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- mdonato, on 05/14/2008, -10/+33Pay no attention to the Constitutionalist. Ron Paul does not exist as far as the media is concerned. They have to ignore him because they don't have the answers to the questions he poses and no rebuttal for the solutions he offers.
- Hortnon, on 05/14/2008, -6/+27http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff91/Hortnon/no ...
To prove you guys are morons
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff91/Hortnon/bl ...
To mock you for thinking this is hard to do. - QuantumBios, on 05/14/2008, -13/+35Someday, it will be common knowledge to Americans that the corporations did this to this man. Little by little, the stranglehold of information, the relentless dis-information campaign by the media, and the under-handed tricks to marginalize this man will be known to all.
- brad3378, on 05/14/2008, -3/+16This story is *****
Buried as inaccurate
If you look closely, you'll see that the screen capture is taken from a (buggier) Beta version of Firefox.
It works - see for yourself: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll
Seriously - can we knock it off with the conspiracy theories and stick with the REAL issues like our $31,000 per citizen national debt? http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
This is nearly as bad as reading a typical Obama story. - QuantumBios, on 05/14/2008, -6/+18If people love their candidate, and take the 2 minutes it takes to communicate an opportunity to display their support for that candidate, why should that be irrevelant? Terrible argument.
- yogmama08, on 05/14/2008, -11/+21How do you spell SISSY and SLEAZY? Oh, I just did! AOL=Afraid Of Liberty; take a memo!
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -8/+16O.M.G
I knew this was B.S. Pretty blatant. They musta freaked when McCain went down into the 50% range. - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -10/+18Works like a charm for me. Maybe, just maybe, it is a bug in your beta version of Mozilla?
LOL. CONSPIRACY!!!! - Look4Truth, on 05/14/2008, -9/+15Anyone else waking up yet?
- Terr01, on 05/14/2008, -2/+8Quantum, it's irrelevant because...
THE POLL IS NO LONGER REPRESENTATIVE OF THE US POPULATION.
This is Social Science 101, guys. You cannot have a relevant and accurate poll unless you at least do something to deal with response bias, and the most scientifically sound way of doing this is to conduct random polls where people are sought out.
I have a great deal of respect for many of Ron Paul's positions, but no matter how great they are they don't forgive your ignorance of basic logic and statistics. - rexblade, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7Oh good the trolls have arrived.
- rkooshak, on 05/14/2008, -6/+13It appears as if his name and picture are 'loading' when you first enter the site. Once you vote, for the unnamed candidate all the states he won are blacked out. I just don't understand why these people do this - why they fear Paul's popularity? What a horrible job they have to lie, cheat and manipulate people. It's obvious that is what's going on.
- lpviper, on 05/14/2008, -4/+11This from a supporter of an MSM candidate? Too Rich!!!!
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4sorry but I reckon that poll is rigged, I just tried voting for ron paul and it stated that my passcode was wrong 3 times in a row... no idea whether my vote then actually was logded after the 4th go.
- dmjarrington, on 05/14/2008, -3/+8we are not misleading. we are leading. there is a difference.
- ZeroDarkness, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5Well, I just went there and Ron Paul's name was there. As a matter of fact, most the states listed him as the leader. Most likely a glitch, a random coincidence, or the makings of another Urban Legend. Ron Paul FTW!
- smacksaw, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5Paul is almost 50-50 with McCain on this straw poll. Buyer's remorse? McCain ain't getting any better. Perhaps people realise that "crazy old Ron Paul" is better than "senile and dangerously uninformed John McCain" for the Republican nominee?
- TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -5/+10buried as inaccurate. Everyone knows there is no such thing as a "ron paul state"
- PiGuy, on 05/14/2008, -2/+6I more curious about the tab titles the submitter has whited out.
- gnixon70, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Beware of the government media complex.
When you have people just buying up media outlets like crazy, that just opens a nation up to severe censorship and convenient reporting. call me paranoid? Perhaps, but if its true, is it still paranoia?
Ok, this article might be inaccurate, but it does seem that the media is only focusing on Hillary/Obama as if there are no other people running. - AbhorrentBanana, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Just checked it out on my computer and no problems. His name and states showed up fine. Also let me vote just fine as well. The first code had a number or letter that I couldn't tell so I guessed and was wrong, but the second code was legible.
- codapop, on 05/14/2008, -3/+7Looks fine for me unless it changed since I found this.
