RED ALERT! Romney is Slaughtering Dr Paul in the NPR poll! LAST DAY TO VOTE!

specsaregood said:
The really ironic part of this is that if NPR waited until the end and cleared all the duplicate ip entries; Ron Paul would almost undoubtedly win -- simply because he has the largest web-savvy base willing to go plop in a vote on the NPR site. The encouraging part from my POV is that the Romney people are the ones that first had to resort to "spamming" to win, not the RP supporters.
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NPR can't drop all the duplicate IP votes, all the votes are being hosted on a third party server and I doubt they will turn over 1000's of IPs just because someone asked.
 
Dripping Rain said:
can we get a real time graph of this poll?
anyone?
we need to know how were doing and if our counter measure is really working?
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They arent releasing the vote totals for each candidate, just the percent and total votes. I made some earlier graphs just using the percent and total divided out, but at this point the numbers are just so big it isnt accurate anymore. The best way to tell whether we are making progress is the vote rate. They are pulling 300 a minute, if the total amount of votes added per minute is less than 600, we are losing ground to them.
 
coyote_sprit said:
NPR can't drop all the duplicate IP votes, all the votes are being hosted on a third party server and I doubt they will turn over 1000's of IPs just because someone asked.
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I'd be more than surprised if the db that is recording the "votes" is not recording the ip address alongside the vote. Why wouldn't you?
 
Rangeley said:
They arent releasing the vote totals for each candidate, just the percent and total votes. I made some earlier graphs just using the percent and total divided out, but at this point the numbers are just so big it isnt accurate anymore. The best way to tell whether we are making progress is the vote rate. They are pulling 300 a minute, if the total amount of votes added per minute is less than 600, we are losing ground to them.
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We'll also know when the percentages make their next move.
 
Sure, but as it stands the next percentage move will be us going to 40%, which we can predict by the vote rate. Its only 400 a minute, 300 of which are theirs, leaving 100 to us.
 
Rangeley said:
Sure, but as it stands the next percentage move will be us going to 40%, which we can predict by the vote rate. Its only 400 a minute, 300 of which are theirs, leaving 100 to us.
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I predict that before the next day is over, their server is gonna come to a grind from the load....with two sides employing this strategy it is gonna start to look like a DOS attack.
 
Aaaanndd we're at 40%.

I think this is one Mitt supporter with a superfast internet connection and some good software.
 
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Rangeley said:
They arent releasing the vote totals for each candidate, just the percent and total votes. I made some earlier graphs just using the percent and total divided out, but at this point the numbers are just so big it isnt accurate anymore. The best way to tell whether we are making progress is the vote rate. They are pulling 300 a minute, if the total amount of votes added per minute is less than 600, we are losing ground to them.
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if you float over the graph you get vote totals.
 
Picture this:

specsaregood said:
I predict that before the next day is over, their server is gonna come to a grind from the load....with two sides employing this strategy it is gonna start to look like a DOS attack.
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Funniest shit I've read all day!
 
specsaregood said:
I'd be more than surprised if the db that is recording the "votes" is not recording the ip address alongside the vote. Why wouldn't you?
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The votes are being hosted by twiigs, a separate entity of NPR. I don't doubt that twiigs records IPs but I do doubt that they will just hand them over to the NPR.
 
Zimbabwe

The imacros website allows macros to be saved to delicious. COuld one of you do this and then we can pass it around via other means. We have (I predict) many more people who would play this game than they do. When the request, instructions and macro went viral I'd imagine the percentages would return to the real percentages, only the vote totals would be exponentially higher.

We're talking hyper-inflated voting...:p
 
Madison said:
Uh, he does have national clout. He did come in 2nd overall in the Republican primaries to McCain in total votes.

I'm just saying we already have a well-established reputation of spamming online polls, and it's foolish to overestimate how beneficial it is to openly defraud this one. But if you disagree do as you please.
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2nd to McCain, not really saying much there. When was the last time you saw Mr Romney on TV?

See Nov. 5th. Most money raised in a single day for a presidential candidate. That is a very solid rep for a grassroots base.

Its a game. We want to win. Not foolishness or fraud. The only benefit is we get to play the next round, thus keeping Dr. Paul's name, our ideas about liberty, and OUR CLOUT in tact.


That being said, we will have to hope that our morning and tomorrow crowd do not share your opinion on the matter if we are going to keep our reputation as fearsome web warriors.

Edit, heh this is a perfect angle for educating people about hyperinflation, see a few posts up! See how that works?

Edit 2 We ticked back up. Looks like the little website glitch may have upset some of the Romney overnite scripts. Maybe they are asleep at the wheel.
 
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The hyper-inflated voting strategy is starting to work. We gained a percentage point for the first time in hours. (Although we had lost 40% overall and just prior went from 41% to 40%.)
 
coyote_sprit said:
The votes are being hosted by twiigs, a separate entity of NPR. I don't doubt that twiigs records IPs but I do doubt that they will just hand them over to the NPR.
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The wouldn't have to, they'd just have to ask twiigs to delete all the dupes from the db/voting record. Easy enough, and something you wouldn't like say "no" to a customer such as npr. But carryon, like I said, if they did delete all the duplicates, I have no doubts that RP would win.
 
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