thinkrink.wordpress.com — "When a well-organized and committed "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of "the many," I get a little worried." From "An Open Letter to the Ron Paul Faithful" October 11th,2007. Allen Wastler, Managing Editor, CNBC.com. These were the closing words from an explanation as to why the CNBC.com poll...
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seemed cut and dried to me. Ron Paul told the truth. The others didn't. Ron Paul won the debate by a longshot. The others flailed around hunting for a place to stand. With 7,000 votes Ron Paul won by 80%.
quick2822Oct 12, 2007
The most frustrating thing about being a Ron Paul supporter is that a large majority of "us" keep insisting that these online polls mean something more than to show that Ron Paul has a large following on the internet.While I know that these polls do actually represent "real world support" despite what most anti Ron Paul people say, to claim that an online poll where Ron Paul is hitting 80% means something is naive and desperate.Let's focus our efforts on stuff that matters, not on random online polls that have links posted all over the internet so Ron Paul supporters can find it and vote. Get out there, donate, put up signs, educate your friends and family on Ron Paul, attend the Meetup groups, attend the Ron Paul rallies.Ron Paul 2008!
peppermintpigOct 12, 2007
"The insinuation Wastler makes is that Ron Paul supporters shouldn’t organize and vote en masse in these polls. According to him, they “ruined the purpose of the poll. It was no longer an honest “show of hands” — it suddenly was a platform for beating the Ron Paul drum.”It seems that an “honest show of hands” must produce results that enable the mainstream media to beat a different drum: perhaps the Rudy Giuliani drum, or the Mitt Romney drum. As for the Ron Paul drum, that’s one they refuse to beat. That’s why the “Paulites” are making themselves heard in these polls.The internet polls are where the mainstream media is feeling the “blowback” of their media bias. They consistently refuse to give Congressman Paul equal time. With just over five minutes of time in the debate to respond to seven questions, he had the least amount of screen time of any candidate. This places CNBC in a Catch-22: how could he have won the debate when they didn’t give him any time to talk? And, they can’t admit to the bias, can they?"That poll was ridiculous. It was up for a while with 3 questions. Then it went down and came back up with several more questions. I believe at that point they slated the results (perhaps they weren't getting the results they wanted??), and they did this early in the morning without any notice. But Ron Paul was still in the lead and the second version of the poll was taken down not too long afterwards.
micbeckeOct 12, 2007
WE are the media for Ron Paul.