jeff Bailey
Internet Producer
News Channel 8 WTNH-TV
www.wtnh.com
[e-mail]
203.784.8805

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>-----Original Message-----
From: Al GXXXXXXXX
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:41 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Your online poll (Bush campaign ad) is being rigged

To whom it may concern;

Your online poll regarding 9/11 images being used in President Bush's campaign ads is being tampered with by members of FreeRepublic.com, an utlra-conservative web site. They are voting multiple times, as this thread from the site admits:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091301/posts?page=111,14#comment
To: drq

Bogus poll. I've voted three times without wiping my cookies.

13 posted on 03/05/2004 6:12:44 AM PST by OpusatFR

< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies >

I thought you might want to know this, for the sake of the integrity of your poll. Thank you.

Regards,
Al G.<<<

Thank you. We appreciate the heads up.
RR Content Staff
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fuck the freepers and their dirty, cheating ways!!!

[wicket]

22. I got that email too!

I voted for Kerry and was SHOCKED at the results! :) :) :D

[LuLu550]

23. The last poll I used numerous fake names and emails

but also a real "throwaway" address that I have on my account, so I keep getting them asking me to fill out their polls. What morans!

[seabeyond]

24. i took the gay marriage poll

adn it was like 80% in favor of and a wow. and then last nite i got this in my email and took, adn oh thew laughter. ed adn i had a good time. posted on another thread. glad to see it is back. this was when i voted


Poll Results
Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.44 % 13,964 vote(s)
George Bush 3.39 % 524 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.17 % 952 vote(s)
Total: 15,440 vote(s)

[peekaloo]

26. lol...I'll bet Wildmon is in need of resuscitation about now.

[wabeewoman]

27. You gotta wonder

is Diebold in charge of their voting? Maybe voting for bush registers a vote for Kerry?? I just can't imagine this many hard cord rightwingers voting for Kerry. If this is real, it's going to be a fun fall.

[Solidarity]

28. I Think I See A Trend Here!

Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?
John Kerry 90.26 % 32,788 vote(s)
George Bush 3.69 % 1,339 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.06 % 2,202 vote(s)
Total: 36,328 vote(s)

[Cooley Hurd]

31. The important thing to note about this is...

...that, despite the #'s voting, the percentages have not changed since last night (when I started the thread).

Plus, this poll isn't easy to freep (not impossible, just a bit more involved than deleting cookies - you have to re-enter unique info every time you vote). Does this indicate the extreme right is turning on Bush? Hmmm...

[burrowowl]

32. Yes a trend

Nader is losing ground to Bu$h.
Too funny!

[KansDem]

30. Yet, this morning NPR (once again) calls 2004 election "close"

Preparing for the use of Diebold voting machines, NPR (News Prostitutes for Republicans) again aped the mantra that 2004 "promises to be a close race."

The feature wasn't about this per se but rather about Kerry "ridiculing" Bush (its term) which was nothing more than criticism (the actual subject was whether Kerry had the wherewithal to defend America against terror, as if Bush has proven himself).

I've noticed of late that when Kerry criticizes Bush, its called "ridicule" and when Bush ridicules Kerry, its called "criticism." :crazy:

[Galley_Queen]

33. All I Can Say is

Wow!!!

Very, very interesting.

Let us not forget that all the pundits said the unelected fraud would beat Al Gore by 600,000 votes.

They were only off by over a million!

:bounce:

[Solidarity]

34. Yup. It's A Trend

Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?

John Kerry 90.16 % 39,321 vote(s)
George Bush 3.77 % 1,644 vote(s)
Ralph Nader 6.07 % 2,648 vote(s)
Total: 43,613 vote(s)

[RebelOne]

35. All I can say is that it is astounding that Kerry is at 90.16%

[LeahMira]

36. Something is strange about this...

For those not familiar with AFA, it's one of the oldest and largest conservative "pro-family" assocoations out there, and their polls are, for the most part, invitation only.

Doesn't it surprise you that you were invited to participate? Nothing personal, alg, but when't the last time AFA asked you to participate in one of their polls?

I got "invited" to participate also, and this would be the first and only time I've ever been e-mailed by AFA. Is it possible for them to manipulate the results? To gather e-mails from some other source that maybe a group of us have also posted on? Not being a computer techie, I have no clue. Something is definitely fishy, though.

[AmericanErrorist]

38. After we all found the Gay Marriage Poll

Those of us who left our real E-Mail addresses got re-invited based on the fact that we voted in the last one. Unfortunately, we couldn't opt-out of this, and we'll probably be re-invited to the next poll. I think the AFA should officially stay out of on-line polls because the polls officially have a pro-gay constituency.

[Indiana_Dem]

37. 2:30pm results: Kerry 90.12, Bush 3.78, Nader 6.09

That's wierd. Who woulda thought?

[callous taoboy]

39. done