Paul is green
McCain is blue - sagenhoney, on 05/14/2008, -10/+13nuthin new - especially from time-warner. I noticed that when you first vote....his picture just tries to keep loading.
Glitch (my ass)
Two hours later, and I get the same thing on my computer. - Midoc, on 05/14/2008, -5/+7There is a substantial difference between misleading and leading, one that I am well aware of. But you are misleading and you actively engage in misinformation, and it is a reprehensible act and one of the reasons why people like me will always oppose you.
- Chromedaffodils, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2So, Turner entertainment (NWO bla bla bla) (See alex jones for more info) owns AOL, who is running this poll. Is this a poll to have your say, or a poll for them to database our IP addresses - as if.... ghost your ip and hit it like mad! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -6/+9LOL. A Ron Paul supporter complaining that someone is gaming an Internet poll.
Part of the Universe just collapsed... - noahco, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4Anyone see the HotSeat poll? Jenna Bush's wedding definitely did heal america! haha
- dmjarrington, on 05/14/2008, -4/+6what point? that you do whatever you are told?
- vault, on 05/14/2008, -5/+7what an ugly system font you've chosen to match an even uglier operating system...buried for aesthetic reasons.
- Firehed, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3I'll confirm that this works perfectly fine in Firefox 3 Beta 5.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2***** THING SUCKS
- soomprimal, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4I've heard of media blackout but this is ridiculous.
- rexblade, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I still fail to see how it's the same. Maybe because its not the same. No Ron Paul supporter has contacted the host of any poll. Go ahead and get your Troll buddies to digg me down it still don't make it the same. Im not even registered on the Ron Paul forums I don't even go there very often so I don't know what your talking about. It's kinda weird you do though. Happy Trolling!
- Erythroxylum, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4Anything after Windows 98 is unconstitutional! Thomas Jefferson used Windows 98 on his PC (which he bought with gold dubloons and not worthless fiat money which Jews conjured out of thin air with Jew Magik).
It's outrageous that they should literally black out Dr. Ron's name! They must be afraid of his message! They must be afraid of his online popularity! I'm so angry that I'm going to dress up in colonial clothing, smoke weed, watch 'Loose Change: Final Cut' and wank myself unconscious. - madfrogurt, on 05/14/2008, -4/+5What a remarkable find! You have pr oven, quite convincingly that there was either a preprogrammed fail safe in the polling software that automatically censored itself when Ron Paul, champion of the downtrodden, rightfully pulled in the lead he so rightly deserves! That, or else there was a techie coding furiously to censor the page and mess with the results.
Or maybe it was a graphics glitch you paranoid ***** idiot. - scuvball, on 05/14/2008, -2/+3That has been the state of the Universe for the past 9 months, though. Unfortunately, the internet population is not a random sample and no online poll demonstrates with accuracy the support for any candidate.
- jbdobd, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2A.O...who?
- toekneebullard, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2I would SO move there.
- rmtatum, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2It has nothing to do with the browser. I tested it on Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 5, and it works fine on both versions of Firefox.
- Midoc, on 05/14/2008, -6/+7The point that Paultards are fanatical. I am dismissed not because of my personal beliefs, but because I support Obama. If I had the same beliefs and supported Paul there would be no issue at hand. Simply because I do not support Paul I am deemed ignorant and unpatriotic. In your eyes if I want to help America there is only one leader I can follow, only one philosophy I can support. Paul advocates some form of freedom, but his followers demand unyielding fascism.
- reed311, on 05/14/2008, -8/+9Yep, you guys have been astroturfing for Ron Paul this entire campaign and then you want to talk about manipulation?
For Christ sake, you guys are the only people who were gullible enough to actually believe in the validity of these stupid Internet polls. 99% of America is smart enough to know that they are spammed/rigged and generally useless. - rexblade, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1And who said riot?
- Dumbledorito, on 05/14/2008, -2/+3Read the comments below. This, my friends, is a persecution complex and/or paranoia.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -3/+4Wow, almost like the Ron Paul forums for 6 months! No, wait, EXACTLY like the Ron Paul forums for 6 months!
It is truly amazing how blind to your own actions you (Ron Paul supporters) are, while calling others out for doint the EXACT SAME THING. Truly amazing. - KMye, on 05/14/2008, -4/+4oops
- Spoonicus, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4Urrrgh!! is that Windows 98SE??
- rmtatum, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1I use Firefox 3 Beta 5 and it worked fine for me. The poll uses flash for rendering. It has nothing to do with the browser. AOL is guilty!
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