Fox News Debate Poll

[billv]

The Fox News Poll of the debate winner will be a text message poll tonight. The information is at . Everyone please join in so we can get Congressman Paul some more visiblity.

 

[AlexAmore]

I ran over to my phone to see if it had text messaging...luckily it did. Funny I never knew about it.

 

[cujothekitten]

This is where the younger supporters are really going to shine. I've never used text messaging on my phone but I will tonight. I have a feeling a lot of older republicans aren't used to using the text voting so the youth are really going to run with this.

 

[ratsbew]

Too bad I don't own a cell phone...

 

[amonasro]

thanks for the info, this will be $.10 well spent

 

[amonasro]

Too bad I don't own a cell phone...

Are there places online where you can send free text messages through your browser?

 

[Lesgov]

There are seven in my immediate family with cell phones, and we all love Ron.

 

[aravoth]

This is where the younger supporters are really going to shine. I've never used text messaging on my phone but I will tonight. I have a feeling a lot of older republicans aren't used to using the text voting so the youth are really going to run with this.

no worries, we got that covered

 

[Lois]

We don't own cell phones, either. Are there any other on-line polls for the Debate tonight?

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

I do have text messaging, but how do I do this? Fox says to send the text message to "36988". That's neither an email address nor a phone number. Is that going to work?

The code to send them for Ron Paul is "R7" so that's the entire text.

Expect few people over 24 to vote.

 

[amonasro]

oh it's so easy. usually you create the message first, with the text "R7" then you click finish and enter the number.

36988 is the phone number you send it to, simple as that

 

[cujothekitten]

oh it's so easy. usually you create the message first, with the text "R7" then you click finish and enter the number.

36988 is the phone number you send it to, simple as that

Thanks amonasro, I've been wondering how that worked

 

[ratsbew]

Are there places online where you can send free text messages through your browser?

I'll investigate and report back, I think Google might have such a service.

Edit:
Okay, here you go. http://textforfree.net/
Make sure to spread it around! I'm off to blog it now.

 

[Exponent]

I'll investigate and report back, I think Google might have such a service.

Edit:
Okay, here you go. http://textforfree.net/
Make sure to spread it around! I'm off to blog it now.

It also asks in step four for the receiver's cellular phone service provider, which cannot be looked up using the supplied link (since it isn't a standard phone number). However, this article seems to indicate that the provider is Verizon, so hopefully that is indeed the case. This will probably be an important piece of information. Some further verification of this would be nice, though, if anyone else knows an appropriate way to check.

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Great. I'm going to send the following message to my state RP Yahoo Group:

Subject: Send your Vote to FoxNews via Text Message

Vote in the Fox News poll "Who Won the Debate?"

Address your text message to "36988" and include only the code "R7" for Ron Paul in the text of the message.

If you don't have a cell phone, you may text message free from this site: http://textforfree.net/ Just enter "36988" as the phone number and "R7" as both the subject and message.

This information from the FoxNews site at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272493,00.html

 

[MsDoodahs]

Wow, you guys! THANKS!

I have no idea how to send a text message on the cell phone, so I thought I wouldn't get to participate.

Now, I can!

 

[Korey Kaczynski]

Great. I'm going to send the following message to my state RP Yahoo Group:

Subject: Send your Vote to FoxNews via Text Message

Vote in the Fox News poll "Who Won the Debate?"

Address your text message to "36988" and include only the code "R7" for Ron Paul in the text of the message.

If you don't have a cell phone, you may text message free from this site: http://textforfree.net/ Just enter "36988" as the phone number and "R7" as both the subject and message.

This information from the FoxNews site at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272493,00.html

Text for free is a bad idea because it'd look like people would be flooding votes in from 1 number. Pointless.

 

[ratsbew]

It also asks in step four for the receiver's cellular phone service provider, which cannot be looked up using the supplied link (since it isn't a standard phone number). However, this article seems to indicate that the provider is Verizon, so hopefully that is indeed the case. This will probably be an important piece of information. Some further verification of this would be nice, though, if anyone else knows an appropriate way to check.

I'm just hoping that that particular number doesn't get "blacklisted" since presumably the same number sends results from everybody.

Oops, Korey beat me to it.

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Just realizing, that text for free does nothing you can't do from your email. It just takes the phone number, then the provider you specify, and turns it into an email address. So the test message I just sent went to [email protected].

How do we know it is Verizon? If it is, we can all just send emails to the above address and that will be the same as a text message.

I'm going to test something else. If anyone else can figure what email address to send the votes to, chime in.

 

[JoshLowry]

They may not count a text message from an email as an official "vote"

You could send ten thousand emails in a few minutes from one computer if you knew what you were doing.

I will just send my vote from my phone, don't want him to look too good to be true